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NYT - The DoJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador is now on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/justice-dept-immigration-lawyer-leave.html?smid=url-share

Justice Dept. Accuses Top Immigration Lawyer of Failing to Follow Orders

Erez Reuveni conceded in court that the deportation last month of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who had a court order allowing him to stay in the United States, should never have taken place.

The New York Times

chrisdrake Apr 5

Steve Herman Apr 5

(Reuters) - Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country's massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration's dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/usaid-team-fired-while-myanmar-earthquake-zone-ex-official-says-2025-04-05/

chrisdrake Apr 4

Matthew Malthouse Apr 4

You just know that this is true, don't you.

#Politics #Economics #tariffs #Trump

chrisdrake Apr 3

Show thread

Atomic Orbitals Apr 3

@weekend_editor @JdeBP @cstross
#tarriffs

chrisdrake Mar 30

Charlie Stross Mar 30

Bear in mind that while the Nazis built concentration camps everywhere they could (including the bits of the UK they'd occupied—the Channel Islands), the death camps were very specifically located *outside* Germany.

This pattern will be repeated. The worst atrocities will be conducted out of sight and out of cellphone coverage.
https://toot.wales/@Greenseer/114250281388903757

Greenseer 🩷🐇 (@Greenseer@toot.wales)

Attached: 1 image #SilentSunday What is more silent than the silence over the USA's plunge into Fascism and its opening of militarised concentration camps in 3rd countries on a mass scale, to hold, degrade and abuse otherwise innocent immigrants with no due legal process There are bourgois mutterings in the media, that's true, but the silence is in the lack of any heartfelt connection to the reality and scale of the crimes against humanity that are unfolding. The silence is from their hearts #uspol

Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales

chrisdrake Mar 27

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Mar 27

The whole world now feels this way toward us, TBH.

chrisdrake Mar 16

Steve Herman Mar 16

The main voanews.com webpage hasn’t been updated in more than 24 hours and the programming from the 50 language services not being refreshed. Some shows replaced online and on air with a loop video (this example for VOA’s Persian feed): https://ir.voanews.com/a/8011941.html

اکران - از زخم‌های طبقه فقير تا سراب موفقیت: مرثیه‌ای برای هیل‌ بیلی

رمان "مرثیه هیل‌بیلی"، روایتی است از [والبته نقدی است بر] چرخه پایان‌ناپذیر فقر، اعتیاد و بحران هویت در قلب آمریکا كه در کتاب جی.دی. ونس به مسیری برای رهایی از شکست تبدیل می‌شود. اما این مسیر، به گفته بسیاری از منتقدان، بیش از آنکه به حقیقتی بنیادین درباره‌ طبقه‌ کارگر یا كشاورز سفیدپوست در آمریكا اشاره کند، سرابی است که مشکلات ساختاری، اجتماعی و اقتصادی كلان را نادیده می‌گیرد و همه‌چیز را به تلاش فردی فرو می‌کاهد. بدین معنی كه اگر فرد مسیر موفقیت و رستگاری در زندگی را نمی‌یابد یا اشتیاقی برای یافتنش نمی‌بیند، دلیل عمده اش خود اوست، نه لزوما شاكله اجتماعی- سیاسی جامعه و تاثیرات آن.

صدای آمریکا

chrisdrake Mar 15

Steve Herman Mar 15

(AP) — Trump invokes Alien Enemies Act of 1798, assuming wartime authority to speed up mass deportations.

chrisdrake Mar 13

Elle Cordova Mar 12

A geological meet cute

chrisdrake Mar 9

Dr Craig Dalȝell Mar 8

UK Labour is shifting disability strategy from "Work or starve" to "starve unless you can work"

We need a Universal Basic Income and comprehensive, dignified and tailored care and support for everyone with additional needs.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24992296.uk-government-planning-6bn-welfare-budget-cuts/

UK Government planning £6bn in welfare budget cuts

The UK Government is set to unveil more than £6 billion in cuts to the welfare budget which will mean those unable to work will lose money.

The National