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‘It’s scary right now’: ICE holds detainees for days in bedless Baltimore cells
No beds, lack of food and medicine: The struggles inside Baltimore’s ICE holding room
Immigrants and their attorneys claim there are no beds, little food and medicine at Baltimore’s ICE holding room.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
March 16, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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America does not need a ‘resistance,’ or stale slogans, or people putting those slogans on little paddles. It needs an opposition party that boldly defends the nation’s virtues, the rule of law, and the rights of its people.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Democrats Are Acting Too Normal
In her response to Trump’s address, Democratic Senator Elissa Slotkin failed to capture the hallucinatory nature of our national politics.
www.theatlantic.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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The Real Reason Musk Is Mad at Us
The anatomy of a conspiracy theory
www.thebulwark.com
February 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Perfect death of expertise moment @radiofreetom.bsky.social
JIM JORDAN: This is a fundamental difference we have with the left. The left thinks, 'Oh, it's the career experts who make the decisions.' That's not how our country works. It's the guy who puts him name on the ballot.

RAJU: You're a coequal branch of government.
February 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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A bill in Wyoming meant to ban abortion could restrict access to procedures like chemotherapy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wyoming Republicans’ anti-abortion bill inadvertently targets chemotherapy and surgeries
Senate File 125 could limit access to any treatment that ‘causes harm’ to the heart, lungs, brain and other organs
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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For all federal employees:

Before you are locked out of your systems, ensure you have copies of unclassified performance appraisals, awards & other relevant personnel docs.

If you have access to your office, grab your more important personal items sooner rather than later.
February 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The unelected, not-Senate-confirmed, not-security-cleared, not even actually employed by the US government techbros of Musk's weird militia are conducting a coup one agency at a time.
February 2, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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I'm not saying this is a coup. But if you *were* going to do a coup, how would things look different from recent events -- seizing the federal payments system, federal purging law enforcement, threatening to sic armed US Marshals on civil servants guarding classified data
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.
February 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Looks like one of the people who put up a fight resigned.

"Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments"

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...
Treasury Official Quits After Resisting Musk’s Requests on Payments
Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team sought access to the government’s vast payment system, part of its bid to choke off federal funding.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Today’s bonus issue of “One First” takes a careful look at President Trump’s vow to use #GTMO to detain non-citizens facing removal—and why such a move (1) won’t change any of the relevant legal rules in those cases; and (2) will be a *colossal* waste of money:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-120-...
Bonus 120: Trump's Guantánamo Memo
President Trump's authorization of expanded migrant detention operations at Guantánamo is certainly ominous. But there are serious legal and practical obstacles to it actually accomplishing anything.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks.

Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.
January 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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They’re purging the DOJ.
BREAKING WAPO:

Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin just announced the dismissal of roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the D.C. office over the past four years.

Notifications went out at about 5 p.m. on Friday. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is dismissing more than two dozen federal prosecutors in his D.C. office who worked on Capitol riot cases over the past four years.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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The Trump administration has stripped away the legal-immigration status of 600,000 Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:
The ‘Right Way’ to Immigrate Just Went Wrong
The Trump administration has stripped the status of 600,000 Venezuelans who obeyed the law.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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OK, but the proper analogy here really is Stalinism
January 31, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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No mystery what we're seeing here:
-Illegally withholding spending/nullifying contracts
-Purges of law enforcement and prosecutors
-Taking bribes for lenient treatment while threatening enemies with persecution
-Pardoning violent/paramilitary allies
-Granting vast powers to an unelected billionaire
January 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"A U.S. military official told NPR on Friday that at the request of the family the Army is not going to release the name of the female member of the three-person helicopter crew." www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
Army withholds name of Black Hawk helicopter crew in D.C. crash, 2 others identified
A U.S. military official told NPR on Friday that at the request of the family the Army is not going to release the name of the female crew member. The withholding of the name is a highly unusual move.
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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The chances of getting killed by a chicken are low...

But never zero 😲😂

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📽️ chicken_love_daily
January 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Gonna be a cold one this weekend. What's your thermostat set? Check out this 5 minute film. 65° 🌡❄ 😂
youtu.be/n0i73FbyLFg?...
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January 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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POWERSCHOOL HACK: Parents of students in Nebraska K-12 schools, like many nationally, are tuning into the idea that their personal information may have been accessed by hackers to the communication system used to share grades and attendance and more.

From States Newsroom:
School software provider is target of major hack of personal data • Nebraska Examiner
Hackers targeted California-based education software company PowerSchool and gained access to the data of millions of adults and children .
buff.ly
January 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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In this Avera Medical Minute, Avera OB/GYN Dr. Annie Siewert discusses signs of menopause, different phases of menopause, hormonal therapy and more.
Avera Medical Minute: Navigating menopause
In this Avera Medical Minute, Avera OB/GYN Dr. Annie Siewert discusses signs of menopause, different phases of menopause, hormonal therapy and more.
www.dakotanewsnow.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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BREAKING: Merrick Garland began investigating Trump and the coup the week he got to the DoJ. It was actually Trump holdovers in the FBI that were reluctant to investigate.

Actually it’s not breaking. It came out in March. But cable news decided not to tell you. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/u...
Inside Garland’s Effort to Prosecute Trump
In trying to avoid even the smallest mistakes, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland might have made one big one: ending up in a race against the clock.
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:27 PM
Come see Charlotte's Web at Jefferson High School. Fun for all. That's some pig!
December 5, 2024 at 4:44 PM