@seemannsmission@c.imEhrenamtliche bei der Seemannsmission
Holen Seeleute mit Minibus ab
machen Bordbesuche
Stehen in der quirligen Kreuzfahrt Lounge an der Kasse
Netzwerken
Sitzen in Vorständen
Prüfen Kassen
Backen Kelse
Stricken Mützen
Influencen
Hören zu
haben Ideen
Helfen bei Festen
Stehen auf Messen
…
Dankeschön!!!!🙏🏻
#TagDesEhrenamts
@cdarwin@c.imA government lawyer told a judge during a court hearing stemming from the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota:
“What do you want me to do?
The system sucks.
This job sucks.
And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need”.
She has been removed from her Justice Department post, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Julie Le had been working for the Justice Department on a detail,
…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de
@jake4480@c.imPretty psyched for that Coyote vs. Acme flick coming this year in August. This is another still from it. As I see coyotes all the time in Arizona here, it hits home 😂
#CoyoteVsAcme
@cdarwin@c.imThe general election will likely pit Talarico, a seminarian, against Ken Paxton, a philandering crook.
In Texas-adjusted terms, I like Talarico’s odds.
But a known scumbag has no reputation to maintain,
whereas the shine can come off a golden boy in one news cycle.
This is a risk that polling can’t capture.
By contrast, if Crockett’s defining quality is partisanship, what really matters is Trump’s popularity,
and the trajectory of his polling.
T…
@cdarwin@c.imIt's the one vote I won't hold Dems accountable for.
With all the other crazy nominees, even I said,
"Well at least Marco Rubio won't try to kill us all"
but he folded as soon as he was sworn in.
THIS ALL rests with the GOP Congress who COULD STOP this sh*t show now,
but they're ALL complicit/corrupt!
-- OneSerenityNow
@cdarwin@c.imThe State Leadership Initiative (SLI),
is a policy-focused organization that investigates and counters the influence of progressive ideologies
—specifically Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) standards
and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies
—within state-level bureaucracies and government,
particularly in conservative "red" states.
🔸Focus on Policy Influence: SLI investigates how national associations and "shadow gov…
@cdarwin@c.imU.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
https…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration has offered very little in the way of justification for attacking Iran.
Instead, it was bomb first, offer a feeble explanation later.
This is breathtakingly illegal,
and the administration just doesn’t care.
Donald Trump attacked Iran because he wanted to, full stop.
Now, there’s a scramble by the administration and GOP sycophants to cobble together some Rube Goldberg contraption
combining international law, domestic law, and ex…
@cdarwin@c.imTillis to Noem:
"A 14 month old dog is basically a teenager in dog years.
You decided to kill that dog because you hadn't invested the appropriate training,
then you have the audacity to write a book & say it's a leadership lesson! ...
Those are bad decisions not unlike what happened in Minneapolis"
@cdarwin@c.im“The Intern in Charge”:
Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas.
“Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.
His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise
is now a Dep…
@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.imTexas Republican Primary:
Rep. Wesley Hunt came in distant third at 13.4%.
— That result means this bare-knuckle, mega-Texas primary will last for another 12 weeks.
Gobs more money will be spent.
And it will put a tremendous amount of pressure on the White House to get involved in the race.
https://www.memeor…
@cdarwin@c.imWe are at untold levels of delusional cope right now.
These words are indistinguishable from the lofty dreams of being welcomed as liberators within Iraq back in 2002.
You should never listen to a single thing these pundits say lmfao this is incredible.
Ahistorical commentary is worthless!
-- @Mako69@bsky.social
@cdarwin@c.imYou see some effort on the part of Congress to assert itself in the realm of war.
But it failed predominantly on party lines
Republicans predominantly were supporting the president and whatever it happens to be that he would like to do.
Moderate Republicans and Republicans who are in less safe districts were and are more likely to at least stand up a little bit to the president,
but there’s a very small number of them.
@cdarwin@c.imToday, Vandenberg Spaceforce Base is best known for the booming SpaceX launches that send satellites into orbit.
But once upon a time, it was a hotbed for UFO sightings, quietly logged by the military.
This year, those sightings resurfaced.
Details of extraterrestrial encounters on the Central Coast were discussed in government hearings and explored in the newly released documentary
"The Age of Disclosure" (2025).
The film features government inside…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imI listened to CNN talking heads praise the spectacular tactical success of the kidnapping
-- as if the U.S.' military capability was the relevant issue.
They spoke of a restoration of democracy, by which they meant capitalism, if they knew what they meant at all.
Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly.
Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see.
But to put it mildly,…
@cdarwin@c.imAcross the nation, prosecutors, judges, and victims are sounding alarms about the impact of Donald Trump's sweeping absolutions.
Families still carrying the consequences of crimes feel disregarded
while offenders celebrate newfound freedom.
And as the list of pardoned individuals grows, so does the fear:
if the rules can change this dramatically under one president, what stops them from changing even more under the next?
@cdarwin@c.imRright now it is unlikely that Trump gets a "rally around the flag" boost for his seizing of Maduro as
1) it didn’t happen with his invasion of cities or his attack on Iran
2) the country just isn’t on board some kind of extended military campaign in Venezuela
3) it increasingly feels like Trump has no real plan for what comes next in Venezuela, and like Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, thought the government would just fall and he could waltz into the Capital.
@cdarwin@c.imPROGRESSIVE CAUCUS DEPUTY CHAIR CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE VOTE TO END TRUMP'S ILLEGAL WAR ON VENEZUELA
Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) Deputy Chair Rep. Ilhan Omar (MN-05)
released the following statement after news that Trump launched airstrikes inside Venezuela and captured its head of state:
"Trump's invasion of Venezuela is blatantly illegal and unconstitutional.
He has no authority to deploy U.S. forces into foreign countries to bomb them, capture …
@cdarwin@c.imREPORTER: Yesterday you told us Israel was going to strike Iran and that's why we needed to get involved. But today the president said Iran--
RUBIO: No. Were you there yesterday?
REPORTER: Yes. I asked the question
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mg6m5q2mv5…
@cdarwin@c.imSaturday, March 07, 2026
2:00 PM
Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/03/04/18884731.php
@cdarwin@c.imMorgan Stanley delivers 2-word verdict on S&P 500
Basically Crashed
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/morgan-stanley-delivers-curt-2-173300619.html
@cdarwin@c.imMAGA loves a villain
Ken #Paxton’s scandals helped him undermine John #Cornyn as the Texas GOP Senate primary goes to a runoff
https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imUN’s next leader was meant to be a woman.
-- But Trump may ‘insist on a man’
Three candidates want the UN secretary-general job, despite a ‘difficult’ process fraught with politics
— not helped by interventions from the White House
https://www.thetimes.…
@cdarwin@c.imBernie Sanders: Medicare-for-all would not resemble Britain’s NHS
Medicare-for-all is not a government-run, British-style National Health Service system.
It is a government-funded universal insurance program.
Medicare-for-all would simply expand Medicare
— a program that has worked extremely well for more than six decades
— to cover every American, eliminate premiums and out-of-pocket costs,
give people the freedom to choose their doctors,
and ens…
@cdarwin@c.imMERCENARIES is a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment.
The distribution model for this campaign is both decentralized and autonomous.
They ask, "Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/8-things-
@cdarwin@c.imNoem faced Republican criticism
Republicans largely kept the focus on the large numbers of migrants who came into the country under former President Joe Biden,
portraying Noem as the leader of a cleanup effort of the former administration’s mess.
But she did come under some harsh questioning by members of her own party.
Senator Tillis, who called on Noem to resign following the shootings in Minneapolis, criticized her for erroneously arresting American citizens, for…
@cdarwin@c.imSBResiste needs your help.
As the Trump administration launched its aggressive, often unconstitutional assault on immigrants early last year, community members formed SBResiste.
The organization aims to prevent kidnappings,
monitor ICE activities,
document violations,
notify community members of their rights,
and provide mutual aid to families devastated by detentions and disappearances.
Register here:
@cdarwin@c.imNobody really knows the scale of the U.S. housing crisis
America faces a serious housing shortage, one that Moody’s estimates would take more than 2 million new homes to resolve.
But over at Goldman Sachs, analysts put the number at
3 million.
Zillow’s estimate tops 4 million,
while Brookings projects 5 million,
and McKinsey says 8 million.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans insist the shortfall is closer to 20 million.
Then there are the …
@cdarwin@c.imNew protest laws are impacting political demonstrations
While serving in the Florida state legislature, #Randy #Fine helped pass legislation that provides some 🆘 protection under certain circumstances to 🔥drivers who hit protesters blocking roadways.
In Congress, the Republican representative has introduced a s…
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939
—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II.
"…nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."
https://<…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is framing this as a law enforcement operation so he doesn’t need congressional authorization.
He’s not defending our country. He’s defending his grip on power with endless wars.
