@metacurity@infosec.exchangeWhy do none of these articles even touch on how much data DOGE stole from the US government, how much damage they caused to the security of government IT systems, and how much DOGE exposed all of our data to foreign adversaries?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
@benb@osintua.euPutin and his government see ratings slide as the war drags on, new polling shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/02/putin-and-his-government-see.html
@cdarwin@c.imBack from a week abroad, Donald Trump called on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government,
an idea swiftly rejected Friday by Republican leaders who have long opposed such a move.
https://apnews.com/article/filibuster-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineThanks, Trump!
#ThanksTrump
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialButcher shop goes viral offering free meat for SNAP recipients, federal workers
https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/fort-collins/2025/10/31/butcher-shop-offers…
@rae@bne.socialWeasel words from Colesworth. Food security is more important than their profits. # FoodSecurity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-01/federal-government-…
@servelan@newsie.socialIran's government offers dialogue as protests spread to students - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251231-iran-s-government-offers-dialogue-as-protests-spread-to-students
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThune casts doubt on passing government funding bills before Christmas (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/01/congress/thune-casts-doubt-on-passing-government-funding-bills-before-christmas-00671973
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p107#a251201p107
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzGovernment Shutdown Causes Even More Confusion for U.S. Visa Applicants https://www.404media.co/government-shutdown-visa-applications/
@edintone@mastodon.greenMore than 600 government files released under 20-year rule https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/more-than-600-government-files-released-under-20-year-rule/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--European authorities dismantle the Cryptomixer service,
--Indian government wants smartphone makers to preload state-owned security app,
--Indian government wants to bar comms apps from working on SIM-less devices,
--Korea launches probe into Coupang breach and threatens punitive damages,
--DPRK hackers target S. Koreans with fake tax invoices,
--Malware-laden…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Talking Heads:
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#TalkingHeads
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https://open.spotify.com/track/7pAAeToDaCaFROvuu8pZ92
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGuardian faffing around the issue.
The government should clearly overturn Javid's cruel decision to strip this victim of grooming of her citizenship.
But they won't, being on human rights, even worse than the last Tory government.
Ministers cannot go on ignoring the Shamima Begum case, for two important reasons | Shamima Begum | The Guardian
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe US Supreme Court hears arguments in a copyright case between ISP Cox Communications and record labels; labels say Cox should be liable for user infringement (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/u
@cdarwin@c.imICE and DHS have spent more than $10 million on advertising in just the first three weeks of October
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/ice-spending-big-ads-government-shutdown-1235457329/
@dhuyvetter@mastodon.socialBig Tech is neoliberalism's wet dream!
There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path
to a post-American internet
by @…
https://
@aral@mastodon.ar.alCare about everyday people the way the French government cares about gemstones and jewelry.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgkk1mkg0po
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“The reforms would give more people access to domestic electricity rates, enabling families to run their EVs for as little as 2p per mile – the equivalent of London to Birmingham for £2.50.
[..]
The government will also work with Ofgem to ensure public costs are fair and strengthen protections against landowners overcharging tenants for home charging above the market rate.”
@servelan@newsie.socialGovernment shutdown live: White House threatens ‘imminent’ layoffs with Senate set to vote Friday | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/government-shutdown-2025-live-trump-spending-bill-b2836780.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown (Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/snap-beneficiaries-threaten-ransack-stores-over-government-shutdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p135#a251031p135
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyDutch government has let all messages within the judicial system run via Solvinity, a company now about to be sold by a UK-based private equity firm to US-based Kyndryl. Which brings the data within reach of the Trump regime.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the Venezuelan government is using crypto and stablecoins like USDT to manage the downturn; Venezuela sells most of its oil to China and is paid in crypto (Anatoly Kurmanaev/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… let me just skate by these government regulations
(LEGAL DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A JOKE)
@rberger@hachyderm.io"That's it. That's why every government in the world allowed US Big Tech companies to declare open season on their people's private data and ready cash.
