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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MJmusicinears@mastodon.world ("MJ Muse") wrote:

In small town Malone upstate NY ruby red farm Trump country #HandsOff

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• video: 949eb7c67293f204.mp4

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Unless Trump folds, the tariffs will make the price of everything go up. Unemployment will go up. People will buy less stuff, and companies will spend less money on advertising that powers tech platforms. The tech industry, which has thrived on the cheap labor, cheap parts, cheap manufacturing, and supply chains enabled by free and cheap international trade, will now have artificial costs and bureaucracy tacked onto all of this.”

https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/114286074438355009

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us ("Emeritus Prof Christopher May") wrote:

I think one thing we might conclude from Liberation Day & other of Trump's economic 'policies' is that this may well accelerate a massive reorientation of the global economy.

A structural shift that in other circumstance may have taken decades may end up taking more like three or four years, including:

the coalescence into a multipolar world of large trading blocs (Africa, Asia, Europe);

the emergence of a new preferred reserve currency;

a move to regional/localised supply chains

#politics

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Remittancegirl@mstdn.social ("Madeleine Morris") wrote:

A dramatic drop in foreign air travel to the US.

Via @jeffasher.bsky.social‬

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Tom Gauld ") wrote:

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Chill spring morning light,
Warm cat purrs on my lap,
Coffee steams in peace.

via https://arghstudios.com

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Nazi saboteurs who were captured attempting to infiltrate the United States in 1942 to carry out attacks were given a trial by military commission before the United States punished them for violating the laws of war.

Whereas those accused of being Nazis had an opportunity to plead their case before a board, those accused of being members of Tren de Aragua were given no opportunity to contest their status as enemy aliens before they were rounded up and shipped to...”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion/trump-deportations-due-process.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/congress-stock-trading-ban.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“It is not clear to some Republicans why Mr. Trump has been raising money so aggressively, according to eight people involved in conservative fund-raising who have kept track of his Mr. Trump’s efforts. Never before has a president ineligible for re-election vacuumed up so much money for a super PAC.

Some of Mr. Trump’s associates believe it is prudent to fund-raise when the money is available, as corporate interests and others seek to get access to the president or make amends...”

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"On Friday, as markets continued to tumble, thousands of golf fans visited Doral, as did Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son, and Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the governor of Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion sovereign wealth fund. Mr. Al-Rumayyan is also the chairman of LIV Golf, and was there to see its stars compete."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/trump-family-saudi-golf.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

find leadership where one can

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/opinion/federal-workers-protest-trump-resistance.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.9k4.E5SU.dsfskPnkrvRD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
torgo.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Daniel Appelquist") wrote:

infosec.exchange/@krypt3ia/11...

Krypt3ia (@krypt3ia@infosec.ex...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“All of Apple's services are abysmal”

https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/all-of-apples-services-are-abysmal/

Yeah. And their OSes have been getting worse, fast.

jwz wrote:

Been a while since I printed a zine...

Coming soon to a sticky bar surface near you.
https://jwz.org/b/ykl0

jwz wrote:

Apple is still the heavyweight champion of progress bar lies.

Yes, yes, there are -1 files remaining and they will take 9 minutes. Or maybe 17 hours. Who can know for sure. Nothing is real. No notes.
https://jwz.org/b/ykly

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
runlevelrobot@social.lol ("RunLevelRobot") wrote:

I am proud to say that emacs.social is ready to go! Please sign up and lets see how it does. :) It is running the glitch fork that allows for markdown. Right now it is set for a moderator to approve signups. This is to help cut down on spam accounts. Let me know what you think! #emacs You can find me there at runlevelrobot@emacs.social

Boosted by jwz:
cdarwin@c.im ("Chuck Darwin") wrote:

I worked in Trump’s first administration. Here’s why his team is using Signal

No senior US government official in the now-infamous “Houthi PC Small Group” Signal chat seemed new to that kind of group,
nor surprised by the sensitivity of the subject discussed in that insecure forum,
not even when the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, chimed in with details of a coming airstrike.

