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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 18h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

So the business model is dependent on theft.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 14h

At first the Discord hack didn’t seem that bad because it was initially the third party help desk.

But then you find out they had got there age verification data. Come to find out they got 1.5 TB of government id and age verification data. This is going to become a case against age verification.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Department of Agriculture expects the recall to grow.

HelloFresh Meals May Contain Listeria-Contaminated Spinach, USDA Says

The Department of Agriculture expects the recall to grow.

www.forbes.com

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Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 10h

Look, if it gets the Brits out of Spain,

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 15h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Woman shot by ICE has been released from custody, body cam footage revealed an agent saying
"do something bitch" while holding his rifle at her

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

“They may also probe a patient’s past to determine whether an underlying issues like unprocessed trauma, abuse, mental illness or autism could have led to gender-nonconforming feelings”

… Sounds a lot like how NHS trans youth clinics in the UK work! 😣

A discredited therapy for gay and trans youth is at the center of a Supreme Court case. Here’s what to know | CNN

The US Supreme Court will hear a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constituti...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

We need, in a word, virtue signaling -- we need to be signaling to one another, and to ordinary Americans, that this *is* fucked up and everyone *should* fight back. People need something to rally around & they're getting nothing.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal cuts

Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations

abcnews.go.com

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illbleed for sego dreancas @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 1d

Non-violent resistance talk always downplays the violence in and outside those movements that made them viable. Not just parallel armed resistance movements, but the actual non-violent resistors moving with armed security or even packing themselves just in case

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

“If I had to enact [the Insurrection Act], I’d do it,” Trump said, stating he might do so if “courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up.” There is zero evidence demonstrating that an “insurrection” is happening in either Chicago or Portland.

Trump May Invoke Insurrection Act to Override Courts That Block His National Guard Orders

“If I had to enact it, I’d do it,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 11h

Enjoying Japan, I take it

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 12h

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 14h

I know it’s been a while, but I want us to remember all of the superstar post-colonial / intersectional scholars at big universities who said absolutely nothing (or worse) while student encampments were being beaten & arrested on their own campuses.

Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 1d

*old British couple

Big Capybara Energy 🌈 🍉🦄 @lmgm.bsky.social · 1d

I was in an airport lounge on Sunday, and at 12:15pm this old couple sit down and order 3 cocktail for the 2 of them—also before seeing the menu…

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.