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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

In particular, I think if we're rounding people up, denying them trials, and sending them en masse to concentration camps in foreign countries, we've fallen into authoritarian rule, whether congress and the courts are OK with it or not.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jockr ("Jock Rutherford 🌻🥥🌴") wrote:

Maryland Sen Van Hollen meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6j7jjpgy6o

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
joshuajfriedman.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Joshua J. Friedman") wrote:

"This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
eclectech@things.uk wrote:

Just checking if I had any silly old bunny related content, and found this lurking from 20 years ago. I love these bunnies, in all their low res glory.

#bunnies #rabbits #nonsense

Attachments:

• gifv: A fairly low res animated gif of two rabbits sitting behind a Bunny News news desk. The one on the left wears glasses and a bow tie. The one on the right has a dapper moustache. Behind them a rabbit in punk clothes with the headline "CARROTS Innocent nibble or dangerous drug?" The rabbits take turns to 'talk'. The glasses of the one on the left shuggle as his nose and mouth move.

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

some interesting polling information on Trump’s first quarter back in office: https://news.gallup.com/poll/659534/trump-first-quarter-approval-rating-below-average.aspx

h/t @dogzilla

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

strongly agree

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/opinion/trump-harvard-law-firms.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Ak8.Qv3w.LfnG7yusHCoW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Here I go again, with increasing reluctance.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/04/18/second-thoughts/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
taral ("JP Sugarbroad") wrote:

@b0rk I feel like there is a missed opportunity to have it cut off after "tho". 😁

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
b0rk@jvns.ca ("Julia Evans") wrote:

current status: putting a few weird terminal facts that I do not have any practical use for into the terminal zine

(mostly I’m keeping it extremely practical but I think it's fun to have SOME weird stuff)

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Least shocking story of the day.

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
The_Whore_of_Blahbylon ("The Whore of Blahbylon") wrote:

#TrumVance #ElonMusk #DOGE

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

Fifty years ago, if the right decisions had been made, today might look very different. We likely would not be talking about a climate crisis or a climate emergency.

But the right decisions were not made then. Instead, our capitalist rulers pushed ahead with their growth-at-any-cost mantra. And now we face certain disaster.

There are still actions to be taken, a struggle to be waged, in hopes of making the collapse of society slightly less costly for some people in some places. We must engage in that fight.

But suffering is inevitable, great suffering, both for humans and for the natural environment that our industry and our consumerism are in the process of destroying.

#History #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nixCraft ("nixCraft 🐧") wrote:

😂

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

On top of our recent extraordinary horrors, another sadly regular one: a mass shooting, this time at Florida State University. At least two dead, six more injured. Enough!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/fsu-shooting-tallahassee.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.Ak8.JNjY.hhCzyZbEQ5eW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (gift link)

Boosted by jwz:
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anirvan ("Anirvan Chatterjee") wrote:

I know people whose entire science careers are based on preserving biospecimens like tissue samples. Letting carefully-preserved human samples rot is a small, but telling, example of what they're doing to all of us.

https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-job-cuts-niosh-human-samples/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
marasawr wrote:

free advice I give to anyone who asks these days : LIE to every part of the internet that isn’t a government like you got your first PC in 1993 and were part of eternal September

birthday, name, gender, occupation, location, interests, favourite colour, ALL OF IT

data brokerage gets a whole lot darker under an autocracy, and one of the few things you can somewhat control is the fidelity of *your* data. lie, use disposable/temporary emails whenever you can, and make it muddy af

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Before Intuit became the foul operation it is today, it was one of the Silicon Valley companies I admired. Like so many other tech companies, the richer it got, the more evil it got. Its "Direct File" sabotage is the prime example:

https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-17-intuit-turbotax-wins-battle-against-taxpayers-irs-direct-file/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
privateger@plasmatrap.com ("Latte macchiato :blobcoffee: :ablobcat_longlong:") wrote:

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Abrego Garcia is at least still alive, thankfully.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

It's been eight years to the day since Lance Ulanoff, the storied Tech and Social Media Expert and an award-winning tech journalist, decided that Mastodon won't survive because William Shatner couldn't find him on here.

Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives:
https://rys.io/en/177.html

Please join me in celebrating the annual Mastodon Won't Survive Day, right here on fedi. :blobcatcoffee:

🧵

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastodonWontSurvive

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The main difference between Mastodon and Bluesky is that here, I’m scolded for being a stupid MAGA apologist for saying that that I don’t think a constitutional crisis is the only way we could get authoritarian rule, whereas over there, I’m scolded for being a stupid MAGA apologist for failing to acknowledge the obvious truth that Elon Musk hacked voting machines to steal the election for Harris.

At least everyone seems to agree about the diagnosis, if not the symptoms.

Boosted by jwz:
octothorpe@mastodon.online ("CM Harrington") wrote:

This really was the 80s. The kids don’t even know.

Boosted by jwz:
mloxton@med-mastodon.com ("Matthew Loxton") wrote:

I guess we now have the FDA that the people voted for

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ecoli-bacteria-lettuce-outbreak-rcna200236

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Let me get this straight: David Brooks and Bill Kristol are now leading voices in the resistance while Schumer and Jeffries are debating whether or not to play catch up.

Do I have that right?

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

I didn't; this was a rumor. It's not actually a thing that's happening.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@mikereinholz777/post/DIkQbh-zTSh

jwz wrote:

It's hard to make it even a few paragraphs in to the various articles about Musk's eugenicist breeding program, because as far as I can tell, the women involved are all *also* MAGA fascists, and the only thing that makes them victims in this story is that, after agreeing to be breeding stock, turkey-basted by Übermensch Musk Spunk™, they didn't think that the leopards would eat *their* faces too.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Shouty people who shout at me to be more shouty remind me why I try not to be shouty.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@jmcclure When I was a kid I used to like to yell at strangers on the Internet, too. But we didn't call it that yet.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Trump owns 53% of the Trump Media company, which has recently announced it’s getting into crypto. Three days after Trump Media announced a partnership with Crypto.​com, Crypto​.com got the news that the SEC was dropping its investigation into their company.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol