Meg
@schmits.bsky.social
PhD student. Multiple hobbies bordering on obsessions. Famous bad attitude.
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NEW from PP:
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Congress Has Demanded Answers to ICE Detaining Americans. The Administration Has Responded With Silence.
Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. Non...
www.propublica.org
April 14, 2025 at 11:59 AM
NEW from PP:
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump admin is blowing off Congress's Qs about ICE wrongly detaining Americans.
More than a dozen lawmakers demanded answers.
The admin has offered silence.
“That’s not usual." said @normornstein.bsky.social. "Nothing about this is usual."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
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> Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers.
Woah.
Woah.
"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
Humming along in an old church, the Internet Archive is more relevant than ever
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
www.npr.org
March 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
> Every day, about 100 terabytes of material are uploaded to the Internet Archive, or about a billion URLs, with the assistance of automated crawlers.
Woah.
Woah.
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Spoiler: this feed will be mostly cat photos no one will ever look at and I make no apologies
March 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Spoiler: this feed will be mostly cat photos no one will ever look at and I make no apologies
Sourdough hot dog buns. No further comment.
March 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Sourdough hot dog buns. No further comment.