Janet Quirion

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

This flew under the radar, but thanks to Trump's EPA cuts, Energy Star could shut down for good.

Energy Star isn't just a sticker on your appliances. It's an important program that saves consumers $40B/year.

So much for all that talk about "efficiency."

High-tech bunny makes Easter an interactive experience COSTA MESA – Ever wonder what runs through the mind of the Easter Bunny as Easter approaches?”I’ve got a lot of decisions to make,” he said during a recent photo session at …

The best Easter bunny was a puppet

www.ocregister.com/2008/03/19/h...

why is every easter bunny costume terrifying? how come no one has figured out a better version?

Time for another digital security PSA with guitar … here’s “All the Small Things” but it’s about scrubbing metadata from your photos before you post them 🤘

With Harvard, U Mass faculty, Princeton, Wesleyan, Rutgers faculty and others leading the way, academics are standing up to this lawless administration. Here is a pack of academics, former academics, and organizations worth following on Bluesky who are in this opposition

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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

Washington State Passes Bill To Cover 12-Month Hormone Therapy Stockpiles “The bill will alleviate a lot of suffering,” one Republican lawmaker said.

1. A major bill protecting trans people just passed in Washington.

It makes insurers cover 12-month supplies of HRT which can be obtained at pharmacies, allowing trans people to stockpile medication to outlast supply disruptions.

The latest from S. Baum.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

The camps were about the consolidation of power and then about its allocation. The first victims were communists and socialists, people who might have challenged Hitler.

This is notable from Timothy Snyder's review of 'KL'↑. (Also at https://archive.md/pnAOU)

I'll leave you to mull over the reverberations of these ↓↓ two sentences.

Memoirs of the Murdered Timothy Snyder reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.

Reposting my review of Nikolaus Wachsmann’s superb history of the German concentration camp system, "KL." It’s a good time to read this book.
www.wsj.com/articles/mem...

4/4. My book "Black Earth" was all about this. I will try to write a summary tomorrow.

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Sarah Kendzior's nonfiction is scarier than Stephen King's fiction.
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@stephenking.bsky.social

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

Liberals these days do not want to talk about the fact that democracy is how we got to where we are. They blame SCOTUS or gerrymandering or money in politics, etc. All of that is a product of democracy too. Let's be honest with ourselves.

The 2024 election had conditions in which voters chose between democracy and the rule of law, and the rule of law lost. And now, democracy -- the liberal kind that we want -- is dead and there's no telling when it will come back.

Of course, the question is: what's the alternative. There is none. Democracy is the best humanity can do. But let's not talk about as if everyone understands what it is. It can be liberal. It can be illiberal. It can be authoritarian.

I think Democrats should stop talking about democracy, not because voters zone out when they hear the subject, but because democracy is what delivered this hell. It is not the universal good Democrats, all of them, believe it to be.

The regime is taking a wrecking ball to everything that we have taken for granted since, I don’t know, the 1930s? And what no one is talking about is this: none of us knows how to live like this. A THREAD

Eugenicists are so stupid.

Enormous crowd of 1000s seen at the rally

An overhead shot showing the crowd in the main square

Crazy crowd of 35,000 at the AOC & Bernie Sanders rally in LA.
😳👏

#FightOligarchy

As we’ve warned before, the Trump administration has subjected around 80 staffers to lie detector tests. America, please understand—this is not normal.

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year.

Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

Republicans in Congress can end this any time