@cdarwin@c.imWhile there is no sign the aggressive tactics used by immigration enforcement are coming to an end,
#Jacob #Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis said the administration will begin to ✅ scale back the number of federal agents in Minneapolis starting on Tuesday,
as Trump and his team soften their harsh rhetoric about the …
@jake4480@c.imHaving a Botch afternoon. That's both Botch LPs back to back, and remembering to stay hydrated throughout, because it's gonna be a ride
@cdarwin@c.imThe idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…
@jake4480@c.imBefore I see the new Return to Silent Hill (https://letterboxd.com/film/return-to-silent-hill), I'm currently going back and rewatching the first movie from 2006 (
@cdarwin@c.imPrecious metals soared Monday
— with gold extending its record run past $5,100 per troy ounce and silver surging to new highs
— as investors continued to load up on hard assets as a hedge against geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty.
Gold was up 2.4 percent on New York’s COMEX commodities exchange before pulling back;
it had crossed the $5,000 threshold for the first time a day earlier.
Silver, which tends to be more volatile, spiked 14.6 percent Mon…
@cdarwin@c.imNasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon,
as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.
The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently confirmed administrator, Jared Isaacman.
Announcing the changes on Friday, he said that Nasa would introduce
⚠️at least one new moon flight before attempting to put humans back o…
@jake4480@c.imSomehow I missed the Scaners put out their 3rd LP last year.
https://thescaners.bandcamp.com/album/the-scaners-lp3
I was bummed a while back when I thought they were messing with their sound, but 'The Scaners LP3' still has the same weirdo synth punk vibe I…
@cdarwin@c.imConduent Data Breach Notification Letters Sent to Millions
as Ransomware Group Claims
⚡️ 8 Terabytes Stolen in One of the Largest U.S. Incidents.
Letters began reaching affected individuals this month detailing a major data breach at #Conduent Business Services, LLC,
a government technology contractor that processes payments, healthcare claims, and back-office services for clients n…
@davej@dice.campFirst, they need to decouple the route from the existing network, or risk it daily becoming a *glacially slow* high-speed train. Then, set rolling stock design parameters that don’t, say, require paring back multiple existing station platforms. And then, somehow manage not to fuck up the rolling stock tender process.
We’ve been dancing this dance for decades. I can guess what’s on that shovel.
#auspol
@cdarwin@c.imEfforts to repress climate and environmental protest are growing worldwide
through a combination of new legislation,
novel uses of existing legal processes,
police actions,
vilification of activists,
and both violence and killings.
Acts of repression are likely to expand and intensify
as authoritarian regimes roll back climate policies,
with a particular focus on Trump’s actions in office
criminalizing protest,
increasing police po…
@MartinM@norden.socialEs sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
@cdarwin@c.im“I don’t think Jesus would ever ignore people being hurt,
-- especially by the federal government,”
said 17-year Ben Luhmann at the wheel, to a reporter in the back seat.
Sam, his 16-year old brother was pounding an energy drink with one hand,
scrolled through a lengthy list of group chats with the other,
scouring for reports of ICE and other federal immigration agents in their area.
Mornings like this have been typical in recent weeks for the Luhmann fam…
@hex@kolektiva.socialIt's a hacky way to end the story. Garbage and trite, but that's not the point. The point is that the system prompt explicitly says to give back the original text with improvements. Instead it finished the story from the end.
Why? Because I injected into the conversation and made it "think" that *it* had written the story and was finishing it.
That variant of the story used <start_of_turn> and <end_of_turn> (the model's tokens) instead of <|im_start|>/<|im_end|> which are (if I'm not mistaken) ChatGPT tokens.
@johnm@social.tchncs.deBack in the Ring
Eben habe ich eine Mail vom Thomas bekommen, es ging darum das ich den Blog nicht mehr im UberBlogr Webring eintragen konnte. Aus irgendeinem Grund gab es widersprüchliche Meldungen.
Wie dem auch sei, mein Blog ist nach längere Pause dort nun wieder vertreten, freut mich natürlich sehr.
