grollen
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Cultural Anthropologist
power is always productive.
who is it benefiting? how?
urban cyclist
poetry, photography, politics & philosophy
cooking & gardening
Cultural Anthropologist
power is always productive.
who is it benefiting? how?
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NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 PM
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
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MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
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Maybe I'm overlawyering this, but it is bugging the shit out of me that press keeps repeating "soldiers don't have to obey illegal orders"; the assertion should be made very clear that "soldiers are forbidden from obeying illegal orders" & can prosecuted for doing so. It's not optional.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Maybe I'm overlawyering this, but it is bugging the shit out of me that press keeps repeating "soldiers don't have to obey illegal orders"; the assertion should be made very clear that "soldiers are forbidden from obeying illegal orders" & can prosecuted for doing so. It's not optional.
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Am I nuts, or does this say we'll put all of our scientific papers into a big data warehouse, let a bunch of people working on"AI" train some new LLMs, and then magic will happen. The AI will start generating and testing hypotheses until it solves humanities problems? What a load of crap. Money grab
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Am I nuts, or does this say we'll put all of our scientific papers into a big data warehouse, let a bunch of people working on"AI" train some new LLMs, and then magic will happen. The AI will start generating and testing hypotheses until it solves humanities problems? What a load of crap. Money grab
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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People's energy use doesn't matter. It's a drop in the bucket, and if it came from green sources - so what?
Don't blame & shame people for living in modern times. Instead DEMAND GOVERNMENTS PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS!
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Don't blame & shame people for living in modern times. Instead DEMAND GOVERNMENTS PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS!
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
“I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.”
Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.
www.vox.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
People's energy use doesn't matter. It's a drop in the bucket, and if it came from green sources - so what?
Don't blame & shame people for living in modern times. Instead DEMAND GOVERNMENTS PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS!
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
Don't blame & shame people for living in modern times. Instead DEMAND GOVERNMENTS PHASE OUT FOSSIL FUELS!
www.vox.com/the-highligh...
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This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy already has over 30,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 this week.
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Please sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
British woman arrested by ICE agents in California while holding newborn son
Katie was in the final stages of securing her green card when she was detained.
metro.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son.
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her.
She’s been detained ever since:
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"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
End the tax break that makes flying cheaper than trains | Letters
Letters: Airlines benefit from a tax system that helps them keep fares low, writes Anna Hughes
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"It’s ludicrous that aviation doesn’t pay fuel tax, especially now that Rachel Reeves is making noises about a tax on electric vehicles. If we’re looking for easy wins for revenue, just look to the skies."
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
~ Flight Free UK Director Anna Hughes in the Guardian today 👇
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Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
And now, the case against Letitia James is dismissed too, same rationale but minus the statute of limitations complication.
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I feel like most car companies pretty much have the doors down cold
Tesla Sued Over Another Fatal Crash in Growing Scrutiny of Doors
Tesla Inc. was sued over a fiery crash in Washington state that left one person dead and another seriously injured after rescuers allegedly struggled to open the vehicle’s doors, the latest in a growi...
www.bloomberg.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I feel like most car companies pretty much have the doors down cold
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"announcing plans to relocate can leave a community ineligible for funding for new infrastructure at their existing site, and government policies can limit investments at a new site if people aren’t living there yet"
infonews.ca/news/7436583...
infonews.ca/news/7436583...
Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land | iNFOnews.ca
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Storms that battered Alaska's western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly
infonews.ca
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
"announcing plans to relocate can leave a community ineligible for funding for new infrastructure at their existing site, and government policies can limit investments at a new site if people aren’t living there yet"
infonews.ca/news/7436583...
infonews.ca/news/7436583...
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Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
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Search Epstein’s Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible
It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.
gizmodo.com/search-epste...
It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.
gizmodo.com/search-epste...
Search Epstein's Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible
It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.
gizmodo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Search Epstein’s Emails in the Most Unnerving Way Possible
It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.
gizmodo.com/search-epste...
It's even easier now to search for names like Trump, Chomsky, and Summers.
gizmodo.com/search-epste...
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And for most, nicotine addiction only works during adolescent brain development, which varies but for dome til age 24. Almost no one starts later. (Was 5%, now~1%)
Big Tobacco KNEW.
RJR 1984: Importance of Younger Adult Smokers:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docu...
1987 RJR=>Joe Camel
Big Tobacco KNEW.
RJR 1984: Importance of Younger Adult Smokers:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docu...
1987 RJR=>Joe Camel
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
And for most, nicotine addiction only works during adolescent brain development, which varies but for dome til age 24. Almost no one starts later. (Was 5%, now~1%)
Big Tobacco KNEW.
RJR 1984: Importance of Younger Adult Smokers:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docu...
1987 RJR=>Joe Camel
Big Tobacco KNEW.
RJR 1984: Importance of Younger Adult Smokers:
www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docu...
1987 RJR=>Joe Camel
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Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Many disabled kids would benefit so much if parenting classes that focus on disability inclusion and the harms of ableism were widely available (so, free) to their parents.
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The US government under Trump is an epic money laundering scheme. They’re robbing the taxpayers blind for crap nobody asked for!
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“I would call it a grinding machine,” Petrova said about being detained in ICE prison. “We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story... It just keeps going.”
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“I would call it a grinding machine,” Petrova said about being detained in ICE prison. “We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story... It just keeps going.”
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Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
Turning Point leader, former GOP Rep pleads guilty to attempted election fraud | Arizona Mirror
Austin Smith election fraud guilty plea: Former GOP Rep admits forging 100+ signatures on ballot petitions in Arizona
azmirror.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Amazing story, state legislator and Turning Points USA leader who crusaded against bogus voter fraud claims pleads guilty to attempted election fraud. azmirror.com/briefs/turni...
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Milorad Dodik, who wants Republika Srpska to break from Bosnia, said victory of Sinisa Karan would be 'my victory too'.
Barred Bosnian Serb leader Dodik’s party wins presidential election
Milorad Dodik, who wants Republika Srpska to break from Bosnia, said victory of Sinisa Karan would be 'my victory too'.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Milorad Dodik, who wants Republika Srpska to break from Bosnia, said victory of Sinisa Karan would be 'my victory too'.
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Japan plans to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missiles on Yonaguni Island near to Taiwan as part of a broader military buildup to deter China.
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Japan plans to deploy medium-range surface-to-air missiles on Yonaguni Island near to Taiwan as part of a broader military buildup to deter China.