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WIRED @wired.com · 28/04/2025

Bottom line: • Christmas might be smaller. • It’ll definitely be pricier. • And the Grinch’s name might be President Donald Trump. Merry Christmas, folks. 🎄🎅 Read the full article: www.wired.com/story/christ...

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Donald Trump Is Already Ruining Christmas

Santa’s helpers are freaking out that steep tariffs on Chinese imports will prevent toys, trees, and decorations from arriving in the US on time for the December holiday.

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WIRED @wired.com · 28/04/2025

Even if the tariffs get lifted soon, shipping costs are already surging—a repeat of pandemic-era $20k containers isn’t out of the question. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/christ...

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

"a Nature survey of 1,600 scientists found that 75% are considering leaving the U.S. to work internationally."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

In early spring 2020, I reported an article for The New York Times on which I put the tentative headline: “New Coronavirus Is ‘Clearly Not a Lab Leak,’ Scientists Say.”

It never ran.

For two reasons.

The chief one was that inside the Times, we were sharply divided. My colleagues who cover national security were being assured by their Trump administration sources — albeit anonymously and with no hard evidence — that it was a lab leak and the Chinese were covering it up. We science reporters were hearing from virologists and zoologists — on the record and in great detail — that the odds were overwhelming that it was not a lab leak but an animal spillover.

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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

This administration wants more babies but takes away maternal care for miscarriages They are letting mothers die needlessly as providers are afraid of losing their licenses or imprisonment #MomSky #Voices4Victory

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Isaac Dovere @isaacdovere.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

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Ouiser @ouiserog.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I asked this same question. This is dangerous.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Using "recently deputized" ICE agents who don't follow procedure and perform arrests in plainclothes wearing masks and refuse to show badges is a great way to generate a violent situation. It's only a matter of time before these cowboys encounter "stand your ground" and it'll be 100% their fault.

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Invictus @tbpinvictus.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

After not adhering to the dress code, sitting in a reserved area, rage-tweeting, lying about tariffs (and lots of other things), it’s time for a well-deserved nap at the Pope’s funeral.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Every factory on earth, except those located in the United States, can get the inputs they need from China, without paying an additional 145 percent markup.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

When even a moderate Republican like Senator Lisa Murkowski says, “We are all afraid,” it tells you everything you need to know about the state of our country.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/04/2025

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

When they start arresting judges we’re all in a lot of trouble

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Go.Offsides @jct212.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We really need economic and financial experts to say “under President Biden the economy was among the strongest in the world and we don’t understand why Trump is intentionally making moves to make his the weakest in the world and possibly in American history” That will get him to stop this shit

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Maddow: 88% of the country says no, no, he cannot defy a supreme court ruling. Only 9% say yes he can. And you know, it's not the same thing. But I should mention that 9% is also the proportion of Americans who told yougov this week that they have a favorable view of the black plague

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

At long last someone has identified RFK Jr.'s support base: the 9% of people who have a favorable opinion of the Black Plague

Survey results of various medieval institutions, from castles to the Black Plague

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yeah, but he drank his way to the bottom of the fifth too.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: Here in Minnesota, freedom means several things. It means freedom from hunger and poverty. That means freedom to worship or not. It means the freedom to be who you are anyway you choose, and that is a birthright..

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Anti-Hamas protests on rise in Gaza as group's iron grip slips 'The world thinks that Gaza is Hamas and Hamas is Gaza... We didn't choose Hamas and now Hamas is determined to rule Gaza and tie our fate to its own. Hamas must retreat.' - Moumen al-Natour, lawyer/activist www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Hamas' iron grip on Gaza is slowly slipping as residents protest

Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This isn’t 2018. This time, “there’ll just be no goods.” #SummerOfScarcity

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/04/2025

If Trump's "new" Ukraine "peace plan" sounds familiar, it was in the Mueller Report. A lot.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This is fucking vile.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 24/04/2025