“American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonlin…
@cdarwin@c.im“The hot new thing right now is to be a Christian nationalist,”
says Dan McClellan
“And I think a lot of people are jumping at the opportunity to get on board this attempt to take over the government on the part of Christians.
And unfortunately, it means hurting an awful lot of people along the way.”
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imA fun tactic of extremists is to argue that they don't hate out-groups, they just blah blah blah.
The pinnacle of this was the antebellum argument that enslaved people were happier and healthier enslaved,
and that enslavers were motivated bu their charitable natures.
It was BS then, and it's BS now.
https://<…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s narrow support among the public has vanished.
Despite his aggressive attacks on the press, his administration continues to leak like a sieve
and what is discovered in those leaks is reported, however unfavorable it may be to him.
Heavy-handed attempts are met with social revolts, ranging from mass protests to grand juries to consumer boycotts.
Ordinary American citizens are filming, berating, and obstructing masked ICE thugs,
often not as a matter of …
@cdarwin@c.imProtests erupted nationwide as the U.S. attacks Venezuela and kidnaps President Maduro and his wife.
San Francisco was no exception.
As the recent days of rain let up for a grateful pause, activists of all ages from the Answer coalition, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Democratic Socialists of American, Revolutionary International Youth, Refuse Fascism, and just people with home made signs rallied at Powell and Market.
They then marched down Market Street to …
@cdarwin@c.imAnti-abortion lawmakers and others
are using strategies from the playbook of bigots who sought to restrict access to voting,
-- even by trying to change the rules for citizen-led initiatives.
ProPublica found legislation or proposals introduced in at least four states in the last year that would undermine ballot initiatives adding abortion protections to state law.
Sarah Walker, policy and legal advocacy director at the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center, said that e…
@cdarwin@c.imIn 1990, a $100,000 salary would be worth more than $250,000 in today's dollars.
Today, a $100,000 salary would be less than $40,000 in 1990.
$100,000 is the new $40,000.
https://bsky.app/profile/thefinancenewsletter.com/post/3m77do5dycc2i
@cdarwin@c.imI'm the president of Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation,
and my city is under occupation by the federal government.
Our community has pulled together, doing everything we can to protect our neighbors from being kidnapped and detained by ICE and border patrol.
One of our members was detained by ICE in the parking lot of their workplace and taken to a facility in Texas.
After two weeks in detention under astonishing conditions,
being pressured to sign &quo…
@cdarwin@c.imHarry Dunn was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2023, the second-highest civilian honor, which was presented to him by former President Joe Biden.
"I once told Congress,
'I did my job, now you do yours,'"
Dunn says in his announcement video posted Wednesday.
"Well, I'm done waiting."
Dunn will face a crowded field for the Democratic nomination to replace Hoyer,
including established Maryland politicians Del. Adri…
@cdarwin@c.imA "war powers resolution" gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out.
The Senate resolution,
and a similar bill being voted on in the House later this week,
face unlikely paths through the Republican-controlled Congress
and would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump even if they were to pass.
Nonetheless, the votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers.
Their decisions on the five-d…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 100 detained in holiday immigration raids across Central Coast, sparking outrage
Federal immigration agents took people from their homes, job sites, businesses and on the streets as they ran errands,
#Santa #Maria City Councilmember Gloria Soto said.
She said at least 87 people were taken by age…
@cdarwin@c.imCommunities have changed how resistance is conducted
— away from the myth of the solitary activist hero
and toward
shared capacity.
As Grace Lee Boggs taught us,
“Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.”
Political exhaustion took on new meaning.
It was no longer treated as a personal struggle, but as shared terrain
— produced by oppressive systems and requiring collective response.
The question shifted from…
@cdarwin@c.imThe oldest known pyre, located in Alaska, dates back 11,500 years and contains the created remains of a 3-year-old child.
But HOR-1 in Malawi is the oldest example of adult cremated remains found in a pyre.
We will likely never know the identity of this woman, or why her death inspired such a carefully coordinated ritual. But it seems safe to assume that the cremation was a significant event for the community that expended so much forethought and labor to perform it.
@cdarwin@c.imWe speak with economist
Michael Hudson,
who details how Trump opted to attack Iran despite progress at indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations.
“The whole reason that America has attacked Iran has nothing to do with its getting an atom bomb,”
but instead the aim was U.S. control of oil, says Hudson.
