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Chuck Darwin

@cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy

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Social and economic justice, technology and tennis. I'll have what @jbf1755 is having. searchable [bridged from c.im/@cdarwin on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Whistleblower alleges Trump ordered FBI to investigate protesters in LA over immigration crackdown Donald Trump ordered the FBI to investigate protesters in Los Angeles who were demonstrating against the president’s immigration crackdown, according to a whistleblower complaint that was […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 6h

In Texas governor’s race, Abbott spends big to try to stay in office In a surprisingly competitive race, new filings reveal that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has spent down the majority of his war chest in an effort to preserve his position, while Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa’s […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Justice Alito says he won’t retire during lame-duck session of Congress That window probably would be the last chance for Trump to get a conservative successor to the 76-year-old justice confirmed by the Senate if Democrats take the upper chamber […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 6h

In run-up to election, ICE is asking detainees if they voted illegally Federal immigration officers are now asking immigrants they arrest if they have ever voted illegally and whether they did so by mail or in person as part of a pre-election push to justify claims of widespread voter fraud […]

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Finally, somebody is asking "hey, can't we get sued for our agents randomly hacking other companies?" www.ft.com/content/a5caf8d4-992f-48…

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

David Hearn's lawyers ask for inspector general probes They allege misconduct by Justice and Interior departments Prosecutors quickly dropped criminal case against Hearn Trump claimed Reflecting Pool issues caused by vandalism Evidence pointed to a contractor's flawed installation […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-de…

Former Olympic canoeist asks government watchdogs to probe ‘nightmare’ Reflecting Pool case

The Trump administration’s “sprint” to charge Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn, his attorneys wrote, “mirrored the rushed renovation itself.”

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Hegseth announced the creation of “Project Meridian,” a new effort to “creatively look to the future and identify the domains that we must conquer and capabilities we must master,” and “ruthlessly map the trajectory of wars, domains, and technologies to ensure this war department, your war […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Trump went against many of his previous statements against tech bros to announce that they would be self-policing their actions. “They’re tyrants!” Jon Stewart said in response. “I thought you hated these guys?” He asked “how can you justify letting the tech giants police themselves?” as well […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

US justice department officials on Monday announced the filing of “denaturalization actions” against more than three dozen people alleged to have committed such offenses as “acting as an agent for a foreign government, committing voluntary manslaughter, and aggravated sodomy against a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

“We live in grief-illiterate and grief-phobic societies,” says Dr Lucy Hone, a resilience and grief researcher and author of the book "How Will I Get Ever Through This?: A Practical Guide to Navigating Life’s Toughest Times" […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend” “No body politic worthy of being called a democracy entrusts the selection of leaders to a process of auction or barter.” – Brown v. Hartlage, 456 U.S. 45, 54 (1982) In promising that he would pay every adult citizen of the United […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Donald Trump flipped out over an ugly photograph of his golf club. The New York Times published a story Sunday about the ethical red flags surrounding Trump’s decision to hold an international summit at Trump National Doral, his private golf club in Miami, Florida. Never one to concern himself […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

"Incredible Moment for the Borderlands": Judge Blocks Border Wall Expansion in Big Bend & West Texas In a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.” “There are no ‘indiscriminate’ stops.” Allegations of “racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE.” “The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force.” “ICE does not zip tie or restrain children.” But that is precisely what […]

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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@DigitalNaiv/117104… EN: A brief summary of the research: On X, you’re rewarded for insults; on Bluesky, for emotional restraint; on Mastodon, for nuance. Three platforms, three personalities—and they all have a bit of a toxicity problem. Rika Baack on […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Live Updates: Protests Spread Across France as Unions Join Student Demonstrations The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Goldstein was doing more than holding his own. He was taking the table apart, and in a way almost no one had seen before. Almost every hand, he raised before any of the shared cards were dealt, to $400 or $500. Most of the time, for one stretch an estimated 19 hands out of 20, he bet without […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military’s medical system failed them apnews.com/article/iran-war-soldier…

Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Sen. Bernie Sanders, a hero among the nation’s progressive voters, stumped in Southern California on Monday for a wealth tax on the California ballot in November that has drawn hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending. “What you are showing people from coast to coast and all over is […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Speaking at a Republican political rally in Nebraska, Trump sought to justify the Iran war as necessary for “keeping the world safe.” He then suggested there could be strikes on the United States, including the Democratic-led Californian cities. “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Medicare-for-all support is rising, KFF poll finds Roughly two-thirds of Americans support the idea of Medicare-for-all, according to a KFF poll released Tuesday, the highest share since the health policy research and news organization began polling on the idea 10 years ago. But the public’s […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

‘Using the presidency to line his pockets’: could claims of corruption fuel backlash against Trump? Experts say president is vulnerable amid discontent over rising prices – and the US public has ample cause for complaint […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

No city is expendable’: Republican candidate for competitive San Diego House seat slams Trump’s rally comments Jim Desmond, the Republican candidate for a competitive San Diego based House seat has pushed back on Donald Trump’s comments at a rally in Nebraska on Monday, where the president said […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11h

