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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

Why is this story not in an American paper

Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund.

The Senate will vote on the GENIUS Act, a crypto bill which would make the President's grift even easier.

If we don't fix that problem, no Senator should vote for it.

TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads...

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

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So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:

ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.

The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.

This is ridiculous.

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It's tough out there right now, but at least we have Rex Manning Day.

Damn The Man, save The Empire.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

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If you work or worked for CISA, please read this from @swiftonsecurity.com

infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecu...

You are appreciated, and we are sorry for what’s happened to your hard work.

It’s remarkable how much weakness this conveys on the part of Vance and Trump. It’s classic bully weakness:

Vance: [Dumps on Ukraine]
Zelenskyy: [pushes back]
Vance: [pikachu face] HOW DISRESPECTFUL

Pathetically weak.

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

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Graph showing that while the numbers of female, black, and black female pilots went up, the number of Air Carrier fatalities went down.

So @jennybeatty.bsky.social did some great work pulling together data from multiple sources to answer the question "Does diversity in pilot ranks negatively impact safety". While any partly sane person already knew the answer, her work proves the answer is no.

www.jennybeatty.com/airline-safe...

It's also just terrible management, generally.

I literally reported this Wednesday.

The mistake a lot of folks make is comparing against late-stage fascism, especially end-stage fascism as it was (lucklly) being defeated, and drawing comfort from the differences.

Of course the beginning doesn't look like the end.

Look at how historic examples started, and compare against that.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Turkey's democracy goes bye

Turkey was not always an autocracy. It had a democracy. It still has elections. But its real democracy has gone away through shock and awe.

It can happen everywhere if you're not vigilant and have shared agreement in the democratic project.

One day it's just....gone.

There's something wrong with the world today....

Except I do know what it is 🙃

Executive orders are not laws of the land that all citizens have to follow. They’re directives for the employees in 1 branch of federal government.

If Trump wants new laws, make him use the process laid out in our constitution.

Don’t comply in advance.

Gotta appreciate the small joys when they happen.

Today's joy: needing/getting to use footnotes while writing a client report

US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential ‘end of this organization’

How are we still not past the notion that the USPS is *not* a moneymaking organization? This whole article concedes to the idea that the postal service "loses money" without even mentioning that it's because it's a public service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Counterpoint: no they don't. Having every website independently implement E2EE DMs is a colossal waste of resources at best, and dangerous at worst. Use DMs for what they're good for: exchanging your Signal handles.