The Trump administration may have been after the ability to “turn off the power” to countries that don’t follow U.S. foreign policy, he says
@cdarwin@c.imPro-American, Iranian Kurdish forces based in Iraq
are preparing armed units that could enter Iran,
creating a potential new front in an already expanding conflict,
according to Iraqi officials and senior members of Iranian Kurdish groups.
The C.I.A. has previously given small arms to the Iranian Kurdish forces as part of a covert program to destabilize Iran,
an effort that began before the current war, according to people familiar with the effort.
But in …
@cdarwin@c.im"The attorney general is the people’s attorney, not the president’s attorney,”
as former Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy put it in 2017.
But Trump and Bondi clearly agree that she’s there to work for him,
to protect him, to spare him from the very law enforcement that she is responsible for.
It hearkens back to the medieval model of attorney general as legal representative to the king.
This is the rotten core of Trump
-- beneath all the makeup and slurre…
@cdarwin@c.imJames Talarico is a former public school teacher and current seminary student
who has built a following among Democrats in Texas and beyond
for his sermons and floor exchanges challenging Christian nationalism.
Talarico will be an underdog heading into the general election.
The race will be a reach, even if he ends up facing Republican Attorney General Paxton
—who has been elected in a cloud of scandal three times before.
It will also be absurdly expensi…
@cdarwin@c.imWhile Trump’s attacks on offshore wind have been highly visible,
his administration has also been hobbling solar and wind energy projects on land
by halting or delaying federal approvals that were once routine.
More than 60 large wind and solar farms under development on federal lands, such as are being stymied.
But the administration is also holding up hundreds of wind and solar projects on private land that require federal consultations.
Many projects are f…
@cdarwin@c.imIranian drone attacks could disrupt the Strait of Hormuz for months,
but how long the Islamic Republic could sustain its missile barrage is less clear, according to intelligence sources and military analysts.
Iran's drone production capacity is around 10,000 per month
Iran's missile stockpile estimates vary widely, affecting conflict duration
Sea mines could prolong disruption in the Strait of Hormuz
Drone attacks have penetrated Gulf states'…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imIt is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”
@cdarwin@c.imA U.S. #submarine sank an Iranian warship in international waters, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday.
In addition to striking Tehran, Israel hit the Iranian-backed #Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon,
while Iran fired on #Bahrain
@cdarwin@c.imFrance summoned billionaire
#Elon #Musk to a
“voluntary interview”
as #cybercrime authorities on Tuesday searched the French offices of his social media network X,
the Paris public prosecutor’s office said.
…
@cdarwin@c.imWithin tumors in the human body, there are #immune #cells ( #macrophages ) capable of fighting cancer,
but they have been unable to perform their roles properly due to suppression by the tumor.
KAIST researchers have over…
@cdarwin@c.imA grand jury declined to reindict Letitia James, New York’s attorney general,
rejecting efforts to revive a criminal case that had been sought by President Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.
The unsuccessful attempt to revive the case against Ms. James does not necessarily end the administration’s efforts to put her on trial
@cdarwin@c.imMiddle East attacks intensify
Trump says he rejects Iran’s attempt to talk: 'Too Late!’
Rubio threatens the ‘hardest hits are yet to come’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/202
@cdarwin@c.imUS abruptly dropped support for Kurds in Syria in January
Now talking about supporting Iranian Kurdish separatists
It hardly fills with you with confidence in the long term planning that went into this
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/us-said-to-b…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Iranian sailors weren't offered the chance to surrender,
and there were no US attempts to rescue the survivors
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-submarine-torpedoes-iranian-frigate-in-indian-ocean-in-f…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Year in Physics
Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole,
doubled down on weakening dark energy,
and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-year-in-physics-20251217/
@cdarwin@c.imThe fallout from conflict in the Gulf will be much bigger than just oil
The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/04/iran-war-dubai-saudi-qatar-global-economy-oil-shipping-trade/
@cdarwin@c.imWith astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
@cdarwin@c.imEscalation rarely stays confined to one place.
The wider region is watching.
Gulf states are quietly recalibrating, strengthening defences and updating contingency plans.
Traders and markets are alert, and governments around the world are preparing for potential spillovers.
For ordinary people – in Tehran, in Beirut, in Gaza, in Tel Aviv, and increasingly across the Gulf – the cost is paid in uncertainty,
disrupted lives and a constant recalibration of what “…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump said the Navy will escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz, if necessary.
Per reports the Navy has no timeline for this hazardous maneuver
and Trump himself has just demanded convoys begin "as soon as possible"
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 301 points, or 0.6%.
The 30-stock index was down more than 1,200 points, or around 2.6%, at its low of the session.
