@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:41:04
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:41:04
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-07 17:51:04
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-12-07 01:57:41
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:56:31
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-06 16:09:54
If you live in Arizona and ever get one of these very convincing looking text (or other type of) messages like I just got, know that they are a scam, because fun fact, Arizona HAS no toll roads. 😂 Nice try, though. Very official looking.
#FUCKScammers #scams
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-11-06 17:52:12
37 yrs ago #OTD my band played the #Subterranean Records Showcase at The Oasis at 11th & Folsom in #SF
There were Tupper Upper drink specials named after the reclusive label head Steve at a club that had a swimming pool and I rec…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 22:04:16
“Belligerent” was how one Democratic lawmaker described a diatribe given by top White House adviser #Stephen #Miller on CNN Monday evening regarding the Trump administration’s right to take over Venezuela — or any other country — if doing so is in the supposed interest of the US.
To Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), howev…
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-07 20:01:37
Heading back to 1973 right now with some Cosmic Slop
#NowPlaying
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-11-07 22:55:39
#ArtificialIntelligence bubble just released gas$$$$$... as #WallStreet tech #stocks suffer worst week since April amidst $800 Billion AI sell-off today of many
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 04:31:34
The curse of having to remember easily hackable passwords may soon be over
A new alternative is set to take over in 2026
#Passwords will be on the way out in 2026
as #passkeys take over
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-07 18:17:42
Next Bandcamp Friday is less than a month away now (Feb 6, see image below for all the ones in 2026) and DAMN do I have some things to buy. I've had to grab a few along the way, too.
#SupportIndieArtists
@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 …
@jake4480@c.im2026-01-06 15:29:01
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 20:47:05
This is more Communist than anything Xi or Putin does or says
Trump:
All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE:
Defense Contractors are currently issuing massive Dividends to their Shareholders and massive Stock Buybacks, at the expense ano detriment of investing in Plants and Equipment.
This situation will no longer be allowed or tolerated!
Until they do so,
no Executive should be allowed to make in excess of $5 M…
@jake4480@c.im2025-11-06 20:29:22
My fediversary is also November 2022, not sure what day. But these three years have been excellent- here's to many more. And it's all you cool folks who make it so great to be here, so thank you all for that. 💥
#fediverse #fediversary
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 03:52:48
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 03:43:33
Venezuela’s rulers have deployed #armed #militias to patrol streets, operate checkpoints and check people’s phones in a crackdown to consolidate authority after the US attack on Caracas.
Paramilitary groups known as #colectivos…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 15:43:29
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 05:46:19
Map of southeast Alaska showing active faults,
and the locations of 💥today's (December 6) magnitude 7 earthquake and several aftershocks,
at the northern tip of the Fairweather Fault System.
While no tsunami warning was issued after this earthquake, it’s worth noting that the largest tsunami runup in the world,
the July 1958 Lituya Bay tsunami,
started with a M7.8 earthquake on the Fairweather Fault.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 04:32:56
Eye of Sauron
-- @…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 15:24:15
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 22:07:17
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 04:34:28
It pisses me off that NBC Nightly News showed actual footage from this presser -- and neglected to mention the guy from Novo Nordisk keeled over seconds later.
And there was no mention of this now-iconic photo.
Just, yay, cheaper weight loss drugs. -- No visuals of the sociopath sociopathing.
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 03:59:44
There is no clear provision in the #Nato treaty for #expelling a country,
though its preamble does commit the US and other allies
“to live in peace with all peoples and all governments” and
“to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples”
– wording once intended to be u…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 00:04:42
What matters to this administration
(even more than cruelty)
is graft https://c.im/@cdarwin/115844703572553589
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 22:12:25
Donald Trump is actively discussing options for
🔸acquiring Greenland
🔸Hiding the Epstein Files
🔸Rigging the next election https://c.im/@cdarwin/115850427624863301
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 05:34:11
Shortly after U.S. forces captured Venezuela’s leader, Trump said that Cuba’s days were numbered
and that his administration may turn its sights on the Communist island next.
“Cuba looks like it is ready to fall,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One.
“I don’t know if they’re going to hold out, but Cuba now has no income.
