It is really shitty watching people you love die of cancer as the federal government cancels research money and tells the lot of you to go fuck yourselves

French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party between 2004 and 2016 and followed up the verdict on Monday with a senten...

"A French court has found far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty of misusing EU funds to pay staff from her National Rally party...with a sentence barring her from running for office immediately, possibly dashing her political ambitions"

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.

Authors, search your name here:

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".

And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.

Beginning March 31, people will no longer be able to verify their identity with the SSA over the phone. Those unable to verify their identity through the agency’s “my Social Security” online service will be required to visit a field office in person to complete the process.

Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention | CNN Politics Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the ...

The US military just purged their website of mentions of the Holocaust, 9/11 remembrance, cancer awareness, sexual assault, and suicide prevention to align with their new “anti-DEI” policies.

just a reminder that we shouldn’t be disappearing ANY people to El Salvadoran prison camps, whether they have been convicted or even accused of crimes or not

Live updates: Trump and Putin agree to partial ceasefire in Ukraine, but plan still needs Kyiv’s approval Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

Breaking news: A federal judge on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction blocking Elon Musk and the U.S. DOGE Service from taking any further actions to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and ordered that steps be taken to allow the agency to reoccupy its headquarters.

Killing the Military’s Consumer Watchdog A unit inside the C.F.P.B. protects servicemembers and veterans from financial scams. The Trump Administration has tried to stop it.

The C.F.P.B has recovered more than $300 million in damages to military personnel and veterans. Now the Trump Administration is trying to shut it down. “The impact of shutting down the C.F.P.B. on our servicemembers—it’s huge,” a military spouse said.

“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?” ― Fred Moten

Put another way

I hear this a lot but I think it's actually vital for cis people to understand what's at stake for themselves in trans people's fight. We can pray for empathy with one hand and fight for shared interests with the other but guess which will get results

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

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.

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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.

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction.

Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."

She saw family in Lebanon. Now this Brown Medicine doctor is being held at Logan for deportation. Dr. Rasha Alawieh flew into Logan Airport Thursday after visiting family in Lebanon. She's being detained now at Logan without legal counsel.

They're trying to deport my colleague from the med school and holding her without counsel. She was coming back from a visit to her family. If there are ways to help I'll let you know. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

WHAT WE FOUND We found that the bureau does not have effective strategies to address staffing gaps and high vacancies in FR positions. Specifically, the bureau did not: • Meet its staffing goals for ACS, CPS, and NCVS. • Implement a process to track and assess vacancy information from the regions. Without a workforce plan, the bureau lacks a comprehensive strategy to ensure it has the necessary FR staff to help accomplish its mission of providing high-quality data. Unaddressed FR staffing gaps increase the risks of lower response rates on surveys and higher attrition of other field staff, who bear the burden of increased workloads. Developing and implementing a workforce plan for FRs will help the bureau address the issues we identify in this report.

NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds
www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.

Get these things out of your house

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Screenshot of https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/nsch/data/datasets.2023.html with highlighted text "Page Last Revised - September 17, 2024"

The "last updated" date on this National Survey of Children's Health page is a lie.

I have a copy of the data and codebook from Oct 2024.

The materials there today are missing at least one key measure: whether or not the child faced discrimination for their sexual orientation or gender identity.

There will be a separate vote on a Collins/Van Hollen bill that will enable DC to continue funding public education, public safety, & human services in the nation’s capital.

We urge all Senators to vote for it!

Seniors came to JD Vance's event to demand the Trump Administration stop cutting Social Security.

JD's response:

"Don't you all have jobs?"

20% of kids now have a smartphone entering KINDERGARTEN

Listen I'm a smartphone addict too but I need the nanny state has to do something. This has gone way too far and broken too many brains.

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

imo the left really needs to put a lot more effort into organizing veterans, especially now. they aren’t a political monolith, and a lot of them are getting screwed over right now.

I’m voting NO on the terrible GOP resolution.