"The government official said they did not believe that the new Selective Service registration process was geared toward 'generating cannon fodder' for a ground invasion of Iran or any of the other fronts in Trump’s mushrooming world war."
"After that decision, the Justice Department admitted it had provided incorrect information to the court and revealed new details about DOGE’s actions. Those admissions included that DOGE…staff entered into an agreement with a 'political advocacy' group to analyze voter data"
"The U.S. State Department is instructing embassies to recruit local influencers to carry U.S.-funded narratives in ways designed to feel organically local rather than centrally directed. This is, by definition, a covert influence operation…when other countries do it, we call propaganda"
"Notably, the cable tells diplomatic offices to coordinate their work with 'the Department of War’s Psychological Operations' – the military unit more commonly known as Miso, or Military Information Support Operations, formerly Psyop, which is part of the Pentagon."
"On Tuesday, the board unanimously passed a resolution, co-sponsored by Supervisors Elisa Márquez and David Haubert, opposing the potential reopening and repurposing of FCI Dublin as an immigrant detention center, or any other carceral facility."
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"ASTM, a private organization that coordinated the development of some of those codes, insists that it retains copyright in them even after they have been adopted into law…Fortunately, neither the Constitution nor the Copyright Act support that theory."
"While the US, Israel, and Iran negotiate, Israel has excluded Lebanon from the ongoing two-week ceasefire. Local media have reported up to 100 Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon within 10 minutes on April 8, in a clear sign that forced displacement, disruption, and chaos will continue in the nation."
"The D.C. Disciplinary Counsel formally accused Martin of violating ethics rules last month over threatening letters he sent to Georgetown University’s law school while he was serving as the acting U.S. attorney in the district in early 2025."
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"The strategy to establish state laws that will make it all but impossible to sue oil and gas companies was laid out in detail by a group of lobbyists and political operatives in December, during a panel presentation at the annual States and Nation Policy Summit of [ALEC]"
"An immigration court in the United States has allowed Indian-origin Subramanyam 'Subu' Vedam to remain in the country, marking a major legal victory after he spent more than four decades in prison for a murder conviction that was later overturned."
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"Of course, that’s not how the voice modes of these chatbots are designed to work. Chats are meant to be an engaging back and forth. But having ChatGPT jump in on our one-on-one conversation…was too much. Suddenly, it felt like something else was in the car eavesdropping"
"In Rhode Island, the DOJ’s acting Voting Section chief Eric Neff admitted that state registration data would be shared with DHS to find noncitizens — the same day a different DOJ attorney told a judge in Maine the opposite"
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"AI Overviews face another challenge: They can be manipulated. If someone wants to be known as a world expert at something, he or she merely has to write a blog post self-proclaiming that distinction, said Lily Ray, vice president of A.I. search at Amsive, a marketing agency."
"Still, today marks a striking and mostly unsettling moment in the development of AI systems. One of the world’s three frontier labs has now created a model it says is too dangerous to release to the general public."
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"In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases"
"The Saudis have spent most of the month-long conflict whispering offstage advice to the Trump White House; their official absence from the councils of war planning is hard to explain, especially as President Trump alternately berates and begs our erstwhile NATO friends for help"
Ranked choice voting please. Anything less leads to dumb situations like this:
"President Donald Trump has endorsed Republican Steve Hilton in the California governor’s race, a move that could consolidate the conservative vote and, ironically, tank the GOP’s best chances of winning the seat."
"But here Trump has eliminated the issue. In the future, intent will not be hard to prove — it will not even be as demanding as it was in Gaza — because Trump just posted it online, with the world as witness."
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"Leave it to the president that makes us nostalgic for Nixon-era corruption to claim that a law Nixon made necessary is no longer a law."
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It's remarkable that almost *any* effort at obfuscation does the trick.
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"I keep coming across little things like this that, in the past, I would have been mildly annoyed by, but needed to live with. And it’s taking some effort to remind myself 'wait, I don’t have to live with this, I can fix it.'"
"Two hundred Dalit workers, members of the lowest caste in India’s rigid social hierarchy, came from Rajasthan to New Jersey to work on the temple.…workers say they labored for 90 hours a week for as low as $1.20 an hour…passports were taken from them…not allowed to contact their families"
"But on March 16, Barrios and her 3,800 coworkers reached a breaking point, walking off the job to launch the first-ever strike at the Greeley plant and the first major strike in the US meatpacking industry in four decades."
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"The Rozarios have advocated for young people suffering from mental health issues to have the right to seek treatment without worrying about being killed at the hands of police."
"In those lawsuits, the DOJ has claimed it needs millions of voters’ private sensitive data in order to ensure the states are complying with federal laws…But outside of court, DOJ officials…have undermined that claim by boasting that the state voter records…have been used to verify citizenship"
"Those groups argue the executive order violates federal voting, privacy and administrative laws. They take particular issue with its demand that the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) create lists of 'approved mail voters' that will determine who can receive an absentee ballot."
"Reporting by the Dallas Observer noted that the majority of speakers who showed up to criticize Frisco’s Indian population were not actually residents of the city — a detail that underscored how the evening had become a rallying point for broader anti-immigration sentiment across the metroplex"
"The data breach notice said the hackers took customer names and contact information, as well as other unspecified personal data that Hims & Hers left redacted in the letter."
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“Pit (as in Pita Pit and Buca di Beppo, which translates to ‘Beppo’s Pit’): A pit is pretty much just a hole in the ground, with some bracing that qualifies it as a structure. Surely this is the worst place to sit down for a meal.”
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The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide.
He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.