Tootfinder

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116497719012673276
“The realistic threat chain looks like this. An attacker exploits a known WordPress plugin vulnerability and gets shell access as www-data. They run the copy.fail PoC. They are now roo…

RE: https://wetdry.world/@nelson/116497424225522370
Nelson once crinkled a snack bag, but didn't give me a snack when I came running :neocat_cry_loud:

Nomura: total returns for software debt in collateralized loan obligations have been lower than all other sectors in 2026, amid fears about AI's impact on SaaS (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

…third, listen to this rich and strikingly beautiful piece (listen, don’t just read!) about vultures, death, nature, and how humans relate to all of them:
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/579-towers-of-silence/

Poland closes airspace after Belarusian balloon incursion: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/poland-closes-airspace-after-belarusian.html

RE: https://flipboard.com/@404media/404-media-qvt3vv94z/-/a-RjlA1kkMRBqvaH728BfFGw:a:4082434389-/0
Wow. That's big.

„Partei des Kinderschutz”

60 Minutes journalist decries ‘spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear’ at CBS News
Sharyn Alfonsi, whose report on Cecot prison was pulled by Bari Weiss, admits uncertainty over her future at network
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr

"Google, Amazon und Microsoft investieren gleichzeitig in dieselben Unternehmen, mit denen sie konkurrieren. Das Ergebnis ist kein dynamischer Markt, es ist ein geschlossenes System.
Oder anders gesagt: Inzest-Kapitalismus.
Man umgeht die Kartellbehörden, indem man Firmen nicht kauft, sondern sie durch Abhängigkeiten zu Satellitenstaaten des eigenen Ökosystems macht."
… schreibt @…

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed:
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers and on personal devices.
🌐

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.

#Steady #Klimacrew
Wie lässt sich das Wachstum von #Feldfrüchte​n vorhersagen, ohne sie überhaupt anzubauen?
Ein KI-Modell aus

KI-Software kann das Wachstum von Feldfrüchten simulieren
Eine neue Software zur Simulation des Pflanzenwachstums ermöglicht präzise Vorhersagen und unterstützt Landwirte bei wichtigen Entscheidungen.

Ohio AG strikes a deal with Nexstar to maintain separate news teams at each of two Ohio TV stations and respect editorial independence after a merger with Tegna (Samantha Hendrickson/The Columbus Dispatch)
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2026/0

Ohio AG says deal preserves local TV journalism after Nexstar merger
Nexstar Media Group purchased Tegna, a rival media organization, in March, acquiring local WBNS 10tv while already owning NBC4.

The answers to this question are, for D4, relative to expectations, refreshingly reasonable. I'm glad even the candidates with a track record of being quite car-brained (lookin' at you Albert Chow) at least feel the need to talk about balance and aren't all, "Yes, there is a war on cars, bicycles are ruining everything and only white people ride them" or something.

Meet the District 4 candidates: Is there a ‘war on cars’ in San Francisco?
In the Sunset and Parkside, over 88 percent of households own at least one car. Should travel by car be prioritized here in urban planning?

Apple-Quartalszahlen: Wieder Rekorde, doch Speicherkrise schlägt durch
Apple machte im ersten Quartal fast 30 Milliarden US-Dollar Gewinn. Das Wachstum war in allen geografischen Regionen zweistellig. Doch bleibt das so?

Apple-Quartalszahlen: Wieder Rekorde, doch Speicherkrise schlägt durch
Apple machte im ersten Quartal fast 30 Milliarden US-Dollar Gewinn. Das Wachstum war in allen geografischen Regionen zweistellig. Doch bleibt das so?

Bundesregierung lobt weitere Milliarde für Glasfaserausbau aus
Die Bundesregierung stellt eine Milliarde Euro für den Gigabitausbau zur Verfügung. Änderungen sollen die Ausgaben wirksamer gestalten und Mittelstau vermeiden.

“[…] human beings become … ‘the sex organs of the machine world’ as McLuhan wrote in … Understanding Media.” Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools—to “fecundate” machines as bees fecundate plants—until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
The Shallows, by Nicholas Carr, 2010 #AI

from my link log —
C hashmaps benchmarks.
https://martin.ankerl.com/2019/04/01/hashmap-benchmarks-01-overview/
saved 2020-07-09

Hashmaps Benchmarks - Overview
Finding the Fastest, Memory Efficient Hashmap

Blessings of #Beltane to all those who are blessed to have a partner with whom to celebrate.

