FBI warns that criminals posing as immigration officers have committed robberies, kidnappings, and assaults in multiple states. Agencies must ensure officers ID themselves and let civilians verify identities.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:59 PM
FBI warns that criminals posing as immigration officers have committed robberies, kidnappings, and assaults in multiple states. Agencies must ensure officers ID themselves and let civilians verify identities.
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"We crave simple solutions to complex problems. When data disappoint, we substitute belief. . . . Regulators see public demand and think, why stand in the way? The phrase 'worth a try' becomes federal policy."
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
A sports device to ‘protect the brain’ illustrates a major problem with the FDA de novo pathway
“This is not just about one device. It’s about what happens when institutions grow comfortable living in their own ambiguity and hiding behind opacity.”
www.statnews.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"We crave simple solutions to complex problems. When data disappoint, we substitute belief. . . . Regulators see public demand and think, why stand in the way? The phrase 'worth a try' becomes federal policy."
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
www.statnews.com/2025/11/02/q... via @statnews.com
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O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
"..this newly installed multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped the funding rates for National Cancer Institute grants from around one in 10 applicants down to a what-the-heck one in 25. That’s the NCI with the word “cancer” in the middle of its name.."
How New Trump Multiyear Policy Makes NIH Grants Even Harder To Get
The new Trump administration multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped National Cancer Institute grant funding rates from one in 10 applicants to one in 25.
www.forbes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"..this newly installed multiyear funding policy for NIH grants has dropped the funding rates for National Cancer Institute grants from around one in 10 applicants down to a what-the-heck one in 25. That’s the NCI with the word “cancer” in the middle of its name.."
"The supplements were: Artri King, Nhan Sam Tuyet Lien, and Linsen Double Caulis Plus. All are known to contain unlisted glucocorticoids, according to the Food and Drug Administration...Doctors determined that the man had essentially overdosed on the glucocorticoids.."
Man takes herbal pain quackery, nearly dies, spends months in hospital
The 61-year-old had wounds all over, a bacterial infection, and needed intensive care.
arstechnica.com
October 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The supplements were: Artri King, Nhan Sam Tuyet Lien, and Linsen Double Caulis Plus. All are known to contain unlisted glucocorticoids, according to the Food and Drug Administration...Doctors determined that the man had essentially overdosed on the glucocorticoids.."
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If the Commander of Southern Command is stepping down less than a year into his tenure, I’m guessing we’re about to find out the intelligence picture on these “narco-terrorist” vessels that we’re blowing out of the water isn’t as solid as it’s being portrayed.
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
If the Commander of Southern Command is stepping down less than a year into his tenure, I’m guessing we’re about to find out the intelligence picture on these “narco-terrorist” vessels that we’re blowing out of the water isn’t as solid as it’s being portrayed.
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them."
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Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 16, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:
“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
October 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:
“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...
Gift link- "Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these days, even for those who enter the U.S. legally... Six U.S. residents are among the nine winners in this year’s three Nobel science categories, and three of those six are immigrants."
Opinion | Immigrants and American Nobel Prizes
Three of the six U.S. science winners this year are foreign-born.
www.wsj.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Gift link- "Welcoming immigrants to the U.S. is out of fashion on the political right these days, even for those who enter the U.S. legally... Six U.S. residents are among the nine winners in this year’s three Nobel science categories, and three of those six are immigrants."
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he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
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This is the lesson of 2025
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
October 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
This is the lesson of 2025
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Also, and not for nothing, he’s lying
The Speaker's default argument is to plead ignorance about things it's his job to know.
Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that
October 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Also, and not for nothing, he’s lying
So much for "don't be evil."
Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia
With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.
www.theverge.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So much for "don't be evil."
"In an age where human attention is perhaps the world’s most valuable commodity, the Ellisons could be in charge of almost everything a modern-day pseudo robber baron could want by the end of this year or soon after."
Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America
The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.
www.wired.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"In an age where human attention is perhaps the world’s most valuable commodity, the Ellisons could be in charge of almost everything a modern-day pseudo robber baron could want by the end of this year or soon after."
"The charges represent a dangerous step in Trump’s attempt to further consolidate power, while also being a total farce and a potentially historic embarrassment."
The Comey Indictment Is an Embarrassment
The Justice Department should never have brought such a shoddy case.
www.theatlantic.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The charges represent a dangerous step in Trump’s attempt to further consolidate power, while also being a total farce and a potentially historic embarrassment."
"the announcement demonstrated yet again the fragile grasp the president and his acolytes have about why the US — especially its technology sector — has worked so well. The large tech companies hire foreign nationals because they possess particular skills."
September 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"the announcement demonstrated yet again the fragile grasp the president and his acolytes have about why the US — especially its technology sector — has worked so well. The large tech companies hire foreign nationals because they possess particular skills."
"The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycled old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous recommendations by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science that I have ever witnessed."
The U.S. government has jumped the public health shark
“The Trump regime sees science as an enemy and public health as only fit for personal anecdotes and conspiracy,” writes Arthur Caplan.
www.statnews.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"The announcement on autism was the saddest display of a lack of evidence, rumors, recycled old myths, lousy advice, outright lies, and dangerous recommendations by anyone in authority in the world claiming to know anything about science that I have ever witnessed."
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This is no longer a question of losing our democracy. The question has become whether we are prepared to fight to get it back.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
The Constitutional Crisis is All Around us
What we can all do
open.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is no longer a question of losing our democracy. The question has become whether we are prepared to fight to get it back.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
"During his response [Retsef Levi], a hot mic picked up someone saying, "You're an idiot." It's unclear who the speaker was—or how many other people they were speaking for."
Bonkers CDC vaccine meeting ends with vote to keep COVID shot access
A push to require prescriptions for every COVID shot failed in a split vote.
arstechnica.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"During his response [Retsef Levi], a hot mic picked up someone saying, "You're an idiot." It's unclear who the speaker was—or how many other people they were speaking for."
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a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
Opinion | The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...
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If it wasn’t so disgraceful it’d be laughable
September 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If it wasn’t so disgraceful it’d be laughable