Coast Guard rescue helicopters keep boat crews from dying when things go wrong. Taking them away to make room for an ICE prison is going to get extremely ugly RE:
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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield announced Friday that the state is filing a lawsuit to force the federal government to return a U.S. Coast Gua...
I think of myself as being quite bad at understanding the inner lives of others so it is always alarming when so many clever people are apparently even worse at it
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The federal government continues to roll new datasets into its surveillance operation and use them to target immigrants. We learned this week that ...
Cuomo had to have watched that, right?
Building chrono timelines of hundreds of events for topics with very high info volume is that the timelines are incredibly useful for building *our* understanding and maybe to certain researchers, but for most people they can be kinda uninviting. There is just so much stuff. https://blacksky.app/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreidwm5n6x3evgwlrqsgceaqbvimcruymkwznaxjg4ecagwxbgdorei
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was unprepared for florence and her machine elves to show up with literal julian of norwich
β€œI thought I knew about this but it’s actually so much worse than I’d realized” deserves a genre name RE:
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 )’s reporting on disastrous reading instruction over the years but the Sold a Story podcast has been making me swear out loud while I do the laundry. At one point the hairs actually stood up on my arms.
We'll have a lot more to say about this one tomorrow, but I'm so proud of this update and our tireless all-volunteer timeline-building and sensemaking crews. RE:
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This week, we updated our pages on data security and surveillance, immigration, the federal workforce, and medical research funding. Our brisk, rig...