@jake4480@c.imRogue on Steam does this thing where it can make everything 3D, and everything (monsters, scenery, all of it) is made from the letters and numbers. It's wild, and I'm hooked. 😂 Totally amazing to play on a Steam Deck.
#Rogue #roguelike
@cdarwin@c.im
@heiseonline@social.heise.deDie nächste Sphere: Bei Washington D.C. soll kleinere Kugelarena gebaut werden
Die kugelförmige Sphere in Las Vegas fasziniert seit ihrer Eröffnung. Als nächstes soll eine kleinere bei Washington D.C. gebaut werden.
<…
@cdarwin@c.im @jake4480@c.imWe did a zine! @… had this awesome idea and pulled a bunch of us together. We present to you Swampgas #1 for winter 2025 - just in time for the solstice. It's got metal, fantasy, art, photography, poetry, stories, plus music reviews and previews.
Free at itch:
@cdarwin@c.imLegendary rocker
#Bruce #Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement
during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night
at the "Light of Day" benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Springsteen dedicated his 1978 ant…
@jake4480@c.imSince 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.imPolitical leaders, CEOs and opinion-makers arrived at #Davos in Switzerland ahead of the World Economic Forum ( #WEF ),
with mounting trade tensions between the US and Europe set to dominate discussions after Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats.
Trump, who is expected to deliver a keynote address later this week…
@jake4480@c.imIn our hearts, we really always knew it
@cdarwin@c.imNothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
@jake4480@c.imMaking our way through the week
@cdarwin@c.imCatholic personnel in the US military could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland,
according to the bishop responsible for their pastoral care.
The Archbishop of the Military Services #Timothy #Broglio said personnel
“could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to…
@jake4480@c.imThere aren't many things better than Chloë Sevigny holding a copy of 'D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle' in a record store in 2011
@cdarwin@c.imSomeone should tell Pam Bondi that while Nixon didn't go to prison his Attorney General did
@jake4480@c.imOkay, stop right there, last.fm. That's the perfect number of artists
@cdarwin@c.imThe unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imWhat might it feel like to be a glass squid ...
to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings?
#ArgentinianDeepSeeps
https://bsky.app/profile/schmidtocean.
@cdarwin@c.imA New Hampshire Episcopal bishop's stark warning to his clergy is resonating across the nation, drawing fervent praise from some and rebukes from others.
#Bishop #Rob #Hirschfeld was one of several community and faith leaders ga…
@cdarwin@c.imA federal judge ❌ refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week’s notice before members of Congress can visit immigration detention facilities.
🆘U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb in Washington, D.C., concluded that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t violate an earlier court order when it reimposed a seven-day notice requirement for congressional oversight visits to Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
Last …
@cdarwin@c.imAt 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…
@cdarwin@c.imDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a supply-chain risk,
a designation usually reserved for foreign adversaries,
which bars companies that work with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic as well.
Anthropic is challenging this designation in court.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116260139069029479
As the U.S.–Iran war enters a new phase, the range of options now being discussed stretches from
⚡️hitting Iran’s economic and oil lifeline at Kharg Island
⚡️to the far more dangerous prospect of a ground invas…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump's personal lawyer
#Robert #Garson told the Telegraph newspaper that he has held conversations with the US state department about💥 offering refuge to British Jews who are leaving the UK -- citing rising antisemitism.
Garson, 49, said he felt the UK was “no longer a safe place for Jews”.
He adde…
@cdarwin@c.imRE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/115923688571752430
If police can come to your door in the middle of the night and put you behind bars
based on nothing more than an entirely false and contrived interpretation of a Facebook post,
no one’s First Amendment rights a…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imImmigration and Customs Enforcement ( #ice ), is urgently seeking a powerful new
artificial-intelligence model
to find and prioritise individuals eligible for deportation
—ranging from those who overstayed their visas to violent criminals.
A prototype of the “streamlined end-to-end immigration lifecycle” software, called
@cdarwin@c.imNursing homes falsely label patients schizophrenic to sedate them, OIG says
Many U.S. nursing homes are creating phony schizophrenia diagnoses
-- to hide their use of dangerous antipsychotic drugs to subdue dementia patients,
a government watchdog report said Thursday in its sharpest finding yet over a persistent form of alleged abuse.
