More than 215,000 people have now signed a letter which calls
not just for the closure of Dilley
but for an end to the detention of children and families nationwide
— and the return of those already detained to the communities from which they were taken.
The campaign, organized under the "National Coalition to End Child and Family Detention", is not a celebrity vanity project.
Alongside the artists is a medical corps
— pediatricians, OBGYNs, pulm…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
PUTIN PANICS: TESTING MOSCOW FULL INTERNET #SHUTDOWN Vlog 1340: War in #Ukraine
The
Not reproducible, however I have a VirtualBox snapshot of the bugged installation.
I can restart SDDM and login, again I get a black screen. Xorg.0.log has one error:
open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
Maybe negligible. The same error occurs when I successfully startx and use twm instead of Plasma (X11).
'reboot -r' is not enough to work around the issue.
Plasma did work, once, after 'shutdown -r now', however this is not a consis…
Chris Murphy, the senior senator from Connecticut, said
it does not appear the United States has actually reached a ceasefire agreement with Iran,
since both countries are sharing different terms of the agreement.
But, if the agreement that Iran believes it has entered into is true,
that would be “cataclysmic for the world”.
In an appearance on CNN shortly after Donald Trump announced the ceasefire in a social media post, Murphy said:
“Who knows what’s go…
X user TheGhostOfHope, one of top Call of Duty leakers, says Activision "legally demanded that I stop leaking and disseminating confidential information" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/888858/call-of-duty-leaker-hope-…
Via Seattle Times: Trump administration order cost WA coal plant $20M, company says
The owner of the state’s last remaining coal power plant says it has spent millions to comply with federal orders to remain operational this year, past its planned shutdown date. Now, it wants regional grid operators to foot the bill.
Chuck Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, has called Donald Trump
an “extremely sick person”
in response to the president’s recent post on Truth Social – in which he said
“a whole civilization will die tonight”
if Iran fails to meet his 8pm ET deadline
to reopen the strait of Hormuz.
“Each Republican who refuses to join us in voting against this wanton war of choice
owns every consequence of whatever the hell this is,” Schumer added.
Other Democ…
Currently fighting with NUT (Network UPS Tools) and an Eaton 3S 850 UPS that should back two machines. It seems letting the driver handle the lowbatt state does not work (might happily suck the battery dry in some situations), one needs to let the Eaton do it (battery.charge.low), which unfortunately means one needs to configure it imperatively via upsrw. 😑 Also, it seems impossible to ensure a power cycle after shutdown. If power returns too early, 'ondelay' is never communicated to…
And consumers now have one fewer choice. It was by far one of the cheapest fares available compared to Southwest.
If you voted for Trump, this is your fault.
☑️ Spirit Airlines shuts down, canceling thousands of flights overnight | The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/business/922788/s
Wouldn't it be nice if this revealed inefficiency and bloat at DHS and something was done to break it up into manageable pieces again?
Republican divisions, Donald Trump’s detachment stymie GOP efforts to end DHS shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5815769-johnson-thune-trump-dhs-shutdown/
Meanwhile Candace Owens, once a darling of the Maga movement, reiterated her condemnation of the bombing campaign, calling Trump “a genocidal lunatic” and urging Congress and the military to intervene.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/07/government-shutdown-congress-house-of-representatives-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-ice-us-politics-latest-updates-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
As experts warn about cyberattacks from Iran on the US, CISA is operating under a partial government shutdown and dealing with leadership changes (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-cisa-cybersecurity-war-threat.html
Misleading headline, again.
Here's the original headline:
"Trump orders DHS to pay all employees despite shutdown"
Here's what it ought to say:
"Congress allows Trump to cut off its balls, again, by giving away its Constitutional power over spending our money"
The R-party has pretty much given up on our US Constitution and has become merely a new court of Versailles dedicated to nothing more than kissing King Donald's ample bottom…
I’m not that smart but I’m posting this on the Fediverse can one of you smart people shutdown X/Twitter somehow?
It would be a public service and you would be considered a hero.
"The same week that #OpenAI announced the imminent shutdown of Sora, its splashiest showcase for #AI, #Meta announced the shutdown of its splashiest showcase for the metaverse."