@cdarwin@c.imCapt. Cody A. Khork
Sgt. Nicole M. Amor,
Sgt. Declan J. Coady
and
Sgt. Noah L. Tietjens.
Two other service members who were killed have not yet been identified.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/m
@cdarwin@c.imSCOTUS allows California to use new congressional map in 2026
In a win for voters, the Supreme Court allowed California to use its new voter-approved congressional map in the 2026 midterm elections.
Democrats could pick up as many as five more seats in Congress under the new map and counter the GOP gains made in Texas
@cdarwin@c.imRep. Lofgren to Noem:
You know there's an old adage that states there are no bad dogs, just bad owners.
One of the questions we have is,
are there bad agencies or just bad leadership?
https://bsky.app/profile/rachelbitecofer.bsky.social/post/3mg…
@cdarwin@c.imPentagon briefing:
US defence secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed that a US submarine sunk an Iranian warship in the Indian ocean
as he declared that the Iranian navy “rests at the bottom of the Persian Gulf”
and that it was “ineffective, decimated, destroyed”.
He declared that “America is winning”
and suggested that in under a week the US and Israel
“will have complete control of Iranian skies, uncontested airspace”.
The leader of the Iranian co…
@cdarwin@c.imMassachusetts Gov. Maura Healey wants to eliminate the 15-year deadline to prosecute rape in cases with a DNA match.
The proposal is part of her budget recommendation for the 2027 fiscal year.
Current Massachusetts law bars rape prosecutions in older cases, even when DNA testing has identified a suspect.
An investigation last year by WBUR and ProPublica found that nearly all other states allow more time to charge rapes or similar assaults of adults than Massachusetts.
…
@cdarwin@c.imUrine tests reveal "substantial" consumption of ethanol by wild chimpanzees.
Previously, researchers assessed ethanol levels in ripe fruits & how much of these fruits the chimps typically ate to estimate that they consumed
at ~1.5 drinks a day.
BUT directly demonstrating alcohol consumption was trickier.
@cdarwin@c.imJames Carville says Trump invaded Venezuela for a simple reason:
“It's All about Epstein”
The commentator said Donald Trump is throwing up desperate distractions from the Epstein Files
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/all-about
@cdarwin@c.imRenée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars
by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months,
experiences that left them fearing for their lives.
The witnesses wept and spoke with emotion as they described violent encounters with federal agents at a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by two Democrats.
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imThe Austrian National Soccer Team has been Selected to Stay in Goleta,
and Practice at UCSB
The European team,
Österreichische Fußballnationalmannschaft,
will stay at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara in Goleta California
and practice at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium in June
…
@cdarwin@c.imNOEM: Our federal detention centers are held to the highest standards in comparison to other detaining facilities
McBATH: Did you just hear me?
He has to crawl through mold and feces and bodily fluids just to take a shower.
This is absolute lunacy and you know it.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupa…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump says Venezuela stole U.S. oil, land and assets.
But U.S. companies never owned oil or land in Venezuela, home to the world’s largest proven reserves of crude,
and officials didn’t kick them out of the country.
“Trump’s claim that Venezuela has stolen oil and land from the U.S. is baseless,”
said Francisco Rodríguez, a Venezuelan economist at the University of Denver
Here’s the history.
@cdarwin@c.imCamp East Montana in El Paso opened in August and quickly became the deadliest ICE facility,
with infamously terrible conditions.
Now ICE is closing it,
just as they plan to open up a detention camp nearly three times larger in a converted warehouse just outside El Paso.
…
@cdarwin@c.imMexico is “a country that has done nothing but cooperate with US interests on all levels”, Thomas Payan said.
“And here he is rubbing Mexico’s nose in what is essentially a very deep wound in Mexico’s history … it’s seared in Mexico’s memory.”
According to Payan, the statement also speaks volumes as to how Trump would like his presidency to be remembered.
“He wants to go down as a great president who expanded the American Empire,” he said.
“It’s just sheer 19th-centu…
@cdarwin@c.imTrevor Noah Sues Donald Trump Over Alleged Threatening Messages
Following Explosive Truth Social Rant
A high-profile legal and political controversy has erupted
after comedian and television host Trevor Noah filed a lawsuit
against Donald Trump,
alleging that the president sent “damaging, intimidating, and dangerous” private direct messages
following a public dispute tied to comments made during the Grammy Awards
@cdarwin@c.imIf you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped,
it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
https://bsky.app/profi…
@cdarwin@c.imAfter the U.S. bombed #Venezuela in the middle of the night
and abducted its president, Nicolas Maduro,
Donald Trump warned that more attacks could be on the way in the region.
