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ProPublica @propublica.org · Apr 27

The potential loss of the world’s greatest climate forecasting tool has ramifications for long-term safety and security.

NOAA’s climate modeling systems help the Defense Department not just operate but anticipate and prepare for emerging threats.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On

Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

www.propublica.org

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · Apr 20

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 20

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 20

“Is it good when u live in a country where one of its major newspapers publishes a story on how to cope with the scarcity of eggs and their high prices by substituting potatoes and coloring them for Easter?”

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Eric Prenen @eprenen.bsky.social · Apr 18

This is called “capital flight” It usually only happens to poor countries (it never ends well) #EconSky

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 9

Horrific that tracking of individuals the U.S. government has taken into custody and threatens to send to a Salvadorean gulag is now needed.

USA Disappeared Tracker @disappearedtracker.bsky.social · Apr 4

1/2: Update to include Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Tracker:
1. PDKL: 3
2. PDUL ("disappeared"): 0
3. Formerly PDUL, now located: 1
5. Formerly PD, now released: 1

Jacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg.bsky.social · Apr 4

BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.

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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · Apr 9

10-year yield going vertical here. Something’s gonna break.

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 9

Feeling lucky I moved from the U.S. to Guatemala 3 years ago. Found the retail cost of antiretrovirals to be <1/3rd what the Medicare co-pay was in 2022. Guessing the gap will only widen as U.S. puts new tariffs on imported meds and Guatemala doesn’t.

Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 7

Wakanda is next.

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WIRED @wired.com · Apr 5

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.

The Affordable Car Is About to Go Extinct in the US

As President Donald Trump’s tariffs set in, it may well be time to say goodbye to the under-$30,000 car.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is so sickening.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

www.theguardian.com

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · Apr 3

The value of the U.S. dollar has fallen by −1.55% in the past 24 hours.

MaKE aMERiCA GrEAt AgAiN.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · Apr 3

“I’m building a wall around Antarctica and the penguins are gonna pay for it.”

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 3

Stephen Miran, take a bow.

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 3

“Weak beef” is an odd hill to die on.

Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Apr 3

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · Apr 2

Who’s eagerly waiting for 4pm eastern today to hear Trump’s tariff announcement in the latest episode of “will your 401k collapse tomorrow?”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Mar 24

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 12

As a voter in Golden’s district and a progressive Democrat, I have been torn both ways on his Blue Dog-ism.
But Mike is right.

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 11

Yes, they do. “Doing us in” is their goal. Bring on the End Times!

Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 4

Met a 3-time Trump voter on the street today and he cursed Trump and Vance for threatening his Social Security pension. That 3rd rail is still hot!

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 4

She suggests getting chickens to raise in your backyard so we get bird flu from them and die?

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 4

“Very concerned”. But unwilling to do anything about anything. This is one voter from Mount Vernon, Maine who is sorry he ever had an ounce of respect for Susan Collins.

Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 2

I just signed the petition.

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Tom Ward @churchillward.bsky.social · Mar 2

“Crawling algorithms” is a great name for an indy rock band.

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