Vielen Dank an Thomas.
https://…
@frankstohl@mastodon.socialValve FM: Internet-Radio im Terminal hören https://blog.oliverswelt.de/blog/back-to-the-roots-warum-ich-radio-jetzt-im-terminal-höre-valve-fm
@cdarwin@c.imDays after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,
@jake4480@c.imSony is announcing its first new turntables in years, and lo, children, whatever has come before will come back around again https://www.theverge.com/news/865333/sony-new-turntables-2026
@cdarwin@c.imVideo before it happens
is showing
👉this guy they shot in the head in Minneapolis
💥was just standing there videoing them
before and they got out to push
him back
🔥and then murder him.
https://bsky.app/profile/dwsoc.bsky.social/post/3md6q7jk4p…
@cdarwin@c.imIt’s hard to articulate just how quickly batteries for grid storage are coming online.
These massive arrays of cells can soak up electricity when sources like solar are available and prices are low,
and then discharge power back to the grid when it’s needed most.
Back in 2015, the battery storage industry had installed only a fraction of a gigawatt-hour of battery storage capacity across the US.
That year, it set a seemingly bold target of adding 35 gigawatt-hours by …
@cdarwin@c.imBEFORE TRUMP'S SPEECH ENDS:
Dems get 700% MATCHED donation (highest ever!)
$10=$80
$25=$200
Donate to make it BACKFIRE:
https://hmpdems.com/q16
HMP
@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.imMass delays and cancellations, seemingly endless small repairs disrupting traffic in key commuting areas, and overcrowding are just some of the issues facing passengers who rely on Deutsche Bahn in their daily lives.
Since coming into power in early 2025, the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz has repeatedly promised to fund major rail projects that had already been planned.
Of the €500 billion ($585 billion) in controversial new debt taken on by his administration
👉 €15…
@cdarwin@c.imToday's ICE assassination:
Read the thread
Watch the video
https://bsky.app/profile/dwsoc.bsky.social/post/3md6q7jk4pc2e
@cdarwin@c.imIn practice, seems like this amounts to a (very large) tax on businesses that hire employees on H1B visas,
One that goes far beyond any possible fee for administrative/processing costs into major revenue raising reserved for Congress (based on objections to executive taxation going back to James I)
https://
@cdarwin@c.imAfter the Devastation of Trump’s First Year,
Popular Rebellions Offer Hope
Elections,
labor,
mutual aid, and
local organizing wins in 2025
point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
In 2026, we the people can build power
and we can win significant victories if we:
🔸Show up for the most vulnerable in the face of federal government attacks and neglect;
🔸Push back on racism and misogyny, and support inclusivity;
🔸Call …
@jake4480@c.imGoing back to 1996 today for maybe my favorite KMFDM album all the way through, Xtort. My other favorites are Nihil and Symbols (I'm partial to 90s KMFDM) but Xtort is utter perfection. This playlist leaves off the perverse last (secret) track 'Fairy', but I'll let it slide. Worth looking up if you haven't heard it 😂
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has agreed to comply with court orders to partially fund the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program".
The food benefit, commonly called SNAP, goes back-nearly a century in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/e…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump Administration Scrambles to Pick Up the Pieces of Broken
Consumption Tax (AKA Tariffs)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/us/politics/trump-tariffs-supreme-court.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
@cdarwin@c.im[MN POLITICAL NEWS]:
MN-02 is now a top-tier national battleground.
Dr. Matt Klein, a frontline physician, is gaining momentum as the candidate standing against the federal chaos that led to the tragic deaths of Renee Good and VA nurse Alex Pretti.
National experts say this seat is the key to the House majority, and we need to take back the House to get accountability on the attack against Minnesota.
Will you support Dr. Klein and donate before midnight so we can re…
@cdarwin@c.imAs US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents wreak havoc on American communities,
big tech companies have been making themselves indispensable to the increasingly tyrannical state.
Among them is Amazon subsidiary Ring,
the company behind those AI doorbell cameras that have exploded in popularity over the last few years.
Back in October, Ring announced that its devices would soon be looped into a network of Flock AI surveillance cameras.
That network, an inv…
@jake4480@c.imMy kid's logged back into Animal Crossing and has been switching around some villagers and such. There are entire islands that people playing the game have set up as clothing shops, huge warehouses of sets of clothes everywhere, that you find and fly to via a code. It's absolutely wild
@jake4480@c.imYet another masterclass in how to write a bizarre, amazing song by the living legend known as Charles Thompson and many other names, such as Black Francis, here: https://youtu.be/L6WL3SkBE1c?si=FG-KlroAlyqJGYpo
Very glad I spent a lot of time going through all of his back catalog…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s call to annex Greenland has roiled markets and flabbergasted half the world.
But the felon-president’s supporters in conservative communities
– to the degree that this issue has their attention at all
– are apt to accept his political argument as genuine.
