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  • Trump administration says it will fly migrant back to U.S. after judge rules his deportation "ignored" due process

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  • He's not a US citizen, but he had a court order not to deport from during the previous Trump administration.

  • Trump administration says it will fly migrant back to U.S. after judge rules his deportation "ignored" due process

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  • No, it's good that he's following the law. Unlike those criminals that are trying to manipulate him like Stephen Miller.

  • Rep. Randy Fine Implies Gaza Should Be ‘Nuked’ Like Japan After DC Shooting

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  • Unfortunately, back in the Bush years, a little while before the second gulf war, they passed a bill to invade the Hague if Americans got tried there. Folks will have to seek justice through other channels.

  • Limiting access to COVID boosters

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  • New kind of medical tourism just dropped. CVS is gonna make bank at their new location at the foot of the Gordie Howe Bridge.

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  • I think I must've missed that Verge article. I guess that dashes my "this is a creative writing exercise by somebody in Joburg" theory.

    But we know that lizards have self preservation instincts (which for the purpose of this conversation I'll say is interchangable with sentience (it's probably a good enough proxy at any rate). But we know this because we have lots of people who have observed lizard behavior, not because The Lizard Farm, Inc has hyped up how alive and ensouled their lizards arev in a bid to get ever more VC funding.

    Maybe I'm too pessimistic about this tech and my obsolete meat sack will get tossed to the time-traveling torture robot. But I think it's more likely that we have a money grabbing hype train in the tradition of the Mechanical Turk or Theranos than it is that we have created a new lifeform by feeding every extant piece of writing that isn't nailed down (and some that are) to the sand we've forced to do math.

  • Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses

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  • In a banana republic, what's a president but a local representative of the company?

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  • Well, the only claim of this self preservation (that I've seen) is this article, which is on a website I'm unfamiliar with (which I often interpret as 'more likely to be a creative writing exercise than the average news site') and its only citation is a company that has a vested interest in making us believe the tech is better than it may actually be.

  • Split US Supreme Court blocks taxpayer-funded religious charter school

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  • It's a per curiam decision, we don't get to know.

    We do get to know that Coney Barrett recused herself, which is what allowed an even split (and by extension the upholding of the lower court's decision).

  • This can't just be me surely?

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  • The owls are not what they seem. Sometimes they're bears.

  • Klarna’s losses widen after more consumers fail to repay loans

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  • Guess it's time to send the repo man down to the sewage treatment facility.

  • Voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

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  • If David Brooks and William Kristol can bring themselves to say "Abolish ICE" then it's time for the centrist Dems to take that stance and the left end of the party to debate in favor of RICOing that entity.

  • Forget the DEI hires – meet Trump’s latest WTF hire

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  • Once Kennedy was in at HHS, the lobotomies were sure to follow.

  • GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars Technica

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  • Fine, I won't complain when Yudkowski's followers take matters into their own hands.

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  • How else are they going to be able to brag about their 90 trillion daily AI users?

  • Donald Trump mocks Pete Buttigieg for being married to a man

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  • And likes/is liked by his spouse.

  • Toxic chlorine cloud near Barcelona confines more than 160,000 indoors

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  • Only according to the Castillan occupiers. Not the Catalans who live there.

  • why though

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  • Independent Media is basically anything that's not owned by Disney/ABC, Viacom, NBC Universal, CBS, Newscorp (Fox), or Warner Bros.

    In theory, on the internet, anybody can set up their own website and release their material.

    But in terms of sheer scale, every online punk zine combined doesn't have half the reach of each of the 'independent' websites funded by some natural gas lobbying firm or ghoulish right wing family (other than the Murdochs) or supplement company sold exclusively through a pyramid scheme.

  • The Disturbing Rise of MAGA Maoism | Trump seems to be ceding the future to China while emulating its past.

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  • We're gonna have a great leap forward, folks. "The Greatest Leap Forward", people are calling it. Now that I've liberated our economy we're gonna make everything here at home, some of you literally making things at home. Backyard steel mills, backyard chip fabricators.

    We're gonna get rid of the pests, too. We're getting ahead of this bird flu, Bobby Kennedy, RFK, he tells me he's gonna Smash the Sparrows. We're not gonna have another flu like we did under Sleepy Joe.

  • Columbia University deploys NYPD against pro-Palestinian library protest, 78 arrested

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  • They probably were intending/expecting arrests. There are probably protesters who didn't go into the library because they specifically don't want a criminal record (especially if they're on a visa or some such).

    And you can see in the comments here how angry the arrests are getting some people.

    That's the goal of a lot of nonviolent protest. Get your allies loud about it and split some moderates away from the authorities that they hadn't really thought of as "the bad guys" before.