Gabbard fires leaders of intelligence group that wrote Venezuela assessment The director of national intelligence fired top officials weeks after their group wrote an assessment contradicting President Donald Trump’s legal rationale for deporting alleged Venezuelan gang membe...

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Violent Threats Against US Judges Are Skyrocketing Online Threatening social media posts targeting US judges have increased by more than 300 percent since last year, a new report shows.

Violent threats and calls for impeachment on social media platforms against US judges have skyrocketed by 327 percent since last year, according to new research from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).

AI-generated code could be a disaster for the software supply chain. Here’s why. LLM-produced code could make us much more vulnerable to supply-chain attacks.

Meta: *something something .. AI can take over coding task … something something … less midlevel coding roles*

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Better than the purple ones but still not quite right

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

I feel like the hits are coming more often now.

These stories are being leaked to sink this guy.

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t.

Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID!

Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

BREAKING NYT:

Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer.

The info included the flight schedules for the F/A-18 Hornets targeting Houthis. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

South Wairarapa council ponders Facebook exit Councillor Rebecca Gray said the threat of harm for specific communities was increasing on Meta platforms.

Team 1 or 2?

1) Continued use risks legitimizing harmful platforms, spreading misinformation, and enabling harmful influences on democracy and public discourse.

2) Continued use helps counter the rampant spread of misinformation and supports community connection.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle “Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.

The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.

He was not dead.

We all know that nothing can go wrong at dams

Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.

Doctors at Seminole Memorial Hospital, in Gaines County, noticed a sudden and ominous drop in the number of measles patients coming in, with those showing up being much sicker than before. They blame it on a quack doctor nearby who records anti-vax podcasts and gives out cod liver and vitamin A

Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

EPA administrator announces huge rollback of environmental regulations Lee Zeldin said he will reconsider a list of core EPA policies, including emissions standards for vehicles and the finding that serves as the basis for addressing climate change.

“Environmental Protection Agency” … apparently the environmental protection part is optional

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Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research More than 90 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted

The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program.
The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.

The ABA rejects efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession Three weeks ago, the American Bar Association spoke to you about values that guide us. We called upon every lawyer to insist that the government adhere to four major principles of law that have guided...

American Bar Association: “We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. We will not stay silent in the face of efforts to remake the legal profession into something that rewards those who agree with the government and punishes those who do not.”

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Watch Trudeau speak directly to Trump during blistering speech YouTube video by CNN

If you haven't yet watched Justin Trudeau address Americans, Trump, and Canadians about the stupidity of launching a trade war against your closest ally and neighbor—and how baseless any of Trump's claims are—you really should watch it: youtu.be/wz_42pckM7w

People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...

It's a cliche by now, but think how the news media would have freaked out if people were paying $5 million for private meetings with Biden.

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Hundreds Are Said to Resign From NOAA (Gift Article) The resignations came a day after a wave of firings at the agency, a world center of climate research.

NOAA is literally getting decimated:

“The two rounds of departures together represent about 10 percent of NOAA’s roughly 13,000 employees.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused cyber offensive against Russia The change comes amid President Trump's efforts to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Something odd here.

CBS News confirms other media reports: "Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions."

The CBS News then notes that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said he's unaware of the directive.

The Trump administration said in a court filing late Feb. 25 night that it ‘cannot’ meet a federal judge's 11:59 p.m. Feb. 26 deadline for releasing frozen funds to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients, potentially setting the stage for it to openly disobey the order reut.rs/4h0ni3t

It's like if you don't stand up to authoritarians they take more and more until there's nothing left.

This is extremely, extremely bad.

Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.