Some conservative leaders have been critical of the Trump administration’s demands for Greenland,
but more often challenge the provocative process than the underlying rationale.
Knuckle-dra…
@cdarwin@c.imOn any given day, millions of Europeans use Microsoft software, heat their homes with American natural gas and buy U.S. stocks. Many Americans work with German software, drink French wine and take European-made medicines.
More than $5.4 billion worth of goods and services are traded between the United States and European Union each day,
backed by extensive cross-border investments that support millions of jobs.
Although Trump walked back a threat to impose extra tariffs on …
@jake4480@c.imGoing back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s retreat cannot undo what has been done these past few weeks,
and the costs now to our economy and security are going to be extraordinary.
Trump steps back from the brink on Greenland.
But the damage has been done:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/21/t…
@cdarwin@c.imSecond thoughts
@cdarwin@c.imA notorious flesh-eating fly
that once wreaked havoc on U.S. livestock
is inching closer to California again.
#NewWorldScrewworm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025
@cdarwin@c.imThe Pentagon plans to cut its participation in elements of NATO’s force structure
and a range of the alliance’s advisory groups,
-- the latest sign of the Trump administration’s drive to scale back the U.S. military presence in Europe,
according to multiple officials familiar with the matter.
The impending move will affect about 200 military personnel
and diminish U.S. involvement in nearly 30 NATO organizations,
including its "Centers of Excellence&…
@jake4480@c.imGTA style Animal Crossing DLC where you run wild on the island, beat the hell out of Tom Nook and take back all the Bells you've given him
@cdarwin@c.imThe dream holiday ended abruptly on Friday 26 September, as British tourists Karen and Bill Newton were trying to leave the US.
When they crossed the border, Canadian officials told them they didn’t have the correct paperwork to bring the car with them.
They were turned back to Montana on the American side – and to US border control officials.
Bill’s US visa had expired; Karen’s had not.
“I worried then,” she says. “I was worried for him. I thought, well, at least I a…
@cdarwin@c.imThe seeds of the January 6, 2021, insurrection can be traced back to the early 1900s,
when industrialists concerned with the erosion of their wealth and power
attempted to control the currency and restrict government spending.
Later these forces, in alignment with America Firsters,
aggrieved veterans,
and antisemitic splinter groups that mirrored various features of European fascism,
including white supremacists,
rallied to oppose Roosevelt and the …
@jake4480@c.imHeading back to 1973 right now with some Cosmic Slop
#NowPlaying
@cdarwin@c.imTech workers ask their bosses to lobby Trump over ICE crackdowns
Silicon Valley staffers at some of the world’s most valuable companies
are among hundreds of technology workers who called on their employers to lobby the White House
to withdraw federal immigration agents from U.S. cities in a letter published with more than 200 signatures on Tuesday.
The letter, signed by people who work at companies including Google, Amazon and TikTok,
pointed to how tech chief…
@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.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…
@jake4480@c.imPlaying a cassette for the first time in I don't know how long. Flipping sides is wild, man. Ah, that takes me back 😂 (the cassette version of this has a Hall & Oates cover added. Nice)
#PhysicalMedia #IndieRock #HotOcean
@cdarwin@c.imWhat had saved Charles Dutton was prison.
He dropped out of school at 12 and pleaded guilty to manslaughter at 17, after stabbing a black man who had pulled a knife on him in a fight.
He served two years.
Then he was sent back for weapons possession, fought with a white guard, and ended up serving another seven and a half.
The tale of his redemption is well known.
He grabbed an anthology of plays by black playwrights on his way into solitary confinement one day…
@cdarwin@c.imBrandon LaRoque kept his life savings in a cryptocurrency account.
One morning, as he went to check his balance, he discovered that it was all missing.
LaRoque is one of many victims of the unregulated crypto industry,
and soon there may be more.
Donald Trump has rolled back regulation of the industry.
At the same time, he and his family have earned untold billions of dollars from new crypto ventures.
Molly White, a writer focused on the intersection…
@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.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.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.imBack in my day, pedophiles were punished, not protected.
The lengths these fools are willing to go to protect them is mind boggling.
I feel like I’m the crazy one.
-- Karintha Styles
https://bsky.app/profile/karintha.bsky.social/post/3magjkdgeh22t<…
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump says Europe will not ‘push back too much’
on his Greenland bid as Davos day two begins
Speaking to reporters in Florida,
Trump claims Denmark
‘can’t protect’ Greenland
when asked what he planned to say to European leaders who opposed his plans
…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter 35 years of serving in the Navy,
I was removed from my position by Pete Hegseth without reason.
