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MSW. I read a lot as a child. Looking for that “restore faith in humanity” button.
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A freelance photojournalist was arrested and held in custody for more than 30 hours while documenting an anti-deportation protest outside a federal immigration facility in Miami, according to court records and published accounts.
Photojournalist Arrested While Documenting Protest Outside Miami Immigration Facility
MIAMI — A freelance photojournalist was arrested and held in custody for more than 30 hours while documenting an anti-deportation protest outside a federal immigration facility in Miami, according …
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December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
A freelance photojournalist was arrested and held in custody for more than 30 hours while documenting an anti-deportation protest outside a federal immigration facility in Miami, according to court records and published accounts.
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
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🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
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1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.
Turning Public Money into Amazon’s Profits | Independent Business
Amazon has quietly captured a growing share of government purchasing. This major report explains how, and what to do about it.
ilsr.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.
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Via Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline: A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. https://ow.ly/P4GV50XBPak
December 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Via Anna Claire Vollers and Stateline: A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it. https://ow.ly/P4GV50XBPak
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This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Agriculture Dept. Threatens to Withhold Food Stamps From Democratic States
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
This is where we are now. Families are starving in the wealthiest nation in the world.
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Meanwhile the president is intentionally trying to cut off food for hungry people who live in states that did not vote for him.
It's not just immoral — it's un-American.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
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NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds
A paper published in the journal Science found that chatbots become more persuasive when they share large amounts of information.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
For the last decade, the pervasive spread of bullshit & manipulation of online platforms have been widely recognized societal concerns. Now non US citizens studying those subjects can be labeled “censors” & denied visas or deported from the US. Censorship, indeed. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump administration orders enhanced vetting for applicants of H-1B visa
An internal State Department memo said that anyone involved in "censorship" of free speech should be considered for rejection.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.
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This is some serious North Korea style dictator work by the Trump admin. Can't imagine it'll stop with Visa applicants. Trump wants just one truth- his truth- and anyone who calls out his lies is a target.
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is some serious North Korea style dictator work by the Trump admin. Can't imagine it'll stop with Visa applicants. Trump wants just one truth- his truth- and anyone who calls out his lies is a target.
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Why did Trump pardon former Honduran President? Follow the money to Próspera — the crypto billionaire controlled island in Honduras.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Why did Trump pardon former Honduran President? Follow the money to Próspera — the crypto billionaire controlled island in Honduras.
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The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Pentagon inspector general report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal shows a pattern of recklessness. https://to.pbs.org/4pP2L6C
Read the full report on Hegseth's use of Signal from the Pentagon inspector general
The inspector general found that Hegseth endangered U.S. personnel when he used Signal to convey sensitive information about a strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, the Associated Press reported We...
to.pbs.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The top Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Pentagon inspector general report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal shows a pattern of recklessness. https://to.pbs.org/4pP2L6C
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Court filings and news reports show multiple Trump clemency beneficiaries later charged with violent assaults, sexual offenses, weapons violations, or major frauds.
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December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Court filings and news reports show multiple Trump clemency beneficiaries later charged with violent assaults, sexual offenses, weapons violations, or major frauds.
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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.
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.
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
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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.
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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A federal judge ruled that federal agents have to scale back the warrantless arrests of immigrants that have been happening in D.C.
“They’ve been roaming around arresting people who appear Latino without any regard of who they are," says an attorney.
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“They’ve been roaming around arresting people who appear Latino without any regard of who they are," says an attorney.
51st.news/dc-warrantle...
Federal judge limits warrantless immigration arrests in D.C.
Lawyers say federal agents unlawfully operated under an ‘arrest first, ask questions later’ policy.
51st.news
December 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A federal judge ruled that federal agents have to scale back the warrantless arrests of immigrants that have been happening in D.C.
“They’ve been roaming around arresting people who appear Latino without any regard of who they are," says an attorney.
51st.news/dc-warrantle...
“They’ve been roaming around arresting people who appear Latino without any regard of who they are," says an attorney.
51st.news/dc-warrantle...