They got all their income from Venezuela, from the Venezuelan oil.”
Whether Washington does move against Cuba remains to be seen.
P…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 04:20:15
In 2019, Russia signaled that it was willing to allow the United States to act as it pleased in Venezuela,
in exchange for Washington giving the Kremlin a free hand in Ukraine,
according to Congressional testimony from Fiona Hill,
who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration.
The Russians “were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 03:54:36
Donald Trump on Sunday told reporters that the heads of American oil companies were informed of the US military’s attack on Venezuela—even before it took place.
Trump’s admission sparked condemnation because the administration refused to consult with US lawmakers about the operation, citing fears of a leak that would compromise operational security.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 03:46:12
Donald Trump acknowledged that he informed oil companies about his plans to attack Venezuela and abduct its leader
-- despite not bothering to notify Congress.
Speaking aboard Air Force One on Sunday, the billionaire president told reporters that he talked to oil companies “before and after” the attack,
describing them as crucial to “fix the infrastructure” in the South American country after the capture
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 03:35:51
Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
-- a second strike against Venezuela
-- Cuba
-- Mexico
-- Colombia
-- Iran
-- Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbncs3…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 03:09:09
US energy companies and several hedge funds were handsomely rewarded when markets opened on Monday after news of the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
The MSCI US Energy index,
which tracks a basket of American stocks with exposure to the energy industry,
was trading up 2.8 percent on Monday, widely outperforming gains in the broader S&P 500 and other global energy stocks.
The rally was an early reflection of inves…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 02:53:40
US energy companies and several hedge funds were handsomely rewarded when markets opened on Monday
after news of the US attack on Venezuela and abduction of President Nicolas Maduro over the weekend.
The MSCI US Energy index, which tracks a basket of American stocks with exposure to the energy industry,
was trading up 2.8 percent on Monday
-- widely outperforming gains in the broader S&P 500 and other global energy stocks.
The rally was an early reflection …
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 15:32:47
Today is our generation's
Day of Infamy
-- the anniversary of the Jan6 riots and Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the election he lost
He is still attempting to erase the memory of that transgression
-- Just as he is trying to bury the evidence of his pedophile past
More than 2 million Epstein documents still unreleased
In a progress report of sorts, U.S. officials say about 12,300 Epstein documents have been reviewed and release…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 21:19:39
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes, astrophysicists have for the first time found firm evidence that a companion is disrupting the atmosphere of Betelgeuse.
Like a boat moving through water, the companion star creates a ripple effect in Betelgeuse’s atmosphere.
Astronomers now see direct signs of this wake, confirming that Betelgeuse really does have a hidden companion shaping its appearance and behavior.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 21:03:02
What we witnessed was not journalism but the choreography of propaganda.
CBS, in particular, offered thirty uninterrupted minutes of state-sanctioned fantasy,
anchored by a fawning interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth,
a man implicated in the killing of more than one hundred people at sea without evidence, accountability, or due process.
Rather than interrogating power, the networks shifted seamlessly into spectacle.
At no point did either network rais…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 19:52:45
Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 19:50:32
Christian nationalist fascists
Nick Fuentes and Joel Webbon
agree that
"only Christians should be legislators, judges, and in the executive branch."
https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/n
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 19:44:37
Trump's mad hubris has been coming fast and furious.
On Air Force One, next to a grinning and bobbing Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Trump doubled down on the notion that the failed state of Cuba would be next to fall,
finding time to threaten Colombia, Mexico, and even Greenland.
This isn’t evidence of great power.
But it is more than just the egotistical impulse of an unchecked imperial president.
It is a deliberate strategy that involves the gleeful destructio…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 01:28:58
Ventures launched by the Trump family since Donald Trump’s reelection have generated at least $4 billion in proceeds and paper wealth for the Trump family.
With investments across sectors like real estate, hospitality, media, cryptocurrency and more,
the Trumps are “increasingly integrating their business empire”
into the wider U.S. economy,
says David Uberti, who has been reporting on the family’s self-enrichment for The Wall Street Journal.
The coupling of T…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 00:08:13
No one voted for another war.
Congress must stop Trump's lawless violence and hold the regime accountable.
