🧪🧪 Covid-19 Is Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds -- Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows. gizmodo.com/covid-19-is-...

CBS News is reporting that the Trump Administration has begun deploying hundreds of agents to Minneapolis (Minnesota). This is especially concerning with what we are feeling on the ground of increased immigration enforcement. 1/

bluesky might be an “echo chamber” (it’s not) but at least it’s not a pedophile playground like twitter

I’m a retired USAF officer. Trump and Hegseth are incompetent and ignorant as hell. I taught the oath of office at the officer training school. We do NOT follow illegal orders. Now come after me, you assholes.

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

When Covid first started, I felt hope. I genuinely believed we would move forward as a more inclusive society. That disabled people would start receiving the accommodations they had needed for years (like remote work). That hope was crushed when we rushed back to normal

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

With this regime anything is possible…

*looks over at Schumer and Jeffries*

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

Schumer is in his leadership position because Democrats wanted someone who would ask nothing of them, require nothing of them, never put them in an uncomfortable situation. It’s like the army voting for a general who will never order an attack - good them, maybe, but defeats their whole purpose.

Does the FIFA World Peace Prize mean nothing to you, Donald?

We really are back to the 1950's www.npr.org/2019/01/31/6...

While the Senate is asking Trump why they started a war to kidnap a foreign leader perhaps they might also ask why Trump freed a former foreign leader convicted of the same kind of crimes.

🚨 HOW TO SURVIVE 2026 Wow!! Sylvia Salazar offers more than analysis here. She offers tools, perspective, and a way to stay human in the year ahead! WATCH NOW: youtu.be/ec15gZkPCxk?...

Age verification mandates are spreading rapidly, despite clear evidence that they do not work and actively harm the people they claim to protect. 2026 will be the year we push back harder. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

More evidence that the Trump administration is cozying up to cybermercenaries. The Treasury Dept has removed three people closely affiliated with Intellexa, the company that makes Predator, off a sanctions list: therecord.media/treasury-san...

RSF discovers Belarusian surveillance malware targeting Android phones, requiring physical access: rsf.org/en/exclusive...

WATCH NOW: The full deposition of former Special Counsel Jack Smith released by the House Judiciary Committee

Judge rules basic Medicaid data can be shared with ICE. A federal judge in California ruled to allow sharing basic biographical, location and contact information as the Trump administration pursues its immigration crackdown. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.

My thoughts on the DNC refusing to release a 2024 autopsy

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert.bsky.social, who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1...

Waiting so long for Stranger Things that Vecna has a LinkedIn now

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Happy Global Warming Today I grilled in 70 degree weather Tomorrow I'll hang my laundry outside

Microsoft ftw

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Follow-up story - Explosive Retaliation: Family Targeted for Dissent.

I’ll give them credit for going out on their own terms; however I’ll have to deduct hypocrisy points for claiming to be pro-life but dying anyway.

Remember this? James O'Keefe got Pam Bondi on video last May saying the FBI was processing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with little kids.” Then she told reporters “There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn.” www.mediaite.com/politics/att...

EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Sarah Brightman! Still one of the most beautiful voices #atlanta #sarahbrightman

“Congress should end the many years of overreach by the U.S. Intelligence Community by requiring warrants for the collection or capture of any communication involving an American,” EFF’s India McKinney told @Militarydotcom. www.military.com/daily-news/...

I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.

1. In Alaska, the right wing govt handpicked doctors to the Medical Board to ban trans youth care. A month after after, one anti-trans doctor was arrested for child porn. The day after he was bailed out, his home burned down, with reports suggesting he was found deceased. Our latest wild story.

700Credit Data Breach Impacts 5.8 Million Individuals www.securityweek.com/700credit-da...

Dr Russell D. Moore is a theologian, pastor, and the editor in chief of Christianity Today.

Remembering several pithy Asimov quotes, but this will have to serve: "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

In 1957 nine Black students tried to enter Little Rock Central High after the Supreme Court struck down segregation. Saturday those same steps became a stage for about two dozen out of state neo Nazi white supremacists. America under Trump.

“If it were really that bad you would be in hospital!” People say this to disabled folks all the time They don’t realize that if we went to the hospital for every flare, we would live there They don’t realize how dangerous hospital settings can be They don’t realize how little help is available

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imagine the death threats parents of trans children get bcos of all the lies and misinformation marjorie taylor greene has spent years spreading about gender affirming care for youth. imagine the trans ppl who have been murdered bcos of all the lies marjorie taylor greene has spent years spreading.

⚠️RFK Jr appoints anti-vaxxer to head FDA drug research center—"Putting Tracy Beth in charge [of FDA’s CDER] is like dropping an atom bomb," says an agency source, & multiple top-level officials preparing FDA resignations. "It's an extinction level event." www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-tra...

Sorry, sometimes I randomly *absolutely need a phone break immediately* And just take it no matter what Highly recommended

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?” @bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process clause in the constitution.”