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Where Were Big Tech’s CEOs on Tariffs? Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders refrained from making public statements while their companies collectively lost trillions. Their silence was both deafening and strategic.

Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders refrained from making public statements while their companies collectively lost trillions. Their silence was both deafening and strategic.

America Is Now One Giant Milgram Experiment Stanley Milgram would have understood this morally cretinous moment all too well.

In Trump’s fascist netherworld, there are a shockingly large number of people who seem incapable of understanding the moral implications of acquiescence in organized cruelty, writes @sashaabramsky.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Estonia seizes Russian shadow tanker in Baltic Sea The ghost vessel was “quite clearly” part of Moscow’s dark fleet, says one official.

Estonian authorities detained and boarded a ship in the Baltic Sea that belongs to Russia’s shadow fleet, Prime Minister Kristen Michal said today.

The U.S. isn't decoupling from China. They're just engaged in some nutty tariff war. Decoupling would be moving manufacturing to Mexico, Taiwan, India, Phillipines, but, they haven't done that. No incentives to move were given and they should have been.

How far does it go before it catches on fire? No thanks.

Norway officially joins Ukraine drone coalition Norway has officially joined the Ukraine drone coalition led by the United Kingdom and Latvia.

🇳🇴 Norway officially joins Ukraine drone coalition

White House refuses to provide list of countries it says reached out with tariff deal ‘They all want to negotiate. The only problem is ... you can only do so many at one time,’ president says

White House refuses to provide list of countries it claims reached out with tariff deal.

"They all want to negotiate. The only problem is ... you can only do so many at one time," Trump said.

No thanks. These people have been centered enough.

Greenland Base Commander Fired After Email Slamming JD Vance The Pentagon has fired a space base commander in Greenland after she dared criticize the vice president after his recent visit to the territory.

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired a space base commander in Greenland after she dared distance herself from the VP's comments.

She had written in an email: “The concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base."

Judge will halt Trump administration from ending humanitarian parole for people from four countries | CNN Politics A federal judge said Thursday that she will prevent the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status to leave t...

A federal judge said that she will prevent the Trump administration from ordering hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans with temporary legal status to leave the country later this month.

⚡️ The Kremlin published a video of Vladimir Putin greeting Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff ahead of their meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.

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Opinion | Church and state must remain separate The Founders were acutely aware of the destructive outcomes of intertwining religion and politics.

The Founders were acutely aware of the destructive outcomes of intertwining religion and politics.

Trump’s Tariff Pause Sets Back the “Make Men Manly Again” Movement Parts of the online “manosphere” welcomed Trump’s tariffs as a way to bring back men’s work.

Trump himself said his tariffs and other policies were bringing back jobs for manly men, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social. Men, apparently, require the curative power of factory labor to purge the estrogen created by "fake email jobs."
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Plane crashes in Boca Raton, Florida

A plane has crashed in Florida as it approached Boca Raton airport.

So the show should either be "hysterical" or "smile more" Got it.

Accreditor Urges Academe to ‘Rage’ Against Challenges to Higher Ed. It’s Also Revising Its DEI Standards. With President Trump expected to take aim at accreditation, one group pondered how to adapt at its annual meeting this week.

Accreditors expect to be among the next targets of the administration’s efforts to reshape higher education. chroni.cl/3XXlfGx

Trump's Tariffs Sent U.S. Airline Bookings Into A Tailspin, New Data Show Airline bookings dropped immediately after Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs announcement.

Trump's Tariffs Sent U.S. Airline Bookings Into A Tailspin, New Data Show

Under the circumstances I'm questioning why anyone is paying federal taxes at all since Trump and Musk have removed all services that matter. Of course, I can understand your anger. I feel it too.

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

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'The United States is Your Enemy' A conversation about fascism as Europe faces the darkness in the west

NEW: "America is your enemy," I interviewed Jason Stanley for this week's newsletter & podcast. A Yale professor, who's a leading expert in fascism. We're normalizing what's happening & we urgently need to stop. Please read/listen/share. 🙏
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The 👏 point 👏 of 👏 vaccination 👏 is 👏 that 👏 we 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 urgently 👏 treat 👏 severely 👏 ill 👏 children

So they want us to be brood mares and not be able to vote but, why would we even bother getting married and being mothers under the rule of these vicious madmen? Not me. I wouldn't play this game anymore.

Women shouldn't have to or opt to change their name during the marriage process, especially within the US where locking them out of essential documentation is a common practice and a form of repression. Refuse to change it.

RFK Jr. is an active danger to America's children. Fuck everyone who allowed this man to come to power.

69 million WOMEN.

Oh good, we have troops deployed to take “back” the Panama Canal from the Chinese who don’t actually control the Panama Canal.

Because the Panamanians do.

Just another day of “winning” in the upside-fucking-down.

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

Make no mistake, the so-called “Save Act” is yet another attack in the never ending Republican war against women.

They don't have the house, the senate, the Presidency OR the judiciary. They can push back with talk but, unless WE give them majorities they haven't got a leg to stand on.