May 1st Date announced for US national strike aimed at crippling #Trump: 'No work, no school'

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I’ll be talking about the very serious helium shortage that is looming (actually, it’s already upon us) and risks crippling semiconductor chip production and diagnostic instruments like MRI scanners, not to mention low temperature science.. It’s maddening because we’ve known that helium is very […]

Protesters descend on Times Square during the "No Kings" protest in New York. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU via Getty Images)

Times Square
#NoKings #Protest #TrumpAndEpstein

Friends, if you haven't already, it would be a big favour to me if you could enable tags.pub to boost your public tagged posts.

Just follow @_followback . It will follow you back, and when you make a post with a hashtag in it, the server will boost your post from the appropriate hashtag.

If […]

New York City Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/arts/dance/ke...

Nestle says 12 tonnes (over 413,000 bars) of #KitKat stolen in Europe

“The stolen truck had left central #Italy and was making its way to #Poland, with a plan to distribute the bars in countries along the way.

KitKat did not say where specifically the goods had gone missing, but said “the […]

Silicon Valley reeling from social media addiction trial verdict

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86e3eglv2go

Former Olympian Bruce Kidd 🏃‍♂️🇨🇦 says that funding sports using money from betting is a bad idea

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L’ex-olympien Bruce Kidd 🏃‍♂️🇨🇦 dit que financer les sports avec l’argent des paris est une mauvaise idée

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“No hate no fear. immigrants are welcomed here!” Thousands of protestors in Austin, Texas began their #NoKings march at City Hall and headed to Auditorium Shores for a rally.
#AustinTexas #NoKings #NoWar

Picture of demonstrators marching across memorial bridge in Washington, DC photo by Allison Robbert

Can you see me? I'm in a blue hat #nokings

#noKings New York

Avian flu strikes 9 more Indiana poultry facilities In the past 30 days, H5N1 has been confirmed in 85 flocks, including 45 commercial and 40 backyard flocks.

Avian flu strikes 9 more Indiana poultry facilities
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Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference | Scientific American

“More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.”

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-mathematicia...

Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth of secrets belonging to militaries, banks, governments, and nearly every individual on earth […]

#Trump signature to appear on US currency, ending 165-year tradition

“Trump signature to start appearing on $100 bill in June, marking 250th US anniversary

Change to delete US treasurer's signature for the first time since 1861

Signature plan latest Trump move to put his name on buildings […]

How Angine de Poitrine use Microtonality YouTube video by David Bennett

What's going on here? Glad you asked.

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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Happy Saturday. Please enjoy some weird but intriguing (and when your western ears adjust to the microtonality, rocking) music by Angine de Poitrine from Québec.

Guelph peeps: They'll be at Hillside in July.

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#Trump Tests the Limits of American Power in Iran

by Michael Ignatieff

“In a world of predatory hegemons, military superiority no longer guarantees strategic advantage.”

thewalrus.ca/trumps-foreign-policy-is...

‘This is a dumb war’: #Trump is just trying to distract us from #Epstein files: #Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew

www.ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-conflict/a...

A Government of One Otherwise known as an autocracy

A Government of One - by Dan Rather

steady.substack.com/p/a-government-of-one

#Canada’s food price fights are about to get messier

“…the real sources of food price inflation are beyond the control of any prime minister or politician in Canada: climate change, supply chain disruptions and US trade policy.

Beef, for example, isn’t expensive because of climate policy.

If […]

Carney: Canada might help vessels sail Strait of Hormuz if there is a… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

PM Carney: #Canada might help vessels sail Strait of #Hormuz, if there is a ceasefire

nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/26/carney-canada...

Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens.

And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.

US House Republicans reject #DHS funding package without ICE funding that had earlier been passed by Senate

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/27/us-s...

Iran says Israeli attacks on plants 'contradicts' U.S. 10-day pause - UPI.com Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Friday that his country "will exact [a] heavy price" for Israeli strikes on infrastructure Friday.

Iran says Israeli attacks on plants 'contradicts' U.S. 10-day pause www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026...

#Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal - Ars Technica

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/elon...

#Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mastodon-is-m...

#Iran-linked hackers have breached #FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal emails

www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/iran...

#Utah Bans Polygraph Tests for Sexual Assault Victims —

www.propublica.org/article/utah-polygraphs-...

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is in jail but that hasn’t stopped his helicopter parents from crashing into federal court rules

www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-frieds-helic...