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❗️⚡️300 Ukrainian Defenders are back from Russian captivity!

Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residence, immigration minister reveals Lena Metlege Diab says in an interview that the program has been soft-launched as large numbers of migrants are running out of status in Canada.

Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residence, immigration minister reveals #StarExclusive

I volunteered here today with the Lansing Maker's Network, and it was so much fun! Here's a picture of one of our blacksmiths making a cool project.

Man believed Google’s AI chatbot was his wife. It told him to kill himself, lawsuit says A wrongful death lawsuit filed against Google accuses the company’s AI chatbot Gemini of driving a man to kill himself.

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Gemini claimed they could "be together" if he got it a robot body. “Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and… all digital records and witnesses.’”

OpenAI sued for practicing law without a license OpenAI has been accused of practicing law without a license in a lawsuit brought by Nippon Life Insurance Co. of America.

OpenAI sued for practicing law without a license www.abajournal.com/news/article...

ICE detain U.S. Army veteran—a 50 year old woman with major health issues.

20 plus armed agents stormed this residential neighborhood to arrest her at gunpoint.

Her crime? Kate just took part in a peaceful protest—evidently her 5 foot tall stature intimidated these agents.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The US economy lost 92,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate rose to 4.4% Hiring at US businesses unexpectedly plunged last month as employers shed an estimated 92,000 jobs, according to new data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economists were expecting a gain of 60,000 jobs. Screenshot from CNN

92,000 Americans lost their jobs in ONE month while this administration plays golf & starts wars. Unemployment hits 4.4% & nobody’s being held accountable.

We’ve seen ENOUGH! Republicans can’t be trusted to govern.

#TrumpsJobsSlump

From Ukraine to Iran, Hacking Security Cameras Is Now Part of War’s ‘Playbook’ New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick...

Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.

Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.

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I rarely pre-order from authors I don't know, but I read the synopsis and I'm hooked! Can't wait to get it!

I wouldn't mind being a member of the Bridgerton household at all.

If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!

Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.

We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Oh no, not 'zines! Horrors! 🙄

72% of Americans believe the DOJ and FBI need to do more to hold those in the Epstein Files accountable, including making arrests

Those satisfied with the position of the US in the world today

"Three million documents have been released, and we still don't have the full truth," says Nancy Mace, who voted with five other Republicans on Oversight to subpoena to Pam Bondi.

"Videos are missing. Audio is missing. Logs are missing. There are millions more...out there."

A new Senate report alleges that over 1,000 FEMA contracts, grants, or disaster assistance awards were delayed under Kristi Noem's watch.

Why?

Because she demanded to sign off on expenses over $100,000 — which delayed aid to victims of floods and hurricanes.

"Efficiency."

It should be legally justifiable to go one further and stomp the crap out of anyone wearing them.

Keep telling your electeds NO funding for ICE, period. No funding for DHS either. We NEVER needed a "department of homeland security." Other agencies already keep tabs on terrorists ffs.

BREAKING: @aoc.bsky.social just came out swinging in the House E&C hearing against dangerous & misguided "age verification" legislation (aka online ID checks) that would force everyone to upload government ID or get a face scan before accessing content or posting online.

Video incoming. This is big

The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. The online advertising industry has built a massive surveillance machine, and the government can co-opt it to spy on us.

The creepy system that serves you targeted ads has been used by the government to track peoples' locations, new reporting confirms. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Instead of addressing DHS’s deadly abuses, Republicans are taking up a bill to force state and local law enforcement to help round up immigrants by threatening to cut off funding if they do not comply.

This does not make our communities safer.

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Misquoting Orwell while being the last person in the room to know you've just been fired: PRICELESS

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Alaska population loss looms, with fewer births, more deaths and continuing outmigration If the birth-death gap and net outmigration trends persist, Alaska can expect long-term declines.

This is kind of a microcosm for the entire United States. Birth rates are going down and the population is aging and dying off and that is why we need paths for legal migration to the US. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

There are over 3,800 children locked up in ICE concentration camps (calling it what they are).
Here are children who passed while in ICE custody. May they rest in peace.
Kristi Noem must be held accountable before this number grows exponentially.

#KillerNoem

More than half of small businesses say U.S. no longer reliable: CFIB data - National | Globalnews.ca A year after the U.S. sparked a global trade war with repeated rounds of tariffs, more than half of Canada's small businesses say the U.S. is no longer a reliable trading partner.

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More than half of small businesses say U.S. no longer reliable: CFIB data.
The CFIB’s report was based on data from two surveys conducted in December 2025 and February, and featured 1,379 and 1,663 participants, respectively.

I have been using Windows since version 3.1 when it was small enough to fit on a floppy discs. If they do this subscription-based model it will be time to wave goodbye to Microsoft.