@cdarwin@c.imWithin tumors in the human body, there are #immune #cells ( #macrophages ) capable of fighting cancer,
but they have been unable to perform their roles properly due to suppression by the tumor.
KAIST researchers have over…
@jake4480@c.imThis is the funniest achievement in Pokémon TCG Pocket, because it doesn't specify which is the prettiest girl. Or maybe they both are. All I'm saying is that only one has an exposed udder.
#PokémonTCGPocket #Miltank #PrettyGirls
@lilmikesf@c.imVA-D Senator Mark Warner, issues statement, in wake of #invasion of #Venezuela that while Maduro is ostensibly #corrupt, the reckless overnight capture of a head of state, will embolden foreign adversaries who want to take terriror…
@cdarwin@c.imShortly after 10 a.m., the California Highway Patrol announced on X that #Highway101 is #closed from Winchester in Goleta to State Route 1
“due to debris flow and flooding for an unknown duration.”
#CHP advises motorists to u…
@jake4480@c.imit's also Tall Echidna Thursday
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imAfter the U.S. bombed #Venezuela in the middle of the night
and abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro,
Donald Trump warned that more attacks could be on the way in the region.
Trump hinted at a future conflict with #Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.
“Your vice…
@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured
@cdarwin@c.imNew protest laws are impacting political demonstrations
While serving in the Florida state legislature, #Randy #Fine helped pass legislation that provides some 🆘 protection under certain circumstances to 🔥drivers who hit protesters blocking roadways.
In Congress, the Republican representative has introduced a s…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage
Federal immigration agents took people from their homes, job sites, businesses and on the streets as they ran errands,
#Santa #Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto said.
She said at least 87 people were taken by age…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imAerial photos have revealed new paving at the Everglades Detention Center,
which violates a court order that temporarily halted construction.
We must protect the Everglades. Climate justice is social justice. #WetTribe #TidetotheOcean
@cdarwin@c.imPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS DEPUTY CHAIR CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE VOTE TO END TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA
Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
released the following statement after news that Trump launched airstrikes inside Venezuela and captured its head of state:
"Trump's invasion of Venezuela is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.
He has no authority to deploy U.S. forces into foreign countries to bomb them, capture …
@cdarwin@c.im#Explosions, loud noises and low-flying aircraft have been heard in the #Venezuelan capital of #Caracas,
amid reports that Donald Trump had ordered strikes against the South American country.
In the early hours of Sat…
@cdarwin@c.imVentura County Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster ( #VCVOAD )
is a collaborative of nearly 50 local non-profit agencies,
faith-based organizations,
volunteer groups,
public institutions,
and private entities
dedicated to improving outcomes for people affected by disasters.
VC-VOAD helps communities respond to and recover from major disasters guided by our f…
@cdarwin@c.imOn X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises #colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇
https://bsky.app/profile/anna…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has taken over the United States Institute of Peace building in Washington, D.C.,
and put his name on it,
even as the legal battle over who owns the building is ongoing.
Independent journalist Marisa Kabas posted about the visible signage on the building Wednesday showing “DONALD J. TRUMP” in block letters tacked to the building.
Kabas reports that Trump plans to use the building to host the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic…
@cdarwin@c.imA grand jury declined to reindict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general,
rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial
@cdarwin@c.imIt sounds like the judge is allowing in a fair amount here that isn't strictly relevant but hammers home both the absurdity and the political context.
#sandwichgate
https://bsky.app/profile/jamieson.bsky…
@cdarwin@c.imThe FBI has arrested a suspect five years after an unidentified person placed two pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Republican and Democratic national parties in Washington.
Agents arrested Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, on explosive charges.
Calls to relatives of Cole listed in public records were not immediately returned.
The mystery behind the person’s identity has bedeviled law enforcement and helped fuel conspiracy theories about Jan. 6, 2021, …
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.
In an 88-page ruling, U.S. Judge Beryl Howell wrote that the Trump administration had illegally lowered the standard for making immigration arrests
when it instituted a policy of “arrest now, ask questions later” as part of the federal takeover of Washington, D.C.
Howell documented how the Department of Homeland Security and Trump …
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imTrump has begun to address affordability a bit more
—rhetorically, that is.
He’s never fully acknowledged that the affordability problem has continued into his administration,
nor how his own policies
—from tariffs raising prices on myriad goods to the chaotic interruptions in crucial benefits like food stamps
—have contributed to Americans’ economic sufferings.
But he has been making more claims about what he’s supposedly doing to bring down the cost of livi…
@cdarwin@c.imThis morning, President Trump unilaterally launched a regime-change war against Nicolšs Maduro of Venezuela,
ordering strikes on multiple military targets in the country and seizing its leader and his wife.
They were “captured and flown out of the country,” Trump stated on Truth Social.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated,
in something like an inversion of the notion that jus…
@cdarwin@c.imFive years ago, they risked their lives to support American troops in Afghanistan.
Now refugees across the United States are facing the threat of certain death thanks to ICE.
Some 100,000 Afghans resettled in America, repayment for assisting the U.S. government during a fruitless 20-year war, after Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2021.
Thousands of them have since found a new home in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
But in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard…
@cdarwin@c.imRright now it is unlikely that Trump gets a "rally around the flag" boost for his seizing of Maduro as
1) it didn’t happen with his invasion of cities or his attack on Iran
2) the country just isn’t on board some kind of extended military campaign in Venezuela
3) it increasingly feels like Trump has no real plan for what comes next in Venezuela, and like Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, thought the government would just fall and he could waltz into the Capital.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Year in Physics
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole,
doubled down on weakening dark energy,
and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/
@cdarwin@c.imWith astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
@cdarwin@c.imJames Carville says Trump invaded Venezuela for a simple reason:
“It's All about Epstein”
The commentator said Donald Trump is throwing up desperate distractions from the Epstein Files
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/all-about
@cdarwin@c.imSBResiste needs your help.
As the Trump administration launched its aggressive, often unconstitutional assault on immigrants early last year, community members formed SBResiste.
The organization aims to prevent kidnappings,
monitor ICE activities,
document violations,
notify community members of their rights,
and provide mutual aid to families devastated by detentions and disappearances.
Register here:
@cdarwin@c.imWhat would cause the EU to turn on the US?
https://bsky.app/profile/golikehellmachine.com/post/3mbmxj43grs26
@cdarwin@c.imIf you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped,
it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.imMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that he’d prefer we all quit the term "AI Slop".
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,”
Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the
“new equilibrium” of human nature.
Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about
“riding the exponentials of model capabilities”
as well as managing AI’s
“‘jagged’ …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s narrow support among the public has vanished.
Despite his aggressive attacks on the press, his administration continues to leak like a sieve
and what is discovered in those leaks is reported, however unfavorable it may be to him.
Heavy-handed attempts are met with social revolts, ranging from mass protests to grand juries to consumer boycotts.
Ordinary American citizens are filming, berating, and obstructing masked ICE thugs,
often not as a matter of …
@cdarwin@c.imMERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-
@cdarwin@c.imProtests erupted nationwide as the U.S. attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Maduro and his wife.
San Francisco was no exception.
As the recent days of rain let up for a grateful pause, activists of all ages from the Answer coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of American, Revolutionary International Youth, Refuse Fascism, and just people with home made signs rallied at Powell and Market.
They then marched down Market Street to …
@cdarwin@c.im"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.imThe 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.imToday, Vandenberg Spaceforce Base is best known for the booming SpaceX launches that send satellites into orbit.
But once upon a time, it was a hotbed for UFO sightings, quietly logged by the military.
This year, those sightings resurfaced.
Details of extraterrestrial encounters on the Central Coast were discussed in government hearings and explored in the newly released documentary
"The Age of Disclosure" (2025).
The film features government inside…
@cdarwin@c.imAs Americans slept and Donald Trump invaded a sovereign nation and kidnapped its leader,
an inconvenient deadline was looming:
the date for the Department of Justice to explain its controversial Epstein file redactions.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee noted the timing in a post on X, writing,
“We are sure it’s just a coincidence, but today is the statutory date for the DOJ to explain its redactions in the Epstein file productions.”
