Homeland Security klogo: More Third World Violence: ICE Requests Texas Not Release Illegal Alien Who Murdered His Co-Worker with a Sledgehammer Release Date: April 20, 2026 If you import the third world, you become the third world WASHINGTON — The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer requesting local authorities not release Josue Abraham Chirino-Leonice, a 19-year-old criminal illegal alien from Venezuela, who is charged with murdering his co-worker to death with a sledgehammer.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is using official press releases to message that Westerners (they mean white people) are superior to people from the Global South (they mean non-white people). This is a dangerous, backwards position for our government to take.

/also, "murdered .. to death"?

This is what amazes me about Trump's continuing attacks on the Federal Reserve.

Replacing an independent FOMC with lackeys increases the odds we get a major economic crisis (either a recession/depression or runaway inflation).

Trump should want a boring, competent Fed, but he can't help himself.

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

One of the main things I want from Democrats for the next decade is a return to (big?) New Deal energy. Creating all those federal government programs in 1933-1938 was a messy process with imperfect results, but the FDR administration quickly spun up state capacity and we need to do it again in 2029

I like a good IPA, but it's crazy how much they took over craft brewing- it feels like at least 3/4 of the beers in Seattle grocery stores are IPAs. I don't always want a super-intense, extremely high-alcohol beer!

Andrew Yang has perpetually been a guy who gets super excited after reading the first two sentences of a random Wikipedia page, closes the tab, and runs off to tell the world about how he's going to save us all with his new-found expertise in a topic he had never heard of until 30 seconds ago.

screenshot of a bluesky preference panel showing "Autoplay videos and GIFs" turned off

every day's a beautiful day to go to "Settings" > "Content and media" and turn off "Autoplay videos and GIFs"

Trump’s personnel agency is asking for federal workers’ medical records | CNN The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families.

The Trump administration thinks it should be able to view federal workers' private health information. This is outrageous on so many levels.

www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/h...

Impeach Trump.

My favorite example of this genre was a HN commenter very confidently telling one of the Rust compiler developers that he didn't understand how memory management works in Rust.

Cherry blossoms in Japan.

When I look at the comments on the pro-vaccine posts in my feed or even posts from scientific organizations reporting new research in immunology or infectious disease, they're often filled with anti-vax comments.

I'm not sure how much of this is bots vs Meta targeting posts to generate engagement.

I work in biomedical research and Meta was filling my Facebook feed with anti-vax posts until I started aggressively blocking the accounts generating the posts.

Not one for theories of everything (other than the housing theory of everything, duh), but I do think "we undermined the material basis for patriarchy without destroying its grip on the collective imagination, thereby driving many people insane" is a sort of skeleton key to most of what's happening.

This one always struck me as a funny choice because there have probably been dozens- maybe even hundreds- of Chicago guys named "Dan Ryan"

Updating Oliver Wendell Holmes' line that FDR had "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament" for Trump would require numbers of whose existence our current president might be proudly ignorant.

Or he may take "infinite-class intellect but an infinite-class temperament" as a compliment

It's difficult to build political consensus for transit/bike infrastructure, the planning process prioritizes objections by project opponents, which reduces quality, slows construction, and increases costs, so we end up with infrastructure that's expensive, very delayed, and often underwhelming.

Similarly, the right-wing attacked Tony Fauci for being the highest paid federal employee at $400k annually, but he could have made way more money by ditching NIH for the private sector. We all benefited by him staying, but shouldn't have to depend on people choosing the less lucrative option.

Much of reactionary politics today is best understood as a Confederate restoration project.

god willing we will grind Intuit into the fucking ground

I'm still mad about Trump and the GOP killing IRS Direct File.

In 2029, the Dem trifecta not only reinstate Direct File, but automate the whole process so that the IRS generates your tax return from the info they already have, you either OK or amend it, and then they send you the bill/refund.

I'm curious about this too. My first thought was there's probably more Python code for training LLMs and the stereotype is that R users are stats people first and developers 2nd, so maybe mean R code quality is lower. But maybe the more restricted uses of R make it easier for LLMs to generate code.

I believe this is study referenced in the People article: ashpublications.org/bloodadvance...

I'm not an expert, but reading the study, it's a refinement of bone marrow transplantation w/ higher success rate, expanded pool of compatible bone marrow donors, less prolonged immune suppression (for some patients), and less risk to fertility.

Compared to gene therapy, it's much less expensive.

And the planning for the first project aiming to replace the bridge started in 2005! Even if this project finishes on time, the whole process will have taken 40 years from conception to completion!

By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below

This is insane.

i don’t know exactly how to articulate it but like, we’re absolutely at war yet it doesn’t feel like it because the people leading it are so fucking stupid so the typical climate of seriousness is missing? if that makes sense?

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

This is what happens when elected officials make your transit decisions. (There is a categorization error. The Caltrans rep cannot vote. The other rep is appointed by LA mayor and does her bidding. 100% of LA Metro Board votes belong to elected officials)
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Even putting aside Israel's recent use of exploding pagers, there's a history of foreign governments using bugged gifts to spy on the recipient. In a normal administration, it would be handed over to a counter-surveillance team for examination, but with these idiots, who the hell knows.