Had a knock on the front door; stranger outside had a "MAGA" hat, big fake smile. Soon as he started the pitch, we gave a big "NOPE" and closed the door on him. He tried the "Just 60 seconds?" riposte, but fuck that. Come around wearing Ortsgruppen Nazi stuff, & get treated like it.

100% per trump's behavior. 100% credible. Not 'emotionally manipulative' news. The rump has made many violence and death threats for 10+ years. Now he has federal executive powers. Of course he is using death threats against congress, judges, & witnesses. www.rawstory.com/trump-j6-wit...

Q: Well, gee, whiz, whoever could have seen THIS happening? A: Frikkin' EVERYONE. techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/t... "Big Balls", Musk, and everyone who participated in this massive crime should be sued in civil courts into oblivion, criminally prosecuted, and put right into prison.

So the Rump is raising our federal sales tax, again. This time, by 10% for European imported items. Regardless of his childish pressure campaign, companies have to pass the extra cost to us, the consumers. And the congress people are just letting him raise tax after tax after tax.

Tomorrow (January 06) will be the 5th anniversary of trump's attempted coup / insurrection. He and crew tried violence to subvert our democracy. And he and his are still trying it.

"I'll stop the war in Ukraine, that I started, if you guys will just show me some respect." Putin is such a man-baby. Also a liar. His words mean nothing; his actions mean everything.

Georgia's Representative Greene finally said something true about the GOPs: "It’s all so absurd and completely unserious. I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.” That analogy of being a battered wife, hoping it goes away (yet it never does) is 100% accurate.

Why do young me listen to Andrew Tate (a millionaire) tell them that they're total losers unless they become millionaires? Why in HELL do conservatives in particular worship the millionaires and billionaires so damn much? That instinct is so damaging.

No matter how they try to juggle the books, they just can't make the numbers look good for trump's crew. The trump tariffs are heavily screwing us, making the recession worse. So, yeah, they aren't gonna release that report yet.

I wonder when the "patriotic capitalism" community (aka, the would-be oligarchs) will start promoting Vance as Trump 2.0. I'm guessing they're trying for Trump 3.0 first, seeing what sticks, before they push for the Vance-In-Chief.

Vote. Everyone, vote. You have seen what Trump and crew have already done. You know it will continue to worsen. VOTE.

A hero of the technological realms. We need more like this inventor. www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/e...

An assassination of a Minnesota congressperson. An attempted assassination of a Minnesota senator. Both are Democrats. And on today's No Kings Day. The domestic extremist terrorists working with the autocratic regime are moving from financial and verbal intimidation into outright assassinations.

June 14: No Kings Day NO AUTHORITARIANS NO DICTATORS NO KINGS NO TYRANTS

While Trump wastes millions on a personal military parade in DC, NO KINGS will host a nationwide day of protest against his authoritarian aspirations. app.sosha.ai/s/J0FUrfwY

If Trump can't get his own Reichstag Fire, then by golly he will make one. Thus his escalation (or invasion?) into L.A., ignoring Posse Comitatus, and threats to arrest CA's governor. Over a protest against his ICEstapo.

If TX passes SB 2880, the bill would make it illegal to “provide information” on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug. Texas legislators not only want to make sure no one can START a discussion on abortion pills, they also want to make sure no one can FIND one.

Due process denied to ONE is due process denied to ALL. xkcd.com/3081/

Trump's authoritarian attacks of judicial system: His arresting of judges has begun. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

TWO. Absolutely it's 'TWO'. They're here, and they're burning every-damn-thing.

America's universities and colleges need to join forces, to work together. They need to unionize. Their enemy is the country's executive branch. And the AAU needs to take in many more institutions. And they need to pool their legal resources. If they don't, some of them _will_ be shut down.

I think even medieval monks knew better than this crap.

No problem. We'll never give you up.

The damned _idiocy_ of the April 2025 USA tariffs. Yeah, it do be like that.

"Reichstag Fire": A false flag attack on the German government, used as a pretext by Hitler to take power. "Stagflation": The combination of high inflation and unemployment, and stagnant economic growth. "Reichstagflation": When President Trump creates stagflation - or worse - to take more power.

April 5, many Hands Off! protests will take place across the country, calling light to Trump and Musk’s illegal power grabs. www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

Trump is bringing back the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. In 1930, that damn disastrous act raised tariffs on 20,000+ products. Net effect: The Stock Market and Bad Recession of 1929 became the Great Depression of the 1930s. And international trade collapsed and began eliminating America to survive.

Deep hurt to the entire education, employability, and life quality of 15% of all American children. Think of all the children you know: So 1 out of every 6 of them screwed forever. In trump 1.0, devoss did her "best" to disable the education department. Now trump 2.0's mcmahon is going further.

We know how the gops get their foot in the door with hateful tactics. If they succeed in Tennessee, they'll push this destruction into public education of the conservative states. And if it goes to the supreme court, they'll push it for the country. tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/06/t...

Again: what happens here in Tennessee is coming your way next. Pay attention. They openly say they want this to end up at the Supreme Court. tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/06/t...

If you're not using Signal, I recommend it to you. techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/s...

Boosting this signal.

Privacy is not dead. However, just as with democratic power, it's far easier to lose it than to maintain it (much less grow it). Take actions. www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...

Let's see if this can work. CW Daily has a comprehensive list of (known) coup-like activity from Trump and Musk. www.facebook.com/cwdailynews/...

So much censoring, purging, and revising of information on federal agencies' websites. What's the purpose? This is one term for it:

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This pleases me. Techniques are evolving to fight the proliferation of AI-bots that scrape so much and so fast, they are overwhelming websites. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

In a moment of non-surprise, a European privacywatch group reports TikTok, et al, sending Europeans' data to China's govt: noyb.eu/en/tiktok-al...

Narrative and story are critical to corporations to get an edge. The most important factor that helped Musk, Altman, and OpenAI release a successful GPT model was their pro-active use of a story to get empathy. And that story was fiction (we all know Musk lies). ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

Bluesky tweets are public, and the data is available "firehose" style via Bluesky's backend and open API connections. Right now, users can't opt-out (or opt-in) from that access. techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/b...

One AI-development company estimates that "language models will fully [use up] this stock [of human-generated public text] between 2026 and 2032". And then AI development will slow down sharply. arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/w...