Trump posts his Watergate tapes It ended Nixon's presidency. For Trump, it's just another Saturday.

New in PN: Trump posts his Watergate tapes

"People! The man literally used his social media platform to tweet out a demand that his attorney general prosecute his opponents, ones he’s already characterized as 'guilty as hell.' This isn’t 'venting.' It’s criminal."

Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

Why is Elon Musk’s chatbot spewing anti-Semitic bile? @cwarzel.bsky.social and @matteowong.bsky.social report:

As Mamdani Rises, Anti-Muslim Attacks Roll In From the Right Republican members of Congress and Trump administration officials have targeted Zohran Mamdani, who would be New York City’s first Muslim mayor.

Republican members of Congress and Trump administration officials have targeted Zohran Mamdani with attacks that deal in well-worn Islamophobic and anti-immigrant tropes, and to some, carry echoes of the “birther” conspiracy theory Donald Trump stoked about Barack Obama.

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan J. Kressly, said "creation of federal immunization policy is ‘no longer a credible process.’”

RFK Jr. says U.S. will stop funding global vaccine alliance Gavi Gavi works to expand access to vaccines for children in some of the world’s poorest countries. Health experts say the move could have deadly consequences.

Let’s be absolutely clear. This decision, based on fringe conspiracy theories, will kill children.
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This is what Democracy looks like!

A digital graphic contrasts the expectation vs. reality of Social Darwinism. The left side ("EXPECTATION") shows an idealized futuristic city with happy, healthy people. The right side ("REALITY") features a dystopian painting of aggressive, degenerate-looking individuals. The text argues that Social Darwinism leads to cruelty, ignorance, and societal collapse rather than progress.

I know people who cheer for cutting social programs—not to save money, but because they believe some lives just aren’t worth saving. Social Darwinism with a eugenics twist isn’t rare. That warning bell rang before, but when cruelty gets the green light, it spreads fast.

Pink JEDI library shirt! Illustrated interpretations of light sabers held by hands. J- Justice, E- Equity, D- Diversity, I- Inclusion

JEDI ✨📚🩶

Why Modern Cars Are Going To Age Horribly, And What We Can Do About It - The Autopian I’m going to come out and say it: if you’re buying a car because it has the most advanced software or assisted driving features or the biggest touch screen or the best wifi or whatever, you’re doing i...

Standards are good for everyone. Honestly, we really just need to treat the infotainment center as a straight up computer and monitor.

The connection could be like USB. The connection speed will be stuck, but the car hardware won't change for the most part.

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Words for Inauguration Day:

"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

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Justice is coming... eventually. ⚖️

#MartinLutherKingDay2025

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional right.

The very notion that a president can do away with it via executive order should be offensive to *everyone*, and perhaps especially conservatives.

How about an indie horror game where nothing is wrong or spooky but you have to pick up the phone and call someone

"In lieu of flowers, the Carter family requests that you consider a contribution to The Carter Center."

www.jimmycartertribute.org

This awesome machine turns PET bottles into 3D printer filament, and you can fund it right now Turn that soda addiction into something special.

Real recycling. 3D print from soda bottles! Amazing! www.xda-developers.com/machine-pet-...

I miss the days when you bought Microsoft Office one time and then installed it and you had a functioning word processor forever.

And I know advice is given that way cause everyone would love to make games for a living but that's like giving advice about how to play an instrument or start a band assuming the goal is to become a pop star

Pooped puppy cuteness

Somehow I totally missed that Syria's brutal dictator was finally deposed. My heart goes out to the Syrian people and what comes next.

Nothing is certain outside of people seek power. May their fortunes align to build a productive society for all.

Today I figured out what and how to use these weird shapes we found in Gigi's old sewing supplies!

Excel world champion solves 'Warcraft' spreadsheet to win crown Michael Jarman has won the Super Bowl for nerds: the 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championship, managing a simulated World of Warcraft clan in a series of quests via spreadsheet.

This is amazing, next level geekery lol www.pcworld.com/article/2548...

Stay the course vs. blow it all up

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After securing a majority on the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2022, Republican justices promptly overturned a ruling that had struck down GOP gerrymanders, paving the way for their party’s lawmakers to draw a new map designed to hand them several congressional districts. By then, Democrats already had no recourse outside of state courts: This U.S. Supreme Court has shut the door on complaints of partisan gerrymandering proceeding in federal courts. The maneuver paid off last week. The GOP flipped three U.S. House seats, a windfall in light of that chamber’s tiny overall margin.

The final House results have now landed as 220-215 for the GOP. That means the House majority came down to the 3 NC seats the GOP flipped thanks to its brand new gerrymander.

And that gerrymander hinged on NC's supreme court flipping in 2022.

I wrote this last month: boltsmag.org/state-suprem...

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

Texas Launches Multi-State Lawsuit Accusing BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street of Using ESG Investing to Manipulate Energy Markets - ESG Today Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the launch of a lawsuit against investment giants BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, joined by 10 other states, accusing the asset managers of using thei...

In other words, these "free market" champions in Texas and elsewhere only want you to make the choices they would make. That's the real market manipulation. They want to strip financial organizations of their agency of choice.
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