How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

What is even going on!?

More USAID staff ousted after Trump administration dismantles aid agency Two officials were removed for trying to prevent DOGE access to restricted areas.

The Trump administration removed two top USAID security officials over the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to restricted parts of the building reut.rs/4hmspfa

So basically, it’s ok to disobey orders you don’t agree with….Trump

DeSantis now in open feud with Florida GOP leaders over immigration laws A dispute between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican leaders of the Legislature over conflicting views of an immigration crackdown escalated Monday after the governor labeled as “bizarre” lawmakers’...

“They also bizarrely stripped immigration enforcement power from the governor and gave it to the commissioner of agriculture,” DeSantis said.

'Careful what you wish for': Trump warned he could burn own voters in latest push The Trump administration on Monday night announced a total pause in federal grants and loans in an order that seems to usurp the United States Congress's constitutional powers to control public spendi...

This order is going to affect communities the length and breadth of the country. Be careful what you wish for, Mr. President."

Agree! I loved him in the Olympic commentary and then he does this!? WTF!

Food for thought.

A lot of Republicans are truly nuts. Even the ones who wrote for The NY Times. FFS!

Happy birthday to Michelle Obama!

A lesson from the TikTok Affair should be that bipartisan efforts to preserve U.S. national security are vulnerable to the incoming president getting bought off and switching sides for his own personal and political benefit. Not great!

When times feel a bit grim, I like to think about the 14th Century, which featured The Great Famine (1315-1317), The Black Death (1347-1351), The Great Schism (1378) and The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453). That always cheers me up

Pete Hegseth Had a One-Word Plan to Dodge Senators’ Toughest Questions He found a familiar scapegoat.

Remember that the witnesses to and victims of Hegseth’s misconduct were not anonymous, but offered to meet in person with Republican senators (anything but anonymous) who offered zero meetings, and now call these real people anonymous.

Doesn’t sound very efficient