A new law in Kansas has left a large number of trans people suddenly without a valid ID to use at the polls. The state has one of the narrowest voter ID laws in the U.S., and this recent legislation cancelled many trans Kansans’ licenses.

For anyone that, like me, prefers desktop based accounting software that is cross platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) and completely free of charge (and free of any online activation scheme as well), then have to say that "Manager.io" has been testing out really nicely for ... see complete post

Catastrophic illegal Iran War started by felon. #EpsteinFiles coverage. See? Two things at once. Not distracted.

I love see people posting links to music to listen to here on the Fediverse. But way too often, probably over 90% of the time, that link is to a YouTube video, a place where the return to the artist for the stream is tiny to a point close to non-existent, and where our... see complete post

While the end point is unclear, Trump’s would-be dictatorship is politically broken. And as Trump’s mental and physical dissipation increases by the day, it’s increasingly important to focus on the network of stooges that have built and sustained his regime. After all, once Trump departs from […]

Czech president Petr Pavel warned that Donald Trump’s recent comments questioning the role of Nato have damaged the alliance’s credibility more than the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has done in several years. Pavel, a retired Nato general and former chair of the Nato military committee […]

NEW POST: Covering recent ICE flights to Myanmar and Uganda, and one expected soon to Congo. gillianbrockell.com/three-craven... Here's one particularly galling detail:

My near-term goal is the closure of Dilley, and cessation of family detentions while immigration proceedings are underway. Please join me, Ms. Rachel, Raffi, and hundreds of thousands of other good people who’ve signed this petition: c.org/W6pC7wRqZM

I will take "TACO Tuesday" over "WorldWar Wednesday" **every" week, thank you very much. #USpolitics #maga #trump #iran #idiocracy #kakistocracy

The White House is seeking a record-shattering Pentagon budget of $1.5 trillion for the next fiscal year, the largest year-over-year increase in a presidential military spending request since World War II. The United States already has the world’s largest military budget at roughly $1 trillion […]

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

Let's annotate. 1. Begins with a CLEAR statement laying out WHO the culprit is and what he is doing. 2. Specifically says what he thinks needs to happen next. 3. Calls out his own institution. THIS IS THE BASEMENT in terms of a response & his colleagues are underground. bsky.app/profile/fros...

Israeli police assaulted an Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor at a protest against the Iran War. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

over at the newsletter I wrote about how Tim Cook is an embarrassing coward

I was reading an article with the author speculating a false flag terrorist attack would be what the MAGAts use to disrupt the midterm elections from happening - but given the massive incompetence of the current "homeland security" heads, and the gutting or dumbing dow... see complete post

This investigation into the killing of Colombian journalist Abelardo Liz offers a good example of how audio analysis can be used in open source Investigations. Watch this video to learn more about audio forensic analysis: youtu.be/lf5uxI60juk?...

Fantastic, timely read from @atrupar.com & @thorbenson.bsky.social. Mark Jacob on the press: “They don’t know how to react when Donald Trump says or does something that’s mentally deranged. Too often, they try to fit it into a rational frame of reference even though it’s irrational.” 🧾 is.gd/tf7IML

One of these Easter morning messages is from an insane radical who has come to uniquely threaten what makes America great. The other one is from the mayor of New York City. P.S. Did you correctly guess ahead of time which of the two messages offers praise to Allah?

If u r going to read one thing this Easter Sun, make it this piece by @tomgpalmer.bsky.social at @theunpopulist.net about the analytic blindspots of Mearsheimer's realist school of thought that leads him to his hideous defense of Putin's aggression against Ukraine open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...

White House Seeks $1.5 Trillion for #defense in New #budget Request The huge proposed increase would be partly offset by steep #cuts to #domesticprograms, some of which the #trump admin describes as wasteful [which means they’re likely crucial social welfare programs]. #kakistocracy #uspol […]

From me: Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and will collect tolls on it, regardless of the outcome of the war. The price level is permanently higher for oil and gas, which seeps into pretty much everything. Pandora and her box had nothing on Trump. prospect.org/2026/04/02/o...

tl:dr Don't even think of using the #teleguard app. Never ever. Use #signal, #matrix, or #xmpp/#Jabber https://www.404media.co/a-secure-chat-apps-encryption-is-so-bad-it-is-meaningless/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

April’s ways

"Some progressives have not-so-subtly embraced Tucker Carlson over his positions on Israel and Trump’s catastrophic Iran war. But this is not a good look or a smart move: Carlson is one of the clearest examples of how the 'enemy of your enemy' is not your friend." — @playtyperguy.com

My "overly idealistic and naive" take: Deliberately targeting a desalination plant is in essence the same thing as deliberately targeting a school or a hospital. If there is ever a time when a military intervention half way across the globe is somewhat justified, it wo... see complete post

Wherein I write about the step beyond Google Zero and imagine the AI information ecosystem collapse: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/who-really...

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I ❤️ LA

Bola Johnson - Lagos Sisi [Nigeria, Afrobeat] (1970s) https://redd.it/4bdyhd https://youtu.be/eRC2DKklxGc

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

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 […]

Putting a PDS in my pocket was maybe the dumbest stunt I could think of. Relieved not to disappoint PDS dad. locket.computer

You move conversations to "live" when you don't want a paper trail.

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I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

I have a lot to say about this but the gist is🖕

"Microsoft 365 has more than 450 million paid commercial seats. After roughly two years on the market, Copilot has converted approximately 15 million of them into paying users. That's a 3.3% conversion rate, at $30 per user per month, generating roughly $5.4 billion in annual revenue. That's […]

"I feel such deep rage that the wealthiest country in the world would inflict this totally needless misery on its poor, tiny neighbor. A billionaire president is taking these destitute people’s last means of eking out a living—and for what?"

Grifters gonna grift. “To put it into context, those who invested $10,000 in Melania's coin during its inauguration peak of $13.73 find the total would now be worth just $652.44. Things aren’t looking much better for $TRUMP, as it's managed to wipe 80% off its value since its January 17 launch.“

As Peruvian fascist president General Óscar Benavides said in the 1930s: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, THE LAW.” Trump’s “friendship” has a price — and it’s payable in crypto.

This facility was opened by Obama. I say that not to downplay what’s happening now but to emphasize that family detention was horrific from the moment it began.