A diagnosis of schizophrenia allows nursing homes to avoid reporting use of the drugs
and artificially improve quality-star rat…
@cdarwin@c.imUnder Trump, the government’s watchdogs are losing their independence
Inspectors general have long touted their independence from partisan politics,
maintaining a strict firewall between themselves and the White House appointees whose activities they are supposed to check.
But now, over a year into the new Trump administration,
political figures and the White House have sought greater influence over government watchdogs than ever before,
-- leading to concerns…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter the Iran war, the Gulf will never be the same again
Most observers are rightly focusing on the near-term effects of the war in Iran.
In addition to the mounting human cost,
the war has caused the largest supply shock in oil market history by volume and percentage of global supply affected.
But equally important, if less visible, are the long-term impacts that war will have on the global economy.
Iran will very likely have a government that is hostile to …
@cdarwin@c.imDrones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns
U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,
according to three people briefed on the situation.
Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.
The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump nomination of Mullin for DHS chief advances out of Senate committee
A Senate committee narrowly voted Thursday to advance Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma)
to become head of the Department of Homeland Security
to the full Senate for consideration.
In an 8-7 vote, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee
sent Mullin’s nomination forward despite opposition from Chairman Rand Paul (R-Kentucky),
who tangled…
@cdarwin@c.imA top Justice Department official delivered a hardball message to federal prosecutors.
🆘Go after the protesters with everything you have.
In a conference call in late January,
the official, Aakash Singh, laid out the department’s basis for prosecuting demonstrators:
🔥National Security Presidential Memo 7 -- a sweeping directive issued by President Trump last September.
It expanded the definition of
"domestic terrorism" to include not only violent c…
@cdarwin@c.imThe United States has a tendency to overestimate what political outcomes can be engineered using overwhelming military power
while underestimating the fallout,
said Caitlin Talmadge,
a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specializes in Gulf security issues.
“Air power is the U.S. drug of choice
— we love to believe that it can achieve big political effects and also big military effects,
yet the historical record doesn’t support that…
@cdarwin@c.im"It takes money to kill bad guys,"
US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth says
when confirming that Pentagon would ask Congress for $200 billion for Iran war.
The department sent the request to the White House, though Hegseth said
the reported figure "could move."
https://b…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi have struggled to replace attorneys
after a mass exodus of recent resignations, retirements and buyouts, an analyst said on Thursday.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imTalking to Drones: Natural Language Control of PX4 Using a Phone, MCP and ChatGPT Realtime API
https://osselcna2026.sched.com/event/2JQsT/talking-to-drones-natural-language-control-…
@cdarwin@c.imA U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/judge-…
@cdarwin@c.imSocial network Bluesky is gearing up for big changes with today’s news that
the company raised $100 million in Series B funding.
The round, led by Bain Capital Crypto, was closed in April 2025 but had not been disclosed until now
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/blue…
@cdarwin@c.imA huge treasure trove of songs and interviews
recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s
has been digitized and made available online for free listening.
The Association for Cultural Equity, a nonprofit organization founded by Lomax in the 1980s,
has posted some 20,000 recordings.
@cdarwin@c.imA ground operation by the US Marines headed to Iran likely would involve targeting Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles and deeply buried facilities — to locate, secure or disable nuclear material that cannot be destroyed from the air.
Although Donald Trump said the June 2025 U.S. strikes had "obliterated" key nuclear sites, analysts note that critical elements of Iran’s program
— particularly enriched uranium stockpiles and deeply buried facilities — likely remain intac…
@cdarwin@c.imIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
“Iran is being decimated”
as the U.S. and Israel target its ballistic missile and nuclear programs from the air
-- But meaningful regime change will require a
🔥 “ground component,”
Netanyahu added that the Iranian people must ultimately “rise to the moment.”
@cdarwin@c.imCOVID may have killed significantly more people in the U.S. in the first two years of the pandemic than official records indicate, with as many as one overlooked death for every five recorded ones. That brings the total to nearly one million deaths just in 2020 and 2021.
That calculation comes from research published today in Science Advances that seeks to understand how many COVID deaths fell through the cracks of official reporting systems. The untallied cases show the burden of the …
@cdarwin@c.imIran, Not Trump, Decides When This War Is Over
The U.S. and Israel started the war,
but with the Strait of Hormuz closed and gas prices skyrocketing,
Iran is in control now
https://newrepublic.com/article/207887/iran-control-war-not-trump
@cdarwin@c.imDemocratic Representative Dan Goldman revealed an unredacted file from the government’s Jeffrey Epstein files on the House floor Wednesday,
saying that it directly contradicts Donald Trump’s account of his relationship with the billionaire sex offender.
