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The Trump administration is refusing to ask Salvadoran president Bukele to release man who was mistakenly deported and Bukele isn't interested either


Bukele, who met with Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, was asked by a reporter if he’d consider releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who was living in Maryland before he was arrested and deported back to his home country last month despite an immigration judge’s years-old order preventing the government from sending Abrego Garcia back to El Salvador.

“Are you suggesting I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? How can I return him to the United States, like I smuggle him into the United States? Of course, I'm not going to do it,” he said.

Bukele added that the reporter’s question was “preposterous” and said he lacks the power to return him.

“We just turned the murder capital of the world to the safest country the western hemisphere. And you want us to go back into the releasing criminals, so we can go back to the the murder capital of the world, and that's that's not going to happen,” he said.



Google Nexus Player


What can a device like the Nexus Player be used for in 2025?


US army investigates after young private follows the Base, which has vowed to recruit soldiers for so-called race war


“The TikTok account affiliated with the group includes a clear statement supporting accelerationism and advises joining the group to be linked up with other individuals to exploit ‘collapse’,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a longtime far-right analyst and expert on the Base who noticed the soldier following the account.

“The Base has been designated as a terrorist group by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.”

But under the reign of the new Pentagon, extremism and the far right are an afterthought, while policing and deleting away “woke” ideologies remains paramount. Hegseth has his own connections to Christian nationalism and was reported by a servicemember for alleged extremist tattoos that prevented him from attending president Biden’s inauguration.


in reply to Omar

ramfetch was a fetch tool which displays memory info using /proc/meminfo i made back in christmas 2022 (i was around 11 years old at the time, currently 13) it got pretty popular on this sub and r/linux (it got 900 votes on r/linux and 797+ votes on this sub on reddit reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments…) , but i decided to remove it since i kinda thought it was dead, but i wanna bring it back with a new config file so yeah..

url: github.com/omardotdev/ramfetch

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Bernie Sanders spoke at Coachella and the crowd went wild


Sanders took the stage to introduce the singer Clairo, whom he praised for standing up for reproductive rights and speaking out against the war in Gaza. He then urged the crowd to get energized and fight back against President Donald Trump’s lawless, authoritarian agenda.

“The future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation,” Sanders told the crowd. “Now you can turn away, and you can ignore what goes on, but if you do that, you do it at your own peril. We need you to stand up, to fight… for economic justice, social justice, and racial justice.”



COVID-19 Infection in Children tied to Long-Term Kidney Risks: JAMA




in reply to Damage

That's actually pretty cool idea. Wasn't there some effort by Valve to support VR anyway on the Deck?
in reply to Matriks404

Idk about VR, the hardware is kinda weak, but just projecting the screen should be easy


Meta to start training its AI models on public content in the EU






Vertical Browser Tabs


I gotta say, 15+ years of having tabs and now we get vertical ones as a default option. And I'm not loving it. The habit to look for my next tab is so ingrained, I look at the horizontal axis and nothing's there.


Ferrari vows to adapt 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton


Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed the team will aim to adapt its 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton amid the Briton’s declaration that the SF-25 is “alien” to him.
in reply to GreenEngineering3475

On the one hand, this could easily shaft Leclerc.

On the other hand, maybe input from a vastly experienced driver could help the team altogether.

I seriously hope it's the second one, they tortured Charles enough



These 7 GOP senators are backing a bill to curb Trump's tariff powers


Summary

Seven Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley, have co-sponsored the bipartisan Trade Review Act, which would revoke presidential tariffs after 60 days without congressional approval.

The bill challenges Trump’s sweeping tariff authority, exercised under his recent "Liberation Day" policy.

Though facing a likely veto and limited legislative prospects, the effort signals GOP divisions over Trump’s trade agenda.

Supporters argue Congress must reclaim its constitutional power over trade, reversing decades of authority ceded to the executive branch. A House version is expected from Rep. Don Bacon.

in reply to Eat_Your_Paisley

Hopefully not too late. But yet, they certainly enabled all the horrors that Trump is visiting on the world.
in reply to MicroWave

Several Republican senators have signed onto the Trade Review Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington


Way to work with Republicans on the one issue they give a shit about while doing fuck all for human rights you fucking collaborationist scum



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The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens

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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador





A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election


in reply to Cows Look Like Maps

Chinese or American bots? There is a lot of psyops involved.
in reply to Cows Look Like Maps

Canada should ban twatter. It's a Nazi disinformation and propaganda platform anyways...


Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis


Summary

Tens of thousands protested across Spain, including 150,000 in Madrid and 100,000 in Barcelona, over a worsening housing crisis fueled by real estate speculation, foreign ownership, and tourism.

Organizers demand rent cuts, more social housing, and the repurposing of vacant properties. Renters face soaring costs, with many spending over 40% of their income on housing.

Protesters accuse landlords and investment funds of profiting while evictions rise.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has proposed rent caps and limits on foreign ownership, calling the crisis a “social emergency” needing urgent action.

in reply to MicroWave

On the plus side, he said, both parties shared the same fundamental analysis: that Spain has a basic lack of housing.


rewinds a decade

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_…

In 2013, Raj Badiani, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London, estimated that the value of residential real estate has dropped more than 30 percent since 2007 and that house prices would fall at least 50 percent from the peak by 2015.[10] Alcidi and Gros note; “If construction were to continue at the still relatively high rate of today, the process of absorption of the bubble would take more than 30 years”.

[11]In the period for 2007-2013, Spanish house prices fell by 37%.[21] Each year almost a million homes were built in Spain, more than in Germany, France, and England combined.[22]


I guess that housing oversupply issue got solved despite Spain's population size being pretty flat since then.

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in reply to tal

Rich people and corporations buy up all the houses to rent out to poor people or rich tourists. That creates a shortage of homes that are for sale for normal people to buy. It's a false shortage. Banning corporations and foreign people from owning homes would solve a lot of it. Huge taxes for owning more than 3 homes would probably do the rest.


in reply to Tony Bark

Depending on your closeness to the actual technology I'd be damn tempted to take one for the team and sabotage these projects.

You can't imagine how literally violently mad I would be if any of my work was used to kill people. Doesn't matter who.

LOL they asked her to apologize. Never working for Microsoft. Fuck right the fuck off.

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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention


in reply to inclementimmigrant

45 billion can eliminate homelessness in US. This is blatant corruption.
in reply to AwkwardBroccolli

NAEH estimes there were 970,806 people who experience homeless at least one night in 2023. That would require an average home building cost of $46,000 per homeless person if we assume all are permanently homeless. Building costs vary but the national average is about $317,000. I don't think this amount could "end homelessness" but it could make a dent.
in reply to AdamEatsAss

The assumption of 317,000 usd per home does not hold. Thats a very suburbian thought of ending homelessness. Its possible to build multi storey buildings housing more than 100-200 at roughly 20-36 million usd assuming units to be like a hotel room. For a million people, the number would be ~70 billion.
If we move away from the hotel rooms to a bunk bed(like traditional homeless shelters usually are), the number would come down drastically to something like 21 billion. Its possible to end homelessness with the budget for jailing people. Its a choice,


Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?



in reply to Novocirab

Here’s the broader situation: 30 percent of American households are classified by Pew as low income, and 19 percent are upper income. And yet a 2024 Gallup survey found that only 12 percent of Americans identified themselves as “lower class” and just 2 percent as “upper class.” In short: No one wants to be perceived as poor, and no one rich ever feels rich enough.


This is just nonsense. Being in the upper class doesn't mean being in the top 19% of earners. Those 19% are middle class and they probably have never even interacted with anyone in the upper class. An upper-class person isn't someone who earns a $100k a year or even $1000k a year. In fact, he probably doesn't even have a job. CBS has a headline right now that says "Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs". The people at his dinner (or the ones who could come but choose not to) are in the upper class.

Edit: As for the rest of the article, it makes a good point about the disconnect between the working class and the middle class, but I'm not sure that this disconnect is bigger now than it used to be.

Edit 2: Part of the disconnect is due to different values rather than different incomes, and this should be emphasized because Trump is popular with the working class (and unpopular with the middle class) not because he doesn't have much money but because he rejects middle-class values.

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in reply to ArbitraryValue

One can of course always argue over what percentile makes you which class (and to to what degree percentiles are useful for this question in the first place).

As for the question of influence, Piketty for example, while calling the top 10% the "upper class", calls the top 1% the "ruling class", which seems like a decent way to undercore this point.


in reply to return2ozma

Just block trade and get it over with.
in reply to return2ozma

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn't gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you'd want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can't do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.