The alternative was tariffs. Well, I don't know if you've heard, but we've got tariffs now!
I mean, if someone threatens to burn your house down unless you follow their orders, and then they burn your house down anyway, you don't have to keep following their orders. So…Happy Liberation Day?" - @…
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
@boris@cosocial.caFinland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience.
This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.
https://www.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«“We are seeing in real time how a government can melt in front of our eyes,” Alejandro Bercovich, a leading Argentine TV and radio journalist told me this week. “I never thought they would collapse this quickly.” […] It’s not only Milei’s administration melting away; so too are his once-packed international throng of cheerleaders and wolf-whistlers. Farage, Badenoch, Musk and all the rest are maintaining a red-faced silence. Curious, that..»
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaLots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seThe study involved leading laboratories across multiple countries testing identical samples of gut microbiome bacteria. Results revealed startling inconsistencies, with accuracy measures varying dramatically between laboratories – despite analysing the same samples.
MHRA-led study reveals major inconsistencies in global microbiome research
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itDon't reopen the government until the Senate has been abolished, and SCOTUS has been replaced with a term-limited array of circuit court judges (sure, you get a lifetime circuit court appointment, but you only spend X years on SCOTUS; where X could be something like 10).
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterIf you're ever bored, you can while away some time amusing yourself at the UK government's petitions website by looking at the list of rejected petitions.
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Block VPN users from Wisconsin" means blocking all VPNs, becuase … VPN.
"Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all #VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of …
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzUgh - Nicola Willis is so full of shit. She has boundless (but blind) faith in 'technology' to fix our carbon problem. Simultaneously, she's defunding all science in Aotearoa, so many of the the clever people are leaving. She, and the entire subculture she represents, is unfit to lead. She's righteous about her ignorance. Hopeless.Her government needs to go.
@Dragofix@veganism.social
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialBy my calculation this Federal shutdown would be best continued for the next 3.5 years.
Yes, people will suffer.
But it is better for the Federal government to be immobilized than to let it continue its descent into an oppressive regime designed to pump wealth and power into the pockets and hands of a very few, particularly one who wears far too much bronze colored makeup.
I find the D-party Congress critters who want to "negotiate" to be naive. The R's, part…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comI've just got this government safety ad in a podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eX7G-aO0bg
and I have some questions.
Like, was it a good use of tax money to send this out in December? Or a good use full stop.
But mainly
@primonatura@mstdn.social"India may need 230 GWh of energy storage by 2030 as peak demand rises"
#India #Energy #Renewables
@cdarwin@c.imYou’ll still get your social security and Medicare.
Flights will keep going, but with unpaid and possibly limited staff.
Most parks will remain open, but will probably be under-maintained.
Smithsonian museums and the National zoo are open through at least 6 October.
Federal workers are the hardest hit, withmany being unpaid or furloughed.
Consumer protections, which have already been hit hard by cuts, are at risk of incapacity.
@publicvoit@graz.socialThe #PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
In order to not comply with…
@kasilas@mastodon.ieBloody Sunday: Government spent over £4m on Soldier F case
https://share.google/lI7OO5pkDz9xpi6eG
The British gov. has now spent 4M and 53 years defending a self-confessed killer for an atrocity it paid for, which it investigated and publicly announced as unjustified and unjustifiable.
…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineReally glad that reports are that McNugget Muammar will strike military targets in Venezuela at any moment, and also that he won't.
'cause what you want is for there to be coinfusing about unimportant things like war 🤦♂️
"...Donald Trump denied that he is considering strikes on Venezuela, contradicting a media report that he’d given approval for such a move as well as his own past statements that he was preparing land attacks after a series of boat strikes."
