Whistleblower Accuses DOGE of Letting Russians Access Government Accounts in Shocking Security Breach https://www.mediaite.com/tv/whistleblower-accuses-doge-of-letting-russians-access-government-accounts-in-shocking-security-breach/
During an interview with…

Trump administration likely acted in contempt of court by not turning around deportation flights, judge says https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-acted-contempt-court-turning-deportation-flights/story?id=120870498
Judge James Boasberg had…

Opinion | America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-court-order-constitution.html
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should not be in prison. Especially not in El Salvador.
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Trump Is Spending Billions on Border Security. Some Residents Living There Lack Basic Resources. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-border-security-spending-texas-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The president…

US office that counters foreign disinformation is being eliminated, say officials  https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/16/1115256/us-office-that-counters-foreign-disinformation-is-being-eliminated-say-officials/
Conservative critics have long accused…

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues, reminds us of the importance of refreshing backups https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/unpowered-ssd-endurance-investigation-finds-severe-data-loss-and-performance…

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system
A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk…

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Google loses adtech monopoly case https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit
The US DOJ has won its case against Google, which accused it of operating a monopoly in advertising technology.
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Grifting Off the Measles Outbreak—and Claim a Bioweapon Caused It https://www.wired.com/story/antivax-grift-measles-crisis-bioweapon/
Activists affiliated with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are selling a "measles treatment and prevention protocol"…

Why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the Jenga piece that could topple the American Experiment https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilmar-abrego-garcia-trump-deportation-20250417.html
The Trump regime lies about a Salvadoran laborer and dad because the truth of his humanity…

American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/doctor-email-immigration-leave-country-rcna201698
A doctor born in the United States says she received an email from…

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A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to make the details public https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236
A foodborne illness linked to lettuce ripped across 15 states last November, sickening…

Trump Opens Marine National Monument to Commercial Fisheries https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/climate/trump-fishing-marine-protected-zone.html
The president said the move was aimed at making the United States the world’s “dominant seafood leader.”
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200 years ago, France extorted Haiti in one of history’s greatest heists – and Haitians want reparations https://theconversation.com/200-years-ago-france-extorted-haiti-in-one-of-historys-greatest-heists-and-haitians-want-reparations-254550
After being exploited…

French program for US scientists draws flood of applicants https://www.dw.com/en/french-program-for-us-scientists-draws-flood-of-applicants/a-72279414
France's Aix-Marseille University offered a program for scientists "threatened in their research" in America.…

RFK Jr. said autistic people don’t work or play sports. They say he’s wrong. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/04/17/rfk-jr-autism-children/
The health and human services secretary on Wednesday suggested that autistic children would never play baseball…

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration…

Immigrants prove they are alive, forcing Social Security to undo death label https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/18/immigrants-dead-social-security-alive/
The immigrants who have requested a reversal and been reinstated in Social Security databases…