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fourier-analyst.bsky.social
A US ex-pat, living in Europe for 30+ years. A lone voice in the darkness, trying to filter out signals from all the noise.
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What's in the Trump/GOP big, beautiful bill? -Tax cuts skewed to the rich -Medicaid & SNAP cuts -Ends IRS Direct File -New powers for Trump over the courts -Blocks state/local regulation against AI, including rent-gouging software like RealPage It's a big, ugly nightmare.

Donald is creating a database of private personal information about every American -- literally hundreds of data points each. This is a far deeper and more dangerous breach of privacy than just about anything we've seen. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Alphabet CEO - Asian immigrant Microsoft CEO - Asian immigrant

The MAHA Report’s AI fingerprints, annotated www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "It's reverse Robinhood. It's welfare for the wealthy. And it's a travesty that this [private school voucher] scam has passed into law here in Texas. But we should do everything we can to stop this from happening at the federal level."

“Don’t be afraid” could be considered a central theme from @hcrichardson.bsky.social letters. Speak up, stand up for what is right, talk about choices both individually and collectively for education, governance and healthcare. There’s great power in our voice. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

I hope that the news in other countries broadcast more about the "NO KINGS" and Pope Leo celebrations than to spend any time of this sad ego trip.

Biden may suffer from some memory loss, but FFOTUS is bat-shit frakking CRAZY!!

If you want to get Russia to do something, you need to be aggressive with them, and follow threats with actions. The Ukraine knows this. Too bad FFOTUS & his minions just don't get it.

This is just eye opening. The entire SpaceX direction is a money hole. We have got to stop thinking billionaires are geniuses. www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

Not only are parks profitable, they inject billions to local economies and welcome 300+ million people a year. This is yet more wealth extraction to private interests not just from all of us as a nation but hundreds of communities and small businesses.

Slava Ukrainii!!! (Watch the news!!)

@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

This is sooooo important in Texas. That is if they manage to keep the electric grid from collapsing (again)....

One passed laws for your kids. The other passed his hat for your cash.

An incredibly devastating decision which simply ignores the human costs and blesses the Trump admin's stripping of status of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country legally — which the explicit stated goal of rapidly deporting those people without a court hearing.

Internal documents revealed that Trump and Musk have been LYING about Social Security fraud. So I sounded the alarm about DOGE slowing down Americans' benefits based on those lies—and they backtracked. We're not letting DOGE get away with messing with Americans benefits.

TACO trades are back on the menu. New China tariff scam incoming.

These men were building us homes. The violence is being committed by ICE — masked men, no ID, no warrants. Don’t believe the rhetoric being pushed by violent criminals about ‘violent criminals’ cause it’s all BS. Call your Reps and demand they hold hearings, sanctioned or not. This needs to stop.

There is a full on cyberwar happening right now between Russia versus Europe and its allies.

There are literally no words for how incredibly devastating this is and it’s only been 5 months.

How is this not stalking and against the law?

@thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social‬ is in Ukraine for Valor Media and @meidastouch.com‬. On the team's last day in Kyiv, they gave blood at a Ukrainian military hospital. A final act of solidarity on the front lines of democracy 🇺🇦

Stephen Miller on CNN saying that revoking student visas to China will prevent espionage of scientific and technological research from universities. Except they have also halted that research by pulling funding from our universities. God these people are dumb

Trump lied about the number of undocumented immigrants, so now he has to *create* them by stripping LEGAL immigrants of their status so he has someone to disappear. And the oligarchs on the Supreme Court are helping him.

Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics.  Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.

Reading this Bloomberg story really makes it clear, at least to me, for the first time what the Trump global tariff fight is about. It's about finding revenue Trump needs to deliver his promised tax cuts.(free link) The whole thing implodes without this revenue www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Since taking office, Trump has been pushing voting restrictions, gutting election security and stacking agencies with loyalists. Experts warn it’s not just about winning—it’s about entrenching power and weakening U.S. democracy from the inside. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/tru...

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

Under Rubio’s new vetting-for-antisemitism policy, several Trump aides — including Hegseth’s press secretary — would not be eligible for visas. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

Nature ran a piece finding that 25 million people could die as a result of ending USAID. This puts Trump and Musk in the category of the most brutal leaders of the 20th century in terms of unnecessary lives lost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

So I now have a Substack & I warily invite you to read and/or subscribe... johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/temporary-...

“Being President doesn’t change who you are; it reveals who you are.” -- Michelle Obama

Musk is a monstrous bringer of death...300k is almost half the number of people who died in the Civil War. Also, his stupid rockets keep exploding.

TGIF TACO. Here is my morning ramble: Looks like Trump's selling pardons for a million bucks. Again. c: @noelledunphy.bsky.social

“This is a digital coup, embedding itself into the core I.T. infrastructure of federal agencies with little oversight…This isn’t just unauthorized access -- it’s a full-scale redirection of the government’s digital nervous system into the hands of an unelected billionaire.”

So instead of reducing the number of "illegals", FFOTUS, aka 2-weeks-TACO man, has increased them, just so he can rip up their lives and claim their deportation as "keeping his promise".

Based on 20 years of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, new research sheds light on one of the solar system’s most mysterious planets. Via WIRED Japan: www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

Saying the quiet part out loud.

German law enforcement says it knows the identity of the elusive and notably effective Russian cybercrime boss "Stern." Story with @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/stern-...

What will you be doing to try and stop him? 5calls.org

On those days when you are shaking your head at the news and wondering, while watching our democracy go up in flames, "WHY?!", just go have a little read of this. Explains a lot. www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol... And the go out and make some good trouble.

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NEW: German cops appear to have named the alleged leader of the notorious Trickbot ransomware group—the gang extorted at least $724m from victims It's the first time officials have put a name on the ‘Stern’ persona, who has been a pivotal figure in Russian cybercrime Story with @lhn.bsky.social

Right now, members of the military can't fix their OWN weapons because giant defense contractors won't let them. Imagine you're up against an enemy, your equipment breaks, and there's nothing you can do about it. Terrifying. Senator Sheehy and I are teaming up to stop this.

“The White House takes cybersecurity very seriously.” HAHA yeah. Apparently, someone hacked Susie Wiles personal phone and made a bunch of calls pretending to be her. Eventually asking for wire transfers. LOL. Way to keep it safe, TACO. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Last time Trump called for remigration (a form of ethnic cleansing), national media outlets absolutely failed to cover it. They NEED to do a better job explaining it this time. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...