Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands…

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants https://www.wired.com/story/doge-collecting-immigrant-data-surveil-track/
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, the IRS that…

Return-To-Office: It's Not About Productivity, It's About Power https://www.forbes.com/sites/curtsteinhorst/2025/04/17/return-to-office-its-not-about-productivity-its-about-power/
The uncomfortable truth is that the return-to-office debate isn’t about work.…

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Petition: Allow transgender people to self-identify their legal gender. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159
We believe the government should change legislation to make it easier for trans people of all ages to change their legal gender without…

Supreme Court, for Now, Blocks Deportations of Venezuelan Migrants https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/18/us/trump-news
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented. A group of migrants had been scheduled to be flown out of the country, according…

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Alan Turing’s Lost Work Could Reveal How Tigers Got Their Stripes https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alan-turings-lost-work-could-reveal-how-tigers-got-their-stripes/
The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic…

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Over 700 events and protests across the US mark ‘A National Day of Action’ https://www.theverge.com/news/652341/nation-day-of-action-50501-protests-50-states
Protesters again gathered to demonstrate against President Donald Trump, while others joined community…

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“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem
The closure of the 150…

White House Censoring Press Pool Reports, While Still Discriminating Against AP https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/18/white-house-censoring-press-pool-reports-while-still-discriminating-against-ap/
On Tuesday, the White House effectively eliminated the Associated…

Chinese 'gait recognition' tech IDs people by how they walk https://apnews.com/article/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes…

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI https://futurism.com/google-ceo-congress-electricity-ai-superintelligence
Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity…

Trump Draft Order Would Drastically Overhaul U.S. State Department https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/trump-state-department-overhaul.html
The draft executive order to be signed by President Trump would eliminate Africa operations and shut down…

What We Can Learn from the Irish Famine Migrant Crisis https://time.com/6949581/irish-famine-immigration-essay/
America’s handling of the Irish Famine migrant crisis in the 1850s is a guide for immigration today.
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I've got a quick favour to ask. If you're reading this post on Mastodon (or the Fediverse), please click boost. How come? I recently moved across to my own self-hosted single-user server (using GoToSocial.org). For a bunch of reasons, including visibility…

As legal fight raged, ICE buses filled with Venezuelans heading toward airport turned around, video shows https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/legal-fight-raged-ice-buses-filled-venezuelans-heading-airport-turned-rcna202007
Video from Friday night…

Subaru Is Bringing Back Physical Knobs and Buttons in Its Cars https://futurism.com/the-byte/subaru-bringing-back-physical-knobs-buttons
To the relief of many, Japanese carmaker Subaru has brought back physical buttons and knobs for its 2026 Outback midsize…