US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony


Oyer has since told various media outlets that her firing came shortly after she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump.
She is one of several Justice Department officials slated to testify on Monday afternoon before a hearing organized by Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate about the Trump administration's treatment of the Justice Department and law firms who act in cases disliked by the Republican president.

Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California called the mobilization of the Marshals to deliver a letter an effort to "intimidate and silence" Oyer, while U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland compared it to a move "ripped straight from the gangster playbook."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-mobilized-armed-marshals-warn-ex-lawyer-over-congressional-2025-04-07/

#News


EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech


in reply to Redditsux

No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.

Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.


in reply to Shadow

A very sad thing about this is how underreported it is in the big news outlets. Yes, there are articles, but holy shit, it seems very downplayed. I didn't participate in the protest, but I live in a medium sized suburb and the turnout in our downtown was HUGE.
in reply to metallic_substance

A very sad thing is that it's a protest. Even if it was reported on what would happen? What is the result of any of this?

Now imagine all those people went online and just created and shared content. Imagine all those people creating 5 things a week. They countered every bullshit on YouTube. If they countered every ounce of bullshit on Reddit. If they fucked with the algorithm by calling out the Rogan sphere and other podcasters making them look like the dumb asses they are. If they just culture jammed the fuck out of this broken fucking culture. But they don't.

They drive 2 hrs to stand in the cold hoping a media that doesn't listen will spread a message. I bet the protestors are not very clear on what the expected result is here either. Most probably seen that someone asked them to show up and they did. They're willing to do the work but in my opinion, it's directed into an energy sink with minimal reward. I think we can do better with understanding how content is king. How this is about culture and message and ideas rather than old school methods like protest in the streetds. People can laugh all they want thinking online content is just stupid jokes. It is. But also it's culture and this is about culture.

When Republicans and Russia wanted to change our culture to favor the right wing they didn't invest millions into protests. They hired influencers and created networks. They paid college kids to make memes. They ran bot farms to flood spaces with comments that dismissed opinions that didn't favor their view. Money and power were directed to dumb assholes that could get more people on brand. Joe Rogan went from being a dumb comedian to a platform to introducing people to those networks. And it branched out from there. It was strategic. All I'm saying is we all should think more systematically and strategically. Protests have a use case. I'm not sure how effective it is in a digital world. Protests should evolve I think.

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in reply to Melvin_Ferd

We need the people who don't go online, or orly watch corporate news networks and only use corporate social media to notice, get interested and join in. We don't need to tell people in the echo chamber about the shit that is happening, we need to tell our neighbors, coworkers, and local politicians- to let them know that there are people who notice and want change.
We won't beat corporate funded media in their game.
in reply to nutcase2690

You think those people aren't online?

This is exactly my point. You're proving it. The left have no idea what they're doing. This is why the right are winning. They aren't wasting their effort and time. They're targeting key areas using modern techniques and even inventing their own. The left are so hell bent on this romanticized ideals of the hippie putting flowers into barrels that they haven't progressed at all. It has cost so much and will continue to lead us into obscurity or worse.

I'll tell you what, let's come back in a couple weeks and see what these protests accomplished

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in reply to Melvin_Ferd

Protest, solidarity and defiance is definitely the way. The French don't sit around and create memes or content hoping to change stuff, they bring their economy and their streets to their knees, making it clear who really holds the power.
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in reply to Bogusmcfakester

Do they? I've seen the headlines but do they really?

Every few years it seems like they are circling the same drain as everyone else.

Protests where we all just gather and walk around aren't effective. You need to be proactive and anticipatory. We saw it with George Floyd protests. There's no win. Either people will show up and go home. Or, the protests will grow to a point that it becomes out of control. When it's out of control then the police salivate and pull out their black book training manual for how to beat hippies and they get to work. Just as a farmer leads his cows to slaughter. The police have solved the protestor problem. You will not win. Tactics need to adapt



Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict


DOHA, April 5 (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.

The talks, which will continue next week in Doha, offer the greatest hope of a halt to hostilities since M23 seized eastern Congo's two largest cities, a rapid advance that since January has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes.

The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi also have troops in the region.

Reuters reported last week that Kinshasa and M23 planned to hold their first direct talks in Doha on April 9. But the source with knowledge of the situation said private talks were also held last week.

