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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h

Trump said he'd focus on the “worst of the worst," but he's mostly focused on people like Melissa Tran — a MD business owner who's lived here 30 yrs and is a fixture of her community.

Cruel.

I salute all who fought for her release. After months in ICE detention, she's finally home.

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after 5 months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

www.thebanner.com

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10h

Now on @ssrn.bsky.social, forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. “Alas,” I think Akhil Amar’s new book, “Born Equal,” is not a success and I explain why at great length. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Amar is an engaging writer and a splendid storyteller. Alas—to borrow one of Amar's favorite interjections— even at 736 pages, Born Equal omits too much of importance, even as it advertises itself as the definitive account of its subject matter. The result of Amar's attempt to fit an entire century's worth of American constitutionalism into a coherent narrative is never boring. But ultimately, it reveals more about the mapmaker than the territory. Despite Amar's professed commitments to democracy and equality, Born Equal slights the democratic work of multitudes of people who have transformed our constitutional order without sharing Amar's constitutional faith. And it obscures inequalities that will persist as long as the cult to which
Amar demands fealty.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Wow! I've never heard of that.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Tired: A brain worm destroyed RFK Jr.'s mind
Wired: It was lead in the protein supplements!

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 3h

This could explain the entire manosphere

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

We got it as part of a Hulu/Disney/Spotify streaming package (but we just switched away from that). What would you recommend as an alternative? FWIW, I'm not in the Apple ecosystem.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 5h

i'm a traditionalist but sponsored content should be better labeled

Politico @politico.com · 5h

The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers — the next salvo in Trump’s push to pressure Dems to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end the government shutdown.

White House to continue RIFs as shutdown drags on

The pressure is on Democrats to end the shutdown, the White House argues.

www.politico.com

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Brandon Mayes @harmlesserrer.bsky.social · 3h

The boi never got the order cancelling argument. #appellateplaces

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Oh no!

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

a close up of a brown bear with its mouth wide open

Alt: A brown bear roaring

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 3h

Hey now. That was "Trade" with a capital "T."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

Is this just Trump repeating what someone just told him or is there some unsual insider trading related to cooking oil going on right now?

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4h

"We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil" is an all-timer. Thank you Mr President, we appreciate your insights.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

I believe that China purposefully not buying our Soybeans, and causing difficulty for our Soybean Farmers, is an Economically Hostile Act. We are considering terminating business with China having to do with Cooking Oil, and other elements of Trade, as retribution. As an example, we can easily produce Cooking Oil ourselves, we don’t need to purchase it from China.

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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 4h

Out Now!

Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court eds. Kcasey McLoughlin, Rosemary Grey, Louise Chappell & Suzanne Varrall

@womenknowlaw.bsky.social #InternationalLaw #Feminism

Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 26d

The first book to apply the feminist judgment method to analyze decisions of the ICC.

Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court eds. Kcasey McLoughlin, Rosemary Grey, Louise Chappell & Suzanne Varrall

#OpenAccess #IntLaw #LawSky 🗺️

https://cup.org/48nj7Od

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 4h

“The night is dark and full of errors”

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

Ross Douthat seems like the obvious candidate to author that piece. www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/o...

Opinion | The Redistribution of Sex (Published 2018)

www.nytimes.com

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

This needs to be mentioned in every future news story about young Republican men complaining women won't date them.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 9h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

"[DHS] is not here to create disorder. [DHS] is here to preserve disorder."

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 5h

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 4h

I usually find a decent deal every few years. It's not cost prohibitive, but annoying. Microsoft mostly phased out freestanding student/teacher discounts in favor of contracts with institutions (giving free or reduced cost copies). But now their contracts are Office365 oriented.

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