Brian the Merc…
This sounds like a doomsday scenario but i am afraid this thread on BlueSky could be right.
"1/ The world faces a catastrophic cliff-edge shortage of oil due to the Strait of Hormuz blockade in the next four weeks, analysts warn. This will cause a deep recession, fuel rationing, the shutdown of entire industries, and oil prices potentially as high as $370 per barrel."
Donald Trump is set to hold a press conference in the White House briefing room today at 1pm ET
on the US-Israel war on Iran.
He’s expected to provide an update on the weekend rescue mission to retrieve a crew member after a US F-15 jet was downed on Friday over Iran.
This also comes after the president issued a profanity-laden ultimatum to the Iranian regime on social media to reopen the strait of Hormuz, or face further strikes on energy sites and bridges across the count…
Stupid is as Stupid does.
And in other news... TACOs are back on the menu at the Capitol.
✅ DHS reverses decision to suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry due to shutdown - ABC News
https://abcnews.com/US/dhs-suspending-tsa-precheck…
In a word, the D's, once again, gave in.
The D's got nothing real - ICE and CBP will still be a masked and brutal Magastapo.
So what that ICE and CBP remain unfunded - they are awash in $$ but trump big fugly bill.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/poli
Former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson called the strategy “vile on every level” on Monday’s episode of his online show, saying that “not even a month and a half into the conflict … we’re going to use our military to kill the civilians of this country”.
Marjorie Taylor Greene – previously one of Trump’s most reliable allies on Capitol Hill – has joined Democrats in calling for his removal under the 25th amendment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/apr/07/government-shutdown-congress-house-of-representatives-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-ice-us-politics-latest-updates-news?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Congress loses a flying perk as DHS shutdown continues : NPR #sad
Don't see Republicans defending America to its allies...
'Because of the Republican shutdown of [DHS[, because [they] refuse to make any compromises or any changes to ICE after the deadly murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, we have a shutdown, and can't go on official CODELS. I’ve decided, along with a number of my Democratic colleagues, to go anyway,” Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.) said.
House delegation to Munich Security Conference canceled during DHS shutdown
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5738274-house-codel-munich-security-conference-dhs-shutdown/
House and Senate Republicans have identified the enemy
— and it is one another.
A meltdown in relations between the two G.O.P.-led chambers caused the embarrassing collapse on Friday of a Senate-passed proposal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security before lawmakers raced out of town on a two-week recess.
It left no clear path for resolving the crisis that has led to airport chaos and workers without paychecks.
And with President Trump seemingly cheering on the…
Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai
Senate votes to end DHS shutdown
-- House next
After 41 days, the Senate voted early Friday morning to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, excluding ICE and CBP,
ending a bitter impasse that laid bare the inability of both parties to close out an agreement.
In a near-empty chamber, senators approved the funding by voice vote at 3 a.m.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Majority Whip John Barrasso and other senior Republicans spent hours late Thurs…
Hungry to End DHS Shutdown, Johnson Eats 'Crap Sandwich' Deal He Rejected Last Week | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/dhs-funding-deal-reached
Cabinet Meeting - Live
Trump gets into the substance of the matter by addressing the fact that Mullin’s department is currently partially shutdown.
The scapegoat he chooses to blame for that is his old foe, Chuck Schumer, the Democrats’ leader in the Senate.
“The Democrats are really punishing the American people,” Trump said. “I saw it today on one of the shows where they were interviewing people at the airport nad they’re all angry at the Democrats. They’re saying they’re ac…
🔸Homeland Security: House and Senate Republicans agreed on Wednesday to advance a bipartisan plan to fund the Homeland Security Department, which has been closed for more than six weeks.
Under the plan, which the House rejected last week, a regular spending bill would fund the bulk of the department and Republicans would seek to fund Trump’s immigration crackdown through a separate process aimed at skirting a Democratic filibuster.
The plan does not include any of the restricti…
Trump Live Updates: House and Senate Republicans Reach Deal to End DHS Shutdown - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/01/us/trump-news