@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-21 20:41:23
Second thoughts
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-21 20:41:23
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-19 15:45:03
Since The A-Team is my favorite TV show, and since I've never done it, last night it occurred to me that maybe 2026 should be the year I finally buy the three seasons I'm missing on DVD (I have two of them, and there were five) and finally watch the whole series front to back, in order.
#TheATeam #80s
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-21 21:23:31
A notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025
@MartinM@norden.social2026-02-21 18:52:47
Es sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 04:02:11
The Pentagon plans to cut its participation in elements of NATO’s force structure
and a range of the alliance’s advisory groups,
-- the latest sign of the Trump administration’s drive to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe,
according to multiple officials familiar with the matter.
The impending move will affect about 200 military personnel
and diminish U.S. involvement in nearly 30 NATO organizations,
including its "Centers of Excellence&…
@johnm@social.tchncs.de2025-12-20 21:27:09
Back in the Ring
Eben habe ich eine Mail vom Thomas bekommen, es ging darum das ich den Blog nicht mehr im UberBlogr Webring eintragen konnte. Aus irgendeinem Grund gab es widersprüchliche Meldungen.
Wie dem auch sei, mein Blog ist nach längere Pause dort nun wieder vertreten, freut mich natürlich sehr.
Vielen Dank an Thomas.
https://…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-20 16:34:03
A Ukrainian arms company says it has modified one of its
ground robots to carry and launch
unjammable fiber-optic drones.
Ukrainian forces can put the drones in the air closer to the front without exposing pilots.
Ratel Robotics shared a video this week of its Ratel H model robot
equipped with a protected box.
In the clip, the launcher opens up and releases a small drone connected to a fiber-optic cable.
The uncrewed ground vehicle functions as a …
@jake4480@c.im2026-02-19 17:40:24
Going back to 1996 today for maybe my favorite KMFDM album all the way through, Xtort. My other favorites are Nihil and Symbols (I'm partial to 90s KMFDM) but Xtort is utter perfection. This playlist leaves off the perverse last (secret) track 'Fairy', but I'll let it slide. Worth looking up if you haven't heard it 😂
@malik@Mastodon.Social2025-11-22 02:52:38
Einen Tag vor unserer letzten Show dieses Jahr musste unser Schlagzeuger Max ins Krankenhaus. Wir haben die Show mit seinen Aufnahmen als Play-back gespielt … und das Konzert auf Twitch gestreamt, damit er sich das im Krankenhaus live angucken kann. Hat funktioniert!
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-12-21 23:00:20
*coach pats child hard on back* Alrighty now, try saving her! try fixing her! im rooting for you, sport!!
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-20 16:33:35
Back in my day, pedophiles were punished, not protected.
The lengths these fools are willing to go to protect them is mind boggling.
I feel like I’m the crazy one.
-- Karintha Styles
https://bsky.app/profile/karintha.bsky.social/post/3magjkdgeh22t<…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-21 01:20:38
After 35 years of serving in the Navy,
I was removed from my position by Pete Hegseth without reason.
I never went back to the Pentagon or wore the uniform again.
I’ve spent my entire life in service to our country,
always putting the mission and the people above myself.
But when I was forced out, I had a choice:
go out quietly, or 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
I’m running for Congress in South Carolina’s first district
-- because we need a lead…
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-19 14:11:56
Yet another masterclass in how to write a bizarre, amazing song by the living legend known as Charles Thompson and many other names, such as Black Francis, here: https://youtu.be/L6WL3SkBE1c?si=FG-KlroAlyqJGYpo
Very glad I spent a lot of time going through all of his back catalog…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 19:17:18
The vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen.
US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead.
History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly!
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-21 22:33:52
What had saved Charles Dutton was prison.
He dropped out of school at 12 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter at 17, after stabbing a black man who had pulled a knife on him in a fight.
He served two years.
Then he was sent back for weapons possession, fought with a white guard, and ended up serving another seven and a half.
The tale of his redemption is well known.
He grabbed an anthology of plays by black playwrights on his way into solitary confinement one day…
@frankstohl@mastodon.social2026-02-13 09:33:41
Valve FM: Internet-Radio im Terminal hören https://blog.oliverswelt.de/blog/back-to-the-roots-warum-ich-radio-jetzt-im-terminal-höre-valve-fm
@jake4480@c.im2026-02-19 01:14:45
Going back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 06:55:21
The seeds of the January 6, 2021, insurrection can be traced back to the early 1900s,
when industrialists concerned with the erosion of their wealth and power
attempted to control the currency and restrict government spending.