I am so clueless about math I don’t know what this is called… the thing where you have 3 numbers and can then figure out the fourth value.
This is how I remember doing it in school, and I can calculate it, but cannot remember what it’s called. Also, is there a way to write it out?
#math #maths

Mähen war gestern: Schafe grasen im Volkspark Rehberge https://weddingweiser.de/maehen-war-gestern-schafe-grasen-im-volkspark-rehberge/

Really happy with this conversation — I got a chance to drop in on The Vergecast, which is one of my favorite tech podcasts because they go deep into the systems that affect how and why we're able to innovate, and what shapes the markets we all operate in. David Pierce let me nerd out about how important it is that technologies like podcasts stay open for everyone to be able to participate without any gatekeepers. I think you're going to like this one!

Trump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon general (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/04/trump-nominates-fox-news-doctor-to-be-the-next-surgeon-general/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p132#a260430p132

Wife is overseas and had to call me with Google Meet.
Ended the call with, "glad we're aligned and hope to complete these action items by our next call."

Weird things that happen when you have a 100GbE pipe to your desk. 8 Gbps of sustained network traffic and the network monitor is like "yeah you're not using much bandwidth"
Also I think there's a 32-bit overflow or something in xfce4-netload-plugin because the rate shows 0.00 Mbps when I get above some threshold (not sure what it is exactly but it's in the 15-40 Gbps range)

Zack Polanski calls for ‘nuance’ when discussing antisemitism in rebuke of PM | Green party | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/24/zak-polanski-calls-for-nuance-when-discussing-antisemitism-in-rebuke-…

@… ACAB includes buddy cop movies *runs away screaming*

A horror story in 3 lines.

Duitse groep vrijwilligers uit Gelsenkirchen biedt de Duitse regering aan om de Duitse goud reserves op te halen uit de VS.
Gruppe Freiwilliger aus Gelsenkirchen bietet Bundesregierung an, deutsche Goldreserven aus USA zu holen
https://www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/goldreserven-gelsenkirchen.html

Die Eichelsheim van gisteren zag er ook niet echt uit alsof hij graag adviezen ter harte neemt.
Ontruimde Kempen Airport waarschuwde Defensie meermaals voor brandgevaar https://nos.nl/l/2612601

Ontruimde Kempen Airport waarschuwde Defensie meermaals voor brandgevaar
Volgens een woordvoerder oefent Defensie de laatste tijd vaker en intensiever dan eerst.

😊 👍🏼

Interessant initiatief.
https://www.

Zeven Nederlandse cloudbedrijven bundelen krachten en komen met alternatief voor Amerikaanse techreuzen
Digitale soevereiniteit: Door samen te werken, vormen we een serieus alternatief voor Big Tech bij overheidsopdrachten, hopen zeven Nederlandse ict-spelers. Ze willen dat Nederland doorpakt met de transitie naar meer digitale onafhankelijkheid.

Yeah, we know.
Trump’s anti-LGBTQ crusade violates U.S. and international human rights laws, review finds - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/trumps-anti-lgbtq-crusade-violates-u-s-and-international-human-rights-laws-review-finds/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116494363875867973
@…, you sleeping, bro? Or complicit?

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@chillybot/116496956119754329
Indicators of Cat

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116488671732705827
You may all be surprised to learn that this is a vulture stan account!
First, they are beautiful flyers.
Second, read this quoted post.
Then…

Es war ein schönes Wochenende in Köln

The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service,
to pave the way to privatizing
or even selling off
the 193 million acres of land it oversees
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2026-04-30/forest-service-reor…

Why a major reorganization at the Forest Service has people concerned
A common refrain emerged among the sources I spoke with: The Trump administration is trying to break the Forest Service, they claimed, to pave the way to privatizing or even selling off the 193 million acres of land it oversees.

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them: They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.
[…] Utopia and apocalypse are just two sides of the same coin […] Let's be clear: it is theoretically possible that AI will take over the world. I'm no fortune teller. But ask yourself, does that idea sound similar to other stories you've heard out of Silicon Valley in the past? […]
😏

Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2027846016423321831

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we’ve made our position on this clear to the Department of War.

Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:

RE: https://systemli.social/@johannesgrunert/116489023661997408
„Die Anwälte des Ministeriums wurden während der Verhandlung zweimal vom Senat scharf kritisiert: Die Akte enthalte eine „furchtbare Zitierweise” und die Verfahrensführung sei angesich…

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.25B, ad revenue up 27% to $613M, subscription revenue up 30%, raises 2026 profit guidance; ROKU jumps 8% after hours (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/roku-q1-2026-earnings-1236734538/

Roku Q1 2026 Earnings: Sales Up 22%, Breaks Out Ad and Subscriptions Results
Roku beat Wall Street earnings forecasts for Q1 2026 and raised its full-year profit guidance as the company continues its upward rise on the streaming-video tide.

bitsy
#bookmarks

Missing Republican Oklahoma Senate candidate, 54, found dead in rural area (Zoe Hussain/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/04/30/us-news/missing-republican-oklahoma-senate-candidate-found-dead-in-rural-area/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p145#a260430p145

@… for the record, I must note that trash isn’t a descriptor of the panda itself — only of this particular critter’s natural environment

Sorry, I have some important things to attend to...

THE BOARD OF PEACE WAS SO BUSY ESTABLISHING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT SOON NO PERSON WILL BE LEFT THERE TO ENJOY IT

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA Precheck privileges revoked
three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court declaration.
An agent told Cleland that he used facial recognition technology to identify her, she wrote in a declaration filed in US District Court for the District of Minnesota.
Cleland, a 56-year-old resident of Richfield and a director at Target Corporation,
voluntee…

ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
Global Entry and Precheck revoked three days after incident, court filing says.

LIVE: Israel opens Rafah crossing in Gaza as dozens killed in attacks
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/2/1/live-israel-to-partially-open-rafah-in-gaza-as-dozens-killed-in-attacks

LIVE: Thousands wait for evacuation from Gaza as Rafah crossing reopens
Gaza’s Health Ministry says 20,000 desperately need medical treatment abroad as details from Israel remain slim.

„Es sollen vor allem die gesetzlich Versicherten weiter belastet werden - durch höhere Zuzahlungen, die Einschränkung der Familienversicherung und eine höhere Beitragsbemessungsgrenze. Und schlimmer noch: Eine mögliche Entlastung wurde gestrichen.“
Kommentar zur Gesundheitsreform: Gerecht sieht anders aus | tagesschau.de

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.
Many people are hoping—nay, praying—that the potential AI bubble will burst soon.
🫤 https://arstechnica.com/a…

The hidden cost of Google's AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white.

Sources: Commands around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic's Claude AI tool for a range of military operations (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-stri

A US appeals court reverses its 2024 decision, now ruling that Netflix's use of videographer Tim Sepi's 66-second clip in Tiger King constitutes fair use (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-tiger-king-copyright-…

Netflix Prevails in 'Tiger King' Copyright Case
Netflix won a reversal in a closely watched case about the 'fair use' of footage in the 'Tiger King' docuseries.

Are you sure your cat is gaslighting you? You should probably feed them–they're clearly starving!

Die monatliche #Energieerzeugung meiner #Kernfusionskollektoranlage im Vergleich zu Prognosedaten aus einer Simulation.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
👉 So berechnest Du die Jahresertragsprognose:

Amtrak may make it easier to bring guns on its trains despite the alleged attempt on Trump's life (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/amtrak-guns-white-house-correspondents-shooting-trump-11a7874e0a7e7cabbf21874bd0f5659b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p139#a260430p139

FACT CHECK
The previous post is a lie: they are not, in fact, doing it just one location at a time. They’re doing whole massive batches of locations at once.

@… how are we feeling about trash pandas

Field staff at the federal agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace
say they are under intense pressure from leadership to bring in cases that fit the Trump administration’s priorities,
i.e. charges of discrimination against white men and charges of antisemitism on college campuses.
That pressure has led investigators and lawyers at the agency,
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,
to focus its thin resources on pursuing and fast-tracking c…

EEOC Is Prioritizing Job Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda
Field staff at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission say they are being pressured to bring politically charged cases, even with little evidence.

Das Thema #DigitaleGewalt / #Deepfakes ist wieder vorbei. Die Aufregung hat nicht lange gehalten.

> “almost everyone at Vimeo was laid off,” including the entire video team
Capitalism, working as designed.
Oh, you thought it was about making shiny, fun things for you play with? Oh, my sweet, summer child, no… capitalism is about fuck you.
Why?
Because. @…

«Öffnen des Explorers reicht aus - Microsoft-Panne — Zero-Click-Lücke öffnet Tür für Russen-Hacker:
Ein fehlerhafter Windows-Patch ermöglicht Zero-Click-Angriffe durch die Gruppe APT28. Ohne Interaktion stehlen Hacker Login-Daten direkt über den Explorer»
Wann kommen wir alle von Windows weg? Nicht das Linux & *BSD perse sicher ist aber von wegen Sicherheit um einiges höher.
😕

