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Bytes Europe<p>NIH Cuts Create a Lost Generation of Scientists <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/837698/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/837698/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USANews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USANews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>Once upon a time, I went to Columbia to see whether it would be a good fit for my Ph.D. It wasn't a good fit.</p><p>In light of this revocation, going there wouldn't have merely been a 'bad fit", I would have let myself be instructed by fascism enablers.</p><p>This decision brings incalculable disrepute to this institution. For shame!</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/columbia-university-protests" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/opinion/colum</span><span class="invisible">bia-university-protests</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/Columbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Columbia</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/enablers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enablers</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/PalestineProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineProtests</span></a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/832103/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/832103/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStatesOfAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStatesOfAmerica</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/USANews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USANews</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeThePeopleOfTheUnitedStates</span></a></p>
Flipboard<p>Utah was one of only a few red states to allow universal vote-by-mail, but not anymore. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://journa.host/@bolts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bolts</span></a></span>’s Alex Burness writes about how the Republican-controlled legislature is about to get rid of the practice, which has been in place since 2019, and is imposing new restrictions on absentee voting too. </p><p><a href="https://boltsmag.org/utah-legislation-ending-universal-vote-by-mail/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">boltsmag.org/utah-legislation-</span><span class="invisible">ending-universal-vote-by-mail/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Voting</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Utah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Utah</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p>
Paul Chambers🚧<p>📽️ Former Waterbury principal says he raised many concerns about malnourished boy, now age 32, held captive by stepmother for more than 20 years, since age 11, who freed himself after starting a fire at the home, Waterbury police say</p><p><a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://oldfriends.live/tags/USNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USNews</span></a> <br>The boy had previously been the subject of welfare checks but the system failed him.</p><p>"We knew it. We reported it. Not a damn thing was done. That's the tragedy of the whole thing,” Tom Pannone, the former principal of the now-closed Barnard Elementary School in Waterbury, said.</p><p>He weighed just 68 pounds at the time of rescue.</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/former-waterbury-principal-says-he-raised-concerns-about-malnourished-boy/3519189/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/</span><span class="invisible">former-waterbury-principal-says-he-raised-concerns-about-malnourished-boy/3519189/</span></a></p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.wfsb.com/2025/03/12/man-intentionally-starts-fire-home-he-was-held-captive-over-20-years-waterbury-escape/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wfsb.com/2025/03/12/man-intent</span><span class="invisible">ionally-starts-fire-home-he-was-held-captive-over-20-years-waterbury-escape/</span></a></p>

@404mediaco has obtained a list of sites and services monitored by an ICE contractor ShadowDragon to let government analysts search and draw connections between people.

"The long list of sites and services that ShadowDragon’s SocialNet tool accesses is a reminder of just how much data is accessible and collected from and about us to provide surveillance services to the government and others."

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i

404 Media · The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
#news#USNews#ICE
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Musk's Tesla facilities in US face 'Takedown' protests

bbc.com/news/articles/cnvze9dz

" #Tesla facilities across the #US are facing protests and vandalism in response to the political role #ElonMusk... has played in the #Trump administration.

Most #TeslaTakedown protests have been peaceful, but a few have been destructive with fires intentionally set at Tesla showrooms and charging stations in #Colorado & #Massachusetts last week."

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American prisons run on forced labor. For @bolts, historian Robert Chase answered reader questions about the legal basis for paying incarcerated people below minimum wage, whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies in these circumstances, who has the authority to stop prison labor, and more.

boltsmag.org/the-past-and-pres

Bolts · The Past and Present of Prison Labor: Your Questions Answered - BoltsA historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and efforts to challenge it.

"A week ago, transgender Representative Zooey Zephyr delivered a powerful speech against a bill that would create a separate indecent exposure law for transgender people. [...] In a stunning turn, 29 Republicans defected, killing both bills. One Republican even took the floor to deliver a scathing rebuke of the bill’s sponsor."

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erininthemorning.com/p/powerfu

Erin In The Morning · Powerful Speeches From Trans Dems Flip 29 Republicans, Anti-Trans Bills Die In MontanaBy Erin Reed
#news#USPol#USNews