It's so weird to me that sports gambling became totally fine basically overnight. The whole time I was growing up it was understood to be utterly disgusting, debased behavior. Like a rung down from full blown alcoholism

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Two days ago he said eggs were down 95%.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The staff is knifing Pete every night now

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Rhetoric about synthetic food dyes exploits chemophobia & appeal to nature fallacy to scare you. NATURAL FOOD DYES aren’t inherently better. The source of a chemical has ZERO to do with the potential harm it poses. Read this for more on that: news.immunologic.org/p/cyanide-is... 🧵

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Cyanide is natural, Aspirin is synthetic. Which one do you trust?

Natural doesn’t mean safe and synthetic doesn’t mean harmful—the appeal to nature fallacy convinces you otherwise.

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Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist @drandrealove.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Fixating on this is a distraction & a waste of taxpayer money. It exploits the risk perception gap: when people worry unnecessarily about things that pose little to no risk or impact, yet don’t focus on things that DO impact health. Read more ⬇️⬇️ 🔗 news.immunologic.org/worrying-abo... 4/

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Worrying about food ingredients? This is the risk perception gap.

The risk perception gap: excessive concern about things that pose little risk and insufficient concern about things that pose greater risk

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Hey Gemini, is it bad to publish privileged communications where you tell your client that they don't have a case on a public court docket?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

So, uh, it certainly looks like DOJ intended to file a letter to Judge Liman in MTA v. Duffy, but….it accidentally filed a letter containing its legal advice to the Department of Transportation instead storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Re: MTA v. Duffy, No. 25 Civ. 1413 (S.D.N.Y.)
Dear Erin:
We write with respect to the above-referenced litigation brought by the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority ("MTA") against the U.S. Department of Transportation ("DOT"), U.S.
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, the Federal Highway Administration ("FHWA"), and Executive Director of the FHWA, Gloria Shepherd, to provide you with information concerning
(1) the litigation risk that DOT faces in defending the Secretary's February 19, 2025 decision to terminate the New York City Central Business District Tolling Program ("CBDTP") agreement, and (2) a process for terminating the CBDTP agreement outside of the current litigation for DOT to consider.
As discussed below, there is considerable litigation risk in defending the Secretary's
February 19, 2025 decision against plaintiffs' claims under the Administrative Procedure Act, that the decision was contrary to law, pretextual rocedurally arbitrary and capricious, and violated due process. For the reasons outlined below, it is unlikely that Judge Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that the CBDTP was not a statutorily authorized "value pricing" pilot under the Value Prising Pilot Program (" ar
FHWA may, however, be able to properly terminate the CBDTP value pricing pilot pursuant to established Office of Management and Budget ("OMB") regulations concerning the termination of cooperative agreements. Termination of the CBDTP agreement pursuant to these OMB regulations would still allow FHWA to end the CBDTP for the Secretary's stated reasons, but would do so as a matter of changed agency priorities rather than arguing the CBDTP was not statutorily authorized in the first instance. Importantly, DOT can seek termination of the agreement pursuant to the OMB regulations in addition to, and not in place of, defending the rationale laid out in the Secretary's letter.
Case 1:25-cv-01413-LJL Document 65 Filed 04/23/25 Page 2 of 11
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Flav out here on a goddamn heater tonight

I would retire from typing if flava Flav corrected my grammar

Flavor Flav says it's flavor Flav

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Walz: An hour by hour day by day basis, the President has chosen, chosen to throw our economy into turmoil. We are talking about a guy that slapped a 10% tariff on an island populated only by penguins. It would be funny as hell if it wasn't true and stupid.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

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NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/04/2025

THIS IS WILD‼️ Florida got $67M from a Medicaid fraud settlement. Instead of using it for actual health care, Casey DeSantis funneled $10M to a “charity” she controls. That “charity” passed it to anti-abortion and anti-marijuana groups—who then helped fund GOP campaigns. Both measures lost!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/04/2025

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

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