The document is an October 2009 email containing information about a conversation between one of Epstein’s attorneys, Jack Goldberger, and an attorney for Trump, Alan Garten.
The email was initially released to the public in…
@cdarwin@c.imWith a stroke of his pen, Trump made the oil flow on behalf of Sable Offshore
— oil that hadn’t flowed for 10 years.
It began flowing from underwater oil wells located seven miles out to sea.
It flowed up to what used to be Exxon’s massive industrial plant along the Gaviota Coast.
And, ultimately, it flowed into two old pipelines that caused the 2015 massive oil disaster,
-- pipelines so corroded that Sable had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to patc…
@cdarwin@c.imAs companies pour billions into sprawling industrial campuses for cloud and AI computing,
some data center operators are experimenting with four-legged bots
—about the size of large dogs
—that can patrol fences, inspect equipment, and flag any issues before they turn into costly outages.
These robots, known as “quadrupeds,”
are being used to patrol the complexes,
which can sometimes reach the size of multiple football fields.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration purged the State Department of its oil and gas experts last year,
-- prior to launching its war on Iran,
--including people who would be responsible for examining scenarios related to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
By the time the layoffs were over,
the only people left in the energy bureau were people specializing in critical minerals and clean energy,
the administration said in a notification to Congress at the time.
The pe…
@cdarwin@c.imTransportation Industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso,
a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin.
The candidate’s father-in-law happens to be the U.S. secretary of transportation.
https://www.propublica.org/article/sean-du…
@cdarwin@c.imA recent spate of espionage and cybercriminal campaigns has deployed phone-takeover tools,
embedded in infected websites,
to indiscriminately hack phones by the thousands.
And one new technique in particular
—capable of taking over any of hundreds of millions of iOS devices
—has appeared on the web in an easily reusable form, putting a significant fraction of the world's iPhone users at risk.
@cdarwin@c.imEarth is hotter than at any time in the last 125,000 years,
but the news media is moving on,
trying to keep on top of a fire hose of pressing news
—from the daily chaos of the Trump administration to the breaking developments in the war on Iran.
The shift in attention started during the COVID-19 pandemic and,
despite a temporary rebound,
has gathered pace in recent years:
Since its peak in 2021, global news coverage of climate change has dropped 38 p…
@cdarwin@c.imOn the heels of news reports that
more than 40,000 files were either withheld or taken down from the Department of Justice’s site
with documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein case,
the DOJ late last week released documents including FBI memos related to accusations against Donald Trump.
But MS NOW has found that the released files still appear to be incomplete,
missing FBI notes and memos reflecting interviews with women alleging abuse by other prominent men.
@cdarwin@c.imTurkish Galatasaray winger
Noa Lang
was taken to hospital and may need surgery on a lacerated thumb injury
after he collided with an advertising hoarding during the defeat to Liverpool.
In a freak accident during the second half the substitute ran into the advertising hoardings where,
in an attempt to stay upright,
his thumb became jammed between the two panels which then shut tight.
The end of his right thumb was severed.
@cdarwin@c.imThe United States was not ready for this war.
Secretary of State Rubio publicly acknowledged the structural mismatch before the operation began:
Iran produces more than 100 ballistic missiles per month,
against six or seven interceptors that the United States can manufacture in the same period.
The Shahed-136 drone costs between twenty and fifty thousand dollars to produce.
-- The PAC-3 interceptor that destroys it costs four million.
The THAAD intercep…
@cdarwin@c.imBelarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has ordered a combat readiness inspection of the country's armed forces,
the Belarusian Defense Ministry announced on October 11.
The move comes amid growing concern in Europe over suspected Russian sabotage operations
and repeated violations of NATO airspace by unidentified drones.
The Belarusian military is implementing a "set of measures" to bring select units to their "highest level of combat readiness&qu…
@cdarwin@c.imPentagon seeks more than $200 billion in budget request for Iran war
In an enormous new ask that is almost certain to run into resistance from lawmakers opposed to the Iran conflict,
The Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a more than
$200 billion request to Congress
to fund the war in Iran,
according to a senior administration official,
That number would far surpass the costs of the administration’s massive airstrike campaign to date
and …
@cdarwin@c.imDenver grapples with fallout of
César Chšvez abuse allegations
as the March 30 holiday approaches
Many cities have parks and government buildings named after
the Chicano civil rights activist,
who fought for farmworkers’ rights
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imThe World Is on Fire.
