Monroe Williams

How to secure your phone before attending a protest Here are some privacy measures you can take

If your plans for this weekend involve being outdoors voicing your displeasure with *gestures* the entire situation, just sayin', my colleagues have a guide that you should read.

www.theverge.com/21276979/pho...

Heading out to handsoff2025.com tomorrow? Please read this!

This isn't just donalds doing. The Republicans in Congress own this. They had the ability to stop him and they didn't. This isn't donalds economy, this is the republican economy.

Bombshell in North Carolina: the state's GOP-dominated Court of Appeals just sided with the GOP candidate in last year's supreme court race.

Their decision would toss roughly 60,000 ballots (!) that have been counted, & likely hand the election to GOP instead of incumbent Dem Justice who won it.

Fox in the Henhouse: Senate Confirms Anti-Voting Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Top Voting Rights Post Read more here.

The worst news of the week.

"The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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March 28, 2025 “Another wipeout walloped Wall Street Friday,” Stan Choe of the Associated Press wrote today.

March 28, 2025

March 23, 2025 Fifteen years ago today, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, into law.

March 23, 2025

Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders A former Hawaii resident, and longtime green card holder, is among those being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Lewelyn Dixon immigrated from the Philippines to Hawaii 50 years ago. She worked as a lab technician at the University of Washington. But on a trip returning from the Phillipines, ICE detained her. Her family hasn't been told where she is being held. www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/03/22/i...

We are very close to a near cure for two of the highest-mortality cancers we know: glioblastoma and pancreatic cancer. These are both mRNA based treatments which are losing their funding during stage I and II trials. Thousands will die needlessly because of this motherfucker and his lies.

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture | Quanta Magazine A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduat...

His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

YouTube video by Robert Reich How Trump Killed Every Business He Touched | Robert Reich

The economy is showing severe warning signs after Trump's first month in office. This shouldn't be surprising. He doesn't understand the economy and tanked pretty much every business he ever touched. youtu.be/zbh9SW5Cgqg?...

March 14, 2025 Today the Senate passed a stopgap measure from the House of Representatives to fund the government for six months through September 30.

March 15, 2025

You know how I think of America right now? She's the mom you love who always chooses the worst boyfriends. And now she's hooked back up to the one you hated the most. He's trashing everything in your house and stealing all your stuff, but she just can't quit him. (1)

That is exactly true.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

March 8, 2025 Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.

March 8, 2025

Fact-check: True

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.

This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

donald trump's newly appointed deputy press secretary at the united states department of defense:

jewishinsider.com/2025/03/pent...

March 6, 2025 This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...

March 6, 2025:

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...

AP jaw-dropper: “In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan” apnews.com/article/dei-...

March 5, 2025 In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.

March 5, 2025:

Anyone surprised by this hasn't been paying attention.

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...