If even a fraction of what this letter says is true, Emil Bove should be prosecuted for criminal contempt and disbarred.

In no way should he be confirmed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/06-24-2025_-_Protected_Whistleblower_Disclosure_of_Erez_Reuveni_Redacted.pdf

When people attack the concept of “elites”, what they’re arguing for is their own mediocrity.

Has anyone here (besides @gbevin) tried out "bld"?

https://rife2.com/bld

Have you ever wondered why Germans didn’t do anything about Hitler? Well, the rest of the world is wondering exactly that about Americans and Trump.

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

> The President’s Budget proposes $0 for CSB’s FY 2026 budget with the expectation that CSB begins closing down during FY 2025. CSB’s emergency fund of $844,145 will be appropriated to cover costs associated with closing down the agency. Exact closing costs will be determined upon consultation with OMB and Congress.

(https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/csb_cj_2026.pdf)

@gsuberland

How the Supreme Court operates now: covertly.

All the other federal courts find Trump violating the law. They issue careful rulings, judging the facts and explaining their reasoning. The corrupt Supreme Court majority overrules them on the shadow docket, making summary judgments to permit Trump’s lawlessness, and issue no explanation, because there IS no explanation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/us/politics/supreme-court-south-sudan-migrants.html?smid=url-share

#SCOTUS

Would you like another prediction?

Generative AI as we know it is a bubble.

It’s unsustainable.

Relying on it now will result in very expensive work to undo that damage in years to come. And we’re going to live with the accuracy debt for decades.

We are going to have an enormous skills and critical thinking shortage in the very near future, once the layoffs have slowed, and organisations start to cave in under the weight of their own shortsightedness.

Consultancy demand will go through the roof for people who actually know what they’re doing, attracting large salaries, and many won’t be able to afford this, dooming them further. There will be some bittersweet justice in those being laid off picking up the big money.

Vendors will transition to alternative technologies while trying to convince us that the technology is improving and AGI is just around the corner. They’re selling you something they haven’t figured out yet, and you won’t be able to afford (or will likely be dead) when it does actually arrive.

Alternative technologies will continue to be researched, and progress will be made. But they’re not the same thing, don’t let them fool you.

The last few days have truly been a low point for the American news media. And it’s all because journalists in this country—and their corporate masters—lack the courage to say what they all know and say endlessly in private:

That Trump is stupid, and nuts.

This shouldn’t be hard. But they make it so, for their readers, viewers, listeners, and the country. Most of the rest of the world got over this long ago.

Seems reasonable.

New rule: All stories in which Donald Trump crows about the world’s toughest military must mention that he faked a disability to avoid serving in it.

"At the University of Florida, the story of the book award took a dramatic turn soon after Ms. McAlister defended the decision to honor Mr. Damsky with it. It was then, in February, that Mr. Damsky opened an account on X and began posting racist and antisemitic messages. After he wrote in late March that Jews must be “abolished by any means necessary,” the university suspended him ..."

Yes, the antisemitism problem is definitely at Harvard.

Not seeing any irony here.

"The granting of the award set off [turmoil on campus]. Its interim dean, Merritt McAlister, defended the decision earlier this year, citing Mr. Damsky’s free speech rights and arguing that professors must not engage in “viewpoint discrimination.” In an email to the law school community, she also invoked “institutional neutrality,” an increasingly popular policy among college administrators. It instructs schools not to take public positions on hot-button issues."

Did nazi that coming 🤷‍♂️

Looks like Desantis got the educational "reform" that he was hoping for:

".. he argued for the removal of voting rights protections for nonwhites, and for the issuance of shoot-to-kill orders against [immigrants crossing the border] ... At the end of the semester, Mr. Damsky, 29, was given the “book award,” which designated him as the best student in the class."

trump supporters support evil. This is not hard to understand.

Friends don't let friends support evil.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/us/white-supremacist-university-of-florida-paper.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk8.1-oF.m0ueipYKoUb2&smid=url-share

@alfiekohn whatever that is, doesn't show without logging into Bluesky, which I can't do. Screenshot?

U.S. agents suspected Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.

https://www.propublica.org/article/bukele-trump-el-salvador-ms13-gang-vulcan-corruption-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ElSalvador #Trump #Bukele #USAID #Politics #Government #Crime

What the Iranians need to do is to declare Trump an honorary Ayatollah, and give him a really, really, really big perade, and he’d let them enrich all the uranium they want

Congress members have a legal right to conduct oversight at ICE facilities. This is the regime hiding its blatant abuses.

@stevengharris let us know how it goes, \{name}

@Strandjunker to be fair, those aren't the only options, and part of the problem that we're dealing with as a society is that the dominant form of the mass media (Fox News etc.) portray those two options as the only available options.