Yeah, but who’s got you?

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.

🔴 LIVE: Polls from Quebec to Alberta closing in less than an hour | Canada Votes 2025 YouTube video by CBC News

CBC Canada!

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.

A Disaster for American Innovation The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.

Donald Trump is dismantling the foundations of American science—and in turn jeopardizing the AI boom he purports to champion, writes Matteo Wong:

US citizen says he and his wife detained for hours after Canadian trip | CNN An American citizen says he and his wife were detained for hours by U.S. border agents when they returned to the United States after a short trip to Canada.

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Read a Federal Appeals Panel’s Sharp Rebuke of the Trump Administration A federal appeals court in Virginia issued a striking opinion on Thursday, reaffirming that the Trump administration had to take a more active approach in seeking the release of a Maryland man, Kilmar...

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/...

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

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...

US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks Indiana University leads the push for a pact among 18 institutions as Donald Trump targets diversity

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.

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.

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

This is Utah in case anyone’s 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 here—but 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.

—With 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 — and we’re still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you’re free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country.

Sometimes in this fast-moving and complex modern world, it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s wrong. But here’s a handy rule of thumb: If you are ever on one side of an issue, and Sesame Street is on the other, YOU’RE the bad guy.

Small towns all over the country depend on federal services — which is why they're pouring into the streets today to say #HandsOff!

Here is Ames, Iowa 👀

Exactly fucking that 👇

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

Judge Blocks Texas A&M Drag Ban: Trump Executive Orders "Cannot Override" First Amendment The Texas A&M Board banned an LGBTQ+ group from holding a drag event on campus. A federal judge has ruled they must be allowed to proceed with the event.

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

Russian Hackers Are Trying to Break Into Signal Chats, Pentagon Warns Days before we learned about the 'war plans' Signal chat, the Pentagon sends a department-wide email warning that Russian hackers are exploiting Signal's 'linked devices' feature.

My take aways from this article are:

1. Don’t 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.

Watch Illinois Governor JB Pritzker Reject the Politics of Trans Abandonment As some Democrats retreat, Pritzker doubles down on protecting the most vulnerable.

“When 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.” - JB Pritzker

#BeLikeJB

Imagine the outrage if Clinton, Obama, Biden, or Harris had done this? The double standards are as staggering as this breach.