@jake4480@c.im2025-09-30 17:35:06
Bird Photographer of the Year winners, and even highly commended shots for 2025 are all incredibly epic (as usual)
#photography
@jake4480@c.im2025-09-30 17:35:06
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-01 01:17:51
Octopuses possess a radically decentralized nervous system,
with the majority of their neurons residing in their arms.
Some say the octopus is a single organism with 9 brains.
From another perspective, we can say it is nine organisms housed within a single skin.
How can multiple humans come to inhabit a single organism with distributed sensory and decision-making capabilities?
How is cognition located in the network that spans bodies and environments?
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-08-31 17:21:02
#Drumpf vision of #GazaRiviera is "gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub."
A 38-page prospectus seen by The #WashingtonPost envisions
@seemannsmission@c.im2025-08-31 08:11:50
Schiffe transportieren 90% des weltweiten Handels.
Ohne Seeleute keine Schifffahrt.
—> Seeleute versorgen die Welt
Auch und gerade in Krisen
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 04:02:22
One week ago MAGA threw me in jail
for speaking out against their gerrymandering plan
to hand Trump more control.
Gov. Gavin Newsome, Joy-Ann Reid, and even People.com told the world to pay attention.
The time for strongly worded letters is over.
We must meet this moment,
and that means electing leaders who are willing to get arrested to stop Trump's tyranny.
I'd do it again for the people of Texas.
I'm running for congress in a…
@jake4480@c.im2025-08-31 18:43:07
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 17:56:58
67: The none-sensical viral phrase that Gen Alpha can’t stop saying
And now, its seems to be taking over OpenAI as well.
“GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7, you’re welcome,”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted to X on Friday.
Altman’s announcement comes just a couple of days after Dictionary.com named the slang 2025’s word of the year.
For those lucky enough to not be familiar with the term,
the Gen Alpha slang can be traced back to hip hop artist Skrilla’s late 20…
@jake4480@c.im2025-09-30 19:48:56
Reddit user MaSaKee modded a Nintendo 64 controller to contain a functional Game Boy Micro: #GameBoy
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 01:39:37
The evolution of influence operations
from crude Russian troll farms to sophisticated AI systems using large language models;
the discovery of GoLaxy documents revealing a "Smart Propaganda System" that collects millions of data points daily, builds psychological profiles, and generates resilient personas;
the fundamental challenges of measuring effectiveness;
GoLaxy's ties to Chinese intelligence agencies;
operations targeting Hong Kong's…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 02:26:11
Since announcing our plan to launch Liberty Vans
-- equipped with chaplains, lawyers, veterans, and camera crews
-- to follow ICE raids in real time and expose them to the world,
we’ve seen an outpouring of support from ALL 50 STATES.
People are ready to fight back and shine a light on the Trump administration's abuse of our country.
We need to fund the vans,
the crews, the tech, and the training to hold these agents accountable.
And thanks to…
@jake4480@c.im2025-08-31 02:47:35
Was able to grab and install Lagrange (for accessing Gopher/Gemini sites) here on my laptop that has Mint on it, just by searching for Lagrange in the Software Manager (gotta love Linux). Installed, launched-- and yeah, it really is a great, clean GUI. Also, you can see my Rogue desktop background 😂
#Gemini #Gopher …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-01 00:20:36
The battle for fair representation isn’t confined to Texas and California.
This week, the Mississippi Supreme Court ordered the legislature to redraw its districts after finding the maps illegally diluted Black voting power.
That legal victory is more than regional;
it proves the fight for democracy is winnable.
Resistance yields results.
If Mississippi can deliver a win for Black voters, every state can
—if we commit, organize, and refuse silence in the …
@jake4480@c.im2025-08-30 17:14:13
Considered a lot of flicks I haven't checked out to take in today, both older and newer, but settled on 1997's 'The Relic'. I always want weird monstery creature features over anything else, and this sounds like it is. And it has Tom Sizemore (RIP).
https://boxd.it/1UR2
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 05:41:50
Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power,
he has now been targetedby Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.
The disgusting, undemocratic use of the justice system to further Trump’s petty feuds is ugly and terrifying.
It’s also, in James Comey’s case, a lesson that other elites w…
@jake4480@c.im2025-09-29 21:11:45
An issue of Nintendo Power from 1993 explains the technical, CAD-based design choice as to why SNES controller buttons are laid out as they are https://www.dualshockers.com/controller-button-layout-explained-nintendo-power
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 02:05:25
ICE says its officers use a “minimum amount of force” when making arrests.
You can judge for yourself.
WHAT WE’RE SEEING
🆘Agents break car windows even when sobbing children or pregnant women
https://projects.propublica.org/trump-ice-smashed-w…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 15:54:48
It is hard to count all the different ways ICE lied throughout this case.
In a truly extraordinary document
Judge Rodriguez throws out the indictment because
"the Government’s conduct is so shocking to the universal sense of justice that it should be deprived of the opportunity to prosecute the Defendant."
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 19:16:04
Deplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed
-- it worked.
Elon's replatforming of all of these people
and allowing actual Nazis around
is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.
This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.
https://…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 18:38:58
Time is running out for wild salmon in the Columbia River Basin in the Pacific Northwest.
Their populations, as well as those of some other native fish, have been declining for decades.
Now, Donald Trump is attacking the progress that had been made to restore those once-abundant salmon runs.
In June 2025, Trump signed a memorandum signaling his administration’s unwillingness to abide by the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement signed in December 2023 after two years of neg…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:38:19
All of this *just* happened in two totally separate cases,
so be careful with differing stories about where things stand:
- TRO granted in the Rhode Island case (Judge Jack McConnell), but no written order yet.
- Trump admin was given until Monday to act in the Mass. case (Judge Indira Talwani).
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 16:21:06
Republicans can’t seem to convince adults to vote against abortion,
so they’re trying to groom kids instead.
Deception is a key tactic of Live Action,
an anti-abortion group that produced the "Baby Olivia" video.
The “Baby Olivia” video uses computer-generated images to depict frequently inaccurate and emotionally manipulative images of fetal development.
Lila Rose, the president of Live Action, has
inaccurately said that abortion is “never med…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 22:41:27
Ten years ago, my friend Rik Wanninkhof's son, Patrick, was killed while cycling across the US doing charity work for Habitat for Humanity.
The woman who killed him was using her mobile phone.
She was also a nurse, like the woman in the video.
Rik is still devastated.
Don't text and drive.
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 01:19:20
Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans’ Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system,
allowing officials to use the tool to conduct bulk searches of voter rolls for the first time.
According to the document filed Thursday, SAVE also recently expanded to include passport and visa information.
Incorporating driver’s license information would allow election officials whose rolls don’t include voters’ Social Security …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 03:11:36
When Donald Trump addressed the nation in the early hours of November 6, 2024, he didn’t just celebrate his improbable return to the White House.
He hailed an unprecedented political realignment.
“This campaign has been so historic in so many ways,” he said.
“We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition.
They’ve never seen anything like it in all of American history.
They’ve never seen any.
Young and old, men and women,
rural …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 22:35:52
Do you believe that climate facts should remain free from political interference and easily accessible?
If so, watch the climate.us video and consider supporting our initiative.
Find out how you can support: https://donorbox.org/climate-us-protected-by-you
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 23:17:39
San Bernardino man arrested after he protested immigration officer shooting at his truck
Francisco Longoria,
a San Bernardino man who was driving his truck when a masked U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot at it,
has been arrested and charged by federal authorities.
They allege he assaulted immigration officers during the incident.
In a statement, Longoria’s attorneys said Homeland Security Investigations agents arrived at the Longoria household at…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 04:30:40
House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.
CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November.
The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 01:21:41
Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., sided with Democratic and civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over his executive order to overhaul U.S. elections.
No She ruled that the proof-of-citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, dealing a b…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 21:18:18
Just before heading to his meetings with the leader of China,
the president of the United States issued some comments about nuclear weapons, or “nuclear,” as he tends to call them.
He wants to resume nuclear-bomb tests, something no nuclear state except North Korea has done since the last century.
But his reasoning is a bit confused:
In the space of one short announcement, he managed to get a lot wrong, which is worrisome,
because he’s the only person in Ameri…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 03:54:41
Life at low Reynolds number
E. M. Purcell
Lyman Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
(Received 12 June 1976)
Editor's note:
This is a reprint (slightly edited) of a paper of the same title that appeared in the book
Physics and Our World: A Symposium in Honor of Victor F. Weisskopf
Some essential hand waving could not be reproduced
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 16:17:35
Omar Fateh,
the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist,
is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis
and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey.
Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota’s state Senate.
Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization,
raising the minimum wage
and reforming how the city handles public safety.
“…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 18:57:48
More than 200,000 AmeriCorps volunteers lost their jobs during April’s defunding of federal agencies by the Elon Musk led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Among those forcibly laid off were 25 volunteers working in agencies across Santa Barbara County.
On Friday, August 29, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) re-funded $184 million to AmeriCorps nationwide, of which $11.5 million comes to California.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 19:31:06
𝗧𝘄𝗼 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗔 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁
We want to turn your attention to one of the most important elections this November:
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Right now, two billionaires,
❌ Leonard Leo
– architect of the Trump Supreme Court
– and ❌ Jeff Yass
– Greg Abbott's biggest donor who just helped Trump rig the Texas maps
– are now pouring millions into Pennsylvania
to try and flip the state's Supreme Court.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 04:15:02
Content warning: The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decisions
Shortly before Daniel Kahneman died last March, he emailed friends a message:
“Do you have any idea how lucky you are to have thousands of people who can tell you you’re wrong?”
He was choosing to end his own life in Switzerland.
Some are still struggling with his choice.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 14:15:15
Your great-grandparents paid Shahn to paint these frescoes.
Now your government is throwing them away
https://newrepublic.com/article/201055/ben-shahn-wpa-art-trump
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 23:03:45
Judge Sooknanan:
I have done all I can to try to make a decision based on what's in front of me.
The government hasn't put anything in front of me to counter plaintiff's narrative
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emerg
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 03:02:41
Harmeet Dhillon, a former Trump lawyer placed in charge of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division,
bragged to the Wall Street Journal that she “wakes up around 6am and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination …
After spotting ‘a list of new horrors,’ she said,
‘I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.’”
Dhillon’s office has been bleeding staff, since experienced lawyers are largely disinclined to waste…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 22:49:45
National Airspace System Status
Current: Oct 31, 2025 3:48:11 PM PDT
Thank you for your attention to this matter
https://nasstatus.faa.gov/list
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:42:19
This is the United Nations
General Assembly
It is not a Signal chat,
nor the House of Representatives
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3m4hfag3nck2w
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 00:10:17
'Taxation without representation':
Prof. Tribe breaks down Trump's loss on tariffs in appeals court
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-taxation-without-represent…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-29 14:40:08
The Deputy Chief of Staff... is in charge of military strikes?
Do we even have a president?
https://bsky.app/profile/lukerussell.bsky.social/post/3lzxxxaabuk24
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 14:19:39
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 21:27:28
7 basic science discoveries that changed the world 🧪
Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03474-x …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:22:19
How long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him?
The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jama…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-29 14:37:14
Russell T. Vought spent years drawing up plans to expand presidential power and shrink federal bureaucracy.
Now he is well on the way to making that vision a reality
-- tearing up the constitution's system of checks and balances.
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 16:57:59
U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Oct. 9 ordered “visible identification” that is “prominently displayed.”
But dozens of photographs of uniformed immigration agents shot by Chicago Sun-Times photojournalists in four separate locations since the court order show how the feds have fallen short.
The 80-plus photos show that not all officers are displaying a visible identification code that mixes numbers and letters during some of the most contentious recent immigration actions that…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 05:21:22
Military leaders voice concern over Hegseth’s new Pentagon strategy
Multiple top officers, including Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
criticized Hegseth's reordered
U.S. military priorities
— which center on perceived threats to the homeland, narrow U.S. competition with China
— and downplay America’s role in Europe and Africa.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 21:25:27
I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group.
A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime.
I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:
https:…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:35:48
Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 23:33:33
If you’d like U.S. forest lands to remain unpaved, speak now or forever hold your peace.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins just opened a 21-day public comment period on her proposal to ❌ rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
which has safeguarded 58 million acres of undeveloped national forest land from development and logging since 2001.
Public lands at risk include 635,000 acres of “some of the most remote and ecologically intact landscapes in Los Padr…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 17:14:58
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:26:52
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 04:12:56
Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO
or made the environment cleaner
or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law
is slowing investment and job creation.
