Eric Letsbekindtooneanother
@ericdata4all.bsky.social
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PFAS have been linked to several kinds of cancer, birth defects, damage to the liver and immune system, and other health problems. The EPA plans to relax rules requiring companies to report PFAS products and weaken drinking water standards for the chemicals.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food - The Boston Globe
The agency approved two new pesticides that will be used on vegetables such as romaine lettuce, broccoli, and potatoes.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
PFAS have been linked to several kinds of cancer, birth defects, damage to the liver and immune system, and other health problems. The EPA plans to relax rules requiring companies to report PFAS products and weaken drinking water standards for the chemicals.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/22/n...
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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good lord, what are people going to do? that's so outrageous i don't even have words for it. that's just an utterly impossible situation
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
November 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
good lord, what are people going to do? that's so outrageous i don't even have words for it. that's just an utterly impossible situation
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
www.oregonlive.com/health/2025/...
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“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”
@reuters.com #Chicago
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@reuters.com #Chicago
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Woodrow Wilson used photos in federal job applications to not hire Black people
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Woodrow Wilson used photos in federal job applications to not hire Black people
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That's murder.
ICE deported him anyways.
They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.
Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.
What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?
He died a few weeks after deportation:
They literally put a man who was at death’s door on a plane to Costa Rica.
Doctors there found he had encephalopathy, rhabdomyolysis and the inability to eat on his own.
What happened to him in ICE custody to cause this?
He died a few weeks after deportation:
Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state
Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel’s family alleges negligence and inhumane treatment
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
That's murder.
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can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
Retailers Dealing With Increasing Levels of Theft and Violence
Report emphasizes importance of preventive measures, coordination with law enforcement
progressivegrocer.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.
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"What's a DHS? What's a minister? What's a bloodied? What's a press conference? What's a question? What's these things on the end of my arms? What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's a what? What what what? What? What? Wh? W? ?
Q: Just last week a minister was shot directly in the face with a pepper round by a DHS agent that left his face bloodied. Are you concerned that this is a religious freedom issue?
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
MIKE JOHNSON: I can't comment on any of those instances. I haven't seen or heard any of those videos
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
"What's a DHS? What's a minister? What's a bloodied? What's a press conference? What's a question? What's these things on the end of my arms? What's love got to do, got to do with it? What's a what? What what what? What? What? Wh? W? ?
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Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️
(Downtown Portland)
(Downtown Portland)
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️
(Downtown Portland)
(Downtown Portland)
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Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Oriana Korol, a clarinetist with the Unpresidented Brass Band, was arrested after a man and federal agents barreled into band members who were standing across the street from the ICE office and playing the theme from “Ghostbusters.”
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids
Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.
abcnews.go.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.
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The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.
Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.
Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.
Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.
Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.
Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.
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A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
reut.rs
October 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
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Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.
www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...
www.npr.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.
www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...
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Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
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On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️🌈
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I am very tired of this, but a quick review.
In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.
How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.
In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.
How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.
This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort
Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.
(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)
Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.
(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)
October 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I am very tired of this, but a quick review.
In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.
How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.
In America, it is legal for you to own your bullshit laser, no matter how it got into the county.
How you use your bullshit laser matters. Most jurisdictions escalate to felony for lighting up any law enforcement. Doing to them in the sky is ++Felony.
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It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol
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People enjoy seeing Black people poor , they enjoy lecturing us about it, they love ignoring our observations by pointing to " commitments"
and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality
and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
Federal layoffs and an end to diversity initiatives have weakened a historically strong labor market for Black workers.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
People enjoy seeing Black people poor , they enjoy lecturing us about it, they love ignoring our observations by pointing to " commitments"
and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality
and they love feeling justified when we have appropriate human reactions they can villainize to justify the inequality
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Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…
An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night.
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
“Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”
October 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Ah yes, cutting teen pregnancy prevention while ending federal right to an abortion…
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The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”
People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”
People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...
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Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
October 4, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
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The White House and GOP lawmakers say a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill that Democrats want rolled back keeps undocumented people from getting health benefits — a claim experts say is misleading.
GOP blames government shutdown on health care for undocumented people. That's false
The White House and GOP lawmakers say a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill that Democrats want rolled back keeps undocumented people from getting health benefits — a claim experts say is misleading.
n.pr
October 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The White House and GOP lawmakers say a provision in the Big Beautiful Bill that Democrats want rolled back keeps undocumented people from getting health benefits — a claim experts say is misleading.
Where's the pause button? The stop button? How do I/we/does somebody turn this off? The damage has been done to families, but we could stop now and try to make it right and not hurt more people...
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Where's the pause button? The stop button? How do I/we/does somebody turn this off? The damage has been done to families, but we could stop now and try to make it right and not hurt more people...