Polymarket trades on contracts tied to strikes on Iran hit $529M, and six new accounts profited a total of $1M by betting on the US to strike Iran by Feb. 28 (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Five more states join the lawsuit filed last month by eight states seeking to block Nexstar's Tegna acquisition, which Nexstar said the DOJ and FCC approved (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2026/04/five-states-added-to-ant…

Five states added to antitrust lawsuit against Nexstar over TEGNA deal
Kansas, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Vermont have joined eight other states in seeking to block Nexstar's acquisition of TEGNA on antitrust grounds.

fih 🐟

Flock: automating the police state panopticon one highly sensitive location at a time
https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sales-pitch-demo-renews-contract-anyway/

Speaker Johnson calls for redistricting Southern states before November (Erin Cox/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/30/speaker-johnson-redistricting/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p140#a260430p140

Speaker Johnson calls for redistricting Southern states before November

After the Supreme Court limited the Voting Rights Act, Johnson said states should consider redrawing House maps before the midterms.
New boundaries would help the GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politi…

Speaker Johnson calls for redistricting Southern states before November
After the Supreme Court limited the Voting Rights Act, Johnson said states should consider redrawing House maps before the midterms. New boundaries would help the GOP.

Automating erasure.
#AI

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs
Canva’s new Magic Layers AI feature has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/spy-sh

Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV, Apple Music, and more, grew 16.3% YoY to $30.98B, beating estimates of $30.4B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/apple-earnings-marc…

Apple Q2 2026 Earnings Beat Wall Street Expectations, Services Revenue Hits Record $31 Billion
Apple hit another high note in the first three months of 2026, delivering an earnings beat driven by a surge in iPhone sales and continued momentum in its Services segment.

«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte — Windows-Updates werden immer größer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig für ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies für die unnötige Datenüberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
😒

Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte: Windows-Updates werden immer größer - Golem.de
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeePawHill/116489285246324202
I’d like to say that this is an exaggeration. But I don’t think it is. At all.

Danger kitty has a question

„Das Gutachten“ (des Wissenschaftlichen Dienstes des Bundestags) „hatte die Linke im Bundestag in Auftrag gegeben. Die Partei sieht sich durch das Fazit in ihrer Kritik an einem möglichen #SocialMediaVerbot für Kinder bestärkt“
Rechtliches Gutachten: Daran könnte ein Social-Media-Verbot scheitern

Facing Immigration Backlash, Trump Called Schumer to Cut a Deal (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/politics/trump-schumer-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260201/p1#a260201p1

I found Porter to be crisp and authoritative on policy;
Steyer to be repetitive (I’m the only change agent on this stage, look how much money is being spent to stop me);
Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa to be largely afterthoughts,
and Bianco to have all the warmth and appeal of the grouchy old man telling kids in the neighborhood to get off his damn lawn

Here’s who (we think) won the chaotic California gubernatorial debate
A hectic debate in the race for California's next governor didn't have a breakout candidate, but it did have winners.

If you could, would you?

A look at China's "genius class" system that selects ~100K gifted teens annually for elite science-focused schooling; its alumni include many top tech founders (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)

I don’t know the individuals involved in this particular conference. What I do know is that there are people worldwide — including but not limited to a great many Jewish people — who have been working with all their might •not• to deny the trauma of others, to work toward true justice and peace. And I know that denying them space for their voices to be heard is a core part of how Netanyahu’s horrible war has been propped up for so long. Recognizing how multiple shared historical traumas shape present conflict seems to me like a good and essential first step.

Gavin Newsom's $787M defamation lawsuit against Fox News, accusing it of falsely claiming he lied about a phone call with Trump in 2025, moves forward in court (Mike Leonard/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-t…

Newsom’s $787 Million Fox News Defamation Lawsuit Advances (1)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) won an initial round Thursday in his $787 million defamation case over Fox News coverage of a phone call he had with President Donald Trump last year about protests in Los Angeles.

New polling indicates that most Americans are opposed to Donald Trump’s vanity projects,
including his plans to reshape the look of Washington, D.C. and to put his name on U.S. currency
https://truthout.org/articles/new-poll-shows-a…

From the Ballroom to His Arch, Poll Shows Americans Reject Trump’s Plans to Redesign Washington DC
The poll also found that a plan to place Trump’s name on US currency is deeply unpopular.

