A Black Swan
@blacswan.bsky.social
Living a blue life in a red state.
Love books, birding, gardening, photography and learning something new everyday. Bluesky lurker.
Love books, birding, gardening, photography and learning something new everyday. Bluesky lurker.
ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland - Los Angeles Times
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ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland — Los Angeles Times
Alarm spread through California agricultural centers Tuesday as panicked workers reported that federal immigration authorities were showing up at farm fields and packing houses from the Central Coast ...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
ICE expands immigration raids into California's agricultural heartland - Los Angeles Times
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Scoop: GitHub code shows Trump administration is building a platform to "accelerate" AI across the government called ai.gov that is supposedly going to launch on the Fourth of July
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GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government
A new website and API called AI.gov is set to launch on the Fourth of July.
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June 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Scoop: GitHub code shows Trump administration is building a platform to "accelerate" AI across the government called ai.gov that is supposedly going to launch on the Fourth of July
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It’s feeling very much like April 1933 when the Nazis passed laws that resulted in the dismissal of Jewish and Socialist judges. Next up, People’s Court and Special Courts.
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Wisconsin Judge Arrested, Accused of Shielding Immigrant From Federal Agents
Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested on suspicion that she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” an immigrant being pursued by the authorities, the F.B.I. director said in a social media pos...
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April 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It’s feeling very much like April 1933 when the Nazis passed laws that resulted in the dismissal of Jewish and Socialist judges. Next up, People’s Court and Special Courts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...
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“Part of it is you’re leaving because ultimately, it is like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34. There’s resonance: my grandmother left Berlin with my father in 1939. So it’s a family tradition.
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Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’
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March 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
“Part of it is you’re leaving because ultimately, it is like leaving Germany in 1932, 33, 34. There’s resonance: my grandmother left Berlin with my father in 1939. So it’s a family tradition.
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This! Yes, they were sloppy and incompetent but we the people need to know why they were using a message deleting app? What were they trying to hide from the official record/the historical record?
Who installed Signal on your phone?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
What instructions were you given on when to use Signal?
Who gave you those instructions?
What is your understanding of your obligations to maintain records of your communications under the U.S. code of law?
March 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This! Yes, they were sloppy and incompetent but we the people need to know why they were using a message deleting app? What were they trying to hide from the official record/the historical record?
We are all targets.
A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred.
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March 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We are all targets.
“The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous,” Ms. Srinivasan, 37, said on Friday in an interview with The New York Times, her first public remarks since leaving. “So I just made a quick decision.”
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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
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March 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“The atmosphere seemed so volatile and dangerous,” Ms. Srinivasan, 37, said on Friday in an interview with The New York Times, her first public remarks since leaving. “So I just made a quick decision.”
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The government called for the univ to formalize its definition of antisemitism, ban the wearing of masks “intended to conceal identity or intimidate” and to place the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership.”
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Trump Demands Major Changes in Columbia Discipline and Admissions Rules
A letter outlining “immediate next steps” arrived less than a week after the administration said it was canceling $400 million in grants and contracts.
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March 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The government called for the univ to formalize its definition of antisemitism, ban the wearing of masks “intended to conceal identity or intimidate” and to place the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership.”
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The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts.
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Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts.
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Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.
Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts.
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Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told to freeze the groups’ bank accounts.
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President Trump’s senior aides held a closed-door meeting Friday, touting the administration’s success in “zeroing out” foreign aid and forecasting a future where church groups and billionaires would replace the government in caring for the world’s most vulnerable.
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Exclusive: President Trump’s senior aides held a closed-door meeting Friday, touting the administration’s success in “zeroing out” foreign aid and forecasting a future where church groups and...
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March 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
President Trump’s senior aides held a closed-door meeting Friday, touting the administration’s success in “zeroing out” foreign aid and forecasting a future where church groups and billionaires would replace the government in caring for the world’s most vulnerable.
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The first Black female officer in U.S. military history to die in combat.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
2LT Emily Perez was killed in Iraq in 2006, for a country that now refuses to claim her.
The Army has erased her story. As if she never existed.
But history isn’t theirs to erase.
We will not let them disappear her.
March 4, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Put together, experts and HUD sources say, all of this could give someone with access unique insight into the US real estate market.
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DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator
Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector. They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.
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March 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Put together, experts and HUD sources say, all of this could give someone with access unique insight into the US real estate market.
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The Toddler in Chief
President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
Read more: cnn.it/4imrBH8
President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
Read more: cnn.it/4imrBH8
March 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Toddler in Chief
President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
Read more: cnn.it/4imrBH8
President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
Read more: cnn.it/4imrBH8
Weird how the Times didn’t feel the need to note that all this happened after Trump’s FCC chair notified Comcast that the company was under investigation for “promoting DEI” as they were trying to spin off MSNBC
To be fair, maybe the writer didn’t know all this
Oh, wait…
To be fair, maybe the writer didn’t know all this
Oh, wait…
February 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Since we’re all about savings, this contract is being canceled, right?
The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.
A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal
The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.
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February 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Since we’re all about savings, this contract is being canceled, right?
Our tech overlords made a deal with the devil.
This past week, we've received notifications from Google first removing parts of our website (a Google site), then targeting our Google Slide Presentations on Antibias & Antiracist Art Education and all other presentations with similar terminology.
February 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Our tech overlords made a deal with the devil.
Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.
February 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is a big story in Europe & the East right now thanks to Kazakhstan investigative reporter Olesya Bassarova.
The retired Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, Alnur Mussayev, disclosed about the KGB Sixth Department's recruitment of Trump in the 80s.
(catch the thread below)
The retired Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, Alnur Mussayev, disclosed about the KGB Sixth Department's recruitment of Trump in the 80s.
(catch the thread below)
Inside Soviet recruitment: Kazakhstan’s former security chief claims Trump was a KGB asset
Former Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee (KNB) Alnur Mussayev claims that the Soviet KGB recruited Donald Trump before the collapse of the USSR, assigning him the alias Krasnov. He ...
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February 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a retired three-star Air Force general, John D. Caine.
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a retired three-star Air Force general, John D. Caine.
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon
The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.
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February 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a retired three-star Air Force general, John D. Caine.
Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman’s job, is to be replaced by a retired three-star Air Force general, John D. Caine.
NEWS: Roughly a quarter of all staffers at Ginnie Mae, a government agency that keeps a $2.7 trillion market for government-guaranteed mortgage bonds running smoothly (which in turn gives some of the most disadvantaged Americans a chance to buy a home), are leaving. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Ginnie Mae, Stalwart of Mortgage Market, Squeezed by DOGE
Ginnie Mae, a $2.7 trillion stalwart of the US home mortgage market, is the latest Washington agency targeted by Elon Musk.
www.bloomberg.com
February 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM