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

‘“Regardless of the merits of the states’ claims, the states cannot proceed in this court… should be dismissed or transferred for lack of venue.”

Mary Ziegler, a law professor… at the University of California, Davis, said that the Trump administration’s support of the Biden administration’s earlier request to dismiss the case “is surprising, but I think the best way to read it is that they’re just buying time to figure out what to do about mifepristone.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/health/trump-abortion-pill-case.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

‘Ms. Harper continued: “The declassification proves that the material should have been public from the start — not used as an excuse to suppress sharing information with the press.”

The White House, the Justice Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to requests for comment.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/trump-venezuela-gang-ties-spy-memo.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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

The whole "tariffs on foreign film production" thing is so dumb and confusing that I'll bet that it's just that he doesn't like movies with subtitles.

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

The president has no legal basis for his proposed film tariffs, and the film studios know it, what we'll see now is if they have the spine to tell him to go fuck himself

https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/trump-tariff-foreign-films-legal-hurdles-1236387281/

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

Damn it, I post a photo of Alcatraz and Trump immediately gets it in his head to re-open the place.

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

Captured with a Phase One IQ4-150 with the Rodenstock 23mm/5.6 HR Digaron-S. This is a very wide angle lens (the equivalent of about 16mm on a full frame 35mm camera) that makes Alcatraz seem particularly distant. A long exposure averaged out the waves and tufts of mist.

The San Francisco Bay likes to show off its weather. Karl the Fog moves fast. Everything can change very quickly.

I believe this was the last photo I made before the pandemic reduced my travels.

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

San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz Island, 2020.

All the pixels, plus fog, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/49460593833

#photography

A rocky shoreline with gentle waves lapping at it. In the distance at right is a small island, somewhat enveloped by fog, with a prominent water tower and industrial-type buildings.

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greenpeace ("Greenpeace International") wrote:

Where’s the freedom if we rely on a polluting car just to reach basic services spread far and wide?

Where’s the freedom when kids can’t play outside or walk or cycle to school because it’s too dangerous — or when they grow up breathing toxic air every single day?

Top picture: quiet street with sidewalks and shops, room for pedestrians and bicycles. Caption: "Ideology". Bottom picture: traffic jam with cars parked on both sides of the road. Caption: "Freedom"

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mattmay@mstdn.social ("Matt May") wrote:

Seems far more likely that they got shown the tax bill for realizing all their previous cash flows as a for-profit and couldn’t afford it.

Abandoning plans to do the morally wrong thing is not the same as doing the morally right thing. That’s just spin.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114456763737892623

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JuandelaCruz_77777 ("Juan de la Cruz Gómez") wrote:

#caturday #SilentSunday 🤗😻🥰💓

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drrjv@vmst.io ("DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic") wrote:

Americans Might Love Cinco De Mayo, but Few Know What They’re Celebrating

“Sociologist David Hayes, author of “El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition,” has argued that by defeating the French at the Battle of Puebla, Mexicans prevented the French army from continuing northward toward the U.S. border, where they would have likely aided the Confederacy. So it’s possible that Mexico’s victory at the Battle of Puebla changed the course of American history.”

#CincodeMayo #mexico #france #civilwar
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/americans-might-love-cinco-de-mayo-but-few-know-what-they-re-celebrating

Text Shot: The Battle of Puebla took place on May 5, 1862, when the Mexican Army, led by Commander General Ignacio Zaragoza, repelled attacks by the French army on the city of Puebla, located about 70 miles southeast of Mexico City. It was a small but inspirational victory for Mexico, and four days later, on May 9, 1862, Juárez declared Cinco de Mayo a national holiday. Even though the French would eventually defeat the Mexican Army and take control of the country under the short-lived Second Mexican Empire, which lasted from 1864 to 1867, the victory in the Battle of Puebla sent a powerful message to the rest of the world.

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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
teejay@social.lol ("Teejay") wrote:

125/365

Is your Chinese food any good if it doesn’t come from a strip mall restaurant that looks like this? #project365

https://project365.teejay.blog/post/125-365

The image depicts the interior of a restaurant, specifically focusing on the counter area and menu display. The counter is made of wood with a black countertop, and there is a cash register visible. On the counter, there is a blue container labeled "Thank You" with handwritten text, a pink pen holder, and a plastic bag. Behind the counter, a menu board displays various dishes with images and names, including "Wing M. French Fries," "Beef Lo Mein," and "General Tso's Chicken." The menu board is framed by red Chinese characters on the left and right sides. To the left of the counter, there is a wooden door with a restroom sign and a handicapped accessibility sign. The wall behind the counter is adorned with framed certificates and a thermostat. A Snapple cooler is visible on the right side of the counter. The ceiling is equipped with fluorescent lighting, and a curtain partially covers the kitchen area. Provided by @altbot@fuzzies.wtf, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.262 Wh

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone wrote:

Emily Feiner, social worker, physically dragged out of NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall Sunday night

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/25555473

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The_Icarian@federated.press ("The Icarian") wrote:

Turns out "Woke" kept planes in the sky, judges from being arrested, hairdressers out of gulags, and young children with cancer students in colleges, from being deported. Who would've guessed.