I like cats :3

Analysis: half of Asia's 10 most volatile stocks are recent AI IPOs, including China's Moore Threads and MiniMax, driven by thin institutional ownership (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

RE: https://mstdn.social/@ManyRoads/116490692428880862
This statement is worth quoting at length, so that we can all understand what position exactly the Israeli embassy thinks is so “grotesque:”
❝To find a way out of a destructive spiral of hatred, dehumanization, and violence, we must understand the long-lasting ‘shadows’ of historical traumas. Without equating, or even putting up, the Holocaust with the Nakba – which would be a historical distortion given the events are so different in nature, course, and scope – we acknowledge that the consequences for the individuals and collectives traumatized by them are interconnected, and that the denial of the trauma of the other lies at the core of the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.❞

A study in Nature Health finds that microplastics and nanoplastics
were at a higher level in brain tumour samples from living patients
than in healthy human brain samples from cadavers,
with a correlation between microplastic surface area and tumour proliferation. https://go.nature.com/4cuBK4I…

Letters to Sen. Ed Markey: six autonomous vehicle companies say remote assistants don't directly control vehicles; Tesla says its operators are allowed to do so (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes…

Tesla Says Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Driven by Remote Humans
The electric-car maker says it happens rarely and at speeds below 10 mph. But the disclosure—in response to a US senator's questions—occasioned a call for more transparency.

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115993692644831667
That’s a 31-point swing in margin from 2024.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the changes that will result will probably represent the greatest withdrawal of voting power from Black Americans since the end of Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow.
It is difficult to say how many seats Democrats will lose in the coming Republican redistricting bonanza that the court’s decision will allow.
A New York Times analysis found that the ruling would endanger about a dozen Democratic-leaning seats across the America…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/116149660469928394
Suspicious salt :neocat_amogus:

Iran says it will start targeting US tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla in the Middle East starting 8PM local time on April 1 (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5809104-iran-irgc-apple…

Trump’s post-truth agenda beaten back as Americans refuse to accept ICE lies
Effort to manipulate killing of Alex Pretti collapsed after footage torpedoed ‘domestic terrorist’ claim
– could this be a turning point?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-…

RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115992205728136392
From Nov, in Chicago. What we’re experiencing in Minneapolis, they experienced first — and I’m grateful for all the knowledge folks there gave us.

Senator Chuck Schumer,
the New York Democrat and minority leader,
knew things were moving in his direction in the spending showdown on Wednesday afternoon when he got a surprise phone call in his Capitol office suite.
It was Donald Trump, not a frequent contact in these days of hyper-polarized politics.
“He says, ‘Chuck, I hate shutdowns. I don’t like shutdowns. We’ve got to stop them,’”
Mr. Schumer said in an interview as he recalled his conversation with Mr. T…

Facing Immigration Backlash, Trump Called Schumer to Cut a Deal
The president and the top Senate Democrat, who are often at each other’s throats, agreed to try to keep the government open and to start talks on new limits on federal immigration agents.

Just to be clear:
I will not mourn or miss Ayatollah Khamenei. What a wretched person. The world is better off without him.
I will not mourn or miss Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein either. That doesn’t mean either the Afghanistan War or the Iraq War turned out to be a good idea.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reversing job cuts that Kristi Noem,
the former homeland security secretary,
had overseen before she was fired last month.
FEMA has reinstated 14 people who had signed a public letter that became known as the "Katrina Declaration",
which warned that the agency risked repeating mistakes learned during Hurricane Katrina in 2005,
said Abby McIlraith, one of the reinstated workers and an emergency management speci…

FEMA Is Reversing Job Cuts Made Under Kristi Noem
The agency said staff members who had been let go or placed on administrative leave were now needed to prepare for hurricanes and the World Cup.

NASA began a two-day practice countdown Saturday
leading up to the fueling of its new moon rocket,
a crucial test that will determine when four astronauts blast off on a lunar flyby.
Already in quarantine to avoid germs,
Commander Reid Wiseman and his crew will be the first people to launch to the moon since 1972.
They will monitor the dress rehearsal from their Houston base before flying to Kennedy Space Center once the rocket is cleared for flight.
The 3…

NASA begins a practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in more than 50 years
NASA has begun a two-day practice countdown for its first moonshot with astronauts in 53 years

Shocking. Read what Justice Kagan said about yesterday's Supreme Court decision invalidating our Congressional map
https://la-dems.com/l/UCycFl
Louisiana Dems

Donate to Louisiana Democratic Party
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Over the past month, the Trump administration has deployed thousands of federal immigration agents to the Minneapolis area.
On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti,
a 37-year-old intensive care nurse for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Pretti was the third person shot by federal agents in the area in January. 
The Department of Homeland Security initially said an agent fired “defensive shots” after Pretti approached officers with a weapon,

What We Saw in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists documented the days surrounding Alex Pretti’s killing in Minneapolis.