Tootfinder

We can say this at least:
Musk is one of the most malignant people ever to hold a position of influence in American politics.
His actions, without exaggeration, have devastated the health and security of American society
and directly caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people all over the world, with millions more to follow given the course that he has set.
Musk’s DOGE, which is more or less a conspiracy to destroy constitutional government in this country, has …

Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.

Interesting piece, especially when taken in conjunction with FFOTUS' crazy tariff wars.
"How America Lost Control of the Seas"
Of course, as with many things that have gone wrong in the US, it begins with Ronnie Reagan.
https://www.theatlantic.…

How America Lost Control of the Seas
Thanks to decades of misguided policy choices, the U.S. has an astonishing lack of maritime capacity.

In April Todd Lyons,
the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ice),
lamented that it takes too long to deport illegal immigrants.
At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix he told a crowd of startup bosses vying for government contracts that a better deportation system would function more like Amazon, the tech giant whose delivery drivers zigzag the country at record speed.
“Like Prime, but with human beings,” he said.

America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity
A visit to the second biggest, in Georgia, shows what that looks like

In today's episode, CIDRAP Director Dr. Michael Osterholm discusses the latest federal actions on vaccine policy, reports on a new COVID variant sweeping Asia, and gives an update on measles cases across North America. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/episode-184-fools-gold-reframing-science

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

Good Morning #Canada
The Battle of Jumonville Glen, OTD in 1754, between French Canadian and American military forces, was notable because it was the opening battle of the French and Indian War, the 1st combat action for 21 year old George Washington, and ultimately led England and France into conflict in the global Seven Years’ War. The assassination of the French-Canadian commander would also darken Washington's reputation for life.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Colonialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen

Well, maybe we’ll get swamped with excellent applications when we (hopefully) have an opening for a PhD position in fall…
But requiring French limits the candidate pool so much, I guess it won’t make any difference.
https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/114557615125630255…

". . . pulling out a keffiyeh and shouting, “Free Palestine!” But his depraved actions, like theirs, expose the lie of his lofty words. Neither Palestine nor Israel will ever truly be free until their societies are liberated from megalomaniacal men who perpetrate demonic acts in their name."

The D.C. Jewish Museum Shooting and a Dangerous Disguise for Anti-Semitism
The person charged with attacking an American Jewish gathering and killing two Israeli-embassy aides disingenuously invoked the Palestinian struggle as a pretext to harm Jews.

Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trumps-white-house-accidentally-admitted-truth-tax-plan-rcna207301 "In 2029, Americans making…

Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan
Earlier this week the White House published evidence that the president's "big, beautiful bill" hikes taxes on the poor to cut taxes for the rich.

"In Boston, between 1709 and 1713, townspeople protested vigorously and then took extralegal action when Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, refused to stop exporting grain during a bread shortage in the city...he chose to export grain to the Caribbean, at a handsome profit, rather than sell it for a smaller profit to hungry townspeople, his ships were attacked and his warehouses emptied by an angry crowd...Bostonians of meagre means learned that through concerted action, the powerless could become powerful, if only for the moment. Wealthy merchants who would not listen to pleas from the community could be forced through collective action to subordinate profits to the public need."
- Gary B. Nash, "Social Change and the Growth of Prerevolutionary Urban Radicalism" in The American Revolution (ed. Alfred F. Young, Northern Illinois University Press, 1976), pg. 11
#history #politics #america #quote