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThere was no electric power in the whole centre of the Bulgarian capital for more than an hour. Not gonna lie, I was legit scared shitless those fuckers in the government were going to try to pull something against the ongoing protests 😬
@pre@boing.worldDespite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
--
Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@steve@s.yelvington.com @Techmeme@techhub.socialInstacart sues New York City to block enforcement of five laws, including rules governing minimum pay for app-based workers and tipping disclosures (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/instacart-sue…
@wraithe@mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@Wraithe/112542343722966675
So I usually post this video for Pride, but it’s worth noting the reason @blackfluidpoet (TikTok) says WHY people came out:
“…when our government was draggin’ their asses about AIDS because “the…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deus_agencies: U.S. government agency websites (2018)
50 networks, one for each U.S. state, representing the web-based links between their associated government agencies websites. A node is an entire agency website and a directed edge (i,j) represents the existence of a hyperlink from any webpage in website i to some webpage in website j. Data was collected with a crawler. Nodes are annotated with the number of webpages per website, website name (related to its government function) and U…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThere is never a shortage of critical cybersecurity news, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--With cyber grants dead in Congress, states scramble to build their own defenses,
--Cl0p is extorting executives and tech departments for up to $50m,
--Nursery chain hackers remove repugnant posts,
--UK government takes another bite at an Apple backdoor,
--Oz judge continues to protect Qantas lawyers fr…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyEngland is facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for the worst water shortage in decades.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/20
@servelan@newsie.socialLive updates: Trump says SNAP emergency funding will be released after court rulings
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5581955-live-updates-trump-government-shutdown/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJudges really don't like this detention policy (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/west-wing-playbook-remaking-government/2025/10/31/judges-really-dont-like-this-detention-policy-00631871
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p134#a251031p134
@cdarwin@c.imOnce again, the government has responded to a Court order with which it disagrees by
pretending it doesn’t exist.
Mr. Abrego moved for sanctions based on senior DHS official Gregory Bovino’s flagrant violation of this Court’s October 27 Order
(Dkt. 183, the “Order”)
governing extrajudicial statements relating to this case.
The government’s brief opposing that motion largely ignores the Order.
The government focuses instead on the underlyi…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe UK has spent more than £500K since 2024, including £350K by the Department for Education, on 215 influencers to promote government campaigns (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/25/uk-government-spending-social-media-infl…
@hex@kolektiva.socialOf course, my default will always be "keep things out of the government so those things can't be held hostage" but that's a longer term goal. First, understand the situation then figure out how to respond.
Now that everyone is good and scared, and realizing that a whole chunk of the population can suddenly go without food, I'm gonna remind everyone that the time to learn to grow food and forage is not *when the food runs out*. It's in the years before that.
Here's a fun place to start with foraging....
https://youtube.com/@blackforager
@newsie@darktundra.xyzIndia faces backlash over government cyber safety app mandate https://therecord.media/india-faces-backlash-cyber-safety-app-mandate
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzThis came out of the blue a bit: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/579884/serious-shake-up-of-local-government-imminent 🤔 wondering why this Coalition Government thinks they have a mandate to do this. Because they don't. I suspect the Coali…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social"Another way to look at it is, what was the biggest battery in the world a few years ago, which was the Hornsdale South Australian Tesla big battery … households right now are installing the equivalent of a Hornsdale big battery every three and a half days."
https://www.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSo there's obviously ICE agents doing it because they're small, power-hungry racists.. but it's clear that a fair number of them are doing it just for the money. The expectation is that they will get back pay once the government shutdown ends, but what happens if it doesn't end? Do we end up with ICE losing the ability to function due to attrition, or do we end up with Trump declaring that ICE agents can keep the spoils of whatever they seize from people they abduct?
@Dragofix@veganism.socialSustainable aviation fuel take-up in UK unlikely to hit 2025 target, data suggests https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/26/sustainable-aviation-fuel-mandate-uk-government-data-2025
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUncertainty over federal food aid deepens as the shutdown fight reaches a crisis point (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/food-aid-snap-health-care-government-shutdown-41f4bb2b838c738e0d56e620bf396c8f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p31#a251101p31
@markhburton@mstdn.socialStarmer: "I'm taking the fight to Reform ..... by doing a Reform-lite, Christ I'm bold!"
