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Jeremy Hsu

@jeremyhsu.bsky.social
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Journalist at Ars Technica focused on deep tech reporting. Also keen on history and climate issues. On Signal at sciencehsu.22

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This year, about 1,000 NYC households received free batteries to help power their air conditioners. This helped alleviate peak demand on Con Edison's power grid during the summer heatwaves. My @arstechnica.com piece describes my experience, with bonus cat tidbits. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...
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This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Without people on the ground fighting against waves of AI slop, the results will be catastrophic. We risk eradicating the digital commons altogether. Supporting these workers means we all benefit from a more human, and trusted, internet."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My @arstechnica.com colleague Beth covered the Trump admin's disastrous pilot program that uses AI and ML to help authorize medical services to seniors in six states. Doctors describe patients crying in pain while waiting on delayed approval for procedures. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
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Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 17/09/2026
I saw this post and was like, "oh crazy, Emily is doing the thing from that awesome article I read like a decade ago" and then I kept reading and was like "OMG SHE LITERALLY IS!" and I am so happy about it. Great move @emorwee.bsky.social
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired career FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles. “This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.”
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Sara Goudarzi @saragoud.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Amid the tsunami of headlines claiming that AI agents went “rogue” in the Hugging Face breach, @eryk.bsky.social offers a much-needed analysis of what actually happened, and why the incident was the result of human decisions and not autonomous AI behavior.
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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did
At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harrowing account of an Asian American legal observer who saw federal agents kill Alex Pretti. She herself was taken to a warehouse, strip-searched and being processed before one agent realized she is a US citizen.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Statisticians who are tracking mass deportation said that 287(g) arrests—named for the section of a 1996 law that authorized the program—involving local police went from less than 3% of the total under Joe Biden to about 15% now, and will only climb higher as hundreds of new departments sign up."
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: The Xylom's @alexip718.com, in collaboration with @floodlightnews.org @drilledmedia.bsky.social @deceleration.news has won an Online Journalism Award for Excellence in Science Reporting (Small/Medium Newsroom) with the series, ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’: How Big Oil Ruined a Small Texas Town
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026
My book, which is currently on sale for $1.99 (ebook), is the @newscientist.com September book club selection! Some thoughts on the work I hope the book does: “Given the crises we face – genocides, climate change, attacks on transgender people – we need our critical faculties now more than ever.” 🧪
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'Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world' | New Scientist
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"Fitting ankle monitors on noncitizens without a criminal history who remain in compliance with their immigration cases has little precedent. The Department of Homeland Security has provided no official rationale for the electronic surveillance..."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“Firing a newspaper editor after he publicly defended his newsroom’s editorial independence is deeply troubling, and it should concern every journalist and every member of the U.S. military who depends on independent reporting." apnews.com/article/star...
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Pentagon dismisses Stars and Stripes leadership after editor, reporter oppose military interference
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired him as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...
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Navy families evacuated from Bahrain face ‘uncharted territory’ amid bureaucratic confusion
The evacuation has left families in limbo and forced military officials to improvise solutions for support programs.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration... the FCC said the gigabit speed goal is not 'technologically neutral,' suggesting that it isn’t fair to other, slower technologies." arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies
FCC decides 1Gbps is too fast, standard must be "technologically neutral."
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19/08/2026
Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeks
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‘I can’t take it’: Thousands of Gary residents go over a week without power after deadly storms
Residents in Gary, Indiana and surrounding areas are struggling to stay cool, fed and connected after storms cause prolonged power outages.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"The water shortage could have dire implications for growing Sun Belt cities such as Phoenix, for key industries including agriculture and data centers, and for hydroelectric dams that power millions of homes across the Southwest."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Munitions factory fiasco has cost American taxpayers $533 million without making a usable shell. Robot arms kept catching fire. But "since the Army halted two production lines at the factory, the General Dynamics unit responsible for the debacle has received contract awards totaling $2.5 billion."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold spent four days in the South China Sea without power... The loss of power meant sailors were without galley services, toilets and air conditioning. Potable water was also affected..." news.usni.org/2026/08/14/u...
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USS Benfold Was Stalled in the South China Sea for Four Days - USNI News
Guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG-65) spent four days in the South China Sea without power after an engineering failure, USNI News has learned. Benfold suffered the engineering casualty result...
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"[T]he attacks on the Ecuadorean fishing vessels have been carried out by rudimentary drones fitted with explosives and deployed from a vessel manned by 'gringos' with American-flag patches who never identified themselves, a lawyer representing some of the fishermen said."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Wow. I wrote about this at length in my book on logistics, I never thought any politician would do anything about it. For decades companies of every kind have used subcontracting to dodge responsibility for their workers.
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Morale is closely tied to something this administration has utterly neglected, which is building legitimacy for the mission. If service personnel and families feel that the operation they’re on is just and worthwhile, then they’re willing to put up with a lot of personal hardships. If not, not.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/08/2026
BREAKING: in July 2026, *every single one* of the 2,528 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 10,255 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 04/08/2026
Was trying to do an annual update, but it has come to my realization that Trump wiped everything between FY2024 and FY2026 from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. @thexylom.com now has one of the last independent copies of data re: H-1B skilled workers in America's top higher education institutions.
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The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions
A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"Genetic studies further undermine the claim of a recent or engineered origin... researchers who sequenced B. burgdorferi genomes found the bacterium had circulated in North American forests for at least 60,000 years -- long before modern humans arrived on the continent."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google has rolled back a tool that allowed anyone to create AI-modified satellite images using Google Earth, barely a day after debuting it. Researchers warned about the feature's potential for misuse in creating misinformation and disinformation. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/g...
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Google Earth risked ruin with retracted AI tool for making fake satellite pics
“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Studio photo of a Black African women wearing a beautiful dress in a printed fabric.

