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This Wreckage Courtesy of the Enshittification Administration: Notes On Late-State Trumpism In 2022, the tech critic and privacy advocate Cory Doctorow coined the term enshittification to describe what's happened on the Internet to a lot of the most widely used platforms: Google, Amazon, Fac...

Enshittification! Not just for tech corporations anymore. My roundup of the shitbomb video, wrecking of the White House, Trump's deterioration, and broader destruction at:

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BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes.

Please Use it and SHARE!

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White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House. https://cnn.it/47yWmpP

Frogs for freedom. #NoKings

Boston. Wow.

Peaceful protest against an out of control President is the American way.

#NoKings

Note: this is not a real picture. It is a photoshopped image that replaces the famous “Tank Man” with an inflatable frog protester from Portland.

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

Portland, OR, 2025

Trump also referred to sending troops in as ” …it’s like war”

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Top Florida official says 'Alligator Alcatraz' will likely be empty within days, email shows A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, even as Republican Gov.

Though it may not always seem this way—given the Trump regime’s daily desecration of the Constitution—the rule of law still reigns supreme.

The dismantling of this concentration camp is a win for democracy, for the environment, and for all communities cruelly and unjustly targeted by this regime.

Gov. Bob Ferguson to U.S. AG Pam Bondi: WA won’t ‘bend the knee’ to Trump regime On Tuesday, the governor responded to the U.S. attorney general’s recent letter demanding that Washington drop its sanctuary policies.

Our immigration enforcement should be focused on violent criminals and true threats to public safety.

We should not divert resources to round up law-abiding, taxpaying immigrant workers just because Stephen Miller is a miserable, hate-filled wretch.

Washington will keep fighting.

Looks the other way when ICE kidnaps people? DUMP THEM

Paying workers pennies on the dollar? DUMP THEM

Did they cancel DEI? DUMP THEM

Selling brands complicit in genocide? DUMP THEM

Do it loudly on social media. Let’s make our exes famous. 🫦

#BoycottHomeDepot #BoycottTarget #BoycottWalmart

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Joanna Macy, Who Found a Way to Transcend ‘Eco-Anxiety,’ Dies at 96

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Nations must act on climate change or could be held responsible, top U.N. court rules The International Court of Justice ruled that nations have an obligation to act on climate change under international laws protecting the environment and human rights.

Smaller countries say they hope the U.N. court's ruling will be a turning point in international climate negotiations. The climate minister of the island nation of Vanuatu said it's "a very important course correction in this critically important time."

"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."

Yet another travesty

Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

Wow!

Congress? You awake?

Iran’s stockpile dropped to 0 after Obama made the Iran Deal… until Trump pulled out of it (against the advice of his own Defense Secretary, General Mattis… because he hated Obama)

Feels pretty relevant in this moment.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far:

A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Resistance is alive and well in the United States Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

Photos of anti-Trump 'No Kings' demonstrations across the US Demonstrators gathered in parks and plazas across the U.S. to protest against President Donald Trump.

We the people! So many fantastic signs.

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/