The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
*OSINT alert*
1st image is from today, showing a 'swarm' of small boats at speed in Straits of Hormuz
This is typical behavour of Iranian fishing vessels in that area
Other 3 images from same area, same time of year but 2024 & 25 (dates at top)
First rule of #OSINT... know what normal looks like
"I exist in a near-perpetual state of anxious misery, as Trump and his chud army ... pursue a program of gleeful genocide. But at the very same time, ... Trump is (inadvertently) dismantling many of the worst aspects of the old order in favor of something decidedly better." -- Cory Doctorow
More Vintage Computing museums should rent out cloud access to their rare hardware.
SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) does it, and it’s freaking awesome.
I’m literally logged into a Sun SPARCstation…anyone can do this for free, right now. Just SSH in.
The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
Speaker Johnson speaks at a podium. Text from a Common Dreams Article is above and below it. Headline reads: "In Dead of Night, Johnson Tries—But Fails—to Ram Through Domestic Spying Bill for Trump." Below is more text with one paragraph saying, '“Let me be clear,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) explaining her no vote in a statement. “There is no new warrant requirement in tonight’s amendment to FISA reauthorization. It does absolutely nothing to fix the massive loopholes in 702 collection that allow the government to spy on Americans without a warrant. It does nothing to fix the data broker loophole. And it slaps a 5-year extension on this bill so that this White House can continue to spy on Americans and violate our privacy rights for an even longer time.”'
In the middle of the night, Republican leadership tried to jam through legislation that allows the government to spy on Americans without a warrant.
I voted NO. We need serious privacy reform to protect the American people.
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Posts like this are why we have the Internet.
My oncologist broke up with me. She said my cancer is gone so we really don’t have anything in common any more.
I beat inoperable, incurable cancer. I kicked it down the stairs, took its lunch money, & threw rocks at it as it ran away crying.
Yeah, cancer, you *better* run.
Of course, no one should believe this defense for an instant. But if we do take Trump at face value, then all reasonable people should infer he is a completely areligious man from his failure to recognize plainly religious iconography
Clare Victor Dwiggins, 1908 explorerrowan.tumblr.com/post/8136428...
Trump was unelectable until the Democrats found a way to nominate two candidates who couldn't beat him
Trump was beatable, always has been, but the Democratic coalition has been unreliable and easily fractured - and tends to stay home. Hillary could have won if Democrats and Indies had just clenched their teeth and pulled that lever instead of Jill Stein and Gary what's his name
one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"
holy shit he actually conceded
folks, they tell you they’re invincible
they tell you they’re inevitable
they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting
and absolutely none of that is true
I just wish everyone would stop treating "getting lots of likes and shares" as either a way to confirm that a statement is true or a permission slip to not care if it's true. Everyone does it across the spectrum, not just MAGA, and it's going to destroy our country.
Three headed Dragon meme, with Brazil and Hungary looking normal, and USA looking deeply unserious, and possibly high on Ketamine.
There is a reasonable path back. Everything doesn't have to be all existential all the time.
👴🏻"If we even have elections!🤡"
We are having elections.
👴🏻"The GOP is going to try dirty tricks!🤡"
So? The GOP always tries dirty tricks. Always. There has never been a modern election where they didn't.
Fair point, also true of Tusk in Poland in 2023, and good recommendation!
I'd like to impress upon Americans that the Hungarian people removed Orban and his fascist party from power...
By VOTING.
That's the real "they don't want you to know this...".
They don't want you to figure out that voting is powerful, and that we the people hold that power - unless we give it up
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
A young woman wearing black latex with a riding crop and a cold expression
The absurdly beautiful @genuineporcelain.bsky.social performing with the Devil's Advocates
Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
welp unfortunately it looks like the world actually is a complicated place that requires us to put smart people in charge, hate to say it but sometimes shit matters and its not all a troll
My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.
Only one way to know for sure
I hope all the people who voted against Genocide Joe are feeling good this morning
If you think a Trump electoral false flag terror incident is impossible, keep in mind that Vance arrives in Hungary tomorrow — right in the middle of Orbán’s electoral false flag terror operation, which Vance will presumably endorse.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
Yep. The lgtbq community is "pornographic"
Information about birth control and reproductive health is "pornographic"
Pop stars are "pornographic"
Fashion & fitness magazines are "pornographic"
Hell, one lawmaker even argued that yoga pants are pornographic
This is not who we should be—but ICE is so desperate for stats they detain a woman who is legally applying for her green card, a scholarship college student who teaches Sunday School. Trump would have us believe he’s taking criminal aliens off the streets. It’s a lie www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...