David

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

A brown and dark gray bunny wearing a pink cowboy hat with a silver star sits on a plush purple blanket.

'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."

'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'

We hope neither carries you off today.

WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”

ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.

Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.

"Back in the early 1950s, Germans who lived through the Nazi era warned Chicago journalist Milton Mayer that they had “become used to being governed by surprise” and told him how each step toward Hitler’s eventual tyranny was incremental." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

As America Steps Back, Others Step In Our global leadership is at stake, and it’s not too late to act.

“American leadership isn’t inevitable,” Jeff Flake writes. “It’s a choice—one we must make again and again, not just for the sake of our standing in the world, but for the practical, everyday interests of American citizens.”

We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Great one.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.

He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords

Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

Food inspection is precisely the kind of thing that only the federal government can do properly at the scale needed to keep people safe.

Quite literally people will die if this plan is executed.

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported.

We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back.

That would be the end of democracy.

People make jokes about this but to the extent Trump has an actual philosophy it's "The Power of Positive Thinking" (the author officiated his first wedding). It sounds like benign self-help but is more like an instruction book for sociopaths. Ignoring failures and their consequences are a key tenet

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

Just a note

He paused nothing

10% tariffs remain on all countries

He RAISED the rate on China

He still intends to drive up the costs of your prescriptions with a pharmaceutical tariff

It's another scam upon scam

Insiders could've profited

And: TRUMP LOST THE WAR

Merry Trumpmas

Graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from January 1929 to December 1932, showing the slow, bumpy decline that presaged the Great Depression. It didn't happen overnight!

If you're like me, you think of a stock market crash as sudden. But after Black Monday, 28 October 1929, it took two and a half years for the stock market to hit bottom.

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Dude you rock

Even as trade, tariffs, borders divide, and other tensions rise between nations, our shared humanity unites us — we are one people, one heart, one earth, one global family standing together in hope and solidarity.
Through this video from the Yukon (Canada), I share joy and hope with the world.

He said administrators are not being told about these decisions, so have been scanning federal databases to find out when students have lost status. The situation has put international students at the university in a state of panic, Trivedi said.

Colleges in Massachusetts aren't being told when students have visas revoked. The government is creating a situation where they can kidnap and disappear students in order to stoke fear.

Full story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/06/m...

Virtually every destructive thing Trump has done has been an abuse of power, illegal or both. He could be stopped. But he is enabled by his own party and those who have the power to stop him but don’t. They are all complicit.

Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might What made the US step back from the system that it profited handsomely from for decades?

Excellent by @faisalislam.bsky.social, eg:

“The US economy did very well [from free trade]. The problem …was that it was not evenly distributed among sectors. And what the US lacked was levels of redistribution and adaptation to spread that wealth across the country.”
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they are the first Chinese-born MP and the first Arab woman in the House of Commons, btw. they are part of a delegation. almost like Israel is specifically targeting minority women.

1) Fox News is for real not showing stock-market ticker during this week's collapse.

2) Its economic news is "strong jobs report."

3) Every time I've checked in today, the coverage has been "illegal immigrants committing new crimes."

This is state propaganda, on a par with North Korea or PRC.

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”.

He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”.

The job was helping people with disabilities.

The Shining City on a Hill has turned into a steaming pile of shit.

Congress has power over tariffs, but stopping Trump isn't likely as of now Stock market indices have sharply fallen on the heels of President Trump imposing higher tariffs on more than 180 countries.

Time for Congress to stop sucking their own milk tits and start doing their job by using their power.

www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/t...

We need ChatGPT to draft the impeachment next time.