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This is great news. If you haven't heard about this case, it's crazy, but in short rich assholes buy up all the land surrounding our public lands and then turn the public lands into their private reserves These Missouri hunters found a way to circumvent them, but it took years in court […]

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There’s much to be disturbed about from Columbia’s acceding to Trump’s various demands, but perhaps the most chilling is their creation of a “special provost” to “oversee” its Middle Eastern studies department. Unlike the other (also very problematic) measures, this represents direct meddling […]

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Tens of thousands have taken to streets in Istanbul tonight to protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor and Turkey’s main opposition leader Ekrem Imamoğlu #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Turkiye #Breaking #BreakingNews

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We live in interesting times. Friend of mine is a scientist in France. He just got briefing on what to do when traveling to the US. He was told to use an empty, freshly installed laptop with nothing but his presentation on it. Uninstall all messengers and social media. If he has to surrender […]

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Emails Reveal Top #IRS Lawyer Warned #Trump Firings Were a #Fraud on the Courts The Trump admin cited “performance” failures to justify its #MassFiring of IRS workers. But this claim was “false,” a senior agency attorney warned officials, because the admin had not conducted any such […]

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Billionaire-proof open social media is now mission-critical infrastructure for the future of democracy.

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Rank cowardice from top NY law firm. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/trump-rescinds-executive-order-paul-weiss

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"White House officials informed the Navajo Nation that an artificial intelligence-powered automated review process looking for content with DEI initiatives led to the elimination of anything mentioning “Navajo,” according to a statement from Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren." (Comment: 🙄 […]

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Another thing nobody is really talking about but which would have been a scandal in the last administration is the degree to which almost all of the people in Trump cabinet or DOGE are still working at their private sector jobs. There is zero expectation by this White House that people should […]

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Britain Issues Travel Warning for US: https://www.newsweek.com/britain-issues-travel-warning-us-deportations-2047878

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Nuff said

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Canada places 200% tariff on little Canadian flags Americans wear while travelling - #TheBeaverton 🤣 https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/03/canada-places-200-tariff-on-little-canadian-flags-americans-wear-while-travelling/ “The 200% counter-tariff are expected to severely impact US citizens’ […]

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Went to bed with the 'Tesla Financial Irregularities" scandal dropping, woke up to find he's had to recall ALL of the Cybertrucks, lol! We can destroy him, it's close.....I can taste it.... https://electrek.co/2025/03/20/tesla-recalls-all-cybertrucks-ever-made-over-trim-falling-off/ […]

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There are a lot of Canadians who don’t want to visit the US just now. But if you have to, I would strongly advise going by air, because US CBP is in the airport in Canada. So they can still arbitrarily refuse entry because you voted Liberal or your name is Nadia or whatever, but they can’t […]

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LA Times: "Facing unprecedented threats by the #Trump administration to slash medical and science research funding key to its operation as the nation’s premier public university system, the University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze as the university braces for the potential […]

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If you help Judge Crawford win this race, it'll make Republicans much less scared of Elon Musk.

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Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented. But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...

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From Vanity Fair: "More than 40 years ago, Congress established the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) as an “independent, nonprofit, national institute” to “promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts.” The Department of Government Efficiency just took it over. “What has […]

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A federal judge has just found that Musk and DOGE likely acted unconstitutionally in shutting down USAID. He has granted a preliminary injunction which means that for the remainder of proceedings USAID personnel must be reinstated, no buildings may be closed, etc. Text of injunction at […]

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#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #EPA From AP.com: Judge blocks Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in 'green bank' grants https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277

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"Forsakin' all his better angels: that's how every empire falls" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8GgdL2xBYY

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WIN FOR THE WORLD! A federal judge on Tuesday indefinitely blocked implementation of Trump’s executive order effectively barring transgender people from serving openly in the military, a stark blow to the administration’s efforts to BLOCK transgender rights […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

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Gizmodo article based on SF Standard article: #SanFrancisco Is Getting Its Own Council of Tech #Oligarchs https://gizmodo.com/san-francisco-is-getting-its-own-council-of-tech-oligarchs-2000576885

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"In the summer of 1959, [American NASA astronaut and physicist Ronald Erwin McNair] refused to leave the segregated Lake City Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. After the police and his mother were called, McNair was allowed to borrow books from the library; the […]

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Quark: There’s only one thing that scares me on Halloween Jadzia: Which is? Quark: Yeah. How did you know?

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From Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl […]

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#MarkCarney says #Canada will buy $6B missile detection system to confront threats from #Russia and #China — Toronto Star

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Massive result in Dutch parliament just now. They passed 10 separate motions to enhance digital resilience, run more of our own servers & reduce dependency on US cloud technology. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/dutch-parliament-calls-end-reliance-us-software-2025-03-18/

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OMG, This. this. this... 👇👇👇 https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert/114183489554573157 [email protected] - Lots of European hosters/cloud companies tell us to "just use their cloud!". But the cloud companies here can't be compared to Google/AWS/Azure. Our local places are selling wood […]

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I can’t get over the cognitive dissonance of spending 12 hours of intense work in clinic, using every minute of my 25 years of training and experience to formulate treatment plans for my patients with #cancer, and then to come home and check the news and to read about every part of the […]

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Shot, chaser

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Remember the Navajo Code Talkers, too. Don’t let future generations forget, no matter how hard the government tries. They were heroes.

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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

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"This is not about telling my supervisor what I’ve done in a week. This is about an outside entity being given authority and accreditation through unquestioned compliance." https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-workers-defy-musks-what-did-you-do-last-week-in-their-own-mass-emails/

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It appears former USMC folks are leading the charge against the travesty in DC. 👏 “As a United States Marine Corps combat veteran stationed overseas their entire enlistment, this is the exact situation we are trained to look for and not participate in” He then asked for whoever is reading […]

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Heard about one of the kids' friends (brilliant, straight A student, top notch undergrad) who just learned they were not accepted into any PhD programs -- not because of their qualifications, but because none of the programs feel like they can accept students at this time under the current […]

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Great to see another article standing up for DEI in science too www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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As a “special government employee,” multibillionaire #Elon #Musk must abide by laws that require government officials to remove themselves from overseeing matters that could impact their financial interests. However, Musk has shown no attempt to remove himself from matters that involve his […]

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Guess which stock is down 4.79% on a day in which the broader market rose slightly.

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Apparently, I’m an enemy now. Not American. Not in the U.S. But somehow, I’ve landed on a list of people accused of spreading the “hoax of global warming.” Blaming immigrants, librarians, women (🙄), and now climate scientists? Classic distraction tactic. When the powerful fail, instead of […]

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Russian state tv is now airing the idea, that for a ceasefire to take place, weapons deliveries to Ukraine must stop, and Russia should have inspectors with diplomatic immunity inspecting airfields in Poland to ensure, no weapons are delivered. Let us recap: Russia proposes a 30 day ceasefire […]

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So when we look at these two posts together, we learn that those on the right believe that people have no resopnsibility for doing immoral things if they're either (a) following orders or (b) giving orders.

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Useful! European alternatives to AWS/GCP/Azure: https://asamsig.com/blog/picking-a-european-cloud-provider #Cloud

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"Starting to think about keeping all my data in the clod." "You mean the cloud? isn't that risky these days?" "No, I mean a micro SD card jammed into a clod of dirt."

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Keep ‘em coming Via Roger Parloff: The Ninth Circuit has DENIED, 2-1, a stay of Judge Alsup's preliminary injunction requiring 6 agencies to reinstate illegally fired probationary employees. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25589924-order-denying-admin-stay/

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