Before we all get carried away by cool Pope vibes... Washington State just adopted a new law that forces clergy to become mandatory reporters of child sexual abuse, and the Vatican says it will excommunicate priests who obey the law. www.kptv.com/2025/05/09/c...

BREAKING: The Trump regime has ARRESTED THE MAYOR OF NEWARK. www.insidernj.com/baraka-arres...

BREAKING: Rümeysa Öztürk released from ICE detention by a judge. “The decision is another blow to the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport international students for their speech,” writes @premthakker.bsky.social for Zeteo: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters

You can’t “deport” a citizen. They trafficked a US citizen toddler out of her country of origin.

First known American citizen to be deported.

There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.

The cover of this week’s Economist.

WTF? FBI agents arrested a Milwaukee county judge on Friday, accusing her of shielding an immigrant from federal authorities. The allegation? That Judge Hannah Dugan “intentionally misdirected federal agents away from” someone they were pursuing, according to a now-deleted post by Mr. Patel.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

What is America’s pro-natalism movement really about? | Moira Donegan

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

Big holidays today: Christians- god let his son die for our sins but then he came back so we don’t have to be sad about it Jews: yay, we managed to not be killed this time! #easter #passover

I just received this email. The pending litigation? Who filed a lawsuit I wonder? (It was me.)

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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This is a great article dispelling the unscientific Silicon -valley style hype in projects that don't actually know much about the complicated problems they purport to solve with overly simple, flashy "solutions" arstechnica.com/science/2025...

This is why the media’s credulous boosterism for Colossal is so dangerous. “Innovation, not regulation” is tech-bro propaganda. It’s the false promise that any problem can be solved with some future breakthrough that will enable the same people who got us into this to profit from the solutions.

Colossal is de-extincting dire wolves in the same way that ChatGPT is making new Ghibli art.

Personally, yes. In my opinion, I worry these are proof-of-concept projects to build public good will and test out methods for gene editing that will ultimately be used for designer babies, super-soldiers immune to biologic weapons, etc. I don't think that all the scientists involved realize this.

George Church got his start on woolly mammoth cloning with seed money from Peter Thiel. A lot of Colossal's initial investments came from the CIA's venture capital arm. Most of their spin-off companies are related to IVF, embryo technology, etc. They know where the money is.

Receipts: theintercept.com/2022/09/28/c...

Jesse Singal, a transphobic bigot who has dedicated a large portion of his career to spreading misinformation about LGBTQ+ people, is baffled that John Oliver would do a single episode debunking his life's work

No one seems to be talking about the very real cost to the environment that using AI requires. There’s a huge amount of energy required for every single AI task. It’s worth asking yourself if having ChatGPT write your email for you is worth losing more trees from the rainforest.

It’s disappointing that @thedailyshow.com platformed known eugenicist (and Jeffrey Epstein friend who went to his island AFTER his conviction for “child prostitution” otherwise known as rape of children) @geochurch.bsky.social without mentioning any of his very serious moral issues.

The George Church Institute is part of China’s BGI, likely helping them genetically profile Uighurs for genocide and displacement. This is about more than Wooly Mammoths and de-extinction. It would’ve been a much better story to juxtapose the irony of helping genocide with bringing animals back.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Is it racist if he is trying to make Americans peasants making iPhones for him too?

2028–just sayin 🔥

Insane. What is there to discuss here? Everyone acknowledges this was an illegal removal

Is “does the federal government have the power to illegally send you to a foreign torture gulag in a way that’s unreviewable by any court and cannot be undone” really a question that SCOTUS needs a full briefing on?

0% chance this admin lets this guy come home. He is a witness to their barbarism, and will be beyond sympathetic on the talk shows. He will know the stories of the men sent and the horrors they've endured. #AbolishICE

75%

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

Straight down seems bad

What if you’re so outrageously incompetent you get it done in a matter of minutes?

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: It has come to my attention that several agencies are now offering WiFi for you to use with your PERSONAL devices. If I were you, I would NOT use that WiFi. I suspect it's a way for DOGE to monitor your personal communications.

Gosh. If only there were an historical analogue we could study to learn about the horrors of rounding people up without due process and sending them to torture camps in other countries.

Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza. That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime. Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.

Who could have seen this coming? www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...