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DHS staff to get back pay starting Friday
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2026/04/dhs-staff-to-get-back-pay-starting-friday/

DHS staff to get back pay starting Friday
DHS employees are set to receive back pay through April 4 thanks to re-directed funding, but future paychecks likely depend on Congress ending the shutdown.

I dag, på sidste dag af ferien sydpå, er solen endelig fremme. Vi stod på en rasteplads for lidt siden med en kop kaffe og missede med Ÿjnene mod solen.
Til gengæld kan vi se frem til et helt nedkŸlet hus når vi kommer hjem: Fyret gik i stå for et par dage siden (det gŸr det engang i mellem), og det er ikke noget man kan genstarte på afstand. Så nu er der ca. 13 grader i hele huset …

"Ihre Forschung bekommt eine Stimme": in der stabi berlin (@…) gibts jetzt ein podcast-studio!
https://blog.sbb.berlin/neues-podcasts…

weird bug of the day. opening Steam's settings causes my bluetooth mouse to stop working. log messages seem to indicate the bluetooth driver gets into some state where it continually fails to process the mouse's messages, persists until I reboot. (aurora-dx linux, based on fedora 43). not going to bother diagnosing further

Heute vor 22 Jahren: Am 9. März 2004 hat die französische Behörde für nukleare Sicherheit (#ASN) Mängel in der Isolierung der Stromkabel, die wahrscheinlich einige Stromversorgungskästen in allen EDF-#Druckwasserreaktoren betrifft, mit INES-Stufe 2 eingestuft.

Unfähigkeit aus Überzeugung - Kieler Geographiestudent klagt öffentlich über seine Überlastung mit 2km Fußweg und demonstriert seine Unfähigkeit und seine Unwilligkeit zur Achtung der StVO.
Es ist halt irgendwie Teil des Erwachsenwerdens und damit auch Teil des Studiums für manche, dass man sein Leben eigenverantwortlich in den Griff bekommt. Ich wünsche ihm, dass er das schafft, bevor er größeren Schaden anrichtet.

Auto abgeschleppt: Kieler Student macht seinem Ärger über fehlende Parkplätze Luft
Für Neubauten der Uni Kiel mussten in der Olshausenstraße 300 Parkplätze weichen. Studierende und Beschäftigte sind seither die Leidtragenden der Parknot. Nun sind regelmäßig Abschleppwagen im Einsatz, um falsch abgestellte Autos abzutransportieren. Ein Student fordert eine Alternative.

Senator Chuck Schumer,
the New York Democrat and minority leader,
knew things were moving in his direction in the spending showdown on Wednesday afternoon when he got a surprise phone call in his Capitol office suite.
It was Donald Trump, not a frequent contact in these days of hyper-polarized politics.
“He says, ‘Chuck, I hate shutdowns. I don’t like shutdowns. We’ve got to stop them,’”
Mr. Schumer said in an interview as he recalled his conversation with Mr. T…

Facing Immigration Backlash, Trump Called Schumer to Cut a Deal
The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other’s throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.

CISA staff who were furloughed could soon be back in the saddle.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/senate-dhs-ice-shutdown-funding.html

Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown
The bill excludes funding for ICE and the Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.

There is no reason to think that Markwayne Mullin will change course in any significant way at DHS.
Like Kristy Noem, he will be answering primarily to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, a man who spends all day on X implying that non-white immigrants are the primary source of crime and economic deprivation.
Miller’s demand that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which is overseen by DHS,
arrest 3,000 people a day is the force behind Noem’s worst choices a…

ICE “course correction”? Markwayne Mullin isn't it
The department of homeland security shutdown shows Republicans still answer to Stephen Miller