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What We Know About Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ Protests: Thousands of demonstrations against the Trump administration are scheduled to take place in cities and towns across the country on Saturday. (www.nytimes.com)
 

You can find one near you here

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Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
 

The bill excludes funding for ICE and Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.

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Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown (www.nytimes.com)
 

The bill excludes funding for ICE and Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.

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Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List (www.nytimes.com)
 

Mr. Hegseth broke the logjam by unilaterally striking the officers’ names from the list, though it is not clear he has the legal authority to do so.

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Mr. Buria told Mr. Driscoll that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said.

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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice. (www.startribune.com)
 

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

ICE stopped paying for medical care months ago, so there are probably a lot more stories like this.

gift link — uses URL shortener because lemmy removes the gift token

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Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong (www.nytimes.com)
 

Up to 200,000 people adopted as children from abroad are vulnerable to deportation by an administration searching for problems with their citizenship.

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Shockingly, ICE Hasn’t Fixed the Airport Crisis | Perhaps because they're not trained to expedite the long lines (www.theatlantic.com)
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Note: this article is by The Atlantic's humor columnist, so some details may be satirical.

Trump's next step appears to be illegally paying TSA officers without congressional approval

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Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars | President Trump is set to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on America’s currency. (www.nytimes.com)
 

You can buy a stamp and mark every bill he signs "Signed by a Traitor" before recirculating it.

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We Asked The Mayor Of Ottawa Why He Keeps Posting Such Grim Photos (defector.com)
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Backlash builds against AI-powered digital price tags in stores (www.startribune.com)
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Union leaders and DFL lawmakers are pushing to ban electronic shelf labels and surveillance pricing, citing concerns about affordability and the use of artificial intelligence in grocery stores.

gift link — uses URL shortener because lemmy removes the gift token from the URL

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Two Wildly Different Data Centers Reveal a ‘Fork in the Road’ on How to Meet Electricity Demand (insideclimatenews.org)
 

A Michigan data center would use renewables and flexibility to meet most demand. An Ohio project goes in a different direction.

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The Historic Self-Own of Trump’s Iran Misadventure (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The courts act, but they don't act in a vacuum. Had the protests been violent, or had there been no protests at all, we could easily have seen a different outcome

CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago

There were things like a congressional authorization of the use of military force. We don't even have that

CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 44 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Who knows. Trump seems to bomb and not tell until he randomly decides to call in to a talk show somewhere.

Be nice if there was a refusal to carry out acts of war without a declaration of war or a pressing need of self defense

Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 20 points 6 months ago

Trump replaced their board with a bunch of his supporters, so that's unlikely

Chemtrails Aren’t Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them? Banning chemtrails is “like banning unicorns or banning Bigfoot,” says one weather expert in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago

In a couple states, yes. They don't actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.

They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.

Trump jokes about Santa giving a child 'clean, beautiful coal' for Christmas in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

Republicans do stuff so ridiculous that you can't easily tell.

What's actually happening:

  • Truth Social stock value dropped sharply because its not a platform with any real monetization potential
  • a fusion company with no working product wanted to sell stock to the public so its founders could make off with a bunch of money
  • so they merged to create hype for the truth social stock and to let the fusion company list shared without having to undergo the usual scrutiny

What hasn't happened

  • the silly name the Onion came up with

What might happen:

  • large transfers of money from the federal government to the combined firm
Trump jokes about Santa giving a child 'clean, beautiful coal' for Christmas in c/politics@lemmy.world
ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 6 months ago

I expect it'll be like Bloomberg's conversion of a bus depot to a jail for people opposed to the Iraq war: toss up some fence-based cages inside and dont bother making sure people are treated acceptably.

J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test | The vice president welcomes anti-Semites into the Republican coalition. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 11 points 6 months ago

Its storytelling to build community, not something rational

Trump May Give 775 Acres of a Federal Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I promise you that there will be no public execute access, let alone group write access

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

They don't care; its about how their owners do, not CBS itself

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

Its been up and down on YouTube because CBS has lawyers sending takedown notices.

It's up here for now https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

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