No ‘golden ticket’ to UK as refugees will have to earn right to stay
https://nation.cymru/news/starmer-no-golden-ticket-to-uk…
@cdarwin@c.imKyle Cheney. @kyledcheney
Jack Smith says Trump's claims that he won the election were not protected free speech because they were intended to target a government function.
"There is no historical analog for what President Trump did in this case."
Smith says Trump "without question" added to the danger to Mike Pence's life with his 2:24pm tweet while the Capitol was under attack.
@chiraag@mastodon.online @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAnother big jump in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the October average was ~425.0 ppm, that's 2.6 ppm higher than last year.
"US government is closed; site not updated", so we'll have to rely on the automated data collection for now.
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller is descended from Russian Jews
—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable.
Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable.
In a series of tweets, interviews in right-wing media, and statements made elsewhere,
Miller has outlined an elaborate worldview that has escaped notice in the mainstream media.
It casts immigrants as a threat to “civilization” in terms …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at China's push to integrate AI tools into children's lives, even as educators and researchers remain skeptical, warning the benefits are overstated (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-china-childhood/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyHappy New Year!
Just a few modest wishes:
> Better times for Palestinians
> Russia leaves Ukraine
> Dems win midterms in the US
> Netherlands gets functioning government that addresses our actual issues
> Stronger global climate action
And all the best for all of you!
@markhburton@mstdn.socialGiven the remarkable #GreensSurge in members and polling, and the ongoing chaotic infighting at 'Your Party', it's maybe worth reposting my questioning of both leaderships on the eco-planetary crisis and overshoot.
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda? – degrowthUK
@memeorandum@universeodon.comICE protesters clash with cops at NYC government building after reports of agents rounding up illegal migrants (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/29/us-news/150-ice-protesters-flock-to-lower-manhattan-government-building-after-reports-of-agents-round-up-illegal-migrants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251129/p56#a251129p56
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew York-based Kaizen, which provides a commerce platform for government agencies to offer services like utility billing, raised a $21M Series A led by NEA (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…
@servelan@newsie.socialJon Favreau's reaction to Trump's authoritarian take over and the government shutdown | jon favreau | TikTok
https://www.tiktok.com/@crookedmedia/video/7556393216501665037?_r=1&_t=ZN-90CuwEVhXwk
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/26/belgium-rewards-ethical-hackers-who-uncover-government-it-vulnerabilities/
Belgium rewards ‘ethical hackers’ who uncover government IT vulnerabilities
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia says it will supply 260K of its most advanced AI chips to the South Korean government and major companies, including Samsung, Naver, and SK Group (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nvidia-s…
@cdarwin@c.imOn Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report identifying a new spyware called Dante
that they say targeted Windows victims in Russia and neighboring Belarus.
The researchers said the Dante spyware is made by Memento Labs,
a Milan-based surveillance tech maker that was formed in 2019
after a new owner acquired and took over early spyware maker
Hacking Team.
Memento chief executive
Paolo Lezzi confirmed to TechCrunch that…
@servelan@newsie.social$3 billion a week...
Government shutdown cost contractors $12 Billion: Chamber report
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/government-shutdown-business-chamber.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur
@cdarwin@c.imThe shutdown is starting to bite
– and throw Trump’s architectural folly into sharp relief.
On Saturday, with Congress still locked in a legislative stalemate,
a potential benefit freeze could leave tens of millions of low-income Americans without food aid.
Democrats accuse Trump’s Republican party of “weaponising hunger” to pursue an extreme rightwing agenda.
