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This is madness: Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package

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If the current administration ever ends, many people in (and around) it will need to be prosecuted. From influence peddling to flat-out murder, their crimes seem to accumulate each and every day.

Why aren't all the Democratic Representatives in DC sitting in the House of Representatives every day, silently waiting for Speaker Johnson to gavel them into session? The Senate has the Filibuster. The House needs the opposite, a Proving, leavening the House to action.

@jvl.bsky.social Hey JVL, I had a thought about how to break the shutdown. What do you think?

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For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

We are destroying US science www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Cory Doctorow has a good article about complexity, Social Security, and border security in his daily blog pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h...

“Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers,” he said. “Theirs is the construction site of Hell. God’s economy, on the other hand, does not kill, discard or crush.” - Pope Francis, 18-April-2025

U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

The next ICE disappearance is being queued up, only this time it is a US citizen floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

Here’s the clip.

A Turkish student wrote an op-ed. ICE revoked her visa & abducted her—no hearing, no due process, no exit option. Just silenced. This is not border control. This is political punishment. And if words are a crime now, we are all in danger. This is fascism in plain sight.
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Today's word is brought to you by my screams for journalists to learn a new word:

Moody’s warns on deteriorating outlook for US public finances Rating agency says Donald Trump’s policies could make it more difficult to offset rising deficit and debt

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From a Youtube comment thread on how America is alienating Canada and all our other allies and friends: "MAGA's 'America First' is 'America Alone'."

YouTube video by Legendary Lore Why Oligarchy Falls (And How to Speed It Up)

Lately I've been thinking about the dynamics of big paradigm shifts. These are the grand systemic socio-political shifts which happen slowly over decades but abruptly shift in a short time, usually after a chaos period like we are in now. This video is helping www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...

Thought of the Day:
Science is the canvas on which the Universe displays wonder in a way the rational side of our minds can understand

CBS files motions to dismiss Trump $20 billion lawsuit CBS News’ parent company Paramount filed a pair of motions in district court to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit stemming from the “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Harris...

About time they realized defending the First Amendment *is* their job, not protecting corporate mergers.

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NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES
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DAY 5 MARCH 2025

The MAN WITH A CANE

Thank You Congressman Al Green
For you wouldn't sit down

Congressman Green is 77 YEARS FIERCE represents TX09. He has served since 2005

Now the spineless house GOP wants to censure him

I like you, HONOR HIM

Exclusive: Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say The lack of so-called "read outs" for workers with clearances dismissed by Musk's DOGE could raise security risks, experts say.

"None of the employees with security clearances for nuclear secrets were properly debriefed, the current DOE source said...

"Those employees could be targeted by foreign adversaries for nuclear espionage...

"They have lost their source of income..."
www.reuters.com/world/us/fir...

One thing I'm fucken sick of hearing is that people on the poverty line "don't want handouts."

Well, the rich take hand outs. Maybe they're rich bc they were offered handouts. Maybe they're rich bc they take them.

This "shame in receiving free money" for the poor but not the rich makes me SO MAD

Nobody implies that a CEO hiring a tax lawyer to ensure he pays as little of possible of his rightful taxes has compromised his dignity. That's "smart"

The best trick the rich ever pulled was making poor people feel personally ashamed for a system that put them exactly where it intended to put them

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

Performative authoritarianism. I don't know what's worse, living in an authoritarian nation, or living in one run by a gormless dweeb.