He's burnt the gift Biden left him.
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/11…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 20:14:37
For railway enthusiasts and ruin hunters alike,
these so-called "phantom stations" that have ceased service
offer a glimpse into Tokyo’s past.
Hidden from daily view and often closed to the public, they mark moments of transition in the capital’s transit history
— from the early years of railway and subway construction to the rapid postwar rebuild.
More than curiosities, they stand as weathered industrial records of how Tokyo has expanded, reconfigur…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 14:53:23
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.
“Clearly we’re dealing with an administration that’s far more focused on narratives than truth,
and this conduct is consistent with that,”
said Seth Stern, director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation,
a First Amendment nonprofit.
“It is awful that real journalists who attempt to report real news and feel constrained by the pursuit of trut…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 19:04:10
“The billionaire agenda,
the corruption we’re seeing,
is changing the way government is functioning.
It’s leading to real-time and impactful ramifications for regular people,”
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen.
“The gutting of Medicaid,
all the firings we’ve seen of federal workers,
the ravaging of families through Ice raids.
It’s just all coming together to cause people to stand up and say,
‘we are the people of this c…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 17:16:35
A Liberty Van camera crew caught video of Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino blatantly violating a court order during a confrontation with Chicago protestors last week.
Watch the video.
Share it far and wide.
Help us pour more resources into capturing moments of authoritarianism like this in Chicago, LA, and other cities across the country.
https://
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 01:51:55
In early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court,
gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.
The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state.
Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:52:32
Extrajudicial killings within the Russian military are becoming more widespread,
according to an investigation published by the Russian independent outlet Verstka.
The practice of "nullifying" (Russian: "obnulenie")
— the Russian military's term for executing its soldiers
— increasingly involves sending personnel on deadly assualt missions without proper protection
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-29 20:28:16
You’ve probably heard of vibe coding
— novices writing apps by creating a simple AI prompt
— now Microsoft wants to introduce a similar thing for its Office apps.
The software maker is launching a new Agent Mode in Excel and Word that can generate complex spreadsheets and documents with just a prompt.
A new Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models,
is also launching today that can create PowerPoint presentations and Word documents from a “vibe…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 02:44:04
Trump administration is launching a new private health tracking system with Big Tech’s help
The system
-- spearheaded by an administration that has already freely shared highly personal data about Americans in ways that have tested legal bounds
-- could put patients’ desires for more convenience at their doctor’s office on a collision course with their expectations that their medical information be kept private.
“There are enormous ethical and legal concerns,”
…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 20:05:15
Agriculture Secretary Brooke
Rollins gave a candid message to Americans about the continued impasse and concerns that millions of people could soon miss out on food benefits.
“My message to America is, first, the fact that your government is failing you, right now,”
said Rollins, whose department oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 16:27:53
This week, Illinois Governor
JB Pritzker offered an extraordinary viral response to Trump’s vow to dispatch troops into Chicago.
Critically, Pritzker cast Trump as a malignant, active threat to his Illinois constituents
—he called them “my people”
—and vowed to use every ounce of his power to protect them from harm by the President of the United States.
The move’s resonance showed that governors who creatively resist Trump’s malevolent despotism
will be se…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 07:19:31
Worrying new simulations show that a solar storm on par with the infamous Carrington Event
could potentially wipe out every single satellite orbiting our planet,
leaving us in a precarious and expensive predicament.
And experts say such a powerful solar storm is inevitable and will hit our planet sooner or later.
On Sept. 1, 1859, British astronomer Richard Carrington observed a brilliant flash of light coming from a gigantic sunspot that was about the same size as J…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 14:06:58
Momentum is building on both sides of the Atlantic to give Ukraine the approximately $300 billion in Russian state assets frozen by Western countries after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has now endorsed the idea, removing a long-standing obstacle.
But another one remains:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to retaliate by confiscating the remaining Western investment in Russia.
Western countries are no…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 02:02:47
Trump maintains control over and can profit from his businesses while in office through a revocable trust, of which he is both the sole donor and sole beneficiary.
In his first term, those looking to support Trump financially could lend him money against his real estate, license his name, buy his assets, join one of his clubs or book a hotel.
