Nitai Deitel
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- Reposted by Nitai DeitelNEW: As the Trump admin is flying Afrikaners here today to be resettled as "refugees," @Sec_Noem is terminating Temporary Protected Status for Afghanistan — meaning they may start deporting women and allies who protected our troops to the Taliban to be persecuted or killed!
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelThey're firing black people from the federal government. That's it. There's no nuance to this. It's just racism straight up.
- This makes me want to vomit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel"She told MassLive that she, along with a crowd of other people, asked ICE to show a warrant for the arrest. She said the agents replied, 'We don’t have to show you anything.'" www.masslive.com/worcester/20...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelDestroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel"I don’t mean a hypothetical collapse a few years down the road, but the destruction of large parts of the American scientific enterprise — the envy of the world just a few months ago — this year." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-war-...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelUSCIS tricked a Kansas mom into showing up for a spousal interview for her green card appointment—it was a trap for ICE to detain her. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...
- Reposted by Nitai Deitelthey know there's going to be an apocalypse for trucking jobs due to tariffs so they're trying to stem the political damage by making it so the layoffs disproportionately affect non-english speaking truckers
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelPeople are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelToday, two local men were either seized by the Department of Homeland Security or abducted by imposters, but there seems to be no way to know which is the case, because both have the same MO. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelTrump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office. Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelA US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelAlmost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelI care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelReported earlier today that a new DOGEr, Roland Tenglong Shen, who works at Thiel-backed payments company Ramp, is now at Treasury's central payments hub. A request for comment through LinkedIn went unanswered and now Shen's LinkedIn profile has disappeared. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/rampi...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelIs the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelWhy is Westbrook like this
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelJesus Christ, man
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelNBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel
In 2019 a BYU Japanese PhD student helped organized a fishing outing. The group caught more fish than they were allowed, but prosecutors decided not to charge him. Now, his visa is being revoked. Kudos to Rubio for keeping America safe. www.deseret.com/utah/2025/04... - Reposted by Nitai DeitelAs reported last week, Trump is going to kill Head Start, utterly screwing 750,000 children who rely on it for child care and preschool and a million parents who count on it to stay in the workforce.
- Reposted by Nitai Deitelone young person told me: “I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives, it was a big step. And they just ripped it out from under us without even a 2-week’s notice.”
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelNEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelThis is truly terrifying. Officers without a warrant, smashing windows, snatching people off the street. What kind of country have we become?
- This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelAlarming. 'Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure.' www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelGood reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelThe very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelLast year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelJust updated this timeline to fix a typo and address an error in the last box where I'd gotten the manner of arrest wrong. I present the full version Mr. Abrego's time in the United States, using court documents to explain the allegations of gang membership and what actually happened in his case.
- Reposted by Nitai Deitelpretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelIt's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelSince the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!
- Reposted by Nitai Deitel👀🚨JICYMI: New Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans now disapprove of Trump on immigration by 50% to 45% (including 51% independents) MAJORITY of Americans now disapprove of Trump on deportations by 53% to 42% poll.qu.edu/poll-release... cc: @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social l
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelThis is literally just DEI but for conservatives, and also mandatory federal DEI for conservatives at threat of far greater punishment than anything any DEI advocates ever called for.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelWIRED spoke to over a dozen US business owners, including mom-and-pop shops, who all said the same thing: Chinese manufacturing is still the gold standard of the world and moving production to a new region would be extremely difficult, regardless of how high tariffs are.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelBefore press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelFor all the talk in the halls of congress about beating China and maintaining US leadership in space… A 50% cut to NASA science would *devastate* earth and space science in the US. This budget would be Trump literally handing the reigns to China. (1/3) arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
- Reposted by Nitai Deitelinitial reports made this sound like a minor failed attempt
- Reposted by Nitai Deiteltrump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism. jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelThe Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelJust insane stories from the graduate school communities, students getting kicked out of the country - medical and science researchers - because of trivial, decade-old violations, like speeding tickets, long ago, paid in full
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelFederal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelNSF just slashed its graduate research fellowships by 51%. This prestigious program has trained & nurtured at least 42 scientists who went on to become Nobel laureates. We're destroying it, at exactly the time we claim to worry about our "sputnik moment" with China bsky.app/profile/davi...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelTomorrow in New York! A really interesting cross-disciplinary panel with Jeff @jwassers.bsky.social and @sewell.bsky.social, two thinkers and writers I admire very much, on Hong Kong and of course, my new book on China www.ncuscr.org/event/the-st...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelWe imported $3 billion worth of goods from Russia last year ustr.gov/countries-re...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelReddit is flooded with small businesses owners getting crushed by tariffs — devastated by the thought of raising prices, firing workers, or closing up shop entirely.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelMust-read story on how Trump is weakening our cyberdefenses by @sangernyt.bsky.social and Nick Corasaniti www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelTHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.
- Reposted by Nitai DeitelIt's getting a lot of attn today. But even before today most of the country had very little idea of what has happened at NIH or through it the entire ecosystem of biomedical research in the US. Simply put, Musk, Kennedy & Trump exploded a bomb right in the middle of cancer cure research in the US.
