The one amusing thing about watching the Cabinet meeting is the salty looks Peter Navarro and Stephen Miller are serving while Elmo is talking. They look like kids whose dad told them to refer to his new girlfriend as Mommy. #USpol
Biking on the wrong side of the road. Crossing the Rio Grande on foot. Shoplifting at Target.
These are some of the arrest records for 178 Venezuelan migrants detained in #GITMO this mo. Others seem to have no record at all.
Of 18 cases, found: 6 of the migrants appear to have no previous record, 5 only charged with illegal entry -sentenced to time served. Several were detained during scheduled appts with border authorities for those seeking asylum... #Immigrants #USPol miamiherald.com/news/local/imm…
During a confirmation hearing for nominees chosen for high-profile posts within the Department of Justice, two of President Donald Trump's appointees, Aaron Reitz and Dean John Sauer, wouldn't rule out disobeying federal court orders.
"A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st US state."
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.
Their phony “statistics” aren’t just an attempt to justify DOGE’s destruction of the government. Trump and Musk’s goal is even more duplicitous and shady.
"It's becoming increasingly clear that the Trump regime is turning away from our allies in order to embrace our enemies. They are dismantling our institutions and rule of law for the sole purpose of protecting and enriching a small cabal of extremely rich, extremely corrupt and extremely anti-american traitors."
Some countries are willing to stand up for what's right:
Report: The US threatened to cut aid to South Africa unless it withdrew its case of genocide against Israel, & South Africa's foreign minister said, "No chance”.
"Standing by our principles sometimes has consequences, but we remain firm that this is important for the world & the rule of law" ~Ronald Lamola
And that's what I think about "risk mitigation" and "harm reduction". #USpol #Palestine #Israel #genocide (vote for the softer gentler ethnic cleansing but you decide which one that is)
Interview: I Was Fired by Trump in his Anti-DEI Purge, Gutting of Agencies
Karla Gilbride from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was fired by Trump along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the workplace.
The EEOC was created as part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is tasked with investigating discrimination based on race, ethnicity, sex & other characteristics.
We speak with Karla Gilbride, the former general counsel of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who was fired by President Trump in late January along with two commissioners at the federal agency that enforces civil rights law in the wo…
#uspol Ezra Klein nails it: “That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.” [gift link] nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion…
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
If you too feel uneasy about the state of the world, and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 📚👇
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&ca…
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 📖✨
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️
Discover Kiwix applications that enable offline access to knowledge on different platforms. Explore the convenience of accessing information without an internet connection
Fox News reject Megyn Kelly got burned over her Little House on the Prairie reboot on Netflix tweet, Megyn Kelly, “If you wokeify Little House on the Prairie, I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”
Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls in the original series, "Apparently Megyn tweeted (I'm not on that platform) asking that Netflix not “woke-Ify" their Little House remake. Ummm...watch the original again. TV doesn't get too much more “woke" than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other "woke " topic you can think of. Thank you very much. " #USPol
It's funny. The books and even the show is about how the women keep saving family from the father, who in real life, regardless of the hard working, pull em up by the bootstraps farmer they made him appear, was by all accounts a deadbeat failure with wanderlust, who was lazy.
🔗 Melissa Gilbert responds to Megyn Kelly threat against Little House on the Prairie reboot Gilbert starred as young Laura Ingalls Wilder in the original Western adaptation
So, does anyone reading this know how tariffs actually work in practice? Suppose I'm a Canadian farm co-op selling a bunch of canola oil to a US food processor for $100K US. Someone has to pay the IRS $25K, so does the Canadian seller add that to the price and remit to Uncle Sam, or does the US buyer report the purchase and add the $25K to tax payable?
On this GitHub commits page, you can see activity as Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a division of the General Services Administration (GSA) removes DEIA information from its operational handbook. Some notable #accessibility related items:
* Removed: Language about work being "predominantly remote". * Deleted: Guides on non-project Slack channels and custom emojis (with the latter presumably often being used to highlight aspects of identity). * Gone: Encouragement to use visual description across various platforms and contexts, and the corresponding visual descriptions guide along with it. * Modified: Guidance to "consider factors of equity" when determining compensation for research participants. It now reads, "consider other factors". * Quote: "At TTSC, we follow various policies and practices to foster an open and inclusive community", shortened to the vaguely nonsensical "At TTSC, we follow various policies and practices." * Deleted: Inclusive culture guide and all references to it (including advice on how to flag exclusionary behaviour). Similarly, guides on running inclusive events and psychological safety have been expunged. * Removed: Inclusion Bot, a Slack application to privately inform people about their use of "words or phrases that have racist, sexist, ableist, or otherwise exclusionary or discriminatory histories or backgrounds".
Decades of Israeli warmongering show a pattern of the Israeli military trying to provoke the "other side" into responding in order to use it as "justification" for further slaughter.
This is not to downplay the extent to which Trump is grifting his devotees and crypto traders looking to make a buck on memecoin speculation. But it is important that we accurately report on his cons and don’t contribute to misleading crypto hype for the sake of large numbers.
Newspapers’ estimates of the $TRUMP token’s fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.
This variance perhaps should have been a sign to these reporters that the numbers aren’t real.
Disabled people have been warning others for nearly 5 years that eugenicist Covid policies would lead to a rise of fascist, racist, bigoted, misogynistic hatred. It's here now. So what’s next?
How do you feel about the fact that in the United States people with disabilities can be paid a sub-minimum wage?
Today is the last day to submit a comment to the Federal Register asking for an end to this practice. Right now, people who profit off the back of this exploitation are flooding it with comments.
Allies: please don't miss the opportunity to even the score. It takes less than 5 minutes.
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
![It took Trump less than 10 days to gut US air safety setting the stage for the 1st major air crash in 15 years. How many will this
reckless weird man kill in 4 years?
[screenshot of AP article with the headline “Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts ket air safety advisory committee” dated January 21, 2025]
[screenshot of CBS article with the headline “What we know about the midair collision between a passenger jet and Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River” dated January 29, 2025]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/633316 "It took Trump less than 10 days to gut US air safety setting the stage for the 1st major air crash in 15 years. How many will this
reckless weird man kill in 4 years?
[screenshot of AP article with the headline “Trump fires heads of TSA, Coast Guard and guts ket air safety advisory committee” dated January 21, 2025]
[screenshot of CBS article with the headline “What we know about the midair collision between a passenger jet and Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River” dated January 29, 2025]")
![When Donald Trump launched a memecoin days before his inauguration, newspapers were quick to try to grab headlines with huge numbers.
“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn’t exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump’s net worth,” wrote Axios, which dubbed him a “crypto billionaire”.1 “[T]he so-called fully diluted value of all the tokens as of Saturday at noon was $30 billion, a number achieved less than a day after the token went on the market,” wrote the New York Times.2 Newspapers’ estimates of fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/629023 "When Donald Trump launched a memecoin days before his inauguration, newspapers were quick to try to grab headlines with huge numbers.
“The $TRUMP memecoin — a financial asset that didn’t exist on Friday afternoon — now accounts for about 89% of Donald Trump’s net worth,” wrote Axios, which dubbed him a “crypto billionaire”.1 “[T]he so-called fully diluted value of all the tokens as of Saturday at noon was $30 billion, a number achieved less than a day after the token went on the market,” wrote the New York Times.2 Newspapers’ estimates of fully diluted value fluctuated wildly from somewhere around $20 billion to around $70 billion, depending on which paper you read and when they published.")
