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Republicans said they saw no advantage for Democrats standing in solidarity with protesters. Republican consultant Erin Maguire of Axiom Strategies said she thinks Americans want enforcement of immigration laws and predicted little backlash to the treatment of Padilla, whom she said was engaging in theatrics to make a scene.

sorry, I left out their third source for this story: a Republican consultant

Democrats Are Wary of Playing Into Trump’s Hands by Supporting ‘No Kings,’ L.A. Protests Some leaders are feeling the long shadow of 2020 demonstrations that sparked GOP backlash

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

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Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves | Anna M. Hennessey

Here is the free access link to the entire article iai.tv/articles/con...

Consciousness, the brain, and our chimeric selves | Anna M. Hennessey

The Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv has published my latest article, which explores #microchimerism in a theory of #consciousness and the self. A philosophy of birth is influential to this discussion of the mind iai.tv/articles/con...

Moving a detainee around to evade judicial review is classic authoritarian behavior.

literally all we had to do to stop Elon Musk years ago was enforce basic laws

we desperately need to implement a "broken windows" policy for billionaires

the absolute most charitable thing you can say about a lot of democratic lawmakers is that they want to hold onto a political order that no longer exists

Who’s cool with this?

Access might be why the US press ceased to investigate and be critical with power, and instead become their PR arm. The fear of losing access makes for smooth self-censorship. Maybe now they can investigate instead?

When you hear Trump & his supporters defend the detention of a Green Card holder by pretending to care about 1) antisemitism on campus, and 2) trespassing on college property, remember that Trump 1) hosted a Holocaust denier for dinner & 2) pardoned violent insurrectionists.

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Ok that made me laugh

The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again.

They hit the shore and burned their ships.

There is a MAGA contingent in the tech community, but I don’t think it’s more than a loud minority, at least checking HN as a sample. But what is true is that, like the larger US society, the pro-democracy camp in tech is deactivated and sitting on the sidelines, or just unaware.

Good thread. The reality is that organized religions are effectively massive political power systems, with different groups making completely different interpretations of the same religious texts.

Yah, ok, I guess that would make sense, but does not make it any better in my book.

I can understand the people disagreeing, as I imagine they actively want this destruction of the constitutional order, but being “unsure”??!?!? How can you be “unsure” when there are basically dismantling everything in front of your eyes, in the open, bragging about it, etc?

The purpose of a system is what it does. This applies to today’s political landscape too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets

Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.

🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

And it looks like someone called the police, just not the representatives of the US … the goons did.

These US representatives should be able to enter the building, and some random brown shirt shouldn’t be able to stop them. Call the police!

Any bets the bandaid is covering an SS or 88 tat?

There are two posts about news back to back that are ominously related: First is “Kansas reckons with large tuberculosis outbreak as health official hamstrung”, the second is “White House preparing order to cut thousands of federal health workers”

Back to back news on my Reddit feed. Our public health future looks bleak…

Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. ProPublica is attempting to document who is working with him and what they are doing.

ProPublica tracker of the staffers who are part of Musk DOGE team. With biography and SpaceX/Musk corporate work history for each. Photos too. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

The best book about this current period in the USA gov is going to be named “Chesterton’s Fences for Dummies”

/3 My response has illustrated why, as a rule, I am not called upon to serve a diplomatic role.

So I posted a call to action on LinkedIn, because surely other software developers would be aghast at untested changes being pushed directly to production by people with 0 years of COBOL experience and less than 5 years of professional SWE experience. Most folks got it. Others, not so much...

1. I keep saying this, but it’s important to try to slow things down. It’s something that the Democrats really don’t get. You can win a war by losing every battle slowly.

That didn't take long. I wonder if Canadians or Mexican's will towards the USA is going back to pre-tariff levels... /s