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.
gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...
The DRC is in the midst of an incredibly complex and dangerous humanitarian crisis.
This is simply not how we should be treating our Afghan allies who helped US troops.
Cold-blooded murder. Everyone giving or carrying out these orders must be prosecuted, full stop. Trump may enjoy executive immunity, his accomplices do not: the depraved disregard for human life exhibited by those perpetrating these murders must not go unpunished.
A Soviet propaganda poster featuring Lenin pointing angrily into the distance. It has been altered. Lenin now has Trump's hair and his skin in orange. The hammer/sickle logo behind him has been replaced with a cross.
There aren't a lot of things I agree with Mark Carney about, but there's one area where he and I are in *total* accord: the old, US-dominated, "rules-based international order" was total bullshit:
www.weforum.org/stories/2026...
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The Strait of Epstein crisis is going to do more to accelerate permanent, unidirectional migration away from fossil fuels to cleantech than decades of environmental activism.
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Pakistani bridal dowries now routinely include four panels, an inverter and a battery:
billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...
This is an inversion of the normal order, in which rich countries get all the good stuff first, and countries like Pakistan get scraps after we've gorged ourselves.
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John Roberts’ Wife Made Millions From Bribes
Roberts accepted $10 Million in bribes disguised as recruiting fees from Law firms with cases pending before the Supreme Court.
www.thedailybeast.com/chief-justic...
Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.
This article is the reddest of red flags: Platner cosplays. He went from "student protestor of the Iraq war" to "volunteer soldier in the Iraq war" to literal mercenary. Pretty obvious he puts on and takes off political identities like clothing
Charlize Theron on the Night Her Mother Killed Her Father in Self-Defense
Unfortunately, this is not an isolated story. These things are prevalent in a lot of homes. Women really get a very, very unfair shake, even in this country.
Nobody takes it seriously.
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rice.
The US is increasingly sending deportees to countries where they have no connections. Shannon Airport is frequently used as a refuelling stop by aircraft involved in these operations, as reported by @gillianbrockell.com
Ok to explain why this is important:
1) doing this under cover of exercise confirms what a lot of folks have thought: larger exercises are precursors for an invasion
2) it reveals a confidence in PLA SOF not previously seen in public
3) makes deterrence even harder if operators are already on ground
That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!
White woman in pink blazer in front of balloons and a banner that says “50 WGS” over and over in rainbow colors. Celebrating 50 years of WGS at the university of oklahoma
Thrilled to celebrate my department’s 50th birthday tonight! First women’s studies degree in the state, only grad program in the state. we. are. stil. here
An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'
People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.
Let's go through them one by one and learn together.
Reminder that there is empirical research to prove the “when the person speaking was 12” point. It’s called Reminiscence Bump and it’s literally from ages 12-14. psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-...
So at the risk of maybe overreading this and making an educated guess, I think I can guess what specifically Wyden is talking about.
I think it's about use of AI (LLMs) by FBI to surveil American communications without a warrant
“In…episode of ‘The Simpsons’ (the TV series that nearly 3 decades ago “predicted” a disastrous Donald Trump presidency), Homer Simpson seizes on a crime panic and crumbling trust in institutions, and forms a neighborhood watch to patrol Springfield’s streets and enforce vigilante justice. When the…
@mayor.nyc.gov: "If you are a Mario Kart fan, government is Yoshi and philanthropy is the Golden Mushroom, that edge we need to beat Bowser on the Rainbow Road. To belabor this metaphor even further, Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario."
I bring a sort of Forbidden Vibe to InternalServerError that Rate Limit Exceeded don't really like
trying to post through it rn
THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.
Immigrants Pay More In Taxes Than the Average Person: They get paid lower wages per hour, but they work collectively so many more hours that over the last 30 years, the average immigrant paid ~$100K more in taxes than the average person. cato.org/blog/immigra...
BREAKING: I took to the House floor to force a vote on extending Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.
We won the first important vote in this process, and now we're a step closer to getting this done.
The House must move with urgency and pass this legislation without delay.
The Boys and Daredevil: Born Again are somehow the best pop cultural commentaries on the second Trump administration, which is less a matter of "superhero metaphors allow for sophisticated social commentary" and more a matter of "reality is now full of cartoonish supervillains."
It’s a telling indicator of media desensitization that the US government’s ongoing program of murder on the high seas—which according to the perpetrators has killed fourteen (14) people this week— is no longer a subject for much serious or sustained news coverage.
American Rivers named the South Kawishiwi River—a vital artery of the iconic Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness— to America’s Most Endangered Rivers® list of 2026, due to proposed sulfide-ore copper mining in its headwaters. Urge the Senate to save the BWCA.
An alert from Denver’s gunshot detection system prompted officers to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for nearly an hour — even though the ShotSpotter alert was for another address and likely triggered by fireworks, according to a lawsuit.
Terrible damage to children is being done in our name.
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/06/ice-kids-dete...
DOJ prosecutes a California man who was shot in the face by ICE agents
DOJ/DHS say Carlos, 36, "assaulted" officers with his car, but video doesn't show his car hitting officers + officials haven't claimed an agent was injured. FBI's complaint says it has "not been able" to interview key ICE agents