“We have not forgott…
@cdarwin@c.im“The hot new thing right now is to be a Christian nationalist,”
says Dan McClellan
“And I think a lot of people are jumping at the opportunity to get on board this attempt to take over the government on the part of Christians.
And unfortunately, it means hurting an awful lot of people along the way.”
@cdarwin@c.imVenezuela’s mission to the U.N. has requested an emergency Security Council meeting
and has asked the Council to condemn the U.S. military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the Council’s president:
“The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars.
It is an international tyranny imposed with the propaganda of death:
the recent past confirms this.”
Russia and China, allie…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
@cdarwin@c.imBernie Sanders: Medicare-for-all would not resemble Britain’s NHS
Medicare-for-all is not a government-run, British-style National Health Service system.
It is a government-funded universal insurance program.
Medicare-for-all would simply expand Medicare
— a program that has worked extremely well for more than six decades
— to cover every American, eliminate premiums and out-of-pocket costs,
give people the freedom to choose their doctors,
and ens…
@cdarwin@c.imI listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly.
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see.
But to put it mildly,…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets.
But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude,
and officials didn’t kick them out of the country.
“Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,”
said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver
Here’s the history.
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of mail-in ballots could be discounted under new post office policy
A recent change to how the U.S. Postal Service says it postmarks letters could discount the ballots of thousands of last-minute voters.
Many Americans have long assumed that tax returns, ballots and other mailed documents sent on deadline would be marked as sent the day they are dropped in a mailbox.
But the Postal Service announced Dec. 24 that it was making no such guarantees about postmarks. <…
@cdarwin@c.imUN’s next leader was meant to be a woman.
-- But Trump may ‘insist on a man’
Three candidates want the UN secretary-general job, despite a ‘difficult’ process fraught with politics
— not helped by interventions from the White House
https://www.thetimes.…
@cdarwin@c.imYou see some effort on the part of Congress to assert itself in the realm of war.
But it failed predominantly on party lines
Republicans predominantly were supporting the president and whatever it happens to be that he would like to do.
Moderate Republicans and Republicans who are in less safe districts were and are more likely to at least stand up a little bit to the president,
but there’s a very small number of them.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe
Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment.
The EU is an obstacle to him
—and the far right is his ally
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/12/15/trum-vanc…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is framing this as a law enforcement operation so he doesn’t need congressional authorization.
He’s not defending our country. He’s defending his grip on power with endless wars.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…
@cdarwin@c.imThere are also reports that American aircraft carried out a strike on the mausoleum where the remains of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are stored.
https://sfba.social/@skykiss/115830180787492093
@cdarwin@c.imIn 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.imTrump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy
Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s tech skills are coming into question after he celebrated his youngest son,
Barron Trump’s, skill for a rather mundane task...
—turning on his computer
https://www.irishstar.com/news/politics/barron-trump-hailed-dad-donald-36489339
@cdarwin@c.imA board-certified cardiologist in December expressed alarm over the state of Trump's health, citing several instances in recent weeks where he appeared to fall asleep during crowded White House meetings before jolting suddenly into periods of intense energy.
"He's done this several times in the last few weeks. He's fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office and he's also fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings with people talking directly to him. That's what's called…
@cdarwin@c.im1 hour ago
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolšs Maduro,
according to #Charles #Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Global Advisors and a former head of inv…
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Friday’s jobs report turned out to be decidedly bleak, Trump ignored the warnings in the data and fired the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures.
https://c.im/@cdarwin/115663339675254625
@cdarwin@c.imSome of the nation’s top health officials and Donald Trump have cast doubt on a vaccine that doctors call lifesaving.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned whether babies should continue to receive the vaccine on their first day of life,
arguing that the disease is mainly transmitted through sexual contact and sharing needles.
But the virus can also pass from mother to child at birth.
