NIGERIA: 102 foreigners deported, incl. 50 Chinese nationals, convicted of ‘cyber-terrorism and internet fraud’. Deportees were among 792 suspected cybercriminals arrested in a single operation last December. trt.global/afrika-engli...

Famed anti-racist expert Leonard Zeskind, who warned of fascism's rise, has died www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6

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This child's death is on every Senator who voted to approve the appointment of an anti-vaxxer to run HHS. I just read that it appears that we're not going to have vaccines for flu and Covid next year. How many more deaths?

House Republican leadership has advised caucus members to avoid in-person town halls, fearing that voter backlash may become viral if circulated online. 🐔 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We're at the scene in Goodfellas when Jimmy, Tommy, and Henry are planning the Lufthansa heist and the overnight security guard is in on it. Very easy to engage in wanton criminality when anyone who investigates you is bounced out and anyone else who might want to (DOJ) looks the other way 🙃

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

Do not give away your power.

If it was ever anything else, the CDC is now a wholly political organization, dedicated to suppressing information that would harm the president, and manufacturing cause to harm his opponents. public health factors nowhere into leadership's ambitions.

If RFK Jr is confirmed as HHS secretary, expect these headlines to become even more frequent and tragic.

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

So-called #Anonymous accounts that sell knowledge under the name of our collective are deceiving and manipulating people.

"The chaos of these past few weeks shouldn’t mask that in this period, Trump has also waged as direct a campaign against a single, vulnerable minority as we’ve seen in generations."

Now the New York Times wants to act appalled at transphobia they helped normalize. I am going to become the joker.

Trump is also going full South African apartheid, ranting and peddling right-wing conspiracies about the government seizing farms from "white people" and threatening to "act" but cutting all funding from the US.

The U.S. is deliberately stranding American aid workers in war zones

Serious question. I can see them possibly thinking digital surveillance along with Space X and its satellites could replace HUMINT, etc. If you haven’t read the Palantir CEO’s letter to shareholders sections are in this thread and it’s ominous-sounding: bsky.app/profile/leah...

This is the end of America as we once knew it

Every nation states security service trying to hack the baby Nazis laptops.

I'm seeing disturbing trends in my industry. In the last week, both an Amazon Liquidator, & a PAWN SHOP, have both gone out of business, & put all their merchandise up for auction. Folks, when even the bottom-feeders can't get fed, something is off.

@deviantollam.bsky.social I'm looking for advice/insight on something. Via DM/mail if possible. Already folowing you from the same handle on some elephant sites. Thanks.

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

Germany's AfD has made history as the first far-right party to win a state election since WWII, opposing immigration and focusing on mass deportations. This seizes Elon Musk's attention. It's crucial that we stand united. http://dlvr.it/THmMN6

Scoop: Elon Musk’s DOGE to be sued within minutes of Trump inauguration Lawsuit will say DOGE meets conditions for gov advisory counsel requiring balanced representation, open meetings, recorded minutes & more www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I think his Adderall just ran out. He “won every swing state” — 7.11 million voters purged, challenged, blocked, and their ballots disqualified. You are witnessing the inauguration of Jim Crow. We will report the story this week for Thom Hartmann.

That was a pretty quick segue from "we're bringing back free speech and ending government censorship" to "here are the things government employees will be no longer allowed to say about sex, gender, and race."

Today is a significant day, the start of four years of resistance. Our daily mission from this point forward will be the unwavering support of the people, exposing any attempt to undermine democracy.

Ladies and gentlemen, the 47th President of the United States. ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)

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we keep telling you about LibreOffice and you keep saying "but you don't understand I love getting shit like this when i'm trying to write fuckin words" and I say you go ahead and enjoy this shit bro

If you instantly know what these are and know how to work them, you are very cool Explaining to kids what and how they worked and how amazing that period was

In 1995, Itmar Ben-Gvir stole the Cadillac emblem from the car of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “We got to his car,” the 19-year-old Ben-Gvir said before the camera. “We’ll get to him, too.” A few weeks later, Rabin, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.

Yesterday, across from Ebenezer Baptist Church—just days before MLK Day, when crowds will gather to honor justice and equality—a homeless man was killed during an encampment sweep by an Atlanta city vehicle. These sweeps are cruel, brutal, and utterly counterproductive in addressing homelessness.

NEW: I looked into how Barcelona became an unexpected hotbed for spyware startups in recent years, with companies led by Israelis, French, and Italian security researchers. The story is based on interviews and business records. Some people in civil society see this as a concerning development.

Portland journalist Alissa Azar is going to trial for her coverage of a pro-Palestine protest, Jen Byers reports. Azar’s case has brought to light a history of harassment, violence, & abuse of power by local law enforcement & reveals a landmark legal condemnation against press freedom in the U.S.

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products

There is no one at the New York Times who has done more to spread transphobia and bigotry than Pamela Paul. Good riddance. nymag.com/intelligence... Archive link archive.ph/390sL

Second instance of a move to Christian nationalism, in two different states.