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We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.
March 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We were told not to share this publicly, but last year was record-breaking—America’s national parks saw over 331 million visits.
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Venezuela minister offers the same assessment as US intelligence officers: there are _no_ Tren de Aragua members among US deportees. The claims of the Trump administration are pure fiction. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Venezuela minister says jailed deportees from US not tied to Tren de Aragua
Venezuelan's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that no one among the hundreds of deportees to a Salvadoran prison, whom Washington accused of being members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, were related to the criminal organization.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Venezuela minister offers the same assessment as US intelligence officers: there are _no_ Tren de Aragua members among US deportees. The claims of the Trump administration are pure fiction. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Who is JD Vance and what is he about? zeteo.com/p/peter-thie...
He Hates Democracy and Wants To Cheat Death – Meet the Billionaire Investor Who Created J.D. Vance
Donald Trump’s running mate is a dangerous “extension” of right-wing broligarch Peter Thiel.
zeteo.com
March 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Who is JD Vance and what is he about? zeteo.com/p/peter-thie...
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At least 200 children among the 506 Palestinians killed by Israel in the last 5 days, the UN says.
www.un.org/unispal/docu...
www.un.org/unispal/docu...
Statement by the UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory on the developments in Gaza, 21 March 2025 - Question of Palestine
عربي The UN Human Rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory is horrified by the ongoing killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Gaza since the resumption of large-scale Israeli bomba...
www.un.org
March 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
At least 200 children among the 506 Palestinians killed by Israel in the last 5 days, the UN says.
www.un.org/unispal/docu...
www.un.org/unispal/docu...
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USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
February 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.
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The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
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“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“Yet, far from acting in courageous defiance, many scientists and administrators now seem to think that the best response to the war on DEI is to keep their heads low and wait out four hard years.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Prosecutors have concluded that arson incidents that burned IKEA shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw were set by Russian saboteurs acting under the instruction of Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Russia behind arson attack on Ikea store in Lithuanian capital, says prosecutor
People suspected of involvement in 2024 Vilnius attack also accused of links to crimes in Poland
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Prosecutors have concluded that arson incidents that burned IKEA shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw were set by Russian saboteurs acting under the instruction of Russian intelligence services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Basic US civics: 3 branches of government, not one. President, not a king or dictator. Nazis are bad
March 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Basic US civics: 3 branches of government, not one. President, not a king or dictator. Nazis are bad
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This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
March 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.
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It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
U.S. deports hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, despite court order
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
www.npr.org
March 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It was not clear if the deportations happened before a D.C. federal judge ordered the administration to stop using wartime powers to deport anyone immediately, and turn around any planes in the air.
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You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
March 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
Ok. So it seems, at least with deportations this administration is willing to defy the courts. Now what? I’m genuinely asking for your thoughts.
March 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ok. So it seems, at least with deportations this administration is willing to defy the courts. Now what? I’m genuinely asking for your thoughts.
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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
March 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22
Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼
Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼
March 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
If you are a Northern California person upset about Chuck Schumer’s @schumer.senate.gov ‘s craven betrayal of our country, his book tour will be in Corte Madera at The Book Passage on 3/22
Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼
Thanks to @chriswarcraft.bsky.social for the alert, now we know where to visit him in NorCal too 👍🏼
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these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
March 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions
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I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it.
When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.
Not without a fight.
open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...
When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.
Not without a fight.
open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...
My Vote on the GOP Spending Bill
I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it. When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him. Not without a fight.
open.substack.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'm a hard NO on the Republican spending bill. On cloture. On all of it.
When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.
Not without a fight.
open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...
When a wannabe dictator is trying to seize power, it must not be given to him.
Not without a fight.
open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...
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Damn straight!
March 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Damn straight!
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