Join tomorrow's emergency organizing call with Sen. Kaine,
Rep. Casar, Rep. Omar, and thousands of activists
to discuss how we can mobilize to stop more endless war
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 23:50:04
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to dissolve after Republicans rescinded $1.1B at President Trump’s behest.
This ends the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio & television stations. https://apple.news/AXdo2-zPuRCiJSiIVd3
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 23:30:48
Organizer arrested in Grand Rapids following protest in response to U.S. attack in Venezuela
https://www.wzzm13.com/video/news/local/woman-arrested-in-grand-rapids-following-…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 22:33:59
Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol
in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-06 22:21:50
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created
the world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots:
-- microscopic swimming machines that can independently sense and respond to their surroundings,
operate for months
and cost just a penny each.
Barely visible to the naked eye,
each robot measures about 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers,
smaller than a grain of salt.
Operating at the scale of many biologi…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 15:56:33
“The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland that it can pretty much do what it wants,”
said Mikkel Runge Olesen, a researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen.
“I have a very hard time seeing that the U.S. couldn’t get pretty much everything it wanted,” he said, adding, “if it just asked nicely.”
Under a little-known Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland.
Right now, the United States h…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 19:47:07
Now the government’s recommendation is to “limit” drinking,
without specifying safe amounts for men and women.
The guidelines also no longer warn that alcohol may heighten the risk of breast cancer and other malignancies.
It is the first time in decades that the government has omitted the daily caps on drinking that define moderate consumption
— standards that are used as benchmarks in clinical studies,
to steer medical advice,
and to distinguish moderate…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 19:25:22
🔥Federal agents shot and killed a woman during a large-scale immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Ilhan Omar, the Democratic Minnesota congresswoman, said the victim was
👉“a legal observer” of action by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
which had sent a surge of agents into the city in recent days tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents.
A witness to the incident, Emily Heller, told local media that the victim…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 19:08:15
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:58:43
I have prompted Google Gemini (with Nano Banana engine) to generate the image of historical Jesus by using scientific data on him and ignoring iconography
Here, we see a typical wandering preacher from Galilee of the first years AD. This is a plausible image of how the real Jesus might look like
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:35:47
The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during Saturday’s military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro,
including dozens of fatalities that resulted from a gun battle at his compound in Caracas,
according to officials familiar with the matter.
One person said that at least 67 people were killed in the predawn strike,
while another said that about 75 to 80 people were left dead.
The officials, who like others spoke on the con…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-07 18:32:55
Tulsi Gabbard MIA on Venezuela operation amid tensions over Trump policy
Trump’s top national security advisers in recent days have outdone one another, publicly extolling his decision to launch the risky military raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro.
But one key figure has been largely absent from public view:
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran who for years has spoken out against costly U.S. intervention…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 20:00:14
IRS Direct File is open source
Here's it's repository https://c.im/@cdarwin/115494776208277993
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 22:51:44
For years, Donald Trump has fantasized about lawlessly killing drug dealers
In his second term, he’s made the fantasy a reality,
killing putative "drug dealers" in a likely illegal airstrike campaign on vessels in international waters.
Yet at the same time, Trump last week pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez,
who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic
💥 hundreds of tons of cocaine💥 into t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 21:07:01
Anduril cofounder Palmer Lucked defended the use of AI technology to make life-and-death decisions in war on Sunday.
A group of defense tech startups that includes Anduril,
along with traditional defense companies,
is developing autonomous AI weapons and tools for use in conflicts around the world,
-- worrying some who say the technology is not ready for such high-stakes environments.
"When it comes to life and death decision-making, I think that it is too …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 21:03:19
European countries may have to start shooting down Russian aircraft and drones that violate NATO airspace if Moscow keeps testing the alliance's resolve,
Czech President Petr Pavel said in an interview with the Sunday Times of London published Dec. 7.
