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👀? (Fellow *strongly suspected* ADHDer here)

Oh, and I could eat that right off my screen!

✋🏻 I often give my felines more dietary diversity than I give myself…particularly at such a time as this.

The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel Watch now | Haitian Woman, 31, Dies Alone at Pittsburgh Bus Stop Days After ICE Released Her Far From Home to Die.

Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

+1 from District 34! 🙏🏻🏆👏🏻❣️

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Ultrawealthy Consider $500 Million Fund to Influence California Politics Silicon Valley billionaires have been seething over the threat of more taxes and regulations at home. Now, a proposed nine-figure fund aims to give wealthy Californians an unprecedented tool to reshap...

“If successful, the fund could give Silicon Valley’s elite a long-term political machine meant to rival the powerful constellation of labor unions, progressive groups and other entrenched interests in Sacramento.”

Wait — hold up…someone actually committed *a journalism*??!!

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.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

Right? How could we not?

So good that you adopted them and are taking such good care of them -- they are adorable!!!

Grey cat and black cat napping on a bed with a cheetah-print blanket

grey cat with amber eyes sitting on recipe binder on dinner table

Oh my goodness, Doppel-doppelgängers of my Dusty (aka "Chair Man Mao") AND his late dad-cat Jaco! 😻 (Rest in eternal peace and happiness, dear Jaco!) And here is Dusty today staging a Maoist-style occupation of my recipe binder at dinner. Wishing Tribble a smooth procedure and swift recovery! ❣️

Russia continues killing Ukrainians every day and is still fighting to erase us as a state. Easing russian oil sanctions now directly finances their war against Ukraine, including their tactics of terror of civilians: bombing apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, hunting people with drones,

Oh, I’ve got video software 🙏🏻…but am currently in the midst of launching a non-music project, so once that workflow is settled law, I’ll be getting back to doing my own music (instead of, or in addition to other people’s).

Keep’em coming! I’ll be in a position to participate soon.

That is fantastic!! 😻🤩❣️

Oh? You too? I was never actually cool either.

What about Ugg Boots? That phase turned into B’s during the hot season (grew up in San Diego) and Uggs in the cool season.

Birkenstocks! I went through a Birkenstocks phase. I can still visualize the pair I got…and the weird tan lines they left on my feet 😹

OMG—I remember that look!!! But wasn’t rich enough to wear it 😏 but wait…I did score a pair of 501’s at some point, and put some little knockoff brush in the back pocket.

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Here's the proposed rule. www.regulations.gov/document/DOJ...

Comments can be submitted via the federal portal at www.regulations.gov.

We all know what this is: they're trying to make sure their own lawyers don't get disbarred for breaking or ignoring the law or court orders.

Let's stop that.

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Wow…inspiring! ❣️🙏🏻

How Federal Agencies Got Caught Up in Trump's Anti-Immigration Crusade WIRED spoke with workers across seven government agencies—from the IRS to HUD—about how their work has been contorted to support ICE and other immigration efforts.

The gravitational pull of Trump's immigration focus is sucking in basically every major federal agency, all of whom are being told to change policies and practices to enable ICE and related enforcement efforts.

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