Since leaving office in 2021, Trump’s business empire expanded into the digital realm, where the products are often intangible, but the rev…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 22:18:43
Even though Trump has given them their freedom -- and has taken steps toward satisfying their desire for retribution,
🔥January 6th rioters are asking for more:
In the past several weeks, the rioters and their lawyers have made a concerted effort to push the administration into paying them
💥"restitution" for what they claim to be their unfair prosecutions.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 03:38:01
In a stunning reversal,
the Pentagon said it will uphold a longstanding program that supplies critical hurricane data to federal weather forecasters
—just days before it was set to end.
The move follows outcry from meteorologists and public officials blindsided by the planned cancellation at the start of hurricane season.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-29 14:53:36
While many of the US CITIZENS detained have immediately declared their U.S. citizenship to officers,
they have routinely been ignored,
according to interviews with the men, their lawyers and court documents.
In some cases they have been handcuffed,
kept in holding cells and immigration facilities overnight,
and in at least two cases held without access to a lawyer or even a phone call.
How many U.S. citizens have been swept up in the Trump administration’s…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:45:08
Even before Microsoft Azure had a global failure this week,
Austria's Ministry of Economy had taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty.
The Ministry is migrating 1,200 employees to a Nextcloud-based cloud and collaboration platform hosted on Austrian-based infrastructure
It's the latest move in a European trend to shift away from Big Tech.
European governments and agencies want to control sensitive data.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 16:31:10
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday that
nothing is "off the table" for cities with high crime rates
and that others could see federal law enforcement on their streets
— including in Republican-led states
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Trump's threats to crack down on Chicago without a request from the state is an "effort to manufacture a crisis and create a distraction."
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is laying…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 02:18:52
Instead of using data to determine how to govern,
the Trump administration is manipulating, ignoring and even jettisoning data altogether.
Those who balk at the administration’s wishful thinking about reality face threats to fall in line or leave -- as Jerome Powell, Lisa Cook and now the C.D.C. director, Susan Monarez, have all experienced.
The administration has clearly embraced the strategic cultivation of uncertainty and ignorance.
It is not just trying to trim th…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 23:10:48
Trump has vehemently denied that he is a racist,
pointing to a modest increase in supportamong African American voters in last year’s election, when his opponent was a Black woman.
But critics suggest that his effort to oust Lisa Cook fits a pattern of purging diverse voices from the higher ranks of leadership.
“He chose to fire her out of all the governors because she’s a Black woman,”
said LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the organisation Black Voters Matter.
“H…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-01 02:30:20
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin),
👉one of the richest people in the Senate,
said on Wednesday that Congress shouldn’t be banned from trading stocks
-- because the basic anti-corruption rule would make it
“unattractive” to run for office.
During debate on a congressional stock ban introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) on Wednesday,
Johnson said that he was concerned about “unintended consequences” stemming from the legislation.
He called the bill…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:03:53
@neguse.house.gov gives a lesson on how to reframe a journalist’s stupid question about #SNAP! 💪🏼
https://bsky.app/profile/abbij1961.bsky.social/post/3m4iqhae2tk2v
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 21:29:07
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me.
It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lxpdmdidch2…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 22:35:41
Halloween from
Down Under
Just had to share
(sound up) 🎃🤣
https://bsky.app/profile/patti3333.bsky.social/post/3m4jiobjkas2c
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 17:37:34
@xankarn
Approximately 18% of SNAP recipients are over 60.
That’s over 7 million people.
A lot of those people have few options to generate more income.
Graphic from the USDA web page:
Also featuring a flagrant Hatch Act violation
http://www.ers.usda.gov/d…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 21:07:50
This is in
25th Amendment territory...
Twice over ‼️
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/115465126105921979
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:15:42
Plan to kill 450,000 owls pushes past major obstacle
with Republicans both for and against
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/lawmakers-reject-bid-to-overturn-plan-to-cull-barred-owls-pa…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 16:44:03
The peril of a White House that flaunts indifference to the law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/white-house-boats-law.html?searchResultPosition=2
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 14:26:36
JD Vance made jokes about this woman's husband being dead.
https://bsky.app/profile/mpaarlberg.bsky.social/post/3lzydxbicas2n
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:17:16
Los Angeles will nearly double recycled water for 500,000 residents
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-10-31/los-angeles-wastewater-recycling
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 18:06:10
Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids
“Coming to Other Cities”
as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/31/immigration_aaron_reichlin_melnick
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 21:02:14
A threat actor is offering a database allegedly belonging to a far-right media outlet The Epoch Times.