"I believe there will be a moment,
if these violations continue,
where we will have to use stronger measures,
including potentially shooting down a Russian airplane or drones,"
Pavel told the T…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 21:00:01
After Kyiv’s uncrewed fleet succeeded in curbing the movements of Russia’s once-dominant Black Sea navy
The commander of sea-drone operations for Ukraine’s military intelligence agency
says more complex strikes against Russian forces are expected next year
In an interview with The Associated Press, the head of the specialized maritime drone unit, Group 13,
said Ukraine’s attacks have forced Russia to adapt,
limiting opportunities for major Black Sea strikes seen…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 20:54:24
Farage insists Thai-based crypto billionaire wants nothing in return for £9m donation to Reform UK
The Reform UK leader promoted the cryptocurrency company which Christopher Harborne holds shares in
– one month after receiving a record donation for the party
https://www…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 20:11:22
On the one hand, it does little to accuse the MAGA right of hypocrisy,
because they expressly reject moral and logical consistency,
aiming only for dominance and retribution.
On the other, it’s worth examining the way they bamboozled a majority of Americans into
believing conservatives are simply fighting for the principles of free expression and intellectual diversity.
The key to understanding this is recognizing how the right worked around the limitations …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 20:05:09
A graduate student at the University of Oklahoma
is the latest in a growing list of college instructors to face disciplinary action
after being targeted by Turning Point USA,
the right-wing campus pressure group founded by the late Charlie Kirk.
Mel Curth, a trans psychology instructor who recently won the Department of Psychology’s Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award,
gave a zero to junior Samantha Fulnecky’s reaction paper for an assignment on “gender typicali…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 19:38:33
ICE arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record during first nine months of Trump’s presidency
Data shows how arrests haven’t matched with the administration’s vow to go after the worst of the worst and violent criminals
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 19:35:15
“He’s the scary bad cop to St. Nicholas’ good cop,
to stoke some fear in the naughty children and get them to behave better.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertain
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 19:27:59
There's something cruel in how our culture treats in-between times.
We have words for achievement
and words for burnout,
but we lack vocabulary for the necessary pauses that precede new growth.
If you say you're
"between projects," people assume you've been cast aside.
The idea that you might be in a natural winter,
that you might be dormant in a way that's preparatory rather than pathological,
doesn't compute …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 19:05:47
Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 18:57:35
Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbask…
@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.im2025-12-07 18:38:45
After identification of a Thai worker's remains, the first phase of Gaza’s tenuous 8-week-old ceasefire is
a step closer to completion, with one more hostage’s remains still to be returned.
The subsequent phases under a U.S.-drafted, U.N.-backed plan for Gaza remain deeply uncertain.
There has been no word on how provisions for Hamas’ disarmament will be carried out,
or how a planned international administration and security force will be established.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 18:31:17
From her confinement in a remote detention center in Louisiana,
Bruna Ferreira recounted all the ways she said she has tried to maintain a friendly relationship with the family of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
After all, Ferreira shares a child with Leavitt’s brother.
The Brazilian immigrant selected Leavitt to be her son’s godmother.
She signed off on her son’s trip to the White House Easter egg hunt this spring.
And she said she “moved mount…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 18:26:08
Trump has long portrayed European allies as freeloaders that fail to pay enough for their own security and argued that the European Union was “formed to screw the United States.”
💥Now, that hostility is official White House policy.
The Trump administration issued a national security strategy paper this week
that called for European nations to take “primary responsibility” for their own defense,
indicating that the United States should no longer guarantee Europe’s secu…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 23:23:09
How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara’s 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California’s insurance crisis
but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.
Under Lara’s watch, the state’s insurer of last resort exploded
from 123,657 policies in 2019 to over 645,000,
leaving January wildfire victims underinsured.
Six of nine insurers filing under new rules
add zero new policies in high-risk zones
-…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 23:04:28
Pocked with bullet holes and cracked at its pedestal by an off-road vehicle,
the Georgia Historical Society marker reads in part:
“Mary Turner, eight months pregnant,
was burned, mutilated, and shot to death by a mob
after publicly denouncing her husband’s lynching the previous day. …
No charges were ever brought against known or suspected participants in these crimes.
From 1880-1930, as many as 550 people were killed in Georgia in these illegal acts of mo…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 22:57:17
Albany Georgia isn’t the only place where the poorest among us are also the sickest.