Gas Prices Are Rising.
Republicans Are Trying to Make It Harder to Vote.
Instead of ending the Iran war or improving the economy,
Senate Republicans are championing Trump’s MAGA voter suppression bill.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics…
@cdarwin@c.imIf you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of teachers affiliated with the CNTE, a teachers’ union, marched through Mexico City on March 18,
setting up a 72-hour protest camp in the Zocalo square to demand salary increases and the repeal of education and pension reforms.
https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/p…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 2027, the second year of Trump's Middle East War,
we will need to recall how this all got started
So today…
—The worlds largest natural gas deposit was set on fire
—Trump demanded $200 billion more for his batshit war
—Serious talk of U.S. boots on the ground
—Netanyahu went full-bore End Days Expansionist for Evangelical extremists
—Gas over $5/gallon
Sleep well, everyone!
@cdarwin@c.imPolice officers raided the
rapper Afroman's Ohio home,
... then sued him after he ridiculed them on social media
— but a jury just sided with the rapper.
In an unusual lawsuit members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department sued over songs and social media posts by Afroman
(Joseph Foreman)
that criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.
The case claimed the videos were false and caused the officers "severe …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Supreme Court struck down Donald Trump’s far-reaching global tariffs on Friday,
handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda.
The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law -- including the sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on nearly every other country.
It’s the first major piece of Trump’s broad agenda to come squarely before the nation’s highest court,
which he helped shape with the appointment…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…
@cdarwin@c.imAn executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel
Plans
features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8,
which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet,
but now Immigrat…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Says US Giving $10B to
“Board of Peace”
— 12 Times US’s UN Contribution
Critics have said Trump is angling to replace the UN with the “Board of Piss,” which he is in charge
The Trump administration is requiring countries to commit $1 billion to the board to become permanent members.
Trump said on Thursday that 10 nations have contributed $7 billion to a supposed relief package for Gaza so far,
including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emir…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Republican-controlled US House on Wednesday
passed a new version of the SAVE Act,
a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans.
The House passage of the new bill, now called the SAVE America Act, comes roughly a week after President Trump called on Republicans to
“nationalize the voting” and
…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. economy is more distorted than ever.
The widening gap between corporate profits and average workers
— between capital and labor
— helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.
Consumer confidence is in the basement.
The gap was widening before Trump was elected. It explains in part the rise of MAGA and why Trump won in 2016 and again in 2024.
But Trump hasn’t done a thing to alter these trends.
In fact, …
@cdarwin@c.imALERT: The Senate is poised to vote on Trump's sweeping voter suppression bill.
Learn more & help stop them now:
https://im-ca.org/l/iB6pZS
Robert Reich, IMCA
@cdarwin@c.imRamón and Luis are part of a group composed of family and friends of the defendants in a controversial federal criminal case alleging that a dozen protesters—who took part in a July 4, 2025, protest outside the Prairieland Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Alvarado during which one protester allegedly shot a police officer—and seven others are members of an organized “North Texas antifa terror cell,” as described in federal complaints and press releases.
In …
@cdarwin@c.imFederal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain
—in under 120 characters
—that they were “related to DEI.”
That’s what the newly released proposed amended complaint from the Authors Guild against the US government reveals
about how DOGE actually decided which National Endowment for the Humanities grants to kill.
There were plenty of early…
@cdarwin@c.imMastodon, 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.imIncreasing amounts of metal, such as lithium, as a byproduct of the modern-day space race, are beginning to alter the chemical composition of Earth’s atmosphere.
Robin Wing, and his colleagues at the Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock in Germany, measured a 10-fold concentration of lithium atoms in the upper atmosphere around 20 hours after the uncontrolled re-entry of a Falcon 9 rocket.
The findings are detailed in a new studypublished Thursda…
@cdarwin@c.imAs states moved to cap sky-high interest rates,
two GOP lawmakers
-- who’ve taken millions from financial interests
-- are pushing legislation to override those protections nationwide
https://www.levernews.com/bank-backed-republicans-move-t…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel made up of Donald Trump's appointees,
on Thursday approved his proposal to build a ballroom larger than the White House itself
where the East Wing once stood.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imMoney drives people nuts.
So can families.
Together they are combustible,
need and greed mixing with primal resentments and rivalries.