Caption:
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, Johns Hopkins public health
researcher, was detained by immigration agents while
boarding a domestic flight this week. (Johns Hopkins
University)
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/07/2026
While labeling AI content is a good policy for tech firms, it probably won’t save the rest of us who have to deal with its outputs.
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Google's SynthID watermark is hard to break, but it doesn't solve AI disinformation
Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"On July 22, the advocacy group Ohio Immigrant Alliance released a list of 59 active and former ICE and CBP agents charged with sexual and violent crimes between 2007 and 2026... Fifty of 59 cases the group documented were sex crimes, many of them committed against children."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Looks like four Canadair "Super Scooper" aircraft are currently fighting the wildfire that is threatening NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex.
Screenshot of Flight Radar 24 app showing the flight pattern of one of four Canadair CL-414 "Super Scooper" amphibious aircraft flying west of Madrid, Spain on July 25. They are fighting the Sierra Oeste wildfire.
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
NASA's Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex was evacuated as a wildfire approached on July 24. It supports more than 40 missions from the Moon to the edge of the Solar System, including Artemis, the James Webb Space Telescope, and NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network complex in Spain
Any potential damage will be assessed when it is safe to do so."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
"The Brazilian officials said they suspected that the Americans’ goal is to meet with electoral skeptics and produce a report that could be used to delegitimize the nation’s electronic voting system."
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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
On 7/17, the Federal Register published a new rule to tighten the conditions on student visas. Now it goes to Congress for review and likely applications starting 9/15. My students are getting official emails and starting to ask questions, so wrote up some observations based on my research: 1/
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DHS formalizes major student visa changes: what to know
The Trump administration said the changes will apply to student, exchange, and foreign media visa holders.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/07/2026
An Instagram post about Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to wealthy communities in Marin County, CA, turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
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A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 22/07/2026
INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.
After nearly five incredible years, The Journal's last remaining dedicated science reporter (that's me!) has left WSJ. Following the dissolution of the miraculous Health & Science Bureau last October, myself and a small numbers of others worked hard to continue our former team's legacy, but the time has finally come for me to move on.

I am deeply grateful for all of the opportunities this publication -- and the journalist community I met there -- has given me. From stories about T. rex lips to primate booze problems to shrinking brains, to Nobel Prize and NASA mission coverage, Jane Goodall's obituary, winter storm, volcano and wildfire smoke stories, I left no scientific stone unturned, working constantly to inspire curiosity and wonder in Journal readers during times of increasing turmoil and challenge. I met some of my closest friends, wrote for two of the most phenomenal editors I'll ever have the privilege of working with, saw Evan come home, and learned (in retrospect, naturally) the gift it is to be on a team of professional nerds who drive the cutting edge of health and science journalism in America while uplifting each other and their craft.

Well, this is your counterprogramming kid signing off. Not sure where I'll end up next, but don't be strangers y'all. In the meantime, I'll be coaching roller derby across the U.S., South America and Europe!
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act "included the largest cuts to SNAP in history... new work requirements, costs of the program shifting to states, and other sweeping changes that could lead to more than 3 million people losing access within the next few years."
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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Grohmann's early research shows that soccer's datafication follows the same inequality logic as the global AI supply chain: wealthy countries capture the money, while Eastern Europe, Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia are left with the poorly paid work of data annotation."
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not only do we stand by our reporting. Madison Square Garden’s ridiculous lawsuit actually confirms it, noting the company did, in fact, track the sexual orientation of LGBTQIA celebrities in its talent database.
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chris xu @chrysaora.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
my people have a solution for y’all but you’re going to make a face at me about it thewoksoflife.com/stir-fried-l...
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Stir-Fried Lettuce, A Healthy Cooked Lettuce Recipe
Stir-fried lettuce is refreshing, quick, easy to make, and goes with just about any dish you can think of in my opinion. Both romaine and iceberg lettuce are great choices for a cooked lettuce dish
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/07/2026
On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There is no named author. There is no methodology. There are no acknowledgments, no advisory panel, no external reviewers, and no indication anywhere in its pages that a single trained historian or public historian evaluated the museum’s work. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Trump's War on the Museum of American History Continues
The White House's new Smithsonian report has no authors, no methodology, and no historians. What it has is an agenda.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees
FCC to let ISPs stop listing all passthrough fees, give single "up to" price.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/07/2026
My department's incoming cohort has 5 PhD students--down from ~15-20 in recent years.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 05/07/2026
ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.
An ADSBx map of the Americas showing 28 planes doing dozens of flights branching out from Louisiana and Texas toward northern cities (round-up flights), Central America (removal flights), and going between ICE detention hubs (shuffle flights).
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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026
A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.
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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ICE agents in Minnesota and Chicago have also been busted for making up entire narratives that are proven false by video footage. Check out Judge Sara Ellis' scathing opinion regarding testimony re: Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago.
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