Curious how the column inches the @nytimes.com is going to spend trying to smear Mamdani over his college admissions paperwork will compare to the ink they spilled talking about Trump's repeated draft dodging.
I don't think it can be understated that it feels like the entire globe is watching Canada tonight. Reuters, Aljazeera, and BBC all have live feeds happening and its their top story on the home page.
This does not feel normal and given the current global landscape, it's both ominous and humbling.
Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American scienceβand in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:
But the opinion, authored by Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a conservative jurist appointed by President Ronald Reagan, also rebuked Trump officials for their apparent disregard of the bedrock principles of due process.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
And it's just beginning
A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Shocking and disgraceful. The biggest nationwide protests in decades, and the #NYTimes is hiding the story on page 18 of tomorrow's print edition -- instead of on the front page, where it belongs. @froomkin.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social @fairmediawatch.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...
Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff
This is Salt Lake City, Utah. Amazing turnout for #HandsOff rally in a deep red state.
Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff
This is Utah in case anyoneβs wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media hereβbut we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
βWith love,
Your American allies.
Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million β and weβre still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If youβre free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.
Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, itβs hard to know whatβs right and whatβs wrong. But hereβs a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOUβRE the bad guy.
Small towns all over the country depend on federal services β which is why they're pouring into the streets today to say #HandsOff!
Here is Ames, Iowa π
Exactly fucking that π
If there's ZERO due process, then they can grab YOU, allege anything they like, and you have ZERO ability to challenge it. At all.
They could literally say ANYTHING they liked about you and you'd have no ability to challenge it
NONE
An appointee of President George W. Bush and a former cptn in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps said the administration offered no explanation as to why transgender troops, who have been able to serve openly over the past four years with no evidence of problems, should suddenly be banned.
Saw this coming
So much cognitive dissonance, aka extreme double standards
Texas Judge appointed by George HW Bush rules drag ban at Texas A&M violates freedom of speech. Executive Orders cannot override the constitution.
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
Same
My take aways from this article are:
1. Donβt scan random QR codes
2. Phishing is still real
3. Humans are the vulnerability
www.pcmag.com/news/russian...
Trump just signed an executive order banning vote by mail and ordering the defunding of any state that does not follow through with it as well as engage in massive voter roll purges.
There won't be free and fair elections ever again. If you're waiting for 2026, it's already too late.
βWhen my future grandkids look back on this moment I want them to know that my voice was one of the loudest in the room screaming for justice and fighting against tyranny.β - JB Pritzker
#BeLikeJB
Imagine the outrage if Clinton, Obama, Biden, or Harris had done this? The double standards are as staggering as this breach.