NatsLibrarian
@natslibrarian.bsky.social
Cats, Critters, Books, Baseball, Wildlife Photography. Believer in Science.
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this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
The Trump administration claims the right to throw a man with legal status into a black hole Central American prison, affording him no due process, to admit afterward it was a mistake, and then to get snide with the judge who tells them to fix it.
April 4, 2025 at 11:26 PM
this is why shipping migrants to third party countries is inherently a due process violation. it very literally removes them from the realm of legal process entirely.
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“It actually felt like history is happening in front of our very eyes,” one Polish official tells @jenkirby.bsky.social in her report from Munich on fears the US is disengaging from the continent—or worse, actively working against it
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
“Are We Still Friends?”: How Donald Trump Is Unraveling the Western Alliance
A gathering of diplomats in Europe only heightened fears that the United States is abandoning NATO and siding with Russia over Ukraine—which Trump cemented in his latest attacks on “dictator” Zelensky...
www.vanityfair.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“It actually felt like history is happening in front of our very eyes,” one Polish official tells @jenkirby.bsky.social in her report from Munich on fears the US is disengaging from the continent—or worse, actively working against it
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...
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That’s how you write a headline, people.
February 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
That’s how you write a headline, people.
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Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
February 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Wow. The NYT reports that Acting Deputy AG Emil Bove coached Mayor Eric Adams' attorneys on what to argue in order to get the charges dismissed (namely, that the charges were interfering with the mayor's ability to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown): www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...
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BREAKING: CFPB probationary employees just received a termination notice without the pertinent information filled out. Click to see all of it.
February 12, 2025 at 2:32 AM
BREAKING: CFPB probationary employees just received a termination notice without the pertinent information filled out. Click to see all of it.
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“Extinction Burst” as applied to MAGA.
This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one…
(Part I)
This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one…
(Part I)
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“Extinction Burst” as applied to MAGA.
This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one…
(Part I)
This is worth the two minutes of your time. Trust me on this one…
(Part I)
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They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
February 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.
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So they literally could have set up 400 people in a $1500 a month apartment for 29 YEARS for what they spent to abuse people. Or housed almost 1000 people for a year at the same rate.
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse.
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So they literally could have set up 400 people in a $1500 a month apartment for 29 YEARS for what they spent to abuse people. Or housed almost 1000 people for a year at the same rate.
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This is what they used to do in the Soviet Union.
The erasure of the Jan. 6 records comes while the administration is also seeking to whitewash the teaching of U.S. history, threatening to withhold funds from schools that teach about America’s troubled history of racial and gender discrimination.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish?
The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…
propub.li
February 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is what they used to do in the Soviet Union.
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I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:
I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:
Why Trump’s Data Purge is a Digital Book Burning
How reporters tracked the Trump administration's data purges in real time.
slate.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
slate.com/podcasts/wha...
I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:
I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:
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It's worth reiterating - Microsoft's own research indicates that use of generative AI degrades critical thinking skills and erodes confidence in unassisted decision making.
I really really need you guys to make a conscious rejection of generative AI tools part of your ongoing political resistance.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Don't use ChatGPT. Turn off Gemini. Don't read the AI results forced upon you at the top of Google search. Don't use AI art generators or support anyone who does. Please.
Oh please please i am begging, don't use generative AI for any reason if you can avoid it.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
It's being marketed as a quick time-saver, but it's messy, inaccurate, it is putting entire industries of people out of work, and the environmental impacts (energy and water usage) are huge and debilitating.
February 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
It's worth reiterating - Microsoft's own research indicates that use of generative AI degrades critical thinking skills and erodes confidence in unassisted decision making.
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The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month.
Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either.
And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.
Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either.
And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.
SpaceX Silently Loses Another Rocket To Space - FAA Rules Out Investigation
SpaceX might have lost another second stage Falcon 9 rocket launched at the start of this month shows data from the satellite tracking website Celes Track. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Vanden...
wccftech.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The FAA and SpaceX hid the fact that they list yet another rocket this month.
Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either.
And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.
Not only that, but the FAA is not going to investigate either.
And there’s your reason for forcing out the head of the FAA.
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Representative and Republican Mike McCaul of Texas stood up for PEPFAR and USAid on Sunday’s “Face The Nation”. He is starting to rally the Republican opposition to The purge. Please call (202)225-2401 and tell him you support him and how we can help.
February 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Representative and Republican Mike McCaul of Texas stood up for PEPFAR and USAid on Sunday’s “Face The Nation”. He is starting to rally the Republican opposition to The purge. Please call (202)225-2401 and tell him you support him and how we can help.
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THIS is the version of the ‘farmer who’s about to lose his farm’ testimonial that you need to see.
Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!
Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!
February 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
THIS is the version of the ‘farmer who’s about to lose his farm’ testimonial that you need to see.
Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!
Here’s the thing—I don’t care if they admit they were wrong. We already know they were. But they do need to admit they were lied to—by Donald Trump. Call him out by name!
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starting to believe that the people who campaigned to usher in a millennia of white supremacist fascist oligarchy were not as committed to the principle of free speech as the media had led voters to believe
Excuse me, what in the Footloose fuck? www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
February 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
starting to believe that the people who campaigned to usher in a millennia of white supremacist fascist oligarchy were not as committed to the principle of free speech as the media had led voters to believe
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These are the only refugees we’re now taking. So guess it’s just full-on white nationalism.
Statement by the Secretary of State’s spokesperson on “descendants of settlers in South Africa.”
February 9, 2025 at 2:47 AM
These are the only refugees we’re now taking. So guess it’s just full-on white nationalism.
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If you were wondering what white supremacy looks like, it is when you deprive darker-skinned people in Afghanistan, who risked their lives to help American troops as translators, refugee status, but give it to white South Africans who only helped keep black people down with Apartheid.
February 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
If you were wondering what white supremacy looks like, it is when you deprive darker-skinned people in Afghanistan, who risked their lives to help American troops as translators, refugee status, but give it to white South Africans who only helped keep black people down with Apartheid.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
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February 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:
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New acting CFPB director Russell Vought sends a directive to Bureau staff telling them to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement," per a source familiar
February 9, 2025 at 2:12 AM
New acting CFPB director Russell Vought sends a directive to Bureau staff telling them to "cease all supervision and examination activity" and "cease all stakeholder engagement," per a source familiar
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Can we revisit Musk and his views on family values? Monogamy? Honesty? Charity? Drug use? I’m curious what his values are and how in the world did he end up as unelected leader of the Republican Party that used to spout “family values” constantly?
February 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Can we revisit Musk and his views on family values? Monogamy? Honesty? Charity? Drug use? I’m curious what his values are and how in the world did he end up as unelected leader of the Republican Party that used to spout “family values” constantly?
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