Charlie Thomsen

Hhhhhholy shit

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Excerpt from TheSickTimes article: “Community is how people with Long COVID are going to survive,” said Emma Voskuil from St. Louis, Missouri, where a clinic also changed its services last summer. “We might have 200 different symptoms that qualify under Long COVID, but there’s always somebody in the group who’s been through the same thing.”

“Community is how people with Long COVID are going to survive,” Fantastic data driven article from @thesicktimes.org #longcovid #chronicillness

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Once again: this is @davidjbier.bsky.social, of the [Even the Conservative...] @cato.org, an expert on immigration policy who has been providing data based expertise on the issue of immigration for a while now.

“He told another colleague, who refused to help him upload the data because of legal concerns, that he expected to receive a presidential pardon if his actions were deemed to be illegal, according to the complaint.”

Opinion | By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Littleton, Newtown, Parkland, and Uvalde.

there is an extremely long list of people who need to be held accountable in the next administration but sending the DOGE boys to big boy jail needs to be near the top of the list

HST quote from 'Kingdom of Fear' in 2003: "We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil with hate but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts."

"We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world - bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully..." #HST #HunterSThompson #America #DeathOfTheAmericanDream

Marco Rubio probably has blisters literally all the time if you need a pick-me-up thought today and I know I do

This is true. There’s a very narrow way in which you can make the case that immigrants, at any stage in their journey, cost America more than they contribute. Racists and idjits (sometimes a two-for) love to pretend that’s the whole story when it’s more of a footnote, not even a chapter. Big net win

pedocon theory not so much a theory as an immutable law of physics

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”

@washingtonpost.com
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Flashback to the 2024 Republican National Convention 👇🏽

america is the land of opportunity. you could become a navy seal, and then even a US senator, and before you know it you’re breaking a marine veteran’s arm with no repercussions. greatest country on earth.

The incredible thing is that anyone with eyes or ears can tell that mamdani clearly loves NYC so much. The idea that he "hates America" is just so on its face ridiculous that people claiming it look particularly pathetic.

Decorative article cover page with stylised painted image of a forest fire.

We've published a new #openaccess article ahead of print in 'Plant Perspectives', being Justin A. Dowdall on 'Pyrological Rhetorical Ecologies: Contested Discourse in the Redwood Forest'; online here: doi.org/10.3197/WHPP... #plantstudies #envhum #forests #sequoia @plantperspectives.bsky.social

NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Global Views of ICESat-2 Data ICESat-2 data products on a rotating Earth. Together they illustrate the satellite’s measurements of Earth’s land, ice, oceans, forests, and atmosphere.

This breathtaking visualisation from @thenasaearth.bsky.social's shows how the ICESat-2 laser altimeter has provided us with a staggering amount of geodetic information for Earth allowing us to track vital signs svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5616

Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking?

Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.

Over a week, this thread has grown into a fantastic collection. 📊

It completely changed my understanding of data storytelling, too. I still use it to show the power of simple choices: turn it the other way round and change the colour, and the story can be completely changed: youtu.be/jIU5krE8CAA

#GISchat #GeoSky

Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear A 2006 conference for physicists in the U.S. Virgin Islands that included a trip to Jeffrey Epstein's private island shows how he used his wealth to build relationships with prominent scientists.

I’ve always said that I’m a man of little fame and even less consequence.

Thank god.

"Epstein used his mysteriously acquired wealth to pursue his two great interests in life: the sexual exploitation of young women and hanging out with celebrity scientists."

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

‘Outrageous’: Furor grows over ICE’s arrest, deportation of 6-year-old deaf Hayward child The uproar follows allegations that ICE agents mislead the family’s attorney and separated the child from vital equipment he needs to properly hear.

You cannot "reform" a corrupt, violent, criminally indecent organzation like this. You must abolish it. Destroy it. Defund it.
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Google didn't mind funding this campaign and advertising that they are in bed with TPUSA until they did

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The 40-Year-Old Virgin Trying to Ban Abortion Nationwide Amy Littlefield profiles moral crusader Mark Lee Dickson in this first except from Killers of Roe.

This excerpt from @amylittlefield.bsky.social's book...

"His anti-abortion beliefs, he told me, grew out of a link he saw between suicide and abortion. He seemed to identify with the unwanted fetus. He believed that all people deserved to feel wanted—a feeling he struggled to experience himself."

The final shot from the Saharan dust storm is probably my favourite. I was literally being dragged away from the beach at this point by my OH ... couldn't stop taking #PHOTOS #NatureIsMagic #photographer

"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all.

The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6.

Link to the full resolution below.

“We are seeing how many other governments are now beginning to take a stand against this war. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible” @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social Making Australia a Pariah State again #mapsa #epsteinwar #iran #lebanon #palestine