Former fund manager and economist. Deeply alarmed by the climate crisis. Neo-liberalism has been catastrophic for our civilisation. I mostly follow back.
3/ Via Kyle Cheney:
Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted "will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written."
Via Anna Bower:
102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell
As Trump pares back ocean protections, California weighs expanding them
https://apnews.com/article/marine-protected-areas-california-trump-pacific-remote-1f2151c66b7cc4e2504aab7f3f345120?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
How, exactly, did your “bone spurs” contribute to victory?
S1548
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude certain Nurse Corps payments from gross income.
📢 Introduced in Senate
When Reporters without Borders started measuring press freedom in 2002, the US was ranked 17th, which many thought was too low.
Under Trump the US is ranked 57th, just above Gambia, and Trump has now signed an executive order to defund NPR and PBS.
The US population is a bit over 341.7 million.
Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the USA and apparently stupid person, thinks that between 119 million to 258 million of those people are Fentanyl addicts or in danger of fentanyl overdose.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/may/01/pam-bondi/Bondi-Trump-fentanyl-seizures-overdose/
"Donald Trump has threatened to put a 200% tariff on John Deere products if the corporation moves any production operations to Mexico."
"Trump again threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status, saying, 'It's what they deserve!'"
"Trump Administration’s CDC Cuts Threaten Safety and Progress in Blood Disorders"
[Have you noticed how often the word
THREATEN gets used regarding Donold?]
The eaglets are getting SO big.
Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest Cam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-L2nfGcuE
⚠️ DANGER ⚠️ DANGER ⚠️
With this — plus the IRS — they’d have the power to oppress and “dominate” every American. It’s a major piece of their takeover scheme. It has them drooling uncontrollably.
Trump asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems
From the comments:
"This is more than 25%. The last real budget was FY24, $24.875B. In 2025 buying power, that was $26.8B (inflation has been high). The proposed FY26 budget of $18.8B is a 29% reduction to a number that was already down a bunch since 2020."
Well, China and Russia are happy, I guess. Space is all theirs now. Pretty sure whatever over-inflated junk muskrat wants to make will not compete.
Link: https://nasawatch.com/budget/nasa-fy-2026-budget-amputation-highlights/?ICID=ref_fark
Trashy Tulsi is a grifting Russian asset.
Trump's top spy chief blasted as Raw Story exposes 'crazy' cash grab
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/tulsi-gabbard-2671878568/
Temperature got down to 0.7 C last night. Winter is here!
The fact that NWS field offices are not able to operate 24/7 anymore in growing number of locations, & that offices servicing major population centers no longer have supervisory meteorologists in charge, & that radar techs are becoming unavailable, is highly alarming.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/weather/nws-forecasting-layoffs-trump
‘He loves us and he’s doing it’: Trump fans’ faith undimmed by first 100 days
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-supporters-maga
A Sydney police officer confronted a mass murderer. Her backup was a carpenter and construction worker wielding bollards
Liberal-aligned thinktank running anti-Greens ads received $600,000 from coal industry in Queensland election
The Australian Institute for Progress’s ‘Can you afford the Greens?’ ads claim minor party’s housing policies would lead to increased rents
BTW, the "Liberal" Party in Australia is fairly right-wing.
give a man a fish and he'll ask how you got it; teach a man to fish and he'll mansplain fishing to you the whole time
Snap result: Speckles the psychic crocodile predicts who will win Australian election
On the eve of the federal poll, the famed 36-year-old Darwin saltwater croc tips a Peter Dutton victory
Oh, Goddess, NOOOOOO!!!!!
“If any anti-Zionist with a public profile had said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion for the benefit of Israel, they’d be forcefully denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying Jews must use their control over Silicon Valley to influence public opinion about Israel receives no attention from that same political-media class.”
The Oregon State open source lab which provides hosting for hundred of open source projects, as well as research, resources, and support to countless other others is in trouble and we will shut down soon if they can’t find $250,000. Spread the word and donate https://give.fororegonstate.org/PL1Uv3Fkug
