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Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a longtime Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020.

The post Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands Top Job at the Interior Department appeared first on The Intercept.

The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of limits on ICE — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.

The post ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests  appeared first on The Intercept.

Targeting tax leakers seems like an odd fit for a budget bill, but on page 1,081 of the Republican draft is a provision doing just that.

The post Why Does GOP Budget Bill Focus on Punishing People Who Leak Tax Returns? appeared first on The Intercept.

“A federal agency has cancelled a $117,000 grant that was set to go to the Emily Dickinson Museum.” — MassLive

Dear Miss Dickinson,

Following a routine audit of publicly funded projects for ideological alignment, your grant for digitizing a newly cataloged collection of your writing has been selected for termination. You will not be receiving the $117,000 allotted by the previous administration.

We understand this may be disappointing. However, voters sent a clear message: budget belt-tightening is a top priority. Anything not reflecting our current values is subject to re-evaluation.

And frankly, we don’t care much for your poetry.

We’re not required to elaborate—but in the interest of transparency, here’s why your work was flagged.

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d banish us – you know!

Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House.

The post How Trump’s Embrace of Afrikaner “Refugees” Became a Joke in South Africa appeared first on The Intercept.

The tech giant didn’t just lock an ICC prosecutor out of his email. It’s been building tools for Israel’s wars while silencing dissent at home.

The post Microsoft’s Role in Gaza Goes Way Beyond the ICC Email Lockout appeared first on MintPress News.

Great to see you again. Sorry for the wait. The last procedure went a little long. How are you feeling? Nervous? Ready to get this over with? Wondering about this hat?

We should be ready to go soon; they’re just turning over the OR. I wanted to come out and say a quick hello before the procedure. Answer any last questions if you have them. And for you to see this hat.

The surgery itself should be quick, maybe forty-five minutes. You will be asleep the whole time. This hat will be on my head. When we’re finished, they’ll wheel you to our post-anesthesia care unit while I continue to wear this hat. I’ll come by and check on you again once you’re awake. I will still be wearing this hat.

Some people want to know what the recovery looks like—what kind of pain to expect and when they can return to work. Others want to know more about this hat—why I’m wearing it and if I can take it off. Most patients are back on their feet in a week. The pain should be minimal, but I’ll order you some meds, just in case. The hat is a longer story, I can get into it if you really want, but know that it will not be coming off.

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Research with transgender people sheds light on the memory processes that allow any of us to navigate periods of change

- by Caleb Schlaupitz

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Two physicians get frank about uncertainty in medicine

The post It’s the Secret Doctors Keep from You appeared first on Nautilus.

The Swedish artist’s eccentric botanic illustrations, on view publicly for the first time, weave mysticism with painstaking accuracy

The post Hilma af Klint Celebrates the Supernatural in Nature appeared first on Nautilus.

This Ecuadorian lizard uses its remarkable proboscis for wooing, not warring

The post A Snout of Significance appeared first on Nautilus.