Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activist Republicans in Congress.
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I was there when the Berlin Wall fell. I have a piece of the wall, it’s a nondescript bit of concrete that will mean nothing to anyone when I’m gone, but for me, celebrating that day with the Germans who had never seen the other side of the wall, it’s a reminder that democracy can work. That fascists can fall. The rubble from the destruction of Black Lives Matter plaza tells the other side of that story. Fascism is rising, and they are on the upswing. But hold this rubble in your heart, for with its stones, we will destroy fascism again, and again, and every time they rise, we will pick up our rocks and go to war.
Can you believe that some people voted for Trump because they believed he was somehow the pro-Palestine option? Not holding up anymore at all, proves that an enemy of an enemy isn't always a friend.
Yes I expect that will start happening. The ICE staff have taken on, more & more, the actions of the SS. Which seemingly tells me their director is getting high level orders or the freedom to act on their own. One should also think they may have committed many more acts that are unknown to the general public!!!!!!!!!
It won't just be #MAGAmoron regime. Some of us will be arrested, jailed and, possibly, "disappeared" simply bc local #cops don't like us. I've always been careful of my surroundings after I publicly schooled and embarrassed local cops about #1A rights.
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Many in the industry warn that the tariffs will disrupt the integrated supply chain across North America that has been in place for more than 25 years.
Firefox maker Mozilla deleted a promise to never sell its users' personal data and is trying to assure worried users that its approach to privacy hasn't fundamentally changed. Until recently, a Firefox FAQ promised that the browser maker never has and never will sell its users' personal data. An archived version from January 30 says:
Does Firefox sell your personal data?
Nope. Never have, never will. And we protect you from many of the advertisers who do. Firefox products are designed to protect your privacy. That's a promise.
That promise is removed from the current version. There's also a notable change in a data privacy FAQ that used to say, "Mozilla doesn't sell data about you, and we don't buy data about you."
The data privacy FAQ now explains that Mozilla is no longer making blanket promises about not selling data because some legal jurisdictions define "sale" in a very broad way:
Mozilla doesn't sell data about you (in the way that most people think about "selling data"), and we don't buy data about you. Since we strive for transparency, and the LEGAL definition of "sale of data" is extremely broad in some places, we've had to step back from making the definitive statements you know and love. We still put a lot of work into making sure that the data that we share with our partners (which we need to do to make Firefox commercially viable) is stripped of any identifying information, or shared only in the aggregate, or is put through our privacy preserving technologies (like OHTTP).
Mozilla didn't say which legal jurisdictions have these broad definitions.
In seriousness, though, this doesn't in any material way make Firefox a worse option than the other browsers with active dev teams. Avoiding Manifest V3 is alone worth the price of admission.
We will collect data about you and sell it, but only after we've run it through a privacy preserving machine that turns it into privacy jam so you can't tell how much of yours is in the jar.
Indeed, fingerprinting. Preventing it is one thing Mozilla could be working on. Going all-out on it really, devoting significant engineering resources to making their browser fingerprinting resistance bulletproof. Reworking every js api with defence against adversarial use of it in mind. If they're really that desperate for cash they could sell it as a premium feature for a modest subscription fee, although obviously it'd be available free of charge for those willing to get their Firefox builds from someone other than Mozilla.
Don't panic, though! Much like the competition does, while we sell your data we'll tell you all about how we respect your privacy so much more than the competition does. It's for the best. Driving away all its users is the only way to make Firefox commercially viable. That's just how capitalism works.
Firefox Reddit sub is pretty full of outrage posts. Rightfully so.
I've been a long time supporter of Firefox because fuck Google and their Chromium spawns feeding their dominance, but what Mozilla is doing now, I'm planning on moving to Waterfox from the looks of it. Present on all platforms, Android, Windows and Linux, supports sync and has all the tracking and telemetry bullshit stripped out. I just wish they'd get versions up to date a bit faster, but oh well, it's probably a small team of people doing it in their free time so I can't complain too much.
I like Waterfox. I started using it for the JXL support. But it's significantly more memory-leaky than the current version of Firefox, and small FOSS teams seem to think the standard amount of RAM sold in laptops today is comically low and believe we're all hauling 64+ GB or something.
For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.
Damn dude. Is your life really so pathetic that you are honestly deriving please from bad news being delivered to people who are on the opposite side of a fucking web browser debate? That's sad. I hope things start looking up for you in the future.
you're being very weird in this specific chain of comments, and it's unpleasant to read and dragging down otherwise pretty decent conversation. dial it back, or you'll catch a temporary ban.
So, here's the funny thing about "never will". It's not a promise you can go back on. "Never will" means "forever won't".
Changing that language is a breech of trust. Getting all "nuanced" and weasel-wordy about it doesn't change that.
