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Lots of families live in this area, iirc there’s a school nearby. ICE are thugs
Video from witness here from the moment CBP gassed neighbors who had gathered outside after the kidnapping.

Agent rolls a canister at the crowd out of the window of their car as they reverse away from people with whistles and bikes.
We’re gonna be reminded at some point why sports gambling was made illegal in the first place
Associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese crime families syndicates allegedly backed a multimillion-dollar poker con that uses elaborate technology to cheat unsuspecting players — and brought rare, unappreciated light to the mob's shadowy operations, officials say.
NBA gambling scandal shows that La Cosa Nostra is still alive and well
A string of federal operations decades ago nearly decimated New York's major crime families, but they haven't completely gone away.
nbcnews.to
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Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.
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"There is just one hope of repulsing the tyrannical ambition of civilization to conquer every niche on the whole earth. That hope is the organization of spirited people who will fight for the freedom of the wilderness."

-Bob Marshall, making the case for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in 1930
Breaking News: The U.S. will allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the largest remaining tracts of pristine wilderness in the country. nyti.ms/3WhrQui
Begging makeup brands to stop adding mica to bases. It never looks good irl!!!!!
God i cannot even imagine what this is gonna be like lmao
The future is living like a 20th century Eastern European farmer
On Threads, the usual suspects are telling ppl about to lose SNAP benefits to just start a garden. As a gardener, I had to laugh. You need at LEAST an acre of land to feed a family of 4. Start-up costs are enormous. But yes, subsistence farming on the balcony of your rental apartment is the answer
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They did this dance with Chicago too going back and forth while they were laying the groundwork. The time to prep and organize was yesterday. The next best time is now.
“Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others have called saying that the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a ‘shot.’ Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!”
Shame that Roisin Murphy turned out to be a raging transphobe
Rest assured, they won’t
Nancy Pelosi suggested on Wednesday that local police could arrest federal agents if they break California law while conducting immigration raids that are expected this week in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago.
nyti.ms
Laws are so fake in this country. Faker than ever
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People are opening up Meta AI Ray Ban glasses and modding out the LED recording light, then selling them on eBay. There is huge interest in disabling this functionality, which means basically you cannot trust anyone wearing these (i'm sure you already weren't)

www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
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Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...
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it's this. this is legitimately on the wall mixed in with a collection of photos of different guys who played col sanders
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
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It’s fun to contrast dhs’ ultra fash nostalgia aesthetics on social with the reality that you would find higher fitness standards in a spin class on the upper east side
Holy fucking shit let’s go
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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

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