She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.

– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76

37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.

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TACO Tuesday!

This is important and shocking news from NYT.

And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.

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An Inconvenient Study | DEBUNKED YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson

I debunked the “An Inconvenient Study” documentary. It was bad. I had a bad time. But the video turned out great. May my sacrifice help you in your fight against anti-vaccine influencers. youtu.be/KhRZFw2DCBI?...

If indeed they do change it, as soon as he's gone they'll change it back. Just like "Gulf of America".

Less and less people are considering Trump a respectable political figure. Outside the US they're just working out how to manipulate him into causing less damage (or in some cases, manipulating him for their gain).

Seems like a totally sane place to work.

There have been times when Claude and Gemini seemed fairly comparable. But that hasn't been the case for a while.

If Iran wants its future threats to re-close the Strait of Hormuz to be seen as serious leverage vs a future US administration, it's going to be tricky for Tehran to reopen the Strait before we see more acute—and truly undeniable—economic harm than we've currently seen realized.

And we all know who the "dean" is.

SAVE Act Fails, Millions of Voters Retain Their Right to Vote for Now MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) applauds the U.S. Senate’s rejection of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a sweeping anti-voter legislation pushed ...

Oh hell yeah www.splcenter.org/presscenter/...

Overnight, Ukrainian forces struck "Samara" oil station in Russia’s Samara region. Facility is a key part of Russia’s oil transportation infrastructure.

Large-scale fire broke out at site. Drone attack damaged 5 tanks, each with capacity of 20,000 cubic meters of crude oil.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

Ukraine’s Second Miracle Year The war isn’t won, but for the first time in years, outright victory seems possible.

"Strategically, Ukraine has a theory of victory that looks increasingly plausible, while Russia’s is crumbling....Russia bet the farm on the theory that meat waves would overwhelm Ukraine while the United States and Hungary blocked Western support, and failed."
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Sounds like somebody needs Ranked Choice Voting to go along with their jungle primary.

Spring flowers on green grass slope! A green hedge tops the green image off. A street lamp peaks above the said hedge; accompanied by a blue sky. This scene was taken near my favourite place…the gardens of le Chalet du Pharo, Marseille.

“You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
- Walter Hagen.

#photography

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Yep. Just like Anthropic. Which is why I've started trying running Qwen3.5 models locally. Qwen3.5-27b is pretty amazing for how small it is. I'm not able to use claude much on the pro plan and this is really filling in the gaps. Hoping we see a Qwen3.6-27b (and 122b) soon.

Dust storms have overtaken Coachella. Researchers say it's a sign of what's to come Researchers say that dust storms cost the U.S. billions of dollars annually already, and could be getting worse and more economically devastating.

"A powerful dust storm disrupted the first weekend of the Coachella music festival as blustery winds swept over the sprawling grounds and enveloped concertgoers in a whirlwind of desert sand."

The writers are not subtle.

Oregon Standard Tree license plate displaying the text "BIRDER".

The Custom Oregon Plate BIRDER was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #BIRDER

"In retrospect, basing the entire global food system on fossil fuels may have been a poor idea." -- @benehrenreich.bsky.social
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Maga-Howl, with apologies to Allen Ginsberg.

I saw the most median minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical red-hatted,
dragging themselves through the DC streets at dawn looking for an election fix, (1/x)

anti-electoral leftists badly need to recognize the responsibility they have to engage in harm reduction for all of the people affected by our foreign policy, even if voting won't bring about internationalist utopia

I want to see this as an 80s style sitcom.

watching evangelical media is so funny because like i'm watching one of those rapture movies where the plot is that Iran has closed the strait of hormuz and this will somehow lead to the rapture

3D-Printed Homes, an Abandoned $590,000 Deposit, the FBI: What Really Happened in This Small Town? Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix Cairo, Illinois’ housing crisis. More than a year later, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. And the more we asked questions, the weird...

When I first met Jamie Hayes, the car dealer who bought the 3D printer for the housing project, I didn’t know his company had abandoned a $590K deposit — or that there was no real housing plan.

I didn’t know Hayes’ firm had drawn the FBI’s attention.

With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

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Jensen's not incentivised to say otherwise.