I never went back to the Pentagon or wore the uniform again.
I’ve spent my entire life in service to our country,
always putting the mission and the people above myself.
But when I was forced out, I had a choice:
go out quietly, or 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘬𝘦𝘦𝘱 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
I’m running for Congress in South Carolina’s first district
-- because we need a lead…
@cdarwin@c.imThe vibe shift in the EU and Canada over the weekend is unlike anything I've ever seen.
US hegemony in military and economic alliances is effectively dead.
History will look back and wonder how the elites in power not only did nothing to stop it but cheered it on willingly!
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.imThousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in a national park in northern Italy.
The footprints - some of which are up to 40cm (15in) in diameter - are aligned in parallel rows,
and many show clear traces of toes and claws.
It is thought the dinosaurs were prosauropods - herbivores with long necks, small heads and sharp claws.
"I never would have imagined I'd come across such a spectacular discovery in the region where I l…
@cdarwin@c.imRobert Reich here.
We're launching an emergency campaign to demand Congress
DEFUND Trump's army of masked deportation thugs.
https://ineqm.co/
IMCA
@cdarwin@c.imNew radio observations show that a supermassive black hole shot out plasma jets at a large fraction of the speed of light,
paused for 100 million years,
then roared back to life.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-h…
@cdarwin@c.imThe American patrol satellite had the targets in its sights:
two recently launched Chinese spacecraft flying through one of the most sensitive neighborhoods in space.
Like any good tactical fighter,
the American spacecraft, known as USA 270, approached from behind,
so that the sun would be at its back, illuminating the quarry.
But then one of the Chinese satellites countered by slowing down.
As USA 270 zipped by, the Chinese satellite dropped in behind its…
@cdarwin@c.imStrikes run on pizza.
Turns out they also can begin to end on them.
Several pies, in fact, arrived on North Shore Drive on the brisk Tuesday that was Oct. 18, 2022,
when the strikers first walked out of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newsroom
because the PG had violated federal labor law.
The workers said they would not go back to their jobs until their employer followed the rules.
They had no idea it would take three years
and become the nation’s lon…
@cdarwin@c.imSummary:
A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized.
By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest crater,
researchers found unusual chemical fingerprints pointing to extreme heat and material loss caused by a giant impact.
The collision likely stripped away volatile elements,
reshaped volcanic activity,
and left a lasting chemical signature deep belo…
@cdarwin@c.imResidents in Minnesota are pushing back against the growing deployment of federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods,
leading to days of confrontations and protests.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbcnews.com/post/3mcfdjwcxa524
@cdarwin@c.imIn a secret deportation arrangement,
the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries,
to the African nation of Cameroon in January.
None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and lawyers for the deportees,
and the United States has not made any public deal with Cameroon to accept deportees who hail from other nations.…
@cdarwin@c.imIt would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.
Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…
@cdarwin@c.imFrom Philadelphia to Oklahoma City and Oakland, California, many cities are developing new
– and creative
– tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE.
Here’s a look at a few.
⭐️Creating ‘ICE-free’ zones
Several cities, counties and states across the country are creating “ICE-free zones” by restricting immigration agents’ access to government-owned and public spaces.
Local officials say this makes it safer for residents to visit hospitals, courthou…
@cdarwin@c.imStephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…
@cdarwin@c.imThe racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…
@cdarwin@c.imCoco Gauff has had the news on in the background almost every day.
The 21-year-old says she “likes to stay informed” and admits it’s been “tough” waking up to news of harsh immigration crackdowns and the killing of protesters back home.
“Everything going on in the US, obviously I’m not really for it.
I don’t think people should be dying in the streets just for existing.
I don’t like what’s going on,”
Gauff said in Dubai on Sunday, referring to the killings of Al…
@cdarwin@c.imOver the past year, the biggest victories against Trump have come
not from the elites or institutions,
but from college kids and office workers, cat ladies and Uber drivers.
When Trump tried to censor Jimmy Kimmel, it was the pumpkin latte drinkers whose ire forced ABC to bring him back on.
When the president sent National Guard troops to terrorize cities like Portland, D.C., Los Angeles and Chicago, people who still wear skinny jeans turned off Netflix, inflated the…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety
Following mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad,
the Amazon-owned company walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial
law-enforcement technology company.
https://www.theverge.co…
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.
