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The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park
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September 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.
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I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
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Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway.
So, what exactly was she rewarded for?
This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
So, what exactly was she rewarded for?
This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
August 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Let me get this straight. Maxwell spent days meeting with the Justice Department and didn't implicate anyone. But she got moved to a minimum security prison anyway.
So, what exactly was she rewarded for?
This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
So, what exactly was she rewarded for?
This ought to be a scandal, but it seems like nobody cares.
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Cycling is more than just exercise. It means a cleaner planet, thriving cities, and a stronger economy.
EU cycling in numbers:
✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10 million bikes produced in the EU every year
✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector
EU cycling in numbers:
✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10 million bikes produced in the EU every year
✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector
August 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Cycling is more than just exercise. It means a cleaner planet, thriving cities, and a stronger economy.
EU cycling in numbers:
✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10 million bikes produced in the EU every year
✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector
EU cycling in numbers:
✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo cycling routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10 million bikes produced in the EU every year
✔️ 1.35 million jobs supported by the EU cycling sector
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For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
ICE just posted this video taking down the sign in Mount Pleasant on Twitter.
August 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
For most of the last decade, our media and political class has panicked over the idea that progressives were intruding on free speech rights by loudly criticizing people with unpopular views.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
Anyway, here's far-right federal paramilitaries advertising that they'll rip down pro-immigrant messages.
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President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.
The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.
on.wsj.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.
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Trump canceled the research grant for America’s — perhaps the world’s? — top mathematician (via @weakinstrument.bsky.social)
August 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Trump canceled the research grant for America’s — perhaps the world’s? — top mathematician (via @weakinstrument.bsky.social)
So the argument is that non citizens shouldn’t be protected by habeus and can be sent to unspecified conditions in ‘third nations’ for illegally being in the US, and now Trump continues to question the citizenship of people who are clearly here legally like Obama and now Rosie O’Donnell.
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So the argument is that non citizens shouldn’t be protected by habeus and can be sent to unspecified conditions in ‘third nations’ for illegally being in the US, and now Trump continues to question the citizenship of people who are clearly here legally like Obama and now Rosie O’Donnell.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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So after having lost badly in court, leading to an injunction barring them from defunding or punishing hospitals which practice gender affirming care, they're now going to have the FBI threaten criminal prosecution?
The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
June 2, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So after having lost badly in court, leading to an injunction barring them from defunding or punishing hospitals which practice gender affirming care, they're now going to have the FBI threaten criminal prosecution?
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The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.
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NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
www.propublica.org
May 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.
May 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Marco Rubio, in his current job, took the official actions that led to Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Öztürk being abducted and imprisoned for their speech in the United States.
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“It’s very chilling,” a Labor Department employee who requested anonymity for fear of retribution told ProPublica. “It’s never a good look when you’re telling people to never talk about what you’re doing.”
Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences”
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s chief of staff issued the warning as department employees have spoken to the news media about harms they see resulting from the dismantling of their agency,…
www.propublica.org
April 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“It’s very chilling,” a Labor Department employee who requested anonymity for fear of retribution told ProPublica. “It’s never a good look when you’re telling people to never talk about what you’re doing.”
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Trump, the so-called dealmaker, now wants to delay Medicare from negotiating drug prices.
Eli Lilly charges Americans $1,080 for the diabetes drug Mounjaro when the same drug can be purchased for $200 in Japan and $520 in the U.K.
Is this what Trump means by America First?
Eli Lilly charges Americans $1,080 for the diabetes drug Mounjaro when the same drug can be purchased for $200 in Japan and $520 in the U.K.
Is this what Trump means by America First?
April 16, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Trump, the so-called dealmaker, now wants to delay Medicare from negotiating drug prices.
Eli Lilly charges Americans $1,080 for the diabetes drug Mounjaro when the same drug can be purchased for $200 in Japan and $520 in the U.K.
Is this what Trump means by America First?