The United States is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world,
a sprawling industry so vast and lucrative that it is now one of the largest drivers of the economy,
accounting for more jobs and revenue than manufacturing.
But for all the money flowing in and out,
Americans have more chronic illnesses and shorte…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 05:58:22
Flipbook of zebrafish embryogenesis.
Taken from December 1996 issue of @dev-journal.bsky.social.
Still images from movie by Rolf Karlstrom and Don Kane.
https://bsky.app/profile/zebrafishrock.bsky.social/post/3m7esvutmss2s
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 05:38:37
If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that
👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet
"Agrarian Justice",
⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 03:01:45
In what Arizona’s attorney general slammed as an
“unacceptable and outrageous” act of “unchecked aggression,”
a federal immigration officer fired pepper spray toward recently sworn-in Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva
during a Friday raid on a Tucson restaurant.
Grijalva (D-Ariz.) wrote on social media that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers
“just conducted a raid by Taco Giro in Tucson
— a small mom-and-pop restaurant that has served our c…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-07 02:18:43
A new, disturbing detail in the
“drug boat” controversy that has enveloped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the past week
calls the purpose of the entire operation into question.
According to an exclusive report from CNN,
the alleged narco-trafficking boat that the U.S. military targeted on September 2 in a “double tap” strike, which killed 11 people,
⭐️wasn’t even heading to the U.S.
Navy Admiral Frank “Mitch” Bradley, who was in charge of the operatio…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 21:57:43
Kilauea’s nearly year-long eruption continued Saturday with the start of episode 38.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the latest eruptive episode began at around 8:45 a.m. with sustained lava fountains of about 50 to 100 feet.
Webcam livestreams at the summit showed the fountains had increased in height by 9 a.m.
@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.im2025-12-06 20:47:01
Trump: Execute drug dealers, free kingpins
Longtime Trump associate and right-wing operative Roger Stone personally lobbied for Hernandez’s release of Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had just started serving a 45-year federal prison sentence for helping to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States
— free of charge, Stone claims.
Meanwhile, former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale has been working for the campaign of Nasry Asfura, the right-wing candidate f…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:32:10
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs).
This is an alarming development in government surveillance that should put communities everywhere on alert.
FRT brings a rash of problems.
It relies on extensive surveillance and collecting images on individuals, law-abiding or otherwise.
Misidentifications can cause horrendous consequences for individuals, includ…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:18:38
A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses.
“She just broke my Meta glasses,” said the TikTok user, who goes by eth8n, in a video that has since garnered millions of views.
“She was the only person annoyed. I never spoke to her, I even let her sit down when she got on the train at 42nd street, and I continued to stand.”
But instead of coming to his support,
the internet wholeheartedly rallied behind the alleged perpetrator,
ce…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:12:37
The price of eggs has nothing on the price of computer memory right now.
Thanks to a supply crunch from the “AI” bubble,
RAM chips are the new gold,
with prices on consumer PC memory kits ballooning out of control.
In an object lesson in the ridiculousness of an economic bubble,
Samsung won’t even sell its memory to… Samsung
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:10:09
More than 60,000 penguins have starved to death off the coast of South Africa
as a result of collapsing sardine numbers, according to a new study.
From 2004 to 2011, more than 95 per cent of the African penguins on Dassen Island and Robben Island died.
Researchers said they probably died during the moulting period, the annual event where they replace all their feathers at once over a number of weeks.
The climate crisis and overfishing have been attributed to driving…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 20:00:49
It’s been 36 years since a mass femicide occurred at École Polytechnique in Montréal.
A man shot and killed 14 women because of their sex.
Described as “violent misogyny” by the federal government,
the killings have nonetheless never officially been called femicide in Canada
despite its global recognition as one of the most vivid examples of femicide in the western world.
Women and girls continue to be killed every two days somewhere in Canada, mostly by men. …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:53:02
Trump DoJ ‘immediately’ stops enforcing prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, according to a leaked memo
The Department of Justice instructed prison auditors across the country to simply stop assessing whether facilities are violating laws designed to shield LGBT prisoners from sexual abuse
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:46:52
Concrete is a mix of several different materials:
water, fine aggregates (or sand), coarse aggregates (or gravel), chemical additives,
and, most importantly, cement.