An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold,
wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later.
A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed;
she then appeared to pass out.
An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young f…
@cdarwin@c.imGoing back months now,
the back of Trump’s right hand
has often been visibly discolored and bandaged when he appears in public.
He works assiduously to conceal it from cameras by covering it with his other hand.
Nonetheless, Getty photographers have gotten in the habit of taking shots of the malady whenever they can,
including during his ugly hate rallyTuesday evening in Pennsylvania
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against #crypto,
debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration,
and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency.
Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Celebrities in the crypto realm …
@cdarwin@c.imBack in April, District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers delivered a scathing judgment
finding that Apple was in “willful violation” of her 2021 injunction
intended to open up iOS App Store payments.
That contempt of court finding has now been almost entirely upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals,
a development that Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney tells Ars he hopes will
“do a lot of good for developers and start to really change the App Store situation worldwi…
@cdarwin@c.imDOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.
In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Bannon.
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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 …
@cdarwin@c.imRep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.)
filed articles of impeachment against Health Secretary
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Wednesday,
accusing him of abusing the powers of his office
and undermining public health, putting Americans’ lives at risk.
He “has got to go,” Stevens said in a video announcing the impeachment articles.
In an accompanying press statement, she said Kennedy,
who rose to prominence as an ardent anti-vaccine activist,
“has turned his back on…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump claims he wants to lower housing costs,
but his allies in the House just axed a bipartisan bill that UNANIMOUSLY passed the Senate to do just that.
If Republicans keep blocking legislation to cut housing costs,
Democrats will pass it ourselves when we take back Congress.
https://bsky.…
@cdarwin@c.imHere's what the doctor ordered https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/115709466867787148
@cdarwin@c.imIncreasingly the victims of the administration's campaign of terror are people just trying to survive when their daily life is upended by the presence of masked federal agents.
Those agents are ambushing immigrants after court appearances,
crashing into drivers while trying to escape protestors,
or abducting children if they seemingly impede the arrest of their own parents by dint of simply existing;
The people in the cities in which this is happening are just t…
@cdarwin@c.imStudent loan debt tops $1.6 trillion
The average tuition has doubled in the past 30 years.
At the same time, new federal caps on how much parents can borrow for college placing higher education further out of reach for some families.
Against that backdrop, a growing number of schools are making college more affordable
by providing free tuition to undergraduate students from low- and middle-income families.
The movement dates back 20 years but has gained momen…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump just attacked Tom Suozzi PERSONALLY and
endorsed his opponent in NY-03
The MAGA machine is coming.
Help Tom fight back
>> https://suozzi4congress.us
@cdarwin@c.imThe biggest surprise of Donald Trump’s first year back in office is 🆘 how quickly America’s institutions capitulated to
“the bully”,
said Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned arch critic.
But with the midterm elections for Congress looming, Steele predicts a resounding Democratic victory
amid a hunger among voters to hold the president and his allies accountable for threatening democracy.
Steele, 67, was the first Blac…
@cdarwin@c.imPete 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.im @cdarwin@c.imI 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.imFor those who know the stakes,
James Talarico is Dems best chance to flip the TX Senate seat.
Chip in any amount right now. Please: https://jt4tx.org
@cdarwin@c.imAs tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…
@cdarwin@c.imIn this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney
— a former editor at The New York Times
— details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred,
why this was directed from the very top,
how some staff pushed back
and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
https://
@cdarwin@c.imRep. Robert Garcia (D-CA)
is pushing back against GOP criticism of his effort to release Jeffrey Epstein files,
arguing that his Republican colleagues are “obsessed” with him
due to their frequent attacks.
https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2674356578/…
@cdarwin@c.imSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer appeared Thursday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe”
to call for stricter governing of ICE agents and push back on the Trump administration’s targeting of local voting officials in Georgia and other swing states,
declaring, “We’re not going to let them be intimidated.”
The New York senator’s remarks came after recent calls from Trump to 🔥nationalize voting ahead of this year’s midterm elections
and after National Intelligence Director Tulsi…
@cdarwin@c.imEvery few years, Democrats try to convince themselves they’ve found the one
– a candidate who can finally speak fluent rural, who looks and sounds like the voters they’ve lost.
In 2024, that hope was pinned on #Tim #Walz, the flannel-wearing, “Midwestern nice” governor whose small-town roots were supposed to unlock …