This is why, like the “marriage plot”, the inheritance plot is sometimes a staple of fiction.
Today’s tetchily unequal age is one of those times:
witness
“How to Make a Killing”,
a droll film released in America on February 20th and elsewhere soon.
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.im"Girls Who Chase" trainings
offer foundational, operational and accessible information and training material
for storm chasers and weather enthusiasts at all levels
- from those who want to begin their chase education or brush up on the basics,
to more advanced chasers wanting to learn more in-depth about specialized topics.
@cdarwin@c.imA 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 …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is ripping you off
-- 10 billion dollars to his off- shore account in his
Board of "Peace"
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU9bVGWCfoH/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
@cdarwin@c.imIn recent weeks, the U.S. military has built up forces close to Iran, in what Donald Trump has referred to as an “armada.”
Trump is now deciding whether to take military action against Iran as soon as this weekend, officials said.
But unlike last June, when the United States joined Israel in attacking nuclear sites in Iran, the president’s objectives are less clear.
The "armada" includes the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, which is accompanied by three warships …
@cdarwin@c.imWhite House economic adviser says Fed researchers should be punished
Kevin Hassett, a top economic adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday
assailed a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York finding that U.S. companies shoulder most of the costs of tariffs,
-- calling for the central bank to punish the researchers behind the work, which he characterized as an “embarrassment.”
“What they’ve done is they put out a conclusion, which has created a lot of news, that…
@cdarwin@c.imWe are screwed
Jay Bhattacharya, a top Trump administration health official and an outspoken critic of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s response to the coronavirus pandemic,
will lead the CDC on an acting basis, according to four people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe personnel moves.
Bhattacharya, who will continue his role as director of the National Institutes of Health, replaces Jim O’Neill, who had served as the CDC’s acting directo…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from MAGA gun nuts
Some of the changes are expected to ease restrictions on the private sale of guns and loosen regulations on shipping firearms.
Other changes to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regulations under consideration would change the types of firearms that can be imported and make licensing fees refundable.
Officials are also expected to c…
@cdarwin@c.imThis is happening because Congress didn’t enforce the Emolument Clause as a check on Trump’s first term
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/20/opinion/editorials/trump-wealth-crypto-graft.html
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s intensifying standoff with European leaders over the fate of Greenland
prompted a sharp response from investors Tuesday morning,
with the value of U.S. stocks, dollar and government bonds all falling.
The S&P 500 dropped over 1 percent
as investors reacted to Trump’s increasing threat of higher tariffs on European allies unless they supported his plans for America to take control of Greenland.
Tuesday morning’s decline was first time the index has st…
@cdarwin@c.imSascha Riley is willing to testify against Pedophile perpetrators including
Donald J. Trump,
Andy Biggs,
Jim Jordan,
Lindsey Graham
and Clarence Thomas
https://lisevoldeng.substack.com/p/dont-worry-boys-are-hard-to-find?tr…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imCongressional negotiators are expected to release a
bipartisan health care package
as soon as today
that revives major parts of a deal that was torpedoed in late 2024 by Elon Musk and then President-elect Trump.
The agreement would include long-stalled priorities like
— an overhaul of the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers — the "middlemen" between drug manufacturers and insurers
— and new controls on how hospitals bill for outpatien…
@cdarwin@c.imOn 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.imAn FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her.
The Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration is seeking to deport two men
who provided accounts of the Jan. 3 death of
Geraldo Lunas Campos
at a Texas detention camp
that differed from the Department of Homeland Security’s description of the incident.
Santos Jesus Flores and
Antonio Ascon Frometa,
two detainees at
"Camp East Montana" who both have criminal convictions,
said in phone interviews with The Washington Post this week that they witnessed …
@cdarwin@c.imDenmark on Monday is boosting its military presence on the Arctic island, according to local press reports.
A "substantial contribution" of Danish combat soldiers is expected to arrive in Kangerlussuaq,
the location of Greenland’s main international airport, on Monday evening, according to Danish broadcaster TV2.
Denmark’s top military commander in the Arctic,
Maj. Gen. SŸren Andersen, said that about 100 Danish soldiers have already arrived in Nuuk, Greenla…
@cdarwin@c.imA 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.imToday is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was born January 15, 1929.
He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
He was just 39 years old.
While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader,
he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the Poor People’s Campaign
to address issues of economic justice.
Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S. foreign policy an…
