Wonder where said phone is gonna be made…

The beach at Normandy on D-day, 1944.

Happy ANTIFA Day to those who celebrate.

@wnyc.org your Apple Music stream is playing two feeds over each other!

ONN won a Webby today for best comedy video show. I am extremely biased, but this might be our finest work yet.

whither those "constitutional conservatives"?

Justice for Rumeysa Ozturk Dear Friends, Allies, and Supporters,

Rümeysa's legal team is coordinating a fundraiser for her and her family to help them deal with this crisis, including medical costs since ICE has kept Rümeysa from accessing all her medications. Please donate if you're able:

Oscar-nominated filmmaker resigns from duPont-Columbia journalism awards over school’s concessions to Trump - Poynter Julie Cohen, co-director of ‘RGB,’ resigned from the duPont-Columbia Awards committee, saying, ‘In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up.’

I've resigned from the jury for the duPont-Columbia Journalism Awards in response to Columbia's capitulation to Trump.
www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

Far-right Rev. Calvin Robinson also said the phrase "my heart goes out to you" while performing a Nazi salute at an anti-abortion conference this year.

theres more than enough evidence to stop calling this “anti-dei” and start calling it resegregation

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

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Trump is already destroying our country. It’s sickening to witness the fascist praising @schumer.senate.gov for giving him more power.

For no particular reason certainly not one named Chuck Schumer and the his punk ass Senate colleagues I am again sharing this academic work showing that accommodation pushes politics to the right www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

it is grimly hilarious that, given the immense, decades-long fetishization of "leadership" and "leadership skills" in business-oriented academia and politics, even unto the formation of leadership institutes, there should turn out to be no leaders in any positions of power

Knight Institute Condemns Trump Administration’s Effort to “Subjugate Universities to Official Power”

Here's our (@knightcolumbia.org) statement condemning the Trump administration's effort to subjugate universities to official power.

knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

too woke, must destroy

Nice.

Yikes, this doesn't bode well for the future. Based on this new post from Trump, peaceful protest is now a crime in America. Are we heading toward another Kent State massacre incident—where the US government turns on its own people for speaking out?
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Update: Commerce Secretary Lutnick, who recently hinted at plans to manipulate GDP stats, has also now officially killed the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee.
Committee members were notified today that committee purpose has been "fulfilled," & comm terminated effective Feb. 28, 2025

The bloodbath at NOAA apparently included meteorologists with the National Weather Service; scientists inside what’s simply known as NOAA Research, or the office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) more formally; technicians that keep up the country’s weather instrumentation;

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Pretty much sums it up

Trump can’t fulfil his promise to fix the economy, so he’s blaming workers instead Forget about inflation. Now it’s all about cutting ‘waste’ in the form of jobs and our already paltry social safety net

"Well, it’s day 40, and inflation saw its largest increase in over a year. Blink and you might have missed that Trump and his fellow Republicans have largely abandoned their concerns about inflation to focus on government “waste”." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

David Niven as Cupid. Photographed IN MID AIR over a swimming pool - shorts, ridiculous hat and very little else, holding a bow and arrow and sporting the cheesiest of grins.

David Niven's birthday, is it? Time once more for The Greatest Picture Ever Taken, then.

At least 45 Capitol Rioters attended CPAC, including several members of far right extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and multiple self-described White Nationalists.

At least 6 Capitol Rioters have been invited to speak or participate in Republican Party events.

The Insurrectionist Takeover of the Republican Party

At least 45 Capitol Rioters attended CPAC, including several members of far right extremist groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Also, at least 6 Capitol Rioters have been invited to speak or participate in local GOP events.

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Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
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YouTube video by Karl Jobst The Elon Musk Cheating Scandal

Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...