Later these forces, in alignment with America Firsters,
aggrieved veterans,
and antisemitic splinter groups that mirrored various features of European fascism,
including white supremacists,
rallied to oppose Roosevelt and the …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 12:06:04
Tech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.
The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-19 06:29:40
My kid's logged back into Animal Crossing and has been switching around some villagers and such. There are entire islands that people playing the game have set up as clothing shops, huge warehouses of sets of clothes everywhere, that you find and fly to via a code. It's absolutely wild
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 20:38:31
On Sept. 21, the police came for Larry Bushart.
They handcuffed him and hauled him away in the dead of night.
He spent 37 days in jail while held on a $2 million bond
— an amount the retired police officer could not afford.
It’s the sort of treatment one expects for accused murderers and thieves.
But Larry’s only “crime”?
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, he posted a meme on Facebook
quoting President Trump’s remarks about a different …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-19 22:31:02
Mastodon, a decentralized, open source social media platform and alternative to centralized social media apps like X and Threads,
announced on Wednesday its plans to make its platform more approachable for newcomers
while also targeting creators with the launch of new features.
The changes follow the expansion of Mastodon’s core development team over the past 18 months
to include people with experience across web and mobile and back end,
as well as the hiring o…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 18:04:50
A decade into our collective Donald Trump nightmare,
most of the reality-based population has given up on hoping MAGA voters will wake up and see the light.
We’ve come to realize that he could eat a live kitten on TV and they, unwilling to admit his critics were right all along,
would argue that kitten was “antifa” and liberals are the ones who are stupid for not seeing the threat the kitten posed to our safety.
I predicted this miserable state of affairs back in 201…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-20 07:16:16
Donald Trump says Europe will not ‘push back too much’
on his Greenland bid as Davos day two begins
Speaking to reporters in Florida,
Trump claims Denmark
‘can’t protect’ Greenland
when asked what he planned to say to European leaders who opposed his plans
…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 04:36:41
At least six high-profile congressional Republicans have voiced their staunch opposition to Trump’s desire to take over Greenland.
“I’ll be candid with you: There’s so many Republicans mad about this,”
Nebraska Representative Don #Bacon told the Omaha-World Herald.
“If he went through with the threats, I think it would be the end of his presidency.
And he needs to know:
The off-r…
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-17 05:43:05
GTA style Animal Crossing DLC where you run wild on the island, beat the hell out of Tom Nook and take back all the Bells you've given him
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 01:01:34
Robert Reich here.
We're launching an emergency campaign to demand Congress
DEFUND Trump's army of masked deportation thugs.
https://ineqm.co/
IMCA
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-18 23:40:14
New radio observations show that a supermassive black hole shot out plasma jets at a large fraction of the speed of light,
paused for 100 million years,
then roared back to life.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-h…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 07:16:49
Brandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account.
One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing.
LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry,
and soon there may be more.
Donald Trump has rolled back regulation of the industry.
At the same time, he and his family have earned untold billions of dollars from new crypto ventures.
Molly White, a writer focused on the intersection…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-18 15:08:07
The American patrol satellite had the targets in its sights:
two recently launched Chinese spacecraft flying through one of the most sensitive neighborhoods in space.
Like any good tactical fighter,
the American spacecraft, known as USA 270, approached from behind,
so that the sun would be at its back, illuminating the quarry.
But then one of the Chinese satellites countered by slowing down.
As USA 270 zipped by, the Chinese satellite dropped in behind its…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-19 03:10:02
Strikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-07 20:01:37
Heading back to 1973 right now with some Cosmic Slop
#NowPlaying
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 06:56:18
Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy.
The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows,
and many show clear traces of toes and claws.
It is thought the dinosaurs were prosauropods - herbivores with long necks, small heads and sharp claws.
"I never would have imagined I'd come across such a spectacular discovery in the region where I l…
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-02 21:03:46
Playing a cassette for the first time in I don't know how long. Flipping sides is wild, man. Ah, that takes me back 😂 (the cassette version of this has a Hall & Oates cover added. Nice)
#PhysicalMedia #IndieRock #HotOcean
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 16:16:28
Summary:
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized.
By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater,
researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact.
The collision likely stripped away volatile elements,
reshaped volcanic activity,
and left a lasting chemical signature deep belo…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-16 21:54:23
From Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-16 15:47:43
Coco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day.
