Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

This is America, DC says, with arms folded.

The Finkelstein Formula - True Story Award The Global Reporter Prize in Bern, Switzerland

I didn’t either, I then I read this and came to understand that the constant criticism plays right into the right’s strategy. truestoryaward.org/story/230

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a discord is not a forum. I don't want to join your product's community; I want to read the solution to my technical problem from two posters who worked it out 4 years ago

See How Elon Musk’s Team Inflated, Deleted and Rewrote Its Savings Claims (Gift Article) The cost-cutting group removed hundreds of contracts from its “wall of receipts,” added back many of them, and inflated savings values.

Dodgy Doge www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Historian here:

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

Peter Thiel’s Network Is Quietly Shaping Trump’s Government The tech magnate has many links to the new Trump administration and the cost-slashing effort led by Elon Musk.

Elon Musk is remaking Washington. Allies of another tech billionaire are helping lead the charge.

Once your faith, sir, persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares to be absurd, beware lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life. In days gone by, there were people who said to us: "You believe in incomprehensible, contradictory and impossible things because we have commanded you to; now then, commit unjust acts because we likewise order you to do so." Nothing could be more convincing. Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. If you do not use the intelligence with which God endowed your mind to resist believing impossibilities, you will not be able to use the sense of injustice which God planted in your heart to resist a command to do evil. Once a single faculty of your soul has been tyrannized, all the other faculties will submit to the same fate. This has been the cause of all the religious crimes that have flooded the earth. Questions sur les miracles 1765 François-Marie Arouet "Voltaire"

Project Russia: The Kremlin's Playbook for Undermining Democracies The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts.

📄 EXCLUSIVE: The Kremlin's "Project Russia" poses a potent framework for mobilizing illiberal forces against the United States and its allies — and it's all but unknown to Western analysts. We must act to counter it.
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A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.

Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)

(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social

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Petro isn't backing down

I just finished the audiobook! I am glad I did. Took a month and some change.

Why the world isn't as bad as you think News coverage is terrible at capturing the biggest good news stories: the long-term trends that show vast improvements in human living standards across long stretches of time. We need to fix that.

Everything in the news is terrible. Without minimizing those events (they are terrible), it’s also important to zoom out: here’s why the world isn’t as bad as you think—and why the news aggregates every bad event while failing to cover positive trends.

Just heard from Sen Ed Markey - Senate is on the floor voting on Hegseth now.

CALL YOUR SENATORS

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Enshittifi-posting

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Public service announcement: when a rep or senator says something, they literally have the same info you do from the same sources.

We always pretended to have special knowledge, but rarely did.

Keep that in mind with the drone hysteria

YouTube video by Darren Cox Squareville - Discs to Dig Gabriel Fauré

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