Extensive military training in multiple branches of US military. Graduated with honors from college late in life. Doing physics and philosophy and computer work as an independent researcher now.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "News reports simply do not do justice to the level of chaos and disruption and trauma the federal government is raining down upon our communities. …
"This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government."
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTsYXBWQgU
Trump acolytes at the US Postal Service quietly issued a rule on Christmas Eve that will allow some branches, in critical electoral battleground locations, to reject a ballot by delaying a postmark. shero.substack.com/p/new-usps-m...
New USPS Mailbox Rule Will Hin...
Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. :NoAI:
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. :tux:
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
Finally!
Danish Arctic Command announces that two C-130 Hercules planes have landed in the municipalities of Nuuk, and Kangerlussuaq in Greenland with international forces in preparation for large international "exercises".
The population of Greenland has been told to expect a "considerable military presence" consisting of international Air, Navy, Army, and Special Forces.
From what I hear, four NATO countries are involved in today's operation, including our Norwegians friends.
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Trump isn’t just fueling protests. He’s changing how Americans see ICE, immigrants, and themselves. Tomorrow, Todd Beeton looks at how Trump’s second term is reshaping the electorate. Yesterday, Jay Kuo dug into why Kristi Noem and DHS are lying about what happened to Renee Nicole Good...and why it matters. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-big-picture-january-14
This is a god-level meme. Waah waah waah indeed!
@BuckRogers1965 well there are standards usually outlined by governments, but when you work at an intentional school you are always left trying to sort it out. We look at what governments are recommending around the world, but there has been a massive shift in what makes a good Literacy program in the last 5 years or so, which makes it difficult to find a clear through line.
"The snarl of Ross calling Good a “fucking bitch” is familiar in the way any garden-variety misogynistic comment is to most women. He said it after he shot her, after it was clear she would be grievously injured @ best & dead @ worst. It was adding literal insult to injury, an aside meant mostly for himself, to shore him up as the big man who won the fight w/this small girl. It wasn’t enough to just kill her—he had to insult her in a uniquely female way too."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/renee-good-ice-agent-slur.html
What every US citizen can simply do NOW:
get an ever growing mass of concerned to
contact their reps, write/phone/email/scream outside their offices,
with #impeachment demand, or, we #primary you with someone who will;
find those candidates https://www.citizensimpeachment.com/
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative#
do #Democracy
KEEP CANCELLING YOUR WORLD CUP TICKETS. 17K DOWN. Let’s get them ALL.
But I do hope this is a warning to people in the US. Because Iranians have been living under this tyranny for 40+ years. Once you let a leadership get that much power to act with impunity, it’s insanely hard to get rid of it.
If you think this can’t happen to your country, you’re not paying attention.
We were probably *this close* to finding out *why* Trump kept the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Damn.
Asha Rangappa joins Sarah Longwell in the latest episode of The Illegal News:
When Trump first took office, he took a wrecking ball to our government and pushed the bounds of executive authority past the breaking point. Few knew how to deal effectively with all of it. A year later, he’s attempting the same, but the Resistance has learned and was prepared. My write-up in the replies.
@Remittancegirl Precisely why I get so frustrated with those who think the current US regime will implode like a flan in a cheap oven. Of course it will - that many incompetent, ignorant clowns can't maintain power indefinitely - but at what cost to the rest of us, and how much worse might things get beforehand?
Here in the UK we're already building a national resistance movement, comprised of 80+ civil society groups to oppose our own ascendent far right. There's no room today for complacency.
. @seth-stern.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy at @freedom.press@bsky.brid.gy: "The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications having nothing to do with any pending investigation and, if investigators ... access them, we have zero faith that they will respect journalist-source confidentiality"
![“This is an alarming escalation in the Trump administration's multipronged war on press freedom. The Department of Justice (and the judge who approved this outrageous warrant) is either ignoring or distorting the Privacy Protection Act, which bars law enforcement from raiding newsrooms and reporters to search for evidence of alleged crimes by others, with very few inapplicable exceptions.
“The government has said that Natanson is not under investigation, nor should she be for simply reporting information provided to her by sources. Even the Trump DOJ's guidelines on searching reporters' source materials (which were weakened from prior guidelines based on the administration's proven lies [freedom.press] about "fake news") make clear that it's a last resort for rare emergencies only. The administration may now be in possession of volumes of journalist communications having nothing to do with any pending investigation and, if investigators are able to access them, we have zero faith that they will respect journalist-source confidentiality.”](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/894/772/366/855/302/original/bb9900fdce0c8a7e.jpeg)
No preserving evidence. No real investigation. Probably drove her car right to the junkyard. The cover-up could not be clearer.
To those with big platforms: Continue to speak out!
#ICE must be completely eliminated. Rapists, murderers, and pedophiles, all of them.