They were positive, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and prompted the rebels to withdraw from the strategic town of Walikale, in an area rich in minerals including tin, as a goodwill gesture.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-m23-rebels-hold-first-talks-after-months-conflict-2025-04-05/



Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk


cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/35711976

A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 11 on behalf of two labor unions and individual current and former government workers across the country. This decision is a victory: The court agreed that the claims that OPM illegally disclosed highly personal records of millions of people to DOGE agents can move forward with the goal of stopping that ongoing disclosure and requiring that any shared information be returned.

Cote ruled current and former federal employees "may pursue their request for injunctive relief under the APA [Administrative Procedure Act]. ... The defendants’ Kafkaesque argument to the contrary would deprive the plaintiffs of any recourse under the law."

in reply to arotrios

It seems this administration will be fought in the courts. I'm glad it turned out well today, but I'm wary of everything going to the courts. Some cases will be lost and irreparable harm will ensue.


DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father


Summary:


With just hours to go before the Trump administration has to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime authority — back to the United States as part of a judge’s order, the Justice Department has tossed up a “Hail Mary” bid to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to put the kibosh on the efforts.

“On Friday afternoon, a federal district judge in Maryland ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the DOJ’s Supreme Court application to vacate the order.

“This order sets the United States up for failure,” Sauer said.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted a preliminary injunction and gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of President Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations — which have since been blocked by a federal judge — without providing due process to those being flown out of the country, often not to their country of origin. Abrego Garcia was in the country with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.

On Sunday, Xinis issued a 22-page opinion saying she would not back off from forcing the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who are being sued, to return Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. The DOJ filed an emergency motion to stay Xinis’ preliminary injunction on Saturday with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and lower court, “given the urgency of harms to the government,” the DOJ filings said. The 4th Circuit denied the motion on Monday shortly before the DOJ filed its Supreme Court application.


in reply to arotrios

That dog murderer needs to be locked up in a kennel herself.
in reply to sndmn

And have that kennel accidentally fall out of a military transport over the ocean.
in reply to Nasan

Don't we have enough garbage in the ocean as it is?
in reply to ThermonuclearCactus

Good point, the decomposed remains could attract more waste and form another great garbage patch.



Hamas slams US claim it uses ambulances for ‘terrorism’ after medics killed


“[The remarks] are a hideous example of immoral solidarity with the Nazis of our time in their brutal war against defenceless civilians and humanitarian organisations,” the group said.

“Hughes’s accusations that Hamas is using ambulances are pure lies, devoid of any evidence, propagated by the US administration, alongside the government of war criminal Netanyahu, to justify its heinous and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers.”

in reply to geneva_convenience

lol wow. Even Israel themselves backed down from their narrative when confronted with video footage that clearly established that they were lying. But that clearly doesn’t matter to orangeboi et al.


YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy





Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador


cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/25857740

This is INSANE! Trump is asking the Supreme Court to bless his administration screwing up TO THE POINT THEY CEEDED CUSTODY OF A PERSON THEY DIDN’T HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY OVER and not require them to fix it?

If SCOTUS backs Trump here, literally all is lost. Due process will have NO MEANING if this isn’t fixed ASAP.

Remember, if they did it to this guy the only thing stopping them from doing it to you or me is dumb luck.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/supreme-court-mistaken-deportation-case/64408087

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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
BedSharkPal
This. This case is a hard red line for the constitution.
in reply to GuyFawkes

Anyone who's watched Trump for any length of time shouldn't be at all surprised by this. Just ask the five Black men who wrongfully spent years in jail for the 1989 assault of a jogger in Central Park, before being exonerated in 2002 due to DNA evidence and a confession by the man who actually did it; because a full fourteen years after their release from prison, Trump maintained that they were guilty (and probably still does).

The man is biologically incapable of apologizing or taking responsibility for his actions.



Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 32, mostly women and children


Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump about the war.
in reply to technocrit

I believe they are competing with Hitler numbers and want to prove they've been chosen to murder everyone.


The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business


A wave of women influencers have transformed into super-engines of Israel advocacy since Oct. 7. The 'hasbaristas' seamlessly blend lifestyle content with nuance-free Zionist activism. Are they good for hasbara? Was hasbara ever good for Israel?

https://archive.is/19DIA

in reply to technocrit

Makes me wonder how deep does the algorithm divide go.
In these 1.5 years I was never served an explicitly pro-Israel content. On the other hand I was served pro-Palestinian and even some anti-Israel creators.

Sure this is just anecdotal, but there must be something behind it. The algorithmic bubble, or intentional manipulation, idk?

in reply to technocrit

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 34: War is good for business!
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