The 21-year-old says she “likes to stay informed” and admits it’s been “tough” waking up to news of harsh immigration crackdowns and the killing of protesters back home.
“Everything going on in the US, obviously I’m not really for it.
I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing.
I don’t like what’s going on,”
Gauff said in Dubai on Sunday, referring to the killings of Al…
@jake4480@c.im2025-12-10 23:34:19
Another solid rap banger from this year - 'The Pryce You Pay' by Slik Jak & Vincent Pryce: https://slikjack.bandcamp.com/album/the-pryce-you-pay
This is gritty and grimy, super solid from front to back. Some excellent wordplay, beats and samples all over the plac…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 20:38:29
It would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.
Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 20:28:59
The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-15 00:56:12
Residents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods,
leading to days of confrontations and protests.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mcfdjwcxa524
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 04:43:14
In a secret deportation arrangement,
the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries,
to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and lawyers for the deportees,
and the United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon to accept deportees who hail from other nations.…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 06:42:31
Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-14 21:20:43
Over the past year, the biggest victories against Trump have come
not from the elites or institutions,
but from college kids and office workers, cat ladies and Uber drivers.
When Trump tried to censor Jimmy Kimmel, it was the pumpkin latte drinkers whose ire forced ABC to bring him back on.
When the president sent National Guard troops to terrorize cities like Portland, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago, people who still wear skinny jeans turned off Netflix, inflated the…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-15 00:55:47
The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-14 17:49:09
Donald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against #crypto,
debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration,
and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency.
Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Celebrities in the crypto realm …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-13 17:16:55
After surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-13 15:45:05
Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-11 15:33:45
Going back months now,
the back of Trump’s right hand
has often been visibly discolored and bandaged when he appears in public.
He works assiduously to conceal it from cameras by covering it with his other hand.
Nonetheless, Getty photographers have gotten in the habit of taking shots of the malady whenever they can,
including during his ugly hate rallyTuesday evening in Pennsylvania
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-12 22:52:33
Back in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-10 17:09:27
DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.
In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Bannon.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-11 02:21:34
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)
filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday,
accusing him of abusing the powers of his office
and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles.
In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy,
who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist,
“has turned his back on…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-13 05:01:06
Here's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-10 01:36:12
Increasingly the victims of the administration's campaign of terror are people just trying to survive when their daily life is upended by the presence of masked federal agents.
Those agents are ambushing immigrants after court appearances,
crashing into drivers while trying to escape protestors,
or abducting children if they seemingly impede the arrest of their own parents by dint of simply existing;
The people in the cities in which this is happening are just t…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-11 16:43:04
The biggest surprise of Donald Trump’s first year back in office is 🆘 how quickly America’s institutions capitulated to
“the bully”,
said Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned arch critic.
But with the midterm elections for Congress looming, Steele predicts a resounding Democratic victory
amid a hunger among voters to hold the president and his allies accountable for threatening democracy.
Steele, 67, was the first Blac…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-08 04:53:45
Trump claims he wants to lower housing costs,
but his allies in the House just axed a bipartisan bill that UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate to do just that.
If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs,
Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.
https://bsky.…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 11:21:13
Student loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 05:30:44
The Justice Department has backed off a dubious claim about President Nicolšs Maduro that the Trump administration promoted last year in laying the groundwork to remove him from power in Venezuela
-- that he leads a #drug #cartel called "Cartel de los Soles".
That claim traces back to a 2020 grand jury …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-07 03:00:26
Trump just attacked Tom Suozzi PERSONALLY and
endorsed his opponent in NY-03
The MAGA machine is coming.
Help Tom fight back
>> https://suozzi4congress.us
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 18:49:23
Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense, said that he wouldn’t let Stephen Miller, Homeland Security advisor, watch his kids.
Miller had an explanation as to why that may be.
When speaking to Fox News host Jesse Watters,
Stephen Miller said,
“If I babysat his kids, he'd come back after a couple hours, and the kids would say,
'Daddy, why don't you send the military into Minnesota to help us with the Somali refugees?!'
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 21:27:03
I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-10 00:02:23
Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement,
setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.
Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days,
posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022.
Another round of demon…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-09 17:36:15
“The vision of the U.S. as a more or less stable and steady power whose foreign policy had some elements of predictability...
I think this is permanently gone.
The U.S. now has a big constituency for authoritarianism. ... Europeans know that.
