@corbettk.bsky.social
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These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
These funds could sustain the National Science Foundation for 17 years and make the US a great country. Instead, they'll be used to terrorize people in the US.
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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors.
The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
June 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors.
The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors.
www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...
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So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?
June 4, 2025 at 1:59 AM
So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?
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#ProudBlue
GOP has fretted for years about the "Deep State" meaning, I guess, the agencies coordinating science, health, Vets benefits, aid for needy Americans, & more. These are damaged, & we'll all suffer. What's worse is they're being replaced with a monitoring state poised to wreck our privacy.
GOP has fretted for years about the "Deep State" meaning, I guess, the agencies coordinating science, health, Vets benefits, aid for needy Americans, & more. These are damaged, & we'll all suffer. What's worse is they're being replaced with a monitoring state poised to wreck our privacy.
June 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
#ProudBlue
GOP has fretted for years about the "Deep State" meaning, I guess, the agencies coordinating science, health, Vets benefits, aid for needy Americans, & more. These are damaged, & we'll all suffer. What's worse is they're being replaced with a monitoring state poised to wreck our privacy.
GOP has fretted for years about the "Deep State" meaning, I guess, the agencies coordinating science, health, Vets benefits, aid for needy Americans, & more. These are damaged, & we'll all suffer. What's worse is they're being replaced with a monitoring state poised to wreck our privacy.
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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY.
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon.
And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
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Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
May 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hard-hitting analysis from NYT. As you can see from the diagram, legal impediments are a weak gray box that can be defeated by a strong orange arrow and bold typeface
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article (but it’s bad) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the ACLU, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son.
His son was born last month while Khalil remained in ICE custody in Louisiana.
His son was born last month while Khalil remained in ICE custody in Louisiana.
May 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ICE officials and a prison contractor have refused to grant a contact visit between Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil and his family, according to the ACLU, denying him the chance to hold his newborn son.
His son was born last month while Khalil remained in ICE custody in Louisiana.
His son was born last month while Khalil remained in ICE custody in Louisiana.
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If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican-led House approves tax bill after grueling all-night session, taking a major step forward for Trump's agenda.
May 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
If this bill becomes law, ICE will become the best-resourced law enforcement agency in the history of the country, with more funding for detention than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons.
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[1] Hidden language in @HouseCommerce budget bill would strip states from the ability to regulate AI systems. CA has long led on tech oversight and this would silence our ability to protect people from the technology harms they face every day...
May 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
[1] Hidden language in @HouseCommerce budget bill would strip states from the ability to regulate AI systems. CA has long led on tech oversight and this would silence our ability to protect people from the technology harms they face every day...
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Sheer luck to freeze this moment where both hummingbirds are both sharp in the same frame
I’ve had my share of photos with two or more birds in the same frame. Even a few lucky enough to have two different species interacting
This Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbird being territorial is a good one 📷🪶
I’ve had my share of photos with two or more birds in the same frame. Even a few lucky enough to have two different species interacting
This Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbird being territorial is a good one 📷🪶
May 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Sheer luck to freeze this moment where both hummingbirds are both sharp in the same frame
I’ve had my share of photos with two or more birds in the same frame. Even a few lucky enough to have two different species interacting
This Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbird being territorial is a good one 📷🪶
I’ve had my share of photos with two or more birds in the same frame. Even a few lucky enough to have two different species interacting
This Allen’s and Anna’s hummingbird being territorial is a good one 📷🪶
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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
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What’s supposed to happen?
If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do?
Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run?
1.
If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do?
Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run?
1.
May 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
What’s supposed to happen?
If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do?
Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run?
1.
If my daughter is out and masked men grab her, claiming they’re ICE, drag her away w/out letting her prove she’s a citizen… w/out calling me, her dad… what is she supposed to do?
Does she not have the right to fight back, as we have taught her, to free herself. Run?
1.
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Gee I wonder who this benefits
F.B.I. Dismantles Elite Public Corruption Squad
F.B.I. Dismantles Elite Public Corruption Squad
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Gee I wonder who this benefits
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so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?
May 15, 2025 at 3:38 AM
so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?
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Tell me again why Trump is deporting people with no criminal histories to El Salvador prison? He just invited drug cartel members into the USA FFS! All deportations should stop: the people imprisoned in El Salvador aren’t criminals; the Sinaloa drug cartel are
apnews.com/article/el-c...
apnews.com/article/el-c...
Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration
Mexico’s government has confirmed reports that 17 family members of the son of a former cartel leader crossed into the United States.
apnews.com
May 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tell me again why Trump is deporting people with no criminal histories to El Salvador prison? He just invited drug cartel members into the USA FFS! All deportations should stop: the people imprisoned in El Salvador aren’t criminals; the Sinaloa drug cartel are
apnews.com/article/el-c...
apnews.com/article/el-c...
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i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
At Supreme Court, a Once-Fringe Birthright Citizenship Theory Takes the Spotlight
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
i am fascinated by the editorial choice to give the last word to a disbarred charlatan pushing a discredited constitutional theory www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...
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New post from me: a free society should not tolerate routine masking and other attempts to conceal identity by ICE agents raiding worksites, stopping cars and arresting protesters. And it's part of a wider Trump administration strategy of pursuing impunity for rights-violating law enforcers.
Will we allow ICE to behave as a secret police?
I had missed the story from two weeks ago about what happened after (apparent) agents of the U.S.
walterolson.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 2:24 AM
New post from me: a free society should not tolerate routine masking and other attempts to conceal identity by ICE agents raiding worksites, stopping cars and arresting protesters. And it's part of a wider Trump administration strategy of pursuing impunity for rights-violating law enforcers.
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AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces
May 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces
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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
May 12, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
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"Another officer, frustrated, says, 'They don’t need a warrant.' Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they’re concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing"—@billshaner.bsky.social in Worcester www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Another officer, frustrated, says, 'They don’t need a warrant.' Finally, one of them tells the truth. Due process is not a matter they’re concerned with. The deportation must proceed. Trying to stop it is the unlawful thing"—@billshaner.bsky.social in Worcester www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.
May 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Welcome to the RFK Jr public health era.
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Please watch & share this video. This state sponsored violence is hard to watch, but if we turn away & stay silent, we're complicit.
If it can happen to them, it can happen to you.
It's up to each of us to SPEAK OUT!
If you support the immigrant community reply with #OnYourSide to show you care.
If it can happen to them, it can happen to you.
It's up to each of us to SPEAK OUT!
If you support the immigrant community reply with #OnYourSide to show you care.
May 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Please watch & share this video. This state sponsored violence is hard to watch, but if we turn away & stay silent, we're complicit.
If it can happen to them, it can happen to you.
It's up to each of us to SPEAK OUT!
If you support the immigrant community reply with #OnYourSide to show you care.
If it can happen to them, it can happen to you.
It's up to each of us to SPEAK OUT!
If you support the immigrant community reply with #OnYourSide to show you care.
“And smartwatch data.” What in the world? Also, inevitable. I thought woken would go first based on period tracker apps.
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
RFK Jr. says autism database will use Medicare and Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
www.npr.org
May 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“And smartwatch data.” What in the world? Also, inevitable. I thought woken would go first based on period tracker apps.