Buried in this article is also this, proving that the US and El Salvador can agree to send people they illegally renditioned back to the US: RE:
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Two heavy lifts from the Times to read this weekend. We reconstructed the scenes behind the deportations of 238 men to El Salvador. New details sh...
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Fox News' Jesse Watters met with "the DOGE boys" for their "nightly meeting," including... Big Balls. The meeting was led by Elon Musk, who the DOJ has insisted in court does not lead DOGE. I did not see Amy Gleason at the meeting. cc: [@annabower.bsky.social](
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Missed this incredibly fucked up bit of nonsense yesterday. The gov't is run by an entire group of crazy uncles who believe the dumbest shit passed around the internet. RE:
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Adam Keiper (@adamkeiper.com)
RFK Jr. is a disgusting liar. This is psychotic. He claimed today that "during the Biden administration, HHS became a collaborator in child traffi...
Oh no! This is very sad. I met Jill years ago and we hung out at a conference in Berlin. In the years since then, every few years we'd reconnect and chat, especially about ideas on how to do cool stuff on the internet. She was always thoughtful, fun, and curious. This sucks. RE:
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Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi.bsky.social)
Terrible, sad news https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jill-sobule-i-kissed-a-girl-dead-obituary-1235330036/
New Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Look What The Chat Dragged In This week, we discuss the Semafor piece about the Nerd Reich's Signal chats, and how many conversations have moved from public spaces to private spaces. [podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...](
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Polygon and Daily Dot gutted the same day. *sigh* RE:
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Andrew Couts (@couts.bsky.social)
The Daily Dot—a site that helped define the internet era and was a launch pad for me and a ton of your favorite journalists like @marisakabas.bsk...
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Interesting, if unexplained situation. Non-US travelers to the US dropped significantly in March. But went right back up in April. Richard has a self-updating version (with even more airports) here: [bifurcation.github.io/cbp-awt/](
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Richard Barnes (@ipv.sx)
I saw someone passing around a version of the WaPo charts here, and updated with the latest data. Now 6 weeks after @pbump.com's initial reporting,...
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You can see how much gold fringe nonsense he added to the doorway, compared to a photo from just a week and a half ago on April 18. RE:
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Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)
The White House Flickr account just published a photo taken yesterday that feels like one of those you could dissect for hours.
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By not coming out and saying it's because of tariffs, cowardly [@microsoft.com](
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dell cameron (@dell.bsky.social)
Microsoft hikes Xbox price $80 due to unspecified "market conditions." https://www.axios.com/2025/05/01/xbox-price-increase-trump-tariffs-microsoft
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Capitulating law firms suggested they had to capitulate to retain clients. The opposite may be true. RE:
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/business/microsoft-drops-trump-compliant-law-firm.html