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adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

Vibe surgery

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
shufei@merveilles.town ("Shufei 🧮") wrote:

Are you supporting your underground and counterculture radio communication networks?

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
edwardchampion ("Edward Champion") wrote:

Why live in NYC with the rats and the high rents? Well, in what other city will you encounter a man dressed as an alien telling extremely bad Area 51 jokes on the subway and pretending to be a stand-up comedian?

#nyc #subway #alien

Alien

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
maxpearl@mstdn.games ("Max Pearl") wrote:

Less than a month left to submit to the #hopepunk #solarpunk #sciencefiction anthology being published later this year by
Echobird Press.

Don't self-reject! Submit (unless you use AI, then don't.)

We're centering marginalized voices, and everyone is welcome!

https://echobirdpress.com/visions-anthology/

Visions: A Hopeful Anthology of Science Fiction Stories Submissions due May 31, 2025 Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction and works in the subgenre are about characters fighting for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges. We need more of that to balance the doomscrolling and current climate of hate and uncertainty. Submissions are now open'! You can learn more about the anthology and guidelines at the link below. Scheduled for release November 30, 2025

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
lespreuh ("Lëspreüh") wrote:

Fungusaurus rex 🦕

Dessin en cours d'un saurien aux longues canines portant deux petites cornes
Dessin noir et blanc dans un carnet d'un saurien aux longues canines portant deux petites cornes, des champignons poussent sur son dos

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janamarie@mystical.garden ("Jana") wrote:

ah, yes, the famous heat gun, usb-pd power supply, JBC style soldering iron, lab power supply and spotwelder I2C device. Maybe it even has a Bluetooth speaker inside, who knows??

A photo of a small lab bench device with a big display and two turn knobs in the front. To its left a heat gun is mounted, to its right a soldering iron is placed. Coming from the front are two cables that seem to be a spot welder. There are also connectors that hint that the device is a lab power supply. The display shows an analog needle scale and the manufacturer seems to be “I2C”. There are tools in the background

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
NunavutBirder@mas.to ("Clare") wrote:

Today is the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two Spirits (MMIWG2S), commonly known as Red Dress Day.

Red Dress Day stems from a powerful art project of empty red dresses symbolizing #MMIWG2S

https://mmiwg2splus-nationalactionplan.ca/eng/1670511213459/1670511226843

A pair of red dresses, an adult's and a youth's, hang on rocks on a point jutting into the arctic ocean. Beyond snow covered hills can be seen.
Two red dresses, an adult's and a youth's, lie on a frozen pond, near a snowy shore. Picture is shot from above by a drone.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgordon@appdot.net ("John Gordon") wrote:

“Maybe your issue has 80-20 support. But if it’s not what voters are voting on it’s irrelevant.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-the-wilds-of-democratic-navel-gazing-and-big-think

“fundamentally the job of an opposition is to oppose. Don’t overcomplicate it.”

#jgshare

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rstevens ("rstevens 🐳💨✅") wrote:

Don’t betray your younger self. Hold onto that grudge forever.

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ClintonAnderson@universeodon.com ("Clinton Anderson SwordForHire") wrote:

@davidgerard

"I used AI to....", is nothing more than, "Listen I'm not an asshole but....", for the 21st Century.

#FuckAI

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da_667@infosec.exchange wrote:

I like how the TM_SGNL story went from

They're still using signal
Wait, this isn't signal
You have to side load it, or get it via MDM
just kidding, here's the source
aaaand it's owned.

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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

Citizens cancel a beloved folk festival over fears that one of the authoritarian government’s paramilitary groups may use the event to kidnap and disappear members of a vulnerable ethnic group en masse.

Guess what country this is. https://mindly.social/@SecondStix/114452041748955237

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jwz wrote:

The dubious honor of "first time in years that I've looked for a blog's RSS feed and there wasn't one" goes to spaceweather.com.

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mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

"Shimano Steps" is already questionable branding for a line of e-bike components. (Aren’t "steps" associated with walking, not biking?) But then there’s the logo, which from a distance always looks like "Shimano Stops."

The "Shimano Steps" wordmark. The brand name is all in blue capital letters except for the E, which is replaced by a large blue circle with a white lowercase "e" inside.

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chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I didn’t realize just how many little things I rely on in my Unix shell until I started using Windows.

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffowski@mastodon.world ("Church of Jeff") wrote:

#MAGA #Trump #DueProcess #14thAmendment #Project2025 #GreenCard #FreedomOfSpeech #FirstAmendment #ThisIsFascism #2A #GunOwners #1A #Constitution

The people with Don’t Tread On Me flags now support the government being able to arrest anyone indefinitely without any due process. [Yellow background and a coiled Rattlesnake, indicative of the Gadsden flag]