An 18-year veteran of the US Department of Interior has resigned in protest from the sprawling federal agency, denouncing “a deeply troubling assault on the rule of the law” that took place at the department under Donald Trump. John Murdock, an attorney and self-described conservative Christian […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Little news trickles out from the besieged city of Oleshky, a frontline wasteland severed by mines and drones from the rest of Russian-occupied Ukraine. But one thing is clear from what has emerged: A humanitarian calamity is unfolding. There is no food, no safety and no escape. “In the autumn […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes claimed Arizonans can shoot at ICE agents under the state’s self-defense laws. Mayes gave the green light on the shooting of federal law enforcement during an exclusive interview with 12News on Tuesday. The attorney general said she would protect Arizonans […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Flávio Bolsonaro is in pole position to win Brazil’s presidential election, after a far-right tsunami propelled him to a shock first-round victory over the incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, leaving progressive voters reeling. The 45-year-old rightwing candidate received 56.1m votes to […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

When forensic linguist Claire Hardaker’s team sent off a grant proposal on the risks of trusting artificial intelligence (AI) models in voice analysis, the Lancaster University researchers assumed it would be read by at least one person knowledgeable about the topic. Guidelines for applicants […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

How the midterm elections could go, one month away Democrats have polls and history on their side. Republicans have money. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202…

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Dennis Hastert, ex-House speaker whose sex abuse admission upended legacy, dies at 84 The Illinois Republican helped spearhead President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda before his career ended in disgrace […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Bouquet fire grows in Angeles National Forest near Santa Clarita as heat wave grips SoCal The Bouquet fire grew overnight to 1,048 acres and is now 40% contained. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department issued evacuation orders for the remote mountainous area northeast of Santa Clarita on […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Trump’s second term has revealed many weaknesses in America’s political system. This is one of them: It turns out that the government can function (or malfunction) based just on orders of the president and the Supreme Court’s rulings on those orders. Congress is largely irrelevant, if it wants […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

What does it take for an ordinary person – a nurse, journalist, construction laborer or cemetery worker – to seek justice after being harmed by a federal agent? The question is becoming increasingly urgent as ICE arrests have surged since the summer. A recent ACLU report in eight states found […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

For the past year, Dr Norma Bowe had parked her brown-and-beige camper van outside Delaney’s gates most weekends. Converted into a mobile clinic, it was stocked with sutures, glucometers and trauma and CPR kits, and offered health checks to families and protesters. That day, the clinic was […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Sam Altman says he believes the world should accept “bad things” happening with AI in exchange for the benefits of the technology. The chief executive of OpenAI cited hacks, scams and “other bad things that will happen” […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Amid the daily humdrum at 250 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo New York — is, to many Buffalonians, something shocking: The building’s seventh floor serves as the operational hub of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) machinery of detention and deportation across much of New York State […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Earlier this year, as the Trump administration ramped up pressure on California to agree to increased oil and natural gas drilling permits up and down the Pacific Coast, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took to the social media platform X to berate the California Coastal Commission, and the […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The Levada Center, an independent Russian pollster, found in an April poll that 62% of respondents favored moving to peace talks, while only 27% said military operations should continue. Although the poll was conducted before the most recent Ukrainian drone strikes, it appears to reflect a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Pete Hegseth had prepared a plan to cut additional U.S. troops in Europe during a NATO-related meeting, but the proposal was nixed by national-security adviser Marco Rubio and other senior officials. Instead of an immediate drawdown, Hegseth announced a six-month force posture review aimed at […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Department of Homeland Security agents compiled extensive dossiers on people observing Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the field, then stored them in a system called the Investigative Case Management (ICM) designed and managed by Palantir Technologies, according to Wired. The […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The public hasn’t viewed a single frame yet from director Greta Gerwig’s movie adaptation from the classic children’s book series, “The Chronicles of Narnia,” but a casting decision is already generating outrage from many conservative Christian commentators. They’re distressed by news that a […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The EU and Canada will use a landmark summit next month to announce an expansive new partnership, ranging from breaking down digital trade barriers to joint support for Ukraine and investing in fighting wildfires […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Police in New Delhi detained hundreds of people Friday amid a crackdown on demonstrations challenging India’s election authorities and their controversial revision of voter rolls, prompting Amnesty International to accuse the government of trampling fundamental rights in the world’s largest […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Trump publicly justified his press ban on national security grounds. However, the move was more plausibly driven by political vulnerability. Facing historically low approval ratings ahead of the midterm elections — with his party underwater in 47 states and projected to lose both chambers of […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

The modern stock market is now gamified to the point where it functions essentially like a casino. While no one can predict the exact moment the game breaks, managing risk means refusing to get caught flat-footed when it does. This is not about "don't trade stocks." It's instead a warning […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

In the coming weeks, the justices will decide whether to wade into Trump’s messy defamation brawl with magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, his mass cancellation of federal research grants, whether the Department of Government Efficiency must provide records detailing its slashing of federal […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing […]

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Antarctica holds enough ice to raise global sea level by about 190 feet (58 meters). Yet scientists have disagreed on a fundamental question: Will Antarctica gain more ice than it loses this century or lose more ice than it gains? In a new study published in the scientific journal Nature […]

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