In September, Mr. Trump said that he thought children …
@cdarwin@c.im25.3% of unemployment is now Americans with college degrees,
a record high.
https://bsky.app/profile/thefinancenewsletter.com/post/3m73vhl6rvc2g
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
https…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 1990, a $100,000 salary would be worth more than $250,000 in today's dollars.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
https://bsky.app/profile/thefinancenewsletter.com/post/3m77do5dycc2i
@cdarwin@c.imHouse Republicans held a hearing Wednesday broadcasting long-standing conservative allegations of a left-wing bias in the small, prestigious Truman Scholarship program.
Witnesses called by the GOP said the winners disproportionately espouse causes such as promoting racial justice and fighting climate change
—and wind up working for Democrats and left-leaning organizations
—while few recipients profess interest in conservative aims.
But rather than counter the allegations…
@cdarwin@c.imDays after Donald Trump fell asleep during a televised Cabinet meeting,
the president on Thursday again dozed off during a ceremony to mark the signing of a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Trump was visibly closing his eyes as Rwandan President Paul Kagame spoke from the podium at the ceremony inside the U.S. Institute of Peace building,
his hands clasped and his head drooping while he sat at a table to the left.
Trump continue…
@cdarwin@c.imFor a guy who talks a lot about how much he hates drugs
— and is now floating it as a pretext for knocking off the odious Maduro regime
— Trump has developed a strange habit of giving pardons to drug dealers.
A day after his latest inauguration, Trump pardoned the founder of the Silk Road website, which was notorious as a dark web drug den.
This was followed by the strange commutation for the founder of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago, who flooded the Windy City wi…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked Texas’ aggressive gerrymander,
a maneuver the state legislature carried out on orders from the Trump administration and the president himself,
hoping to preserve Republicans’ majority in the U.S. House in 2026.
In a brief order, the Court argued, among other things, that the District Court had intervened to block the maps too close to next year’s midterm election.
Justice Sam A…
@cdarwin@c.im“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
@cdarwin@c.imConvicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell has planned to ask a judge to release her from federal prison, citing concerns over her safety if the Jeffrey Epstein files and grand jury records are released.
Arick Fudali, who represents several Epstein survivors, told MS NOW on Thursday that he hopes Maxwell remains behind bars and called her "entitled" and that she lives in an "alternate reality."
"I certainly don't know of any grounds that would allow a …
@cdarwin@c.imThis summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…
@cdarwin@c.imFor all of Donald Trump’s promises of an economic “golden age,”
a spate of weak indicators this week told a worrisome story as the impacts of his policies are coming into focus.
Job gains are dwindling.
Inflation is ticking upward.
Growth has slowed compared with last year.
More than six months into his term, Trump’s blitz of tariff hikes and his new tax and spending bill have remodeled America’s trading, manufacturing, energy and tax systems to his own liking.
@cdarwin@c.imPrivacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…
@cdarwin@c.imIt is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”
@cdarwin@c.imTwo sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration 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.imAcross the nation, prosecutors, judges, and victims are sounding alarms about the impact of Donald Trump's sweeping absolutions.
Families still carrying the consequences of crimes feel disregarded
while offenders celebrate newfound freedom.
And as the list of pardoned individuals grows, so does the fear:
if the rules can change this dramatically under one president, what stops them from changing even more under the next?
@cdarwin@c.imChina's efforts to slow land degradation and climate change
by planting trees and restoring grasslands
have shifted water around the country in huge, unforeseen ways, new research shows.
Between 2001 and 2020, changes in vegetation cover reduced the amount of fresh water available for humans and ecosystems in the eastern monsoon region and northwestern arid region,
which together make up 74% of China's land area, according to a study published Oct. 4 in the jo…
@cdarwin@c.imIsrael has announced it will reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt in the next few days
as part of the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.
However, the border will only open in one direction:
for Palestinians to exit.
Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi says the move validates fears that
Israel’s goal is to “continue the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.”
This comes as a coalition of 12 Israeli human rights groups concluded in a new report that …
@cdarwin@c.imA Death Row Inmate Was Released on Bail
BAfter His Conviction Was Overturned.
Louisiana Still Wants to Execute Him.
Months after a judge tossed out his 1998 murder conviction,
Jimmie Duncan is free on bail.
