Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing Aiming to replace all US videoconferencing services by 2027, the deployment is the EU's latest policy move in support of digital sovereignty. And there's more to come.

Why France just dumped Teams and Zoom for homegrown videoconferencing zdnet.com/article/fran... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

It's not about the French government not trusting US tech companies… Whoops, actually, it is. They're far from alone.

"Former Farming Leaders Warn U.S. Agriculture Could Face ‘Widespread Collapse’" share.google/svEBl00zajXY...

This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 298. … ProPublica: “The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in govt records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez. T...

🚨NEW BULLETIN: Federal agents names revealed in Alex Pretti murder, Trump family’s $500M foreign crypto deal exposed, Dems flip deep-red Texas seats, Epstein fallout grows, and Trump’s approval keeps sliding. Catch up on all the weekend news (paywall free):

Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.

But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.

Mind blowing corruption.

There has been another shooting involving federal agents in Minneapolis and I am working to get more information. I will update as soon as possible. To the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress who have stood silent: Get ICE out of our state NOW.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.

This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

We need full, independent investigations into the shootings at the hands of federal immigration officials that have taken place this week in Minneapolis and Portland.

This aggressive deployment of ICE into our communities is resulting in a terrible loss of life. 🧵

Food Prices Were Stubbornly High Last Year

Grocery prices are still going up for American families.

And there is nothing in Venezuela or Greenland that is going to change that.

How about focusing closer to home?

Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

I've been waiting for this.

Independent autopsy of Renee Good is in. It's strong evidence against Agent Ross, given what it means about the second or third shot through the left-side window.

It's the second and third shots that make the easiest criminal case of a willful killing.

A masked ICE officials with a 5 year old child

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Come for this horribly depressing graph about the state of America’s health and science agencies and stay for the heatmap from grant termination hell. Essential reading from @maxkozlov.bsky.social and colleagues

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This is state sanctioned child abuse. It needs to be prosecuted from top to bottom. Republican Congress won’t stop this & instead shut the gov‘t down, erode due process & free speech, allow corruption, unconstitutional use of military against civilians & the list goes on. Let’s vote them out.

Trump, Vought, RFK and Bhattacharya, for the sake of self enrichment, are condemning hardworking taxpaying Americans & their families to preventable illnesses and death. The politicizing of NIH & CDC, theft of Congress approved grant funding & blatant propaganda disinformation campaign must stop

This is what leadership, integrity, statesmanship and courage looks like. She and her fellow representatives are true American Patriots. Imagine how ethical, functional, rational and prosperous our executive branch and by extension Texas and the US would be with the Rep Ann Johnson as President.

Our GOP Congresspeople could stop the President’s self enrichment schemes and blatant conflicts of interest today. They could also remove corrupt / incompetent cabinet members and insist on appointment of competent people who will faithfully and ethically uphold the Constitution.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" cuts Medicaid.

Cuts to health care for babies and new moms.

Cuts to heath care for seniors in nursing homes.

Cuts to health care for rural hospitals.

Cuts to health care for people with disabilities.

Republicans in Congress approved these cuts.

Our tax dollars are supposed to pay for FEMA to help American citizens as well as keep us safe & protect our interests & resources. Instead our greedy selfish President golfs, self enriches & sells our resources to the highest bidders. Complicit admin & GOP Congress members support him.

So our President wastes $26 million on US tax funded golf trips in 5 months, illegally accepts Millions of $ in bribes from influence seeking foreign & domestic payers, defunds / installs loyalists into oversight gov’t entities & tries to distract by lying about foreign student tuition at Harvard?

The corruption is so blatant. And the silent GOP Congress is so complicit. Where are the Congressional GOP democracy defenders? At what point did they trade ethics, morals, their oath to protect and defend our democracy and humanity for money and power?

This should be seen as evidence of the crisis: federal judges fear that Trump will order U.S. Marshals to stand down on securing the safety of judges whose decision they don’t like. This is just devastating.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Wow. This is major news. Judges discuss moving the U.S. marshals from the executive to the judicial branch. Not only would they protect judges from trump threats, but it would also make it easier for courts to order marshals to carry out court orders.

Why is GOP legislature and executive branch hurting American people: 1) passed house bill = $500 billion Medicare cut
2) dismantle / defund SS, Medicaid, EPA, Dept of Ed, NIH, CDC, FEMA, NOAA, VA, FAA etc
3) appoint incompetent & unethical Dept heads
4) blatant corruption / due process violations

Does fascism look like silence / absence of outrage by major media about detaining / disappearing immigrants - like Garcia - with no due process followed by politicized arrests / charges filed against critics of this Admin: Judge Hannah Dugan, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Democratic Rep LaMonica McIver?

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

Unelected. Unvetted for the level of information he gets to see. Agenda to purposefully harm working Americans and deprive us of our tax dollars paid benefits.
It is wrong.

American people are being hurt and killed unnecessarily by the reckless defunding & cutting weather service & NOAA prevention info & FEMA’s rescue / treatment / recovery tax funded services. Blame & shame on the President, his admin, his illegal Doge bros actions & complicit GOP Congress.