Cement is what binds all of these ingredients together to give concrete its durability and distinctive, grey appearance.
Cement production, however, also generates most of concrete’s emissions:
🔥In fact, cement accounts for around 8% of all CO2 emissions worldwide
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:25:57
The Hawaiian Supreme Court
ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations.
And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents
—unlike, they said, the U.S. Supreme Court.
https://boltsmag.org/hawaii-supreme-court-police-inter…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:22:36
After spending several months bragging about killing people by bombing random boats in the Caribbean,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is suddenly far less interested in taking credit for the “double tap” strike that occurred on September 2.
Why is Hegseth backing off?
Turns out that even Republicans are not so comfy with murdering survivors of a boat strike.
Yesterday, CNN reported that after the initial September 2 strike killed nine people,
a second one 41 m…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-06 19:19:21
Several species of fish are claimed to produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed,
a condition known as ichthyoallyeinotoxism.
For example, Sarpa salpa, a species of sea bream referred to as the "dream-fish", is commonly claimed to be hallucinogenic.
These widely distributed coastal fish are normally found in the Mediterranean and around the Iberian Peninsula,
west to the Azores and along the west and south coasts of Africa.
Occasionally they are fo…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 17:46:30
As Trump’s excuses for GOP losses worsen
he calls for rigging the midterms in response
A Democratic operative explains why his schemes could still be a problem—and how Democrats should respond
https://newrepublic.com/article/202852…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-08 00:25:10
Supreme Court issues a stay,
with three dissenting
-- and Brett Kavanaugh separately
concurring to note
that hunger tends to be brief
https://bsky.app/profile/stevevladeck.bsky.social/post/3m53b7ge55k2l
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 15:06:59
This government that flouts the Fourth Amendment
and then lies about it to courts and the people
has crossed a moral and legal frontier.
https://newrepublic.com/article/202672/ice-arresting-american-citizens-and-lying
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 15:04:03
Zohran Mamdani announces an
all-female leadership team for his transition
including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan
https://bsky.app/profile/tempus-fukit.bsky.social/post/3m4wwvdijk22a
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 14:57:49
The mainstream media said voters wouldn’t go for him
and they said “socialism won’t sell.”
But on the streets of New York, people were done listening to conventional wisdom.
All throughout Manhattan and from East Harlem to Queens, voters told us the same thing:
they’re tired of the old guard, the empty promises, and a system that serves the wealthy instead of the working class.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:27:48
Military contractors called for
— and are now getting
— contracts to help carry out Trump’s mass deportations,
🔥with a bounty for every immigrant they track down.
https://www.levernews.com/inside-ices-plans-for-a-bounty-hunter-army/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:24:55
The California Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes and forbids employees of those sites from using the wrong pronouns to address a resident or coworker.
The ruling, handed down today, held that violations of the"LGBT Long-Term Care Residents’ Bill of Rights" are not protected by the First Amendment because they relate to codes of conduct in what is effectively both a workplace…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:21:41
One of the guests at Donald Trump’s press conference on weight loss drugs passed out during the event
Trump Just Stood There After The Man Collapses During Press Conference
https://newrepublic.com/post/202825/donald-trump-novo-nordisk-executive-c…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:16:59
Life on college campuses has changed dramatically in the last 10 months.
While institutions of higher education continue to reel from the Trump administration’s top-down attacks and scramble to adjust,
workers on campus say that their universities are simultaneously expanding their own internal repression and surveillance apparatuses to squash dissent
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-07 00:13:48
Evanston, Illinois Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids amounts to an “invasion from our own federal government.”
His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members.
“They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason,”
Biss says.
“If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest.”
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 23:17:01
The Los Angeles Sheriff's department produced the names of about 8,500 deputies
-- but refused to produce any photographs except of the sheriff and his undersheriffs.
They claimed that producing photographs of the deputies would violate their right to privacy and might endanger them in the future, if they ever go undercover.
But the department’s rationale seemed suspect because it also refused to comply with separate requests for headshots of three deputies who have b…