Images of wealthy monarchs or autocrats revelling in excess even as the masses struggle for bread
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMost of Iran Shuts Down as Government Grapples With Protests and Economy (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/middleeast/iran-shutdown-protests.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p77#a251231p77
@servelan@newsie.social"Smith also told investigators he was preparing to rely on a number of Trump allies who agreed to testify against the president that “what they were trying to do was an attempt to overthrow the government and illegal.”
Jack Smith deposition reveals plans for trial, possible charges against co-conspirators
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5668515-jack-smith-deposition-revelations/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of the Digital Security Helpline, run by Access Now, which gives 24/7 help to reporters and others who suspect they are victims of government spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/m…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDan Osborn calls out U.S. government's Argentina bailout that hurts Nebraska soybean farmers (Dan Osborn/Central Nebraska Today)
https://www.centralnebraskatoday.com/2025/10/02/dan-osborn-calls-out-u-s-governments-argentina-bailout-that-hurts-nebraska-soybean-farmers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p114#a251002p114
@servelan@newsie.socialSenate GOP leader slammed over 'performative outrage' after he blocked food stamp funding - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-snap-government-shutdown/
@cdarwin@c.imJP Morgan warned the US government about more than
$1 billion in transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein that were possibly related to reports of human trafficking, new documents confirm.
The largest bank in the US filed a suspicious activity report (SAR) in 2019,
just weeks after Epstein was found dead in a New York jail cell,
about transactions linked to the paedophile financier and prominent business figures.
It also flagged wire transfers made by Epstein to …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal review finds 44% of US trucking schools don't comply with government rules (Josh Funk/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/commercial-drivers-license-trucking-california-pennsylvania-96fee86df4f9bfb0ef65af20da878a57
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p100#a251201p100
@cdarwin@c.imThe shutdown is not the fault of democrats. Republicans can vote to fund the government without a single democrat by changing the rules to lower the 60 vote threshold like they did two weeks ago to push through 48 trump appointees at once. 10/
-- Mueller She Wrote
https://bsky.app/profile/muellershe…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGovernment shutdown could lead to $14B in lost GDP, CBO reports (Jacob Wendler/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/29/congress/government-shutdown-2025-cbo-cost-estimates-00627727
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p7#a251030p7
@cdarwin@c.imTop Republicans are portraying Donald Trump as a
“big-hearted president”
who is desperate to reopen the US government,
even as he delays food assistance funding for millions of low-income Americans
but steams ahead with construction of his $300m gilded White House ballroom
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@memeorandum@universeodon.comDelta and United call on Congress to immediately end government shutdown, pay air traffic controllers (Spencer Kimball/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/government-shutdown-delta-air-traffic-controllers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p113#a251030p113
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS announces a commitment to invest up to $50B to build AI and HPC infrastructure for the US government, starting in 2026 and adding nearly 1.3 GW of capacity (Eric Revell/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/amazon-invest…
@cdarwin@c.imAs SNAP benefits lapse, thousands show up to Southern California food banks
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/la-me-snap-benefits-los-angeles-food-bank
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFederal Workers Are Barely Making It Through the Government Shutdown (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/federal-workers-barely-making-it-through-government-shutdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p38#a251030p38
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. Senate investigation has uncovered dozens of credible reports of medical neglect and poor conditions in immigration detention centers nationwide
— with detainees denied insulin, left without medical attention for days and forced to compete for clean water
— raising scrutiny about how the government oversees its vast detention system.
The report released by Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Democrat from Georgia,
is the second in a series of inquiries examining alleged human rig…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump administration insists it can't use SNAP emergency funds this time (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/31/government-shutdown-food-assistance/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p101#a251031p101
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comUS judge blocks Trump move to end protected status for thousands from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua (Ted Hesson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-trump-move-end-protected-status-thousands-honduras-nepal-2025-12-31/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p51#a251231p51
@cdarwin@c.imAt least 6 reported killed
during widening protests in Iran
sparked by ailing economy
https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-economy-israel-us-nuclear-8533eacbc3c502ccc5f5339ae4384399