But prosecutors have asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty for Duncan,
even as the victim’s mother has come to support his release
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imMicron is retiring the Crucial brand,
marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits,
In an announcement on Wednesday, Micron says winding down its consumer-focused business will
“improve supply and support for our larger, strategic customers in faster-growing segments”
— a.k.a. AI companies.
@cdarwin@c.imThe New Orleans City Council Dec. 3 launched an online portal
for residents to report civil and human rights abuses by ICE and CBP paramilitary units occupying the city during the Trump regime’s anti-migrant occupation.
The launch of the portal, came as CBP forces began disappearing residents in the city, Kenner and other suburban areas of the Greater New Orleans area and parts of the River Parishes
@cdarwin@c.imA 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.imBitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months,
as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/technology/cryptocurrencies-tu…
@cdarwin@c.imSleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…
@cdarwin@c.imActivists are capturing and burning methane at an abandoned Colorado coal mine
as a “macro solution” for the climate
The methane destruction project above Paonia could be a global model for reducing emissions of a potent greenhouse gas
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/pao
@cdarwin@c.imPalantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…
@cdarwin@c.imRepublican senator has introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship,
in the latest attempt by the right to attack immigrants and tighten the rules around what is permissible with regards to American citizenship.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio,
introduced the legislation, entitled the “Exclusive Citizenship Act,” on Tuesday.
The bill makes the sweeping assertion that people with foreign citizenships may have “conflicts of interest and div…
@cdarwin@c.im“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imFlock Surveillance
refers to the camera and data systems developed by Flock Safety,
-- a private technology company that provides automated license plate recognition and
vehicle-tracking networks to
police departments, homeowners’ associations, and private businesses across the U.S.
🔥This system enables mass tracking of drivers and data sharing across police and private networks
without sufficient oversight,
raising serious concerns about privacy, …
@cdarwin@c.im2025 PA.
PITTSBURGH MAYOR
91% of votes counted
Democrat Corey O'Connor wins.
AP race call at. 5:26 p.m.
on Nov. 4, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2025/11/04/p…
@cdarwin@c.im2025 MAINE 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION
GENERAL
BALLOT MEASURE
estimates
73% of votes counted
Yes. wins.
AP race call at
6:55 p.m. on. Nov. 4, 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/r
@cdarwin@c.imProposition 50,
one of the most expensive ballot measures in state history,
was initially a coin toss when the state Legislature placed it on the Nov. 4 ballot in August.
But supporters, led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, successfully used the proposal as a visceral way for Trump opponents to push back against the president during an off-year election about the esoteric topic of congressional redistricting.
@cdarwin@c.imIf the November 2025 election was a referendum on President Trump, the Democrats have a lot to celebrate tonight.
Democratic candidates swept key races:
Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic socialist, beat Trump-endorsed former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a historic election for New York City mayor.
Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, a 46-year-old Democrat who previously worked as a CIA officer, beat a Republican candidate to become Virginia governor.
Rep…
@cdarwin@c.imCincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval handily defeated Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Pureval, a Democrat, trounced Cory Bowman, securing an early and humiliating lead over the Republican challenger.
An initial vote tally found that Pureval had won 12,694 votes, compared to Bowman’s meager 2,835,
@cdarwin@c.imA new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation
run by armed contractors
—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transporta…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump went rogue on Truth Social on Tuesday,
contradicting his own administration’s decision a day earlier to fund SNAP benefits during the shutdown
—and potentially violating a court order in the process.
Trump’s announcement caught members of his own team off guard,
with four people with knowledge of the matter telling Politico they aren’t clear whether his post means that USDA now won’t abide by the court order.
If Trump follows through on his threat,
it…
@cdarwin@c.imTexas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would
"impose a 100 percent tariff"
on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
“After the polls close tomorrow night,
I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,”
the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is promising to
block billions in
already-awarded
infrastructure bill broadband grants
to any states that enforce net neutrality
or try to impose any sort of meaningful oversight on the country’s unpopular, predatory broadband monopolies.
That was the promise of Commerce Department official Arielle Roth,
a former Ted Cruz staffer now in charge of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
Ro…
