What we have here is people who are being detained for being immigrants, usually having committed no crime. They are detained for an indefinite period with no indication of when or under what circumstances they’ll be released. They are then forced to work in the facility that is detaining them.

House Republicans, joined by four Democrats, voted Thursday to cut $141M in food and vegetable benefits in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, which help pregnant and postpartum women and children. trib.al/KQgYQ1K

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Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate: 🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use. 🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse. 🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon. unu.edu/inweh/news/e...

‘Oh no, our software is so powerful it’s going to take over the world! Oh stop us, we’re too powerful, our products are so much smarter than humans oh what shall we do? The world is in so much danger!’ ‘Please contact our sales team to learn more.’

The Senate gave another $70 billion to ICE this morning. Don't ever let them tell you there's not enough money for healthcare or school lunches or museums or art or science.

He says this is because they've never filed a claim! Can he really be this stupid? Does he have no idea how insurance works? I went for years without filing an insurance claim BECAUSE I WAS HEALTHY! But if I had gotten in an accident I would have needed it. WTF are we dealing with here???

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

@repanalilia.bsky.social would you consider signing this?

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

From the ProPublica story: the people who engaged in corruption and official spokesperson deny anything wrong happened. Without principled public servants willing to expose corruption, we don't find out about it.

"It is not a contract between equals. It is a loyalty oath, enforced with the full weight of federal prosecutorial power, demanded of people who already swore a different oath — to the Constitution."

"I have long opposed private detention facilities and will continue to advocate for the closure of Delaney Hall and against any expansion of mass detention facilities in New Jersey, like the proposed facility in Roxbury.”

There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means. vale.rocks/micros/20260...

All exits to Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in New Jersey, are now being blocked by people who have mobilized in support of a hunger and work strike for better conditions for those detained.

Nothing is inevitable

It’s Friday night. I’ve done enough this week. *inhale* You’ve done enough this week. *exhale*

Very valid points on #accessibility empathy labs: “Without direction and the lived experience of actual disabled people, empathy labs can turn accessibility into a game. You need the story behind the impairment. How disabled people can't turn it off and on.” via @cjforms.bsky.social

Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! #a11y #GAAD

UN backs historic climate crisis ruling, despite US attempts to stop resolution

This isn't some bullshit click here to sign your name this is a real online action that can stop anti queer censorship. Let's do it!

New Jersey’s water crisis: A deficit of planning and a drought of action

Democrats already never talk about climate change! You don't need to tell them to ignore it even more. As a reminder, if you cancel your NYT sub and email proof to [email protected] you get a free digital year of Current Affairs. We do talk about climate change!

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

If you are paying for Claude and you claim to care about astronomy or the night sky - think again. 🔭☄️ SpaceX's orbital data center plans would *ruin* ground-based astronomy & the night sky. Anthropic are partnering with them.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio today justified attacking a regime that shoots its own citizens. What about a regime that investigates co-workers bore witness to the killings?

"Life goes on and we all go on but nothing else will be the same.”

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This is a critical point: *today*, even in countries that don’t introduce policies & measures to support it, consumers can unilaterally enact electrification and demand destruction

Kind of weird that the president is a rapist, and a court reaffirmed it, and everyone knows it, and we're all just going about our days like normal.

i am a depressed lady whose brain is glued together with effexor and vyvanse. hope takes effort but putting in that work is actually my duty. my ancestors did not survive for me to give up on the generations down the road.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

FUCK CANCER love you forever, Morgan, my little friend

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen mother & leaves 2 little kids in backseat. "I was shouting: I'm a citizen! I have my children in the car—9 year old girl and 1 year old boy!" She was held hours before being released, despite proving she was a U.S. citizen. Incident occurred in Asbury Park, NJ.

Hey White House press corps! Here’s someone you should invite to sit at your table Saturday night! A real journalist!

The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically.

A very special Happy Earth Day to everyone posting AI generated "happy earth day" graphics. Amazing job. You definitely get it.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

I absolutely cannot with these fucking tech companies

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Yeah but they don’t get to worry about the price of brent crude

something strange and horrible and somehow fitting that we should have a very real threat of madman civilizational destruction at the very moment when we also have humans on the dark side of the moon taking pictures that show how small, precious, and beautiful our world and existence is

We should probably all stop working? I know we won't, realistically. But we probably should.

Well, I just burst into tears as the crew of Artemis II embraced after Canadian Jeremy Hansen requested that the unnamed lunar crater they had just discovered be named "Carroll" in honour of the late wife of Cmdr. Reid Weisman. What an incredible moment.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

NASA might have been the coolest organization on planet earth — a real life/larger than life organization that the smartest people in the world respected, kids dreamed their whole life of working for, & even Hollywood couldn’t make larger than it already was. So of course Trump ruined it in a year.

Took 40-odd years but Bruce has finally allowed "Born in the USA" to be used in a commercial. By the ACLU. Supporting birthright citizenship. Yeah.

CNN’s Harry Enten: “Trump won in 2024 because of men. They are abandoning him right now. He won men by 13 points in 2024, but his net approval is now -7 pt with them. Men under 45: Trump won by 5 pt in 2024. Now he's 19 pt underwater with them. On cost of living, he's now 30 pt underwater with men!”

The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."