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https://lit.dev engineer, UIUC alum, open source enthusiast, he/him. Opinions my own, etc. Mastodon: @azakus@mastodon.social
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to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
the @forbidden-stories.bsky.social investigation is so deeply important. put the illegality to one side. the trump admin is brazenly sending ppl to third countries, lacking any cxn, without any guarantee they won't be sent on for torture, abuse, persecution... it's horrible.
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This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
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TFG is depleting our oil reserves to offset his stupid, unwinnable war, while paying renewable energy firms to stop production, while waging an equallly stupid trade war. Presidents are often unfairly blamed when the economy goes south. But we’ve never had a president *try* to ruin it.
Since April, they’ve released 5.5 billion gallons of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve to try to keep gas prices low. There’s 12 billion gallons left in the tank before we run out
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Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
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This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Interesting theory. So if a major source of harmful pollutants can’t or won’t prevent those pollutants crossing borders, its neighbours are justified in taking unilateral action to stop the harm without regard to sovereignty. Cool theory. Keep talking.
"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...
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Unfortunately, we have bad news to share. Paizo has decided to end our partnership, effective July 24th. We have prepared a statement with some details about AoN going forward. We hope to continue to support the community and wish no ill will towards Paizo. www.archivesofnethys.com/agreement.html
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🔥 New blog post: In defense of polyfills A highly influential spec editor expressed the opinion that polyfilling is harmful. I beg to differ. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/po...
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It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food
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BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.
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Any Democrat willing to take these monster’s money should be ferociously purged from the party.
NEW: Palantir has gone on a Democratic lobbyist hiring spree, picking up Hakeem Jeffries' former chief of staff, a top DCCC fundraiser, and a former Democratic senator to push its interests in Washington DC. readsludge.com/2026/06/22/p...
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"A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time."
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NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:
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🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Our new game about walking and talking comes out August 4 on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world.
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