Trump hinted at a future conflict with #Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.
“Your vice…
@cdarwin@c.imMonoclonal antibody therapies are being developed to treat #measles in response to its recent resurgence.
David A Kennedy argues that such therapies risk driving measles virus evolution in ways that might undermine the protection offered by #vaccination.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump has made various comments during this news conference showing that this military operation was at least in part about gaining more access to oil in Venezuela.
Asked about the potential presence of U.S. forces in Venezuela, Trump said that there would be a “presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
@cdarwin@c.imRancho Cañada Larga, a ±6,500-acre historic ranch in Ventura County, California, has been sold in a landmark $27.65 million land conservation transaction.
The property was acquired by the Trust for Public Land.
The acquisition ensures the permanent preservation of Rancho Cañada Larga as a public park,
protecting one of the last major undeveloped land parcels in California from future development in perpetuity.
Rancho Cañada Larga spans approximately 6,500 contiguous…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.
@cdarwin@c.imPrivacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…
@cdarwin@c.imThe school year began with a shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in South Minneapolis,
where two children died and at least 24 others were injured.
Local families barely had time to process those deaths — only five years after the killing of George Floyd rocked their city — before their daily lives were upended by the chaotic presence of federal officers harassing citizens under the guise of immigration enforcement.
A teacher named Sarah in the Twin Cities told me tha…
@cdarwin@c.imJames Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas
was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters,
a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.
Latino voters, historically a Democratic-leaning group,
have been slowly shifting to the right, including a significant move toward Trump in 2024.
This year’s midterm elections will be closely watched to see whether these voters who were moved to support Republicans tw…
@cdarwin@c.imZohran Mamdani’s third day as mayor of New York City was supposed to be dedicated to a long-stalled #pedestrian #safety plan,
the kind of local quality-of-life issue he had made central to his campaign.
Instead, after the U.S. military captured
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security has been quietly demanding tech companies
turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration, according to reports.
In several cases over recent months, Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These subpoenas have also…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Department of Homeland Security
has been quietly demanding
tech companies turn over user information about critics of the Trump administration,
according to reports.
In several cases over recent months,
Homeland Security has relied on the use of administrative subpoenas
to seek identifiable information about individuals who run anonymous Instagram accounts,
which share posts about ICE immigration raids in their local neighborhoods.
These s…
@cdarwin@c.imThis morning, President Trump unilaterally launched a regime-change war against Nicolšs Maduro of Venezuela,
ordering strikes on multiple military targets in the country and seizing its leader and his wife.
They were “captured and flown out of the country,” Trump stated on Truth Social.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” Attorney General Pam Bondi stated,
in something like an inversion of the notion that jus…
@cdarwin@c.imThree years ago,
on Feb. 3, 2023,
the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical disaster
—one of the worst industrial disasters in US history
—took place in the small town of
East Palestine, Ohio.
Since that fateful day,
residents have been exploited and abandoned by Norfolk Southern,
the government,
opportunistic politicians,
sensationalist media outlets,
and self-serving attorneys
-- but we haven’t forgotten them.
@cdarwin@c.imMiles Rapoport, the co-chairman of Crimson Courage, an alumni group that has urged Harvard to resist any deal that compromises its academic freedom,
said Trump and his White House were “completely unreliable negotiating partners.”
“I hope this strengthens Harvard’s resolve to not make a deal with an administration that is so ready to go nuclear at any moment,” Mr. Rapoport said.
Ryan Enos, a government professor at Harvard, said Trump’s shifting demands seemed to show he wa…
@cdarwin@c.imThe House narrowly passed a spending package by a 217-214 vote,
reopening the government through the rest of the fiscal year
and passing a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
The measure was the product of a last minute deal in the Senate last week to avoid a broader shutdown.
Democrats objected to fully funding DHS in the wake of recent fatal shootings involving immigration agents in Minneapolis.
The $1.2 trillion packag…
@cdarwin@c.imA North Carolina man who says federal immigration agents shattered his truck window,
forcibly removed him from his vehicle,
and left him “bleeding and in pain”
has filed a $1.25 million damages claim against the federal government.
Willy Wender Aceituno, a U.S. citizen,
says he was stopped twice on November 15, 2025, while walking into a restaurant parking lot to pick up breakfast before work,
according to a court filing reviewed by Newsweek.
Aceitun…
