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CBS News @cbsnews.com · 47m

Memphis crime stats from local and federal agencies tell different stories. Which is accurate?

The Trump administration said violent crime rose in Memphis in 2024, but the city's police department data shows it went down.

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P Marrone, PhD @pammarrone.bsky.social · 45m

Shame on you Tim Cook

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 14h

What in the "blue lives matter" nonsense is this shit

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot be fucking serious

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7h

This is yet another manifestation of their Sadism. They film their cruelty. They get off on it.

And Sadism *never* exists in isolation. It's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD).

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is defunding and reducing actual police so he can move these resources into his secret political police, which is designed to silence his domestic adversaries

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BREAKING: A right-wing group with a long track record of pushing for voter roll purges, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reinterpret a federal law designed to expand voting access as a mandate for aggressive voter removals. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Right-Wing Group Asks SCOTUS to Turn Pro-Voting Law Into Tool for Voter Purges

Read more here.

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · 11h

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Being an undocumented immigrant is not a felony it's a misdemeanor a civil crime so how can being an undocumented immigrant qualify as a legitimate target of ice?? Going after people for a misdemeanor??! 🤨👇🏼

Undocumented Immigrants Are Not Criminals | U.S. Immigration Law Counsel

At US-ILC, we listen, we care, we deliver: Let our 89 years of combined experience help you navigate the complexities of immigration law. In this p.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

"'The folks at the White House were very disappointed that the entrance into L.A. in June didn’t provoke more violence,' Miles Taylor said. 'I genuinely think that was their intent.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-propag...

The ICE Propaganda Campaign Goes Into Overdrive

MAGA commentators are stepping up as soldiers in Trump’s culture war to provoke confrontations against “Antifa” with the backing of DHS.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3h

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 9h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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donnayoungdc @donnayoungdc.bsky.social · 20h

"Too often we call it misinformation or infodemic, like it's random junk out there on the Internet. It's not. It's organized, it's deliberate, it's politically motivated, and it's financially motivated." - @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
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#MedSky #ScienceUnderSiege

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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Moms Clean Air Force @momscleanairforce.org · 16h

Wow!

When environmental disasters occur, live fungi are helping to quickly clean up everything from oil spills to toxic runoff.

reasonstobecheerful.world/fungi-first-...

Fungi Are Becoming Invaluable First Responders in Eco-Crises

When environmental disasters occur, live fungi are helping to quickly clean up everything from oil spills to toxic runoff.

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 1h

Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health.

The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being cooked up in the lab

Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago. Now a fermentation revolution is promising extraordinary new flavours and novel ways to boost gut health

www.newscientist.com

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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P Marrone, PhD @pammarrone.bsky.social · 1h

Looking forward to the day when their employee list is matched up with J6ers

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 9h

How many felons do you think are working for ICE at this point? I definitely think it's a a non-zero number. If they weren't a felon when they started, I suspect many of them are...now.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 9h

The president must follow the Constitution. If he wants to push the boundaries, we’ll hold the line in court.

This is America. The U.S. military has no place in our streets.

Portland is peaceful. There is no reason to deploy National Guard here.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 5h

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

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P Marrone, PhD @pammarrone.bsky.social · 1h

Sadly these falsehoods are from the official feed

Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 11h

no mention of rene gonzalez’s car. even the feds don’t buy his story on that one

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 18h

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18h

Former USAID official here.

The current Administration has done zero impact analysis to estimate the effects of its obliteration of USAID on deaths around the world.

It just keeps saying "no one has died" as a mesmeric incantation.

The facts, below. 🧵

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 21h

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

'Halcyon Days' by Anna Pugh, contemporary British folk artist #womensart

Painting featuring a white man and woman as if dancing joyfully in a lush garden amongst washing hanging on a clothesline and in front of a small hut and bird houses

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P Marrone, PhD @pammarrone.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sure she knows that the data show that white supremacists are a much bigger threat that antifa which is not an actual organization. Why doesn’t msm ask her who antifa actually is?