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“She wasn’t told why she was detained...She was shackled like she was some type of hardened criminal, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney...If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Student describes ‘horror show’ ICE deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
Any Lucia López Belloza, 19, was detained at Boston airport while on the way to see family in Austin for a surprise trip
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“She wasn’t told why she was detained...She was shackled like she was some type of hardened criminal, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a court hearing or even talk to an attorney...If that isn’t unconstitutional, I don’t know what is." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country.
And here we are.
And here we are.
For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know. n.pr/4q7VSh5
Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine
For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Bears repeating that one of Russia’s first major social media influence campaigns in the US promoted antivax views. Why? For it’s a way to do clear material harm to the country.
And here we are.
And here we are.
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"Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by imposing conditions that could amount to torture of detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a report released early Thursday morning." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/copy...
‘Copy of Guantánamo’: Human rights group alleges torture, inhumanity at ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ Krome
Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by imposing conditions that could amount to torture of detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a report…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Two Florida migrant detention centers may have violated international standards by imposing conditions that could amount to torture of detainees, a human rights organization claimed in a report released early Thursday morning." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/copy...
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"Violence and racist abuse by guards against migrants were commonplace, Amnesty said, adding that one of its own staffers witnessed a guard violently slamming a metal flap of a door to a solitary confinement room against a man’s injured hand."
Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges
Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day
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December 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"Violence and racist abuse by guards against migrants were commonplace, Amnesty said, adding that one of its own staffers witnessed a guard violently slamming a metal flap of a door to a solitary confinement room against a man’s injured hand."
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🔥 NYT has sued Trump admin.
Pete Hegseth had "proposed evicting from the Pentagon a veteran reporter at NBC News who had contributed to some of the coverage," which "surfaced allegations of excessive drinking and sexual assault, which [Hegseth] said were untrue."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
Pete Hegseth had "proposed evicting from the Pentagon a veteran reporter at NBC News who had contributed to some of the coverage," which "surfaced allegations of excessive drinking and sexual assault, which [Hegseth] said were untrue."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
New York Times Sues Pentagon Over First Amendment Rights
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🔥 NYT has sued Trump admin.
Pete Hegseth had "proposed evicting from the Pentagon a veteran reporter at NBC News who had contributed to some of the coverage," which "surfaced allegations of excessive drinking and sexual assault, which [Hegseth] said were untrue."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
Pete Hegseth had "proposed evicting from the Pentagon a veteran reporter at NBC News who had contributed to some of the coverage," which "surfaced allegations of excessive drinking and sexual assault, which [Hegseth] said were untrue."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/b...
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🔥 The year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities theme – "Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress – underscores the need to strengthen inclusion to advance human development across all sectors."
14.7% of people live with disabilities. On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, inclusion isn't optional—it's a business imperative.
What does disability inclusion look like in your space?
#IDPD2025 #DisabilityInclusion
www.emro.who.int/media/news/i...
What does disability inclusion look like in your space?
#IDPD2025 #DisabilityInclusion
www.emro.who.int/media/news/i...
WHO EMRO - International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2025: fostering disability-inclusive societies
www.emro.who.int
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
🔥 The year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities theme – "Fostering disability-inclusive societies for advancing social progress – underscores the need to strengthen inclusion to advance human development across all sectors."
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This may help
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This may help
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"Layoff announcements this year top 1.1 million, the most since 2020 when pandemic hit" per CNBC reporting. Trump again inherited a great economy but has run it into the ground!! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
Layoff announcements this year top 1.1 million, the most since 2020 when pandemic hit, Challenger says
The firm said layoff plans totaled 76,835 in November, a step down from October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million.
www.cnbc.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"Layoff announcements this year top 1.1 million, the most since 2020 when pandemic hit" per CNBC reporting. Trump again inherited a great economy but has run it into the ground!! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/l...
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BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.
FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says
The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
bit.ly
December 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
BREAKING: The FBI makes an arrest in the investigation into pipe bombs placed in D.C. on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot, an AP source says.