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SCOOP: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants, sources tell WIRED.
They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
SCOOP: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants, sources tell WIRED.
They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:
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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
April 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.
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"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
referring to pete hegseth as whiskeyleaks is one of the funniest things i’ve seen in a while. good job, guys.
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This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
March 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.
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GREAT news everyone!
The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.
Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Apply or die!
The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.
Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Apply or die!
Careers at The Onion
jobs.gusto.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
GREAT news everyone!
The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.
Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Apply or die!
The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions.
Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...
Apply or die!
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@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
Resistance is alive and well in the United States
Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.
urldefense.proofpoint.com
March 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.
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far from me to second guess levitsky on this, but ... we don't know if it will work yet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
far from me to second guess levitsky on this, but ... we don't know if it will work yet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
www.404media.co/the-200-site...
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NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
Indivisible Calls on Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
March 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
NEWS: After an emergency meeting of Indivisible groups across the country, Indivisible is officially calling on Senate Minority Leader Schumer to step down from his leadership position. indivisible.org/statements/i...
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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
March 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
March 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
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I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
www.wired.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I dunno, what else do you call a shadowy group of bureaucrats working to reshape government policy from the inside to serve their own ends? www.wired.com/story/doge-i...
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe
The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A team of archivists has recreated the pre-Trump CDC website as a live, easy-to-navigate website that should be indexed by Google. The team is hosting it in Europe. Cool project that is sadly necessary:
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
www.404media.co/archivists-r...
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They’re planning concentration camps on military bases.
NYT reports the Trump administration is considering a plan to hold migrants at military detention sites, including Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, CO. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...
Trump Plans to Use Military Sites Across the Country to Detain Undocumented Immigrants
The move would be a drastic escalation by the White House to militarize immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
They’re planning concentration camps on military bases.
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I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are
their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror
their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror
DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that
DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less
The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.
www.bloomberg.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I am begging the media to put the focus on what was cut, and what the effects of those cuts are likely to be, rather than some nebulous topline number that implies to people that they’re actually doing what they say they are
their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror
their “savings” will cost us far more than this, in money and terror
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Deadbeat dad ass party
February 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Deadbeat dad ass party
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For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it
February 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
For a party that says we’re in the middle of a constitutional crisis, they sure don’t act like it
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elon musk is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at your favorite baseball team's opening day while wearing a t shirt from your favorite band in his ongoing effort to insert himself into and singularly ruin every aspect of your life
February 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
elon musk is scheduled to throw out the first pitch at your favorite baseball team's opening day while wearing a t shirt from your favorite band in his ongoing effort to insert himself into and singularly ruin every aspect of your life
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I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I wonder why Musk is focused on the federal civilian workforce (4% of the budget) and not federal contractors, which account for 3x more annual spending and are more prone to waste, fraud, and abuse?
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they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government
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Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email
New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”
February 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Top Dem on the House Intel Committee Jim Himes says in a statement that he understands that the White House “insisted” on the CIA transmitting the list in an unclassified email