Its 32 million records have been purportedly exposed.
https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/epoch-times-data-breach-subscriber-information/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 07:25:38
Hurricane Melissa hit three island nations with vastly different approaches to climate adaptation.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/30/hurricane-melissa-climate-change-caribbean-jamaica-cat-bond-us-aid/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 23:59:13
Over the past month, federal prosecutors in D.C. have failed at least five times to persuade a grand jury to indict a D.C. resident for allegedly attacking federal law enforcement.
These are not the only embarrassments suffered recently by federal prosecutors in the District,
and judges have begun to lose their patience over missteps and sloppy cases.
Despite the president’s promise to “take our capital back,” his law-enforcement surge is struggling in court.
The most …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 16:18:10
Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population
A postwar plan for Gaza circulating within the Trump administration,
modeled on Donald Trump’s vow to “take over” the enclave,
would turn it into a trusteeship administered by the United States for at least 10 years
while it is transformed into a gleaming tourism resort and high-tech manufacturing and technology hub.
The 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a tem…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-01 00:19:36
Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an
‘anti-immigration machine’
Miller, the president’s immigration czar,
in recent months has turned the state department’s visa and refugee operations into what some current and former diplomats have described as a personal fiefdom.
Each morning, usually at 10am,
a small circle of conservative diplomats allied with Miller,
-- including those who have assumed control of the state department’s consular a…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 00:04:56
Luskentyre Beach on the Isle of Harris is one of the many beautiful beaches in Scotland
https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/ive-travelled-world-david-attenborough-35811964#Echobox=1756595018
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 21:11:14
Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio,
Kristi Noem, and others
have taken over homes that until recently housed senior military officers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-officials-military-housing-steph…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 04:07:50
Breaking down ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Aim Labs reported CVE-2025-32711 against Microsoft 365 Copilot back in January, and the fix is now rolled out.
This is an extended variant of the prompt injection exfiltration attacks we've seen in a dozen different products already:
an attacker gets malicious instructions into an LLM system which cause it to access private data and then embed that in …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 20:00:56
An implicit admission GOP congressmen want Trump do by decree something they could never pass through Congress as a statute, much less a constitutional amendment.
https://bsky.app/profile/lawrencehurley.bsky.social/post/3m4j44cqvos2k
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 15:52:13
Kari Lake, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.
The agency sent out notices late Friday night ahead of the Labor Day long weekend, with a termination date of Sept. 30, multiple recipients told The Washington Post.
Lake — the acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media — has faced legal challenges amid allegations that she is overstepping her statutory authority,
and was blocked earlier this week from firi…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-30 05:30:17
Your regular reminder that marginal income & capital gains tax rates are too low
-- and this poses an existential threat to 🇺🇸 democracy
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lzu3j77n622p
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-31 21:59:27
Judge orders administration to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children
despite an order she had issued earlier Sunday
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said she learned from plaintiffs that
the administration was putting hundreds of unaccompanied minors onto flights on Sunday morning
-- despite an order she issued earlier in the day barring officials for 14 days from deporting 10 children named in a lawsuit.…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-30 21:26:55
The teachings of Falun Gong stem entirely from its enigmatic leader,
Li Hongzhi, whom followers view as a “God-like figure.”
Since settling in the United States in the late 1990s, Li has remained reclusive, but his beliefs shape the core tenets of Falun Gong and its many tendrils:
in addition to traditional Buddhist practices like qigong, a type of movement-based meditation,
Falun Gong also teaches that homosexuality creates “bad karma” and is “comparable to organize…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-29 14:59:55
Hybrid attacks such as drones are ‘part of new reality’, Danish minister warns
🔥Peter Hummelgaard compared recent spate of hybrid attacks on Europe to 9/11 terrorism
🔥As Russia embarks on huge army expansion by 135,000 men
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-30 14:31:14
Maj Gen Ronald Burkett, the director of operations for the #Pentagon’s #NationalGuard bureau, signed a memo requiring most states to train 500 national members for a quick reaction force
-- with a total of 23,500 troops nationwide
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-31 23:04:00
Back 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-…
