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60 violations in 50 days: Inside #ICE’s giant tent facility at #FortBliss
As the #Trump Administration rushes to open massive makeshift holding centers nationwide, ICE’s own inspectors say the marquee #Texas project is violating dozens of federal standards for immigrant detention.
#politics #lobbying #cryptocurrency #finance #PAC #GiftArticle
'Cryptocurrency companies, including some tied to the Trump administration, are funneling $100 million into a new political effort to support pro-crypto candidates.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/technology/crypto-fellowship-super-pac-100-million-budget.html
We need a better approach to deal with falling demand for oil in California than 'drill more' — that's just not useful from a climate standpoint or from a consumer cost standpoint.
Brilliant, essential piece from Charlie Warzel
“Something Is Very Wrong Online
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.”
“Every minute of every day, all of these thoughts and feelings are uploaded into platforms that are owned by billionaires or massive technology companies and built for viral advertising and the collection of individual data. The internet is not a monolith. For every community of mass-shooter fandoms, there is another that is silly, joyous, productive, or totally harmless. But it is hard not to notice that, in the aggregate, something poisonous is in the architecture of its platforms and the way that our technologies demand not just our attention, but our most heightened emotions.”
“By all accounts”
#giftArticle
“The health of the AI theme is more important for stock market performance than the health of the underlying economy, and the AI economy is by all accounts booming,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategist.
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Cc @garymarcus.bsky.social
Why stocks keep going up even ...
Love this video about how #maha influencers are manipulating people for profit and what people can do to help their loved ones: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/opinion/maha-health-wellness-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.k08.P6Xk.UGcjT6VFJkbV&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #rfkjr #vaccines #trump #medicine #Science #GiftLink #giftarticle
As I was saying ↑
The #Government Wants to See Your Papers
And #SCOTUS decides that the #4thAmendment might not be for everyone.
“You there. Stop what you’re doing. Take off that tool belt & hard hat—let’s see some ID. Why? Because we don’t think you’re a citizen. Now show us your papers.”
This kind of behavior by government officials is now legal in the #US.
#GiftArticle #law #Constitution #ActivistCourt #immigration #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/supreme-court-ice-detain-decision/684154/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxZ3TOtAlnZrZX_w2PMwFTmY
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