Amy Lynn Herman

Any media person who blames "our divisive politics" for the current shutdown is doing a favor for the Republicans who refuse to negotiate with Democrats to end it.

Even if the Republican controlled federal government had allowed the $6 billion contingency reserve to be used to fund SNAP benefits it wouldn’t have been enough to completely fund SNAP

Let that sink in, The Trump administration made a conscious choice to starve millions of Americans.

TOMORROW: DC police officer Daniel Hodges, a hero of the Jan 6 response at the Capitol, will testify at a Senate subcommittee hearing on "Politically Violent Attacks: A Threat to Our Constitutional Order"

Invited witness of Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

This is what capitulation looks like. Get your news from uncompromised sources.

Reclusive oligarch Tim Mellon just gave $130 million, supposedly to pay the troops during the shutdown. Weird, huh? We should also note that his father Paul’s name appears in the Epstein files (with trafficking victims only referred to by their gender) and that his bank Mellon BNY was recently sued

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Trump Administration Is Legally Required to Provide SNAP in Shutdown, Contrary to Its Claims Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency r...

Secretary Rollins’ claim that the Trump Administration is unable to deliver November SNAP benefits during a shutdown is unequivocally false. The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need SNAP to afford their grocery bill.

The return of dumb things: Why young people are ditching their smartphones for MP3 players and digital cameras Young people are using dumb phones, MP3 players and digital cameras in lieu of iPhones. Experts explain why.

One of the reasons I love retro-SF futures is because they speak to this increasing trend of turning shit off and disconnecting devices. When AWS goes down and bricks your bed, fridge, and thermostat, the appeal of analog is keenly felt.

www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/th...

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

we need to abolish this shit

Why can't we exercise our First Amendment rights?

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Dominion Energy wants to increase bills by 15% as customers question if data centers are paying their share State regulators are debating a proposed 15% electricity rate increase by Dominion Energy, causing public concern over costs driven by data center demand.

“The assumption is it's your AC that's driving peak load and therefore the size of the system. But with data centers, that goes out the window. Ninety-100% of future expense is attributable to data center demand growth. Not residential, not small businesses, not farms.”
www.wusa9.com/article/news...

Tech Ethics Curricula: A Collection of Syllabi TL;DR: Here’s the spreadsheet. (Note that this is a recreation of the original version that was mistakenly marked as “dangerous” by…

Some of you might remember that in 2017 I created a crowdsourced spreadsheet of tech ethics syllabi. It still exists! And there are presumably many more such classes now, so considering adding to it! cfiesler.medium.com/tech-ethics-...

If you’re a convicted felon and your character witness is your dear old friend, the convicted child sex trafficker and enabler of your other dear old friend, the most notorious raper of children in modern history, you’re definitely a total piece of shit.

Here’s what was NOT released today:

- the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ

- the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed

- communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison

- the Epstein files

Bondi Aides Corrupted Antitrust Enforcement, Ousted DOJ Official Says Roger Alford, formerly second-in-command of the antitrust division, called on a court to scrutinize the merger case that led to his firing.

Antitrust enforcement in the United States DOJ had been a rock-solid institution of economic governance.

Now it is a filthy tool of personalist power, rewarding loyalty and payments to one person’s allies. Corrupted beyond recognition.

What is being shredded cannot be fully rebuilt.

Gabbard revokes security clearances of 37 current, former US intelligence professionals Gabbard said on X that the action was taken at Trump's direction.

Trump stripped 37 current and former national security officials of their security clearances, a group that included many who had focused on Russian activities and foreign interference in U.S. elections, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Here's a thought-
How about BLUE states each send some of their National Guard to Washington DC with explicit instructions to keep their eye on the RED states' National Guard, making sure they don't break any laws? All's fair! 💯

NEW: Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-CA) introduces legislation requiring Trump Administration to reveal cost of National Guard deployment

Bill requires Administration "submit a mandated report outlining the deployment's legal basis, aim, and cost to taxpayers"

liccardo.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

My governor is right. Trump will certainly order National Guard to occupy polling places in Election Day. 🇺🇸

@governor.ca.gov

DOGE was an administrative coup.

National Guard in the capital is a military coup.

White people must rise up to defeat the American fascists: confederates.

Political solutions are nearing an end.

the TX Dems leaving Collier out to dry is a level of surrender we simply did not believe possible.

it's one thing to surrender, the shame of which should haunt you the rest of your life, but to then abandon one of your own to the cops is something we are legitimately struggling to find words for.

Atlantans Sound Alarm Over Federal Cuts, Misinformation, Deadly CDC Shooting A week after a deadly shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rattled the nation, Atlanta residents flooded the streets again Saturday morning to protest against the Trump adm...

I said earlier there's not enough coverage of the CDC shooting, so have to add that it, and reactions, are being covered by @thexylom.com , a 7-yo newsroom that is ATL-based, science-focused, and entirely Asian-American run, and people should check them out.
www.thexylom.com/post/atlanta...

An Account Using the Same Name as Trump’s BLS Pick Posted Red-Pilled Conspiracy Theories A WIRED review of a now deleted Twitter account that used the screen name “Dr. Erwin J. Antoni III” shows it posted conspiratorial content about the 2020 election, Covid-19, and Jeffrey Epstein.

This story is somehow even worse than you think it’s going to be.

Insane @davidgilbert.bsky.social scoop:

I wrote about this guy.

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