Dumpster fire

You know things are going well when McDonald's is more ethical than the actual White House

Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer WASHINGTON—After a stunning admission that he’d been diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of the disease, former President Joe Biden reportedly faced mounting pressure on Monday to let a younger De...

Biden Faces Mounting Pressure To Let Younger Democrat Battle Cancer

NOAA will stop updating database tracking costliest weather disasters The billion-dollar disaster tracker is on a growing list of datasets NOAA says that either scientists will no longer update or the administration will decommission entirely.

The media can't report on data and inform the public if the government doesn't create the data in the first place.

Neglect is also a form of secrecy.

Definitely don't want to make it easier for people to file their taxes. Nope, definitely not

Trump exploiting antisemitism fears to undermine rule of law, warns Jewish coalition A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rul...

A coalition of Jewish groups warns that the Trump administration stripping international students of visas under the guise of fighting antisemitism actually makes Jews less safe and undermines the rule of law.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Team Building System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas The project represents something of a shift in mission for Elon Musk’s initiative, from cutting government costs toward a new goal of generating revenue.

Did I miss the part in this piece where it said Congress is where visa categories and policy are set. Because, y'know, it's like, a law?

Musk’s Team Is Building a System to Sell ‘Gold Card’ Immigrant Visas www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

"Want you to review this 100hr game in the next 24hrs and we'll pay you $150, but only if you also write the guide and make a video and hit these metrics and-- hey, where are you going???"

Notice to Stakeholders Temporary Enforcement Pause: Silica Rule Issued: April 8, 2025

Breaking: the Trump admin has “temporarily” paused enforcement of a Biden-era silica rule that was aimed at combating the rising black lung crisis in Appalachia. Coal miners and their advocates have been fighting for *decades* to lower deadly silica dust exposure levels. www.msha.gov/notice-stake...

Concentration Camps and the Deportation of American Citizens There is no limiting principle for disappearing people into the Bukele gulag.

"I did not understand that Trump could find another authoritarian regime willing to accept America’s prisoners in exchange for payment. This innovation is the equivalent of authoritarianism making the jump across the blood/brain barrier."

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

BRING HIM HOME!

Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.

SMART General President…

DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker from Desk The high-ranking civil servant had opposed a plan to push out migrants by falsely listing them as dead.

Musk's DOGE goons physically dragged a high-ranking Social Security executive from his desk for not going along with their plan to list more than 6,000 migrants as dead despite being alive.
www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-p...

Somebody's maaaaaaad
they can't tell at me like they used to over There.

You can tell what Bernie is doing is working because it’s making the New York post furious

But no thoughts for the hostages that you and Noem put in El Salvador??

Bro spoke not a single lie and if they keep this up the GOP gonna delete that app tomorrow

Trump’s cohorts have begun wearing Trump pins rather than the US Flag. 🇺🇸

This is no longer the United States of America to them.

It’s Trumpland.

#MomSky
#Voices4Victory

@esper.bsky.social come get your juice

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

Cheap Consumer Goods Are the American Dream, Actually Trump’s tariffs upend a nearly century-old bargain between politicians and US consumers.

New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Trade War Is Strengthening China’s Soft Power If the US is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC said in a statement to WIRED.

“If the US is determined to fight a tariff and trade war, China’s response will continue to the end,” Liu Pengyu, spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington, DC said in a statement to WIRED.

I worked in toys for years. This is maybe understating the extent of the problem.

This is almost dumber

A senior Trump administration official tells Rolling Stone how deeply unfunny Elon Musk is.

"He’s not funny. Like, at all. He makes these jokes and little asides and smiles and then looks almost hurt if you don’t lap up his humor."

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

If you thought what the first Trump administration did was stupid, just wait until you see what the second Trump administration is doing …

AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

“We have been told they are looking for anti-Trump or anti-Musk language”

Again, DO NOT use work devices for anything besides work communications. DO NOT use government WiFi for anything on your personal devices.

Your data, on government devices, has previously been surveilled & is now more so.