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Retired Unix/Linux programmer. Worked for AT&T and Tech Mahindra. Former English teacher at Forest Lake Academy, Cedar Lake Academy, Pacific Union College
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The Missing Part of Trump’s Minerals Math www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... “we’ve pissed everyone off, and all these countries are looking to hedge away from the U.S.”

The Trump Administration Thinks You Should Be OK With Being Poor www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... Poverty is good, actually.

Lock Them All Up! www.thenation.com/article/poli... here are the words that will send me and millions more crawling over glass to give you money: I will wage holy war on corruption, from the Supreme Court to the sheriff’s office to every snot-nosed fascist with a DOGE lanyard;

Opposing Mass Deportation: What We Can Learn From the Resistance to Japanese Internment www.thenation.com/article/arch...

War on Terror Brain Rot Brought Us to This Point www.thenation.com/article/worl... “The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including US citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene.”

“Just Say Yes”: Trump Demands Media Abandon Reality for His Version newrepublic.com/article/1946...

Shame: Bukele Cares More About Abrego Garcia’s Rights Than Trump Does newrepublic.com/article/1947...

The Forgotten Forever War That Cost Mike Waltz His Job newrepublic.com/article/1947... Every president since George W. Bush has bombed Yemen as part of a forever war that has largely occurred in the shadows.

CNN’s Resident Trump Defender Doesn’t Know How the Constitution Works newrepublic.com/post/194812/... Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution specifically grants Congress the sole power to “declare War.”

RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni... A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the

Bernie Sanders Slams Trump For Targeting Media: 'If You Can't Take Criticism, Get Out' www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie... “I say to Mr. Trump, if you can’t take criticism, get out of the political process,” Sanders said Monday. “This is a democracy.”

JD Vance poses with TV host who called for violence against LGBTQ people www.motherjones.com/politics/202... White Christian homophobic antisemitic nationalists love Vance.

What Donald Trump has destroyed in his first 100 days won’t be easy to rebuild www.motherjones.com/politics/202... That’s not just a reflection of the White House’s sense of impunity; fucking up is the governing philosophy.

Thousands call on the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia www.motherjones.com/politics/202... “All Germans are to blame for the crimes of Germany, on a level with the leadership of the country—because it was they who chose and did not stop their government when it

Trump’s mob-like shakedown—a scandal starring “60 Minutes,” Paramount, and the FCC www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Trump’s mobification of the US government is in plain sight—and with no end in sight.

The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education www.motherjones.com/politics/202... All taxpayers would be forced to support Roman Catholic education. This is blatantly unconstitutional and sets us on a path towards religious warfare. A Catholic Supreme Court is forcing this on us

Scientists are ditching cows to make butter from greenhouse gases www.motherjones.com/food/2025/05... Savor takes captured carbon dioxide or methane from natural gas and puts it through a thermochemical process to build butter, tallow, and even ice cream.

Opinion | Trump has stalled America’s economic growth www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... If the administration were to stop now, to declare victory in the trade war (there’d be no actual victory, but when has that mattered to Trump?) and to send a clear message, one that they actually stick to,

Greg Abbott threatens Texas city over resolution criticizing Israel www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... it seems like Abbott is intent on quashing broadening dissent over all else.

Trump administration’s plans for tariff relief are a tacit admission of failure www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... It’s as if Trump has blown several holes in the U.S. economy and he’s trying to plug them all with his fingers to stop it from leaking out.

Why Trump’s pitiful efforts to blame Biden for the poor economy won’t work www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo... President Trump seems to have two opposing messages about the economy. Anything good should be credited to him. Anything bad is Joe Biden’s fault.

Opinion | Trump’s new executive order promises to ‘unleash’ law enforcement — but it won’t make us safer www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... This executive order is about retaliation, punishment and brutality.

Opinion | I am a Jew. I am a woman. But to Trump, I'm the wrong kind of both and not worth protecting. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... The “wrong” kinds of Jewish women will always exist, and our existence should be taken as a threat to authoritarians. If they didn’t fear who we are,

Opinion | What Democrats’s debate on ‘oligarchy’ is really about www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Sanders was the most popular political figure in America — and the only one with a significant net favorability rating.

Opinion | I’m an oncologist. Trump’s cuts will devastate cancer research. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Adding widespread budget cuts to this already difficult scientific process will not only dissuade future scientists from entering the country’s labs,

Opinion | Mike Waltz apparently forgot this cardinal MAGA rule www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... Waltz seemed to forget the cardinal rule of MAGA — experience and intelligence matter little to Trump.

Opinion | This mega-lawsuit is the ultimate test of DOGE’s power — and Trump’s www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... “Insofar as neither Article II nor any act of Congress gives the President authority to reorganize federal agencies or order them to engage in massive layoffs of federal employees,”

Joe Scarborough: As Trump blames Biden for the shrinking economy, here’s who really owns this crisis www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... Before Trump took the White House, the U.S. economy was the envy of the world.

This children’s book is a 'cautionary tale' about Trump’s endless 'demands': ex-RNC chair www.alternet.org/michael-stee... if we want to stop that hamster wheel of capitulation, it will take much more than patches of scattered opposition to slow Trump’s authoritarian tendencies.

www.tickaroo.com/e/FTkFk14gy8... Rechtsexperten betonen, dass nur die IRS die Befugnis hat, die Steuerbefreiung zu prüfen und aufzuheben, und dass das Bundesgesetz es Beamten der Exekutive, einschließlich des Präsidenten, untersagt, auf derartige Maßnahmen Einfluss zu nehmen.

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... legal experts emphasize that only the IRS has the authority to investigate and revoke tax-exempt status, and federal law prohibits executive branch officials, including the president, from influencing such actions.

Republicans Consider Shifting Cost Of Food Benefits To States, With Cuts Likely www.huffpost.com/entry/snap-c... The GOP wants to take food from families in order to give cash to billionaires. Shame.

Fired Federal Worker Reveals Chilling Trump-Era Condition To Get Job Back www.huffpost.com/entry/donald... A finer group of public servants cannot be found than those Musk and Trump fired without cause.

Republicans Have A 'Catastrophic' Plan Buried In Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Trump is a stupid, stupid, stupid man www.palmerreport.com/analysis/tru...

Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out? johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is... Fascism is here, America. May we have what is needed to drive it back to the hell it came from.

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"Lock It In! This Country Is Ours, It Doesn't Belong To Whoever Is In The White House, It Belongs To You, It Belongs To Us, It Belongs To We The People!" ...Kamala Harris April 30, 2025

Sure, I’ll make a deal with the administration. Here it is: 🖕