No one objected
– not the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who was abroad and using her personal cellphone to discuss pending military operations;

not even the presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, who was in Moscow at the time.

👉Yet most of these officials enjoy the luxury of access to secure government communications systems 24/7/365.

Reasonable conclusions may be drawn from these facts.

⭐️First, Trump’s national security cabinet commonly discusses secret information on insecure personal devices.

⭐️Second, sophisticated adversaries such as Russia and China intercept such communications, especially those sent or received in their countries.

⭐️Third, as a result, hostile intelligence services now probably possess blackmail material regarding these officials’ indiscreet past conversations on similar topics.

⭐️Fourth, as a first-term Trump administrationofficial and ex-CIA officer,

⚠️I believe the reason these officials risk interacting in this way is to prevent their communications from being preserved as required by the Presidential Records Act,
and avoid them being discoverable in litigation,
or subject to a subpoena or Freedom of Information Act request.

⭐️And fifth, no one seems to have feared being investigated by the justice department for what appears to be a violation of the Espionage Act’s Section 793(f),
which makes gross negligence in mishandling classified information a felony;

💥The FBI director, Kash Patel, and attorney general, Pam Bondi, quickly confirmed that hunch.

Remarkably, the CIA director John Ratcliffe wouldn’t even admit to Congress that he and his colleagues had made a mistake

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/05/why-trump-administration-used-signal-hegseth-gabbard?CMP=Share%5FiOSApp%5FOther

Boosted by jwz:
GrimmReality@beige.party ("Grimm :bc:") wrote:

OK, whoever did this, you win.

Boosted by jwz:
lochnix@hachyderm.io ("Loch Nix") wrote:

Holy crap. This guy understood the assignment. Nicely done. #handsoff

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

Oh I forgot to post this one. Very nice work.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza

- Killed 15 people
- buried their bodies in the sand and hid the vehicles
- didn’t provide UN access to search for the victims
- Lied about what happened
- Got caught out as one of the victims recorded it on his mobile phone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
morachbeag@aus.social wrote:

You do not owe the dishonourable an honourable fight.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

This is going to be the experience of lots of MAGA people who fail to realize how much their livelihood depends on imported products.
—
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
evilchili@linernotes.club wrote:

New music from Hiromi -- Yes! Ramen!! A timely message for now and always. The video is just Hiromi wandering around looking for the best ramen place and then b-roll of a ramen shop making Hiromi ramen and I am here for all of this.

#jazz #ramen #hiromi

https://youtu.be/8%5Fa8Tj1P0OQ?si=O%5FEpPA1-bCYvZARh

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ChristineMalec@mstdn.ca ("Christine Malec") wrote:

Fuck I love Mastodon! No other platform has ever given me as a Blind person such access to the public sphere as I've gotten today from alt text of protests in the United States. Thanks to all you gorgeous folk for demonstrating that inclusion matters, cause it sure does to me!

Boosted by jwz:
jik@federate.social ("Jonathan Kamens") wrote:

This is also, by the way, why Musk wants to destroy the American social safety net. He wants people to be _desperate_ to find work, so that they will take jobs with poor wages and terrible working conditions. He wants people to be subservient to him and people like him. He wants a country chock-full of people who have no choice but to be servants of the rich if they want to stay alive.
🧵6/8

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
dandean@indieweb.social ("Dan Dean") wrote:

“Should Microsoft sever all ties to Republican-led states that have made women’s reproductive healthcare illegal?”

Actually now that you mention it, John, yeah they fucking should do exactly that.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
XLBilly@vivaldi.net wrote:

Emacs 19 running on OPENSTEP 4.2. Emulated on 86box.

Note that OPENSTEP 4.2's installation CD comes with emacs 18 which can only be used in the terminal. The one with gui support can be found in https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS

#Emacs #NeXTSTEP #86box

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
fenrir@universeodon.com ("Fenrir aka Isabelle Barbour") wrote:

#handsoff #HandsOff2025 #Indivisible