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404 Media: A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion, including cameras in states where abortion is legal such as Washington and Illinois, according to multiple datasets obtained by 404 Media.
The news shows in stark terms how police in one state are able to take the ALPR technology, made by a company called Flock and usually marketed to individual communities to stop carjackings or find missing people, and turn it into a tool for finding people who have had abortions.
(404 Media more…)
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Marisa Kabas: State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’
The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZBBfUjppew
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While these plans align with Trump’s open objective of expelling as many migrants from the United States as possible, the use of the word “remigration” is particularly striking as it’s widely used by far-right extremists in Europe.Just last week, approximately 400 far-right activists—including a former Trump-endorsed GOP state legislative candidate from Michigan—gathered in Italy to specifically discuss remigration. Per one news report, “Flemish nationalist Dries Van Langenhove — who has been sentenced to a year in prison for denying the Holocaust — quoted Hungarian Premier Viktor Orban and asked participants to chant the slogan ‘Save our nation, remigration’.”
(Marisa Kabas more…)
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ProPublica: Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes
Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.
(ProPublica more…)
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Daily Beast: Trump Admin Deports 2-Year-Old Girl Who Is American Citizen
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Manu’s parents were undocumented, but she was born in the United States.
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Emanuelly Borges Santos, known to her family as Manu, was born in a Florida hospital in 2022. She has an American passport and a Social Security card. Nevertheless, Manu and her parents, who are both undocumented, were packed onto a plane with 94 others and shipped to Brazil in February, according to a report from The Washington Post.When they arrived, Brazilian officials were shocked to find the American toddler among the deportees.
(Daily Beast more…)
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LAWdork: SCOTUS has allowed the Trump admin to end legal status for more than 1 million people
Friday’s order allows DHS to cancel immigration parole for about 500,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans.
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Root: White New York Town Official Allegedly Shoots Black DoorDash Driver For Reasons That’ll Boil Your Blood
An innocent delivery driver couldn’t run fast enough before the official drew his firearm.
A disturbing video shows the moment a DoorDash delivery driver approached the door of who he thought was the hungry customer he was looking for until he realized too late that it wasn’t. What happened should strike fear in the hearts of all gig service employees.
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However, as the DoorDasher turned his back to return to his vehicle, the report says Reilly began shooting at him. “Go!” the town official shouted before firing additional shots as the man drove away. The delivery driver was struck in the back as he tried to make it to his vehicle, per New York State Police. On his way out the neighborhood, he stopped by another home begging for help.
(Root more…)
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Above the Law: DOJ Ditches ABA Judicial Vetting Because ‘Being Qualified’ Is Too Woke
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The Department of Justice just officially cut the American Bar Association out of the judicial nomination vetting process, unmooring the process from any neutral evaluation process and turning it all over to Trump’s gut feeling and Senator Kennedy’s stupid-ass remedial bar prep questioning. Frankly, it’s not even clear we can trust the Federalist Society to have vetted these people at this point.It’s probably not an accident that this comes immediately after Trump nominated Emil Bove to the Third Circuit. The ABA deep dive into bargain bin Roy Cohn promised to be amusing.
Honestly, I thought the administration would pull this stunt sooner.
(Above the Law more…)
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NY Times: U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company’s shot.
ars Technica: RFK Jr. yanks pandemic vaccine funding as Moderna reports positive results
Bulwark: RFK Jr.’s MAHA Hallucinations
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YLE: What would making America healthy really mean?
This week, the dismantling of science and our health infrastructure continued—at a pace that’s both gobsmacking and grimly impressive. Just over the past few days, we’ve seen:
- Vaccine policy-making stripped of its checks and balances
- Federal scientists blocked from publishing peer-reviewed research
- A federal budget that proposes to cut Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential services
- The continued shutdown of federal health communications teams, like at the National Cancer Institute yesterday
- The halting of biosecurity preparedness, like cutting flu vaccine research
- And the MAHA report, released with fanfare last week, has some good ideas and intent, but it is incomplete and built on “studies” that aren’t even studies (possibly written by ChatGPT). It’s unclear whether scientists, public health professionals, or physicians with strong scientific research and writing skills were involved.
Imagine this
You live in a neighborhood where your kids can ride their bikes to a clean, safe park. Where the corner store stocks fresh produce, and the air doesn’t make your asthma worse. Where your job comes with paid leave and health benefits, and a support structure that actually works for your family and doesn’t cost a fortune.When something goes wrong, a trusted app connects you to understandable, helpful, evidence-based information. It can also seamlessly connect you to a doctor who meets your needs—no frantic late-night Googling, no guesswork about networks.
If you’re in a rural area, you don’t have to drive three hours to a clinic. Once there, the nurse isn’t burned out or rushed. The doctor isn’t drowning in paperwork. The system gives them the time, training, and support to care for people, not just treat illness, but help you live a healthier life through prevention. A mental health counselor is just down the hall and already looped in. No phone tree nightmares. No surprise bills. No “sorry, we don’t take your insurance.” Your affordable medication arrives at your door that evening. A nurse calls the next morning to check in because that’s just how it works.
And that prescription? It didn’t break the bank. It’s not luck that your insurance covers it—it’s because taxpayer investments in science led to real solutions and affordable medicines. Industry still plays a role, but people come first.
When crisis hits—a wildfire, a virus—your community is ready. Alerts are fast. Help is immediate. Information voids are filled. Systems flex to meet the moment. Leaders respond in real time, not with spin or delay. Local organizations (your school, your church, your neighborhood center) have the funding and tools to deliver what people need, when they need it.
(YLE more…)
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Allison Gill: It’s The Oligarchy, Stupid
We’re staring down the barrel of the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. Let’s get on the same page.
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emptywheel: Karoline Leavitt Says American Businesses Should Have No Recourse When Trump Mood Swings Destroy Their Businesses
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One of the five plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Terry Cycling’s Nikolaus Holm, which sells women’s cycling clothing, described in a filing submitted on April 10 that;- His company had already paid $25,000 in unplanned tariffs
- Tariffs may cost the company $250,000 by the end of 2025
- If the tariffs in effect on April 10 stayed in place, they would have to pay $1.2 million in tariffs in 2026
- It had already raised prices by up to 30% to pay for the tariffs
“Tariffs will become the single largest line item operating expense on Terry Cycling’s Profit & Loss Statement,” Holm described. “It would be larger than payroll.”
In Karoline Leavitt’s world, small business owners like Holm should have absolutely no recourse if Trump’s mood swings and unlawful usurpation of Congress’ power destroys their business.
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Above the Law: Kash Patel Says He’s Prioritizing Social Media Mocking Trump Over ‘Child Sex Predators, Fentanyl Traffickers, Terrorists’
Most FBI Directors probably wouldn’t say this out loud.
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BBC: China hits back after Trump claims it is ‘violating’ tariff truce
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WSJ: President Trump Isn’t a Tariff King
A sweeping trade court ruling puts the executive in his proper constitutional place.
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TNR: MAGA Fury Erupts as Trump’s Epic Legal Loss on Tariffs Slowly Sinks In
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Fast Company: Why Trump’s ‘little problem’ with Apple could be a big challenge
Apple is caught between a $3,000 iPhone and a hard place. Can Tim Cook negotiate his way out of this tariff mess?
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Wired: WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
Fast Company: Thanks to DOGE, Gumroad’s founder has a second job with the VA
The creator economy pioneer Sahil Lavingia on his eyebrow-raising decision to embrace DOGE—and, after thinking it over, open source.
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NY Times: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
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NY Times: Chinese Students Rattled by Trump Plan to ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas
Students said the latest move had upended their plans and intensified their fears.
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