And so I don’t think that the status that the U.S. once had, the automatic acceptance as the leader of the democratic world, comes back anytime soon.”
— Anne Applebaum
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-03 23:40:04
For those who know the stakes,
James Talarico is Dems best chance to flip the TX Senate seat.
Chip in any amount right now. Please: https://jt4tx.org
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 02:38:58
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-05 19:39:32
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared Thursday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe”
to call for stricter governing of ICE agents and push back on the Trump administration’s targeting of local voting officials in Georgia and other swing states,
declaring, “We’re not going to let them be intimidated.”
The New York senator’s remarks came after recent calls from Trump to 🔥nationalize voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections
and after National Intelligence Director Tulsi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-04 00:15:37
As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-09 02:42:53
The US supreme court on Monday appeared poised to support the Trump administration’s argument that the president should be able to fire independent board members
-- dismissing a precedent that for nearly a century they have been protected from presidential interference.
The case gives the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority,
an opportunity to overturn a New Deal era supreme court precedent in a case called
"Humphrey’s Executor v United States"
…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-09 01:01:57
A "serious medical condition" with a crew member aboard the International Space Station
has led NASA to bring the astronaut and three crewmates back to Earth months earlier than planned,
-- the first such emergency return in the orbiting laboratory's 25-year history.
The crew includes U.S. astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke,
Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui
and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
They have been on the space station since laun…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-04 22:34:01
The oldest known pyre, located in Alaska, dates back 11,500 years and contains the created remains of a 3-year-old child.
But HOR-1 in Malawi is the oldest example of adult cremated remains found in a pyre.
We will likely never know the identity of this woman, or why her death inspired such a carefully coordinated ritual. But it seems safe to assume that the cremation was a significant event for the community that expended so much forethought and labor to perform it.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-30 22:48:26
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA)
is pushing back against GOP criticism of his effort to release Jeffrey Epstein files,
arguing that his Republican colleagues are “obsessed” with him
due to their frequent attacks.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674356578/…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 00:12:55
"The attorney general is the people’s attorney, not the president’s attorney,”
as former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy put it in 2017.
But Trump and Bondi clearly agree that she’s there to work for him,
to protect him, to spare him from the very law enforcement that she is responsible for.
It hearkens back to the medieval model of attorney general as legal representative to the king.
This is the rotten core of Trump
-- beneath all the makeup and slurre…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 08:08:56
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney
— a former editor at The New York Times
— details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred,
why this was directed from the very top,
how some staff pushed back
and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-05 05:04:53
Immigration activists and lawyers say Somali residents have been
🔥pulled over,
asked for their passports
and detained by masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents this week
❌after Donald Trump called Minnesota’s Somali immigrants
“garbage” that should go back to Somalia.
“I have been getting calls all day and night from people who should not be at risk,”
said Cameron Geibnik,
a Minneapolis immigration attorney who described talking to n…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-29 02:52:56
Every few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-01 18:31:07
Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR)
⭐️faked the death of Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK),
⭐️and claimed the bounty placed on his head by Russia's intelligence service,
HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov revealed on Jan. 1.
"Welcome back to life," Budanov said on a Telegram video,
while congratulating Kapustin and the intelligence team involved in the operation
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-03 23:08:15
A bad week has gotten even worse for Pete Hegseth,
as a new watchdog report from the Pentagon inspector general’s office finds that the defense secretary directly endangered U.S. troops
when he used the Signal messaging app to discuss sensitive plans to bomb the Houthi rebels in Yemen back in March.
Sources told CNN that the classified report details Hegseth’s lack of urgency and seriousness
in speaking freely on the public messaging app about active U.S. war plans, u…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-02 13:29:59
This DHS funding battle is part of a bigger question Democrats must answer as they fight to regain power.
Large sections of the Democratic base are now echoing calls to “abolish ICE.”
Some Democratic leaders, like New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader,
are pushing back against this with much more tepid, unwieldy, and frankly pretty weak ideas to “restrain, reform, and restrict” the agency.
ICE is just over 20 years old, formed as part of the sec…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-06 22:55:27
The video clip posted last week on social media by Rogelio Martinez,
a mayoral candidate for the city of Long Beach, was short and to the point:
"I need to see 55 gang leaders here this coming Monday,
we need to take back our city,
enough is enough,
ICE needs to get out of Long Beach
and this is the only way that I know how to get them out;
peacefully, but with strong force, but peacefully."
