ICE now has a bigger budget than the militaries of more than 170 countries — including Israel, Italy, and Brazil.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

BREAKING

Trumps mega bill has passed.

All democrats voted NO and only two republicans voted no: Massie and Fitzpatrick.

Millions will lose their health insurance.

Baby Platypuses to cleanse the timeline

If no one is paying in, no one gets benefits out. Just another way to bleed out Social Security and Medicare

Wait what? Didn’t they say the story was complete?

The House just voted that “each day for the remainder of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act.” A day is not a day. Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, and Franz Kafka must all be chuckling — or weeping.

El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally as well as the country’s violent criminals — even if they’re American citizens.

Don’t think for a moment that being a citizen will protect you from this administration.

El Salvador’s offer to take on an outsourced US inmate population including American citizens is not legal but was discussed nonetheless.

Disappearing a legal resident unlocks a new level of our current dystopia. Unapologetically un-American.

U.S. Web Design System was created by a collaborative team at 18F and the U.S. Digital Service in 2015. You’ve interacted with it if you’ve visited a .gov in the last decade

I can’t stop thinking about how so many people voted for Trump because they thought he was going to punish people they hate and now he’s hurting them also.

Immediately donated

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

This tax season, we're here to remind you about TurboTax's 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free.

(Published Oct. 2019)

Severance (TV Series 2022– ) - IMDb Severance (TV Series 2022– ) Adam Jepsen as Man in Hallway, Shadow Mark

IMDb points to it being Shadow Mark played by Adam Jepsen. Creepy!

Now make it recognize its owner and have it scream when anyone else reaches into it.

YouTube video by Drew Gooden The Online Gambling Epidemic

This was my first glimpse into how bad it was as a rare sports watcher. The video starts with sports betting apps and then scans over the rest of the online gambling scene.

Weak men cannot compromise. Weak men cannot build consensus. Weak men think that leadership means force. Weak men build nothing that lasts.

Thank you @stephanienolen.bsky.social, painful to read but good to know

Nothing to disagree with in the Arstechnica article. I already have coping mechanisms for all of eight of them.

Only recently learned about the amount of enshittification of sports viewing from a Search Party video. Sadly my coping on that one boils down to rarely watching sports.

Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals Internet Archive makes it easier to track changes in CDC data online.

The Internet Archive has proved useful to researchers in assessing how much data the public risked losing.

A donation to her college fund?

The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

If you’ve been wondering what Elon Musk and his lackeys are up to since taking control of the US government, look no further. Our latest story names six 19- to 24-year-olds working with his DOGE organization, which now has access to sensitive federal systems. wrd.cm/4jzpiSN

I’m convinced Helly is the outside version or was woken up and given a talking to before rejoining the rest. Something is really off with her and I don’t think it’s just the realization of who she is on the outside.

Chaos is the goal. Destroying faith in institutions is the goal.

Here’s what I’m telling myself:
Reach out to your people.
Do what you can to not give up.
Do what you can to protect your peace.
Find ways to help and support the helpers.

Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12

Screenshot of integrated cozy game where link isn’t visible

Also ran into a bug growing the seeds but i find that less noteworthy. The name of the researcher Aarón Sújar is a link to pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...