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"All Lawful Use": Much More Than You Wanted To Know ...

Analysis: www.astralcodexten.com/p/all-lawful...

OpenAI proudly announces new contract with US military… with obvious loopholes that seem intended to quietly permit the same abuses at which Anthropic balked

Overview of the SALUTE format for reporting suspected ICE activity

Whenever possible:

Received secondhand report of active ICE raid in Harrison, NJ. Agents reportedly blocking one or more streets with checkpoints on both ends. Treat as unverified.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

They must have had an expose of something really bad planned by the staff.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

Murphy signs law to create ‘safe zones’ to block ICE agents — but rejects 2 other bills On his way out the door, Murphy signed a law making hospitals and schools safe zones from ICE but rejected broader protections that advocates wanted to shield immigrants.

NJ Governor: We won’t let ICE into a few specific spaces without a judicial warrant, so we’ll collude with them to help facilitate kidnappings elsewhere

Trump wants nations to pay $1 billion for permanent Board of Peace seats The Trump administration wants nations to pay $1 billion to remain on his Gaza peace board, reports show.

Carving up the spoils

Photo of ICE agent in Minneapolis firing at Renee Nicole Good as her vehicle is clearly moving away from the agents

Still from a video showing an ICE agent firing three shots at Renee Nicole Good’s head as her vehicle is clearly moving away from the agents

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the

With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

A letter from Harvard University addressed to the Harvard community. It discusses the institution's historical commitment to expanding human knowledge and building a diverse community. It cites President Garber’s message, emphasizing the need to comply with the Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which makes it unlawful to use race in admissions decisions. The letter stresses the importance of embracing diversity legally and fostering empathy, understanding, and a culture where differences become sources of learning.

Continuation of the letter from Harvard University. It references findings from the 2024 Pulse Survey, noting that while many feel a sense of belonging, fewer form relationships across different viewpoints. It stresses the need to foster connections and create a culture of belonging. The Office of Community and Campus Life will refocus on providing forums for schools, expanding programs for engagement, and enhancing support for first-generation and low-income students. Signed by Sherri Ann Charleston, Chief Community and Campus Life Officer.

Harvard just scrapped it's office of Diversity Inclusion and Belonging and has renamed it the office of campus and community life. They will move focus from underrepresented minorities to first generation and low income students instead.

Resegregation comes to Harvard.

Dana Bash: “Well, you’ll let us know if you get a response to that letter.”

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported.

I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things.

Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for.

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

Well, this is horrifying.

A list outlining policies for the use of public workplace facilities by trans individuals. Key points include that trans women (biological men) and trans men (biological women) should not use facilities designated for the opposite biological sex, as this would make them no longer single-sex. In some cases, trans individuals may also be restricted from using facilities of their own biological sex. It suggests the provision of mixed-sex facilities where possible and allows for gender-neutral use of lockable single-person rooms.

New interim guidance from the UK "Equality and Human Rights Commission." Trans people are effectively banned from all bathrooms.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

Release the Kraken.

This is crazy. ICE didn’t have event have a warrant to arrest the guy! The judge asked for it and they said “we have an administrative warrant” (not a real warrant).

She told them to kick rock and now the FBI is charging her with obstruction the arrest ‼️

Once Again the ADL Antisemitism Audit Overreaches — Including an Embarrassing Failure to Recognize a Jewish Ritual This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated its familiar mantra that the Palestine solidarity movement was the chief culprit behind a ...

The ADL's latest antisemitism audit sounds the alarm over non-Zionist Rosh Hashanah observances... while the organization continues to defend Elon Musk's literal Nazi salutes

New from @benlorber8.bsky.social in @religiondispatches.org

This should be a huge story

“The Empire cannot win. You’ll never feel right unless you are doing what you can to stop them. You are coming home to yourself. You’ve become more than your fear. Let that protect you.” - Cassian Andor, Andor Season 2 Episode 1, “One Year Later”

The first issue of Nemik's Weekly Manifesto, the newsletter I'm working on with @getfree-mvmt.bsky.social to mobilize Star Wars fans into real life action around #Andor season 2, is here! Let's get what inspired these episodes, and what you can do right now: bit.ly/NemiksManife...

Your regular reminder that the COVID pandemic is NOT over. Please use the proper language when talking about it. Please don’t say “During COVID” or “When COVID.” We are still deeply in it. People are still dying and becoming disabled from Long COVID.

Just when I thought I couldn't love this guy any more...

What Air Defenses Do The Houthis In Yemen Actually Have? The loss of nearly 20 MQ-9 Reapers, increasing use of standoff munitions, and the deployment of B-2 bombers point to the Houthis' air defenses being a real problem.

Houthi airstrike defense estimated to have destroyed over half a billion dollars worth of American military hardware

Hi I used to work at Starbucks customer service: if you call or email about this, they are absolutely tracking those numbers, and a sufficient amount of public pushback does make them rethink shit sometimes, so now would be an EXCELLENT time to let them know they’re being ableist shitheads

I love when the NYT rewrites my entire story and doesn’t cite it until the 16th paragraph

Damnit, Jim; I'm a doctor, not a typo

This so directly out of the Nazi playbook. The very obvious plan is to get rid of the independent accreditors and put all universities under jurisdiction of the federal government. This is how Hitler took over German academia and made it a wing of his party.