Eli Lilly charges Americans $1,080 for the diabetes drug Mounjaro when the same drug can be purchased for $200 in Japan and $520 in the U.K.
Is this what Trump means by America First?
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This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
April 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
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Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
UPDATE: Trump seems to say for the first time that U.S. lacks ability to recover those sent to El Salvador if government deports someone erroneously. Says it’s totally up to Bukele. Seems to leave out that he could … ask Bukele to help fix an error. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 13, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Exiling people beyond the protection of US law without due process is not only unconstitutional, it's a rejection of the entire American revolutionary project. Sending people "beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" is one of the grievances enumerated in the Declaration of Independence.
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Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.”
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
April 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Netanyahu loves Trump's plan to force 2 million people from Gaza & turn it into a billionaires’ Riviera. He calls it "voluntary migration.”
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
It's not voluntary if you bomb & starve those who stay.
It’s ethnic cleansing. It's a war crime.
No more military aid to Netanyahu.
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NOAA is a $6.7B agency.
SpaceX gets a $5.9B contract.
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
All the renewable energy & energy efficiency R&D done by the Department of Energy is only $3.5B. Wind, solar, geothermal, electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, biofuels, weatherization, buildings, efficiency, state programs, manufacturing, everything. Total: $3.5B 🔌💡
April 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
NOAA is a $6.7B agency.
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Petition: "He was held for several hours after his arrest without being told why, except that his F-1 student visa was 'retroactively revoked.' ...
[and] cites online records showing that his student visa wasn’t terminated until roughly 7 hours after his arrest."
No charging doc or hearing notice.
[and] cites online records showing that his student visa wasn’t terminated until roughly 7 hours after his arrest."
No charging doc or hearing notice.
A University of Minnesota graduate business student from Turkey says in a new lawsuit two plainclothes federal officers arrested him on the street outside his home on the way to class.
Minnesota student detained by ICE who lost visa for DUI thought he was being kidnapped
The University of Minnesota graduate business student says in a new lawsuit two plainclothes federal officers arrested him on the street outside his home on way to class.
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April 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Petition: "He was held for several hours after his arrest without being told why, except that his F-1 student visa was 'retroactively revoked.' ...
[and] cites online records showing that his student visa wasn’t terminated until roughly 7 hours after his arrest."
No charging doc or hearing notice.
[and] cites online records showing that his student visa wasn’t terminated until roughly 7 hours after his arrest."
No charging doc or hearing notice.
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Here’s something that *should* be an April Fool’s joke, but isn’t: CPCs outnumber real abortion clinics 3 to 1 in the US.
CPCs aren’t real medical clinics and have a shady agenda to scare, shame or pressure you out of getting an abortion. Here are 3 ways to spot them so you don’t get fooled ⤵️
CPCs aren’t real medical clinics and have a shady agenda to scare, shame or pressure you out of getting an abortion. Here are 3 ways to spot them so you don’t get fooled ⤵️
April 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here’s something that *should* be an April Fool’s joke, but isn’t: CPCs outnumber real abortion clinics 3 to 1 in the US.
CPCs aren’t real medical clinics and have a shady agenda to scare, shame or pressure you out of getting an abortion. Here are 3 ways to spot them so you don’t get fooled ⤵️
CPCs aren’t real medical clinics and have a shady agenda to scare, shame or pressure you out of getting an abortion. Here are 3 ways to spot them so you don’t get fooled ⤵️
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Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias says the US has revoked his visa after he criticized President Trump as behaving like "a Roman emperor." www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
www.reuters.com
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oscar Arias says the US has revoked his visa after he criticized President Trump as behaving like "a Roman emperor." www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NEW: Another Skadden attorney has resigned in protest, citing the law firm’s decision to strike a deal with Trump.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.
“Skadden is on the wrong side of history. I could no longer stay knowing that someday I would have to explain why I stayed,” the lawyer, Thomas Sipp, wrote in his resignation letter.