What benefit do cities and people get from these? It's confusing to see them popping up everywhere with so many obvious negatives.

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

Is there a source or date? When I check for Canada and the UK, they are both similar to the US. Didn't check them all yet.

The AI boom comes at a cost 😮‍💨⁣⁣
⁣Behind the AI hype is a surge in energy use, data centre expansion and growing threats to democracy.⁣ Can it still be called progress if it deepens environmental harm, surveillance, and the grip of Big Tech and autocrats on power?⁣
empli.fi/greenpeace/?...

Amazon dropped. Subscriptions canceled. It's been a half year now. There's the cost and convenience I hear about from others, but I have much better options, took very little effort to find them too.

Question: “Now that you’ve met with him -Trump-, you’ve spoken with him multiple times, do you still think he’s a fascist?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

Question: “And do you tell him that?”

Zohran Mamdani: “Yes”

This is my favorite, all day.

Should the out of touch really be leading?

You buy corners there.

DOGE Used Social Security Data to Aid Election Deniers—Congress Must Act Join 15,910 people. A recent Department of Justice court filing has confirmed an extraordinary and deeply troubling abuse of federal power. In March 2025, staff… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

A DOJ filing just revealed two DOGE staffers at the Social Security Administration signed a deal to match SSA records against state voter rolls—hunting for “voter fraud” to overturn election results. Lawmakers are calling it one of the largest federal data breaches in U.S. history.

Watching the Boundary Waters vote. How many have been infested with greed? We're about to have yet another decisive list.

Yep, verified on downdetector

Thank you for your leadership!

Will you have this one in your Etsy store?

My woodland temple wears its bluebell best. My woodland temple sings songs of memory, the persistence of return. Sometimes our role as witches is as witness, as listener to the land telling its truths. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

"DOGE staff entered into a “voter data agreement” with an outside “advocacy” group, while also using an unauthorized server to handle sensitive Social Security data." How is this even possible?

Court orders probe of DOGE’s secret voter data deal after ‘alarming’ revelations For the first time, DOGE and the Social Security Administration could be required to hand over records detailing what happened behind the scenes as they accessed the data of millions of Americans.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered new evidence to be turned over in a lawsuit seeking details on a secret "voter data agreement" between DOGE and election deniers.

This marks the first ruling forcing the faux-agency to disclose what happened behind the scenes.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time

RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

That is most excellent!!

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Arrests Tripled. Warrants Didn't. Now DHS Is Being Sued. Eight Latino New Yorkers and a Syracuse workers' center say DHS agents are stopping and arresting people without warrants or probable cause — targeting brown skin, not criminal conduct.

Eight Latino New Yorkers and a Syracuse workers' center say DHS agents are stopping and arresting people without warrants or probable cause — targeting brown skin, not criminal conduct. migrantinsider.com/p/arrests-tr...

Being scared, detached, distracted and unhappy serves the interests of those who want to degrade our country...both inside and outside of it.

It's a tough job to be determined, outraged, peaceful and optimistic at the same time.

But we're cool like that. We're up for it.

You too.

French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux It's part of a broader European movement to reduce reliance on American tech.

France moves away from Windows. The UK & rest of Europe, and @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, should follow suit! www.engadget.com/big-tech/fre...

I grew up on a farm where we regularly had to fix our own tractors. I also briefly worked for John Deere and watched as they tried to justify why people shouldn't be allowed to do that. Get absolutely fucked Deere, right to repair forever and ever

www.thedrive.com/news/john-de...

Beautiful story of a man bonding with a robin.

🚨 United States of America v. Galvin Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth.

My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...

Love this one

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

Otters help.