The video quickly went viral and landed Mar…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-03 00:28:00
"By the end of 2026, Trump will have begun to distance himself from the aggressively pro-AI industry policies that characterized his AI strategy in 2025,"
wrote retired New York University professor and AI entrepreneur Gary Marcus.
"The giant AI infrastructure plays (like Project Stargate) that he championed after his inauguration will look like an unprofitable and underused mistake.
So will his utter failure to meaningfully regulate AI,
against the w…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-02 20:35:03
When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:34:47
FOX NEWS: THREE HOUSE COMMITTEES SUBPOENA ACTBLUE
This is one of the most important texts we’ve EVER sent.
FIRST: Donald Trump tried to SHUT DOWN ActBlue.
THEN: Grassroots supporters STOOD UP and fought back – and WON!
BUT THEN: Republican House committees SUBPOENAED ActBlue to try to stop grassroots supporters like you from ever donating again.
This HORRENDOUS abuse of power is what dictators do.
We won’t – and we CAN’T – let them get away with it!
…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 02:27:53
Alexander Vindman, the whistleblower who triggered Donald Trump's first impeachment,
is considering a run for the United States Senate next year against Florida Republican Ashley Moody.
In an exclusive interview with CBS News Miami, the retired lieutenant colonel said he was approached about running and was discussing it with close friends and advisors.
"I think that the Democrats need to win in some very, very difficult places in order to wrestle control back,&quo…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-01 18:48:46
It’s only February, and the November elections are already in peril.
When I think back to the days and weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, one thing that’s clear is that many of us suffered from a failure of imagination.
We knew President Trump’s lies and conspiracy mongering were dangerous,
but it’s hard to think of a single person who predicted that a MAGA mob would storm the Capitol.
Very few people anticipated the sheer scale and scope of the effort to overturn the electi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-01 18:22:38
🔥Dems win special election in Texas, narrowing Republicans majority.
⭐️Friends, there are now just 37 days until the special election in Georgia to fill the seat vacated by Marjorie Taylor Greene.
20 Republicans are running.
One Democrat is running.
I’m that Democrat.
This is how we win.
This is how we take back the House -- and put a check on Trump's rampage against our Democracy.
I’m Shawn Harris.
I’m a Democrat. Husband. Father. Reti…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-05 19:46:49
Following the fatal shootings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis last month,
Democrats have refused to support long-term funding for the Department of Homland Security unless Republicans agree to reforms on the tactics of federal agents carrying out Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
“The American people rightfully expect their elected representatives to take action to rein in ICE and ensure no more lives are lost,” Senate minorit…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-05 21:34:22
The $59 million price tag for
"Operation Midway Blitz"
A Tribune analysis of the Trump administration's Chicago-area immigration crackdown
provides one of the first examinations of Operation Midway Blitz’s financial impact on the federal government.
The back-of-the-envelope estimate is a conservative analysis of the full costs.
Federal officials are not eager to address the fiscal cost of
"Operation Midway Blitz"
-- the months…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-30 10:00:23
Gold and silver retreated from record highs
and the dollar strengthened
on reports that Trump may appoint a more hawkish-than-expected Federal Reserve chair.
Trump said on Thursday that he intended to announce his pick to replace Jerome Powell on Friday,
with growing speculation that the role will go to the former Fed governor #Kevin
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 17:27:11
A judge on Saturday declined to order the Trump administration to immediately scale back its immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota,
-- rejecting pleas from state officials who said the campaign was stepping on their sovereignty and endangering the public.
U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez said Minnesota and the Twin Cities had not definitively shown that the administration’s decision to flood the state with immigration agents,
an initiative dubbed "Operation Metro…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 15:17:48
At the start of Donald Trump’s first term, he promised that he and his family would never do anything that might even be “perceived to be exploitive of office of the Presidency.”
By contrast, his second term looks rapacious.
He and members of his family have signed a blitz of foreign mega-deals shadowed by conflicts of interest,
and they’ve launched at least five different cryptocurrency enterprises,
all of which leverage Trump’s status as President to lure buyers o…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-31 16:48:19
“Selfless move from Mary Peltola” - Carville
James Carville here, urgently asking you to support Mary Peltola’s campaign.
I’ve spent nearly 50 years electing Democrats and winning tough elections across the country, so please take my word for it:
We gotta get serious about Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.
Alaska is Democrats’
VERY BEST CHANCE to take back the Senate majority,
and Mary needs YOUR help to win.
It was a selfless move from Mary Peltola to ju…
