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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 9h

The disproportionate impact of the H-1B fee and program changes on Silicon Valley startups - and on foreign students graduating from American universities - will almost certainly have serious consequences for U.S. competitiveness in tech and artificial intelligence.

thebulletin.org/2025/10/how-...

How Trump’s new H-1B fee will hurt Silicon Valley and AI startups

The Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications is threatening Silicon Valley’s ability to attract the world’s top talent.

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 9h

Jensen Huang's memo pledging that NVIDIA will cover the Trump administration's $100,000 fee per H-1B visa application highlights the importance of immigration and foreign talent for Silicon Valley. But most startups are unlikely to be able to afford this. www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...

Nvidia will foot the bill for Trump's new visa fees. Here's what CEO Jensen Huang told staff.

In an internal message, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang reiterated his support for Trump's H-1B changes and shared personal reflections on immigration.

www.businessinsider.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 11h

Hard-won good news:

The deadline to begin air monitoring of benzene, chromium and other toxic pollutants emitted from 11 coke plants in w. PA won’t be pushed back after all.

Relentless citizen activism informed by good science 🧪 did this.

Never give up.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0710202...

EPA Drops Planned Delay in Compliance With Fenceline Monitoring at Coke Plants - Inside Climate News

Residents will no longer have to wait two years to find out whether they are breathing benzene and other contaminants.

insideclimatenews.org

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 2d

The Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications is threatening Silicon Valley's ability to attract the world's top talent, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.

How Trump’s new H-1B fee will hurt Silicon Valley and AI startups

"It is nearly impossible to overstate how much the US AI research community owes to the continuous infusion of foreign talent."

thebulletin.org

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 2d

The vast majority of Americans, including Republicans and those who identify as strong supporters of President Trump, want Congress to renew tax credits for people who buy their insurance from the Affordable Care Act Marketplace, according to a new poll.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/03/r...

Renewal of health subsidies backed by big majorities in poll, including Trump voters • Ohio Capital Journal

The vast majority of Americans, including Republicans and those who identify as strong supporters of President Donald Trump, want Congress to renew the enhanced tax credits for people who buy their…

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 3d

Ozempic might not exist if RFK Jr had been in charge of NIH in the 1980s—he would have said NIH researchers studying the venom of Gila monsters was wasteful. And millions would still be suffering.

Political appointees should not be making decisions about science—they don’t understand how it works!

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 3d

Intriguing plan that goes well beyond symbolism. "Trucks from the First Nation could soon be transporting food, furniture and even critical minerals south of the border along ancestral pathways once used to move buffalo hides and pemmican across the plains—without paying taxes or tariffs."

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 4d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 4d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 4d

"I believe that Americans would agree that the government can’t just make people disappear without any process or explanation. Second, because I want to give the government a chance to admit that they were wrong.

So far the government has not done so."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-a-us-ci...

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 4d

ICE's Broadview detention facility is now crammed with people being detained for multiple days under the conditions described below. It was never designed for this.

Amy Qin @amyqin.bsky.social · 5d

There’s no medical staff or services at Broadview. No food preparation. No beds. That’s all by design because the facility was created for holds less than 12 hours.
@bylaurenfitz.bsky.social @adrianacardmag.bsky.social
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

A column chart showing the average time by days spent at the Broadview processing center spiking in June.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 5d

I really appreciated getting a chance to talk with economists and immigration law experts about how the Trump administration's overhaul of the H-1B visa program could impact AI startups and the broader US tech industry. My first piece for @thebulletin.org

Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump admin’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications and attempt to change the visa program is threatening Silicon Valley’s ability to attract the world’s top talent and may scuttle US AI ambitions touted by the president himself, @jeremyhsu.bsky.social explains in a @thebulletin.org piece.

How Trump’s new H-1B fee will hurt Silicon Valley and AI startups

The Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications is threatening Silicon Valley’s ability to attract the world’s top talent.

thebulletin.org

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 6d

In the MAHA report, they specifically singled out Denmark as an example of a country that has fewer vaccine requirements than does the U.S. Denmark had a whooping cough epidemic not long ago.

And now, thanks to the vaccine refusal legitimized by the heads of our public health agencies, here we are.

Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 6d

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough, the State’s First Pertussis Death in 13 Years www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New Bright Line Watch report on state of US democracy
brightlinewatch.org/violence-red...

-Expert ratings ~= since April but ↓ substantially since January
-US now most closely resembles an illiberal democracy
-Partisan gap in democracy ratings highest since 2017

Full thread of results below

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 12d

One hand not talking to the other: the Trump administration argued Orsted was far away from finishing an agreement to deal with impacts from seismic surveys … while at the same time, the agency in charge of the deal was emailing them lots of stuff about getting it done. Me via @heatmap.news

One of Orsted’s declarations was from Melanie Gearon, the company’s head of northeast permitting. Suess had claimed that Revolution Wind was far from reaching a critical agreement with NOAA’s Fisheries division, known as the National Marine Fisheries Service, to mitigate the effects of sea surveys on fishing vessels. But Gearon painted a completely different picture, detailing years of negotiations with NOAA and BOEM about how to handle the surveys.

These talks had apparently continued months into the Trump administration. Orsted submitted an email from BOEM to the company dated July 9, in which an official explicitly says that agency staff were discussing scenarios where Orsted could just “state that they are continuing to work with [the National Marine Fisheries Service] on a Survey Mitigation agreement, which could still be submitted at a later date.” Gearon said the company had received “updated cost modeling” from the agency as recently as September 9, days before Suess’ comments were submitted in court.

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Rebecca Tushnet @rtushnet.bsky.social · 15d

A good ad on the DC Metro

ProPublica ad: “someone on this train has the next big story. Is it you?” With URL and Signal address

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 16d

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

www.404media.co

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15d

While mainstream news orgs are backing off media coverage, we're building an independent newsroom committed to holding the industry's most powerful figures & institutions accountable.

@status.news is expanding to 7x a week—delivering more than 30 editions a month.

www.status.news/p/status-new...

The Scoop About Status

Status is entering its next chapter—expanding to seven days a week, hiring new correspondents, and growing into a fully staffed independent newsroom that holds the powerful accountable.

www.status.news

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 17d

The Trump administration canceled the government’s annual report measuring household food insecurity. It's been published yearly for three decades.

Trump Administration to Stop Measuring Food Insecurity

The move strips the government of its main gauge of hunger in America, and will impede efforts to track the impact of aid cuts.

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18d

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash

Mr. Homan came under scrutiny after he was said to be recorded last year taking $50,000 in cash from undercover F.B.I. agents.

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 18d

I decline to know more than “experiments conducted at a large music festival.” Genius.

Science Magazine @science.org · 18d

Beer drinkers were 44% more attractive to mosquitoes than people who had abstained for at least 12 hours, cannabis users were 35% more attractive, and those who had slept with someone else the night before were 46% more attractive, new research finds. https://scim.ag/3Vk5rMw

Does drinking beer make you more attractive to mosquitoes?

Experiments performed at a large music festival suggest the bloodsuckers are more attracted to hedonistic attendees

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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 20d

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of worker-owned cooperative news sites that you might want to support: www.404media.co/membership/

Membership

404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.

www.404media.co

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 20d

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Map of Regional Public Health Coalitions

Northeast Public Health Collaborative (Blue)

West Coast Health Alliance (Yellow)

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