Folks should start looking into whether the previous promise is legally binding in any way, and start preparing for a class action suit if it is. Because Mozilla's better dead than it is as zombie smoke screen for this horse shit.
That doesn't detract from OP's point. I want Mozilla to be a good, privacy respecting organization, but they aren't anymore, and chromium has nothing to do with that.
They've been hiding behind that excuse for a decade now. How far do they get to take it? How far do they get to go before we're "allowed" to tell them to eat shit?
It seems like the issue here is, users want to be spoken to in colloquial language they understand, but any document a legal entity produces MUST be in unambiguous "legal" language.
So unless there's a way to write a separate "unofficial FAQ" with what they want to say, they are limited to what they legally have to say.
And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe now they need to create a formal document specifying in the best legalese exactly what they mean when they say they "will never sell your data", because if there's any ambiguity around it, then customers deserve for them to disambiguate. Unfortunately, it's probably not going read as quick and catchy as an ambiguous statement.
The equally hilarious thing is that currently they have the "never will" promise in the same codebase as the "definitely will" gated by a "TOU" flag, showing intent to violate the promise.
Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won't load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.
I’m trying zen-browser.app/ now. It’s an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
Zen Browser is built for speed, security, and true privacy. Download now to enjoy a beautifully-designed, distraction-free web experience packed with features.
Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.
Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren't many of them and why they're all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure for a small project because you won't be able to keep up, you'll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
Is it open source, or is it owned by a private company? Looks exactly like the kind of thing that'll be great for a few years and then become enshittified, like all for-profit software inevitably seems to.
Ladybird is a non profit developed by volunteers, no company.
Project lead is Andreas Kling (you should definitely watch his development videos and streams), great guy who developed SerenityOS aswell, an operating system from scratch. For that he developed LibWeb which he then used to create Ladybird. They only recently founded a non-profit, which is probably needed as the project size grew.
Ladybug seems to have garnered quite the attention and funding. It will probably be a great alternative for anyone looking for one. But I personally would not use it, the dev's behaviour has made me keep my distance from the project.
I hope they explain further. Honestly I don’t think the “oh crap I need to know if it’s good or bad right now!” camp is really going to care, but it still feels a little uncomfortable. (As opposed to the “this could be either way, I don’t have enough evidence to decide right now, and I’m ok with holding that uncertainty in my brain until new evidence moves my needle” camp)
Are forked builds possible with third party service references neutered?
I tend to trust Mozilla (more than other browser-owning companies), but they really should just clarify exactly what they do that would be considered as sale of data in any jurisdictions.
They seem to be implying that the data is just metadata that has been abstracted for (presumably ad-targeting) commercial purposes, and there are jurisdictions that consider derived metadata as still being "user data", but in that case just make a blog post laying out what and where you are sharing. If your "partners" are opposed to people knowing about them, or you are scared that people would not like who you're in bed with, that is a problem.
You know, at least it's not Brave, throwing in cryptomining bs, getting caught selling data without telling anyone, or using the profits to push COVID conspiracy theories and anti-LGBT activism, or getting their funding directly from Founders Fund (Peter Thiel).
I'm curious what "Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox to perform your searches, for example" means. Like, is that literally just the search I type into the browser bar, or are they talking about scraping data from my browser to improve my searches the way a lot of phone apps do?
I could see some government somewhere passing a data security bill of some kind that makes rules around collecting and using data that redefines what that means in a way that includes something Firefox is already doing. I could also see them using this as a sneaky foot in the door as they plan to ramp up data profiteering like so many companies already have.
It would be nice if they'd clarify their reasoning for doing this a bit more specifically.
For the first time, we’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox, alongside an updated Privacy Notice. Earlier today, we published a blog post explaining why we’re making this change and what it means for you. Now, we want to hear from you.
They want to intercept your searches and url entries to run them through the privacy preserving data extracting machine in order to collect data that will be sold to advertisers and used to pollute your search results and url suggestions with paid-for links. They were trying to be vague about it so that people would not understand this, and instead all they accomplished was to make people think they want to record everything you type into every web form. That's my guess, anyway. Maybe they really do want everything.
I mean, yeah. That's the less than optimistic guess to make. But it's a guess, it isn't definitive. It'd be nice to know if that's what they're actually doing or whether it's just a change in language to cover their own ass. Because both are pretty common.
It already exists at least as an "experiment" but I guess now it's nearly ready for full production use. Perhaps the new terms of use text is motivated by not enough people accepting the old merino opt-in prompt as well as wanting to get more third-parties involved in the system. More details here: firefox-source-docs.mozilla.or…
When Merino integration is enabled on the client and the user has opted in to Firefox Suggest data collection, Firefox sends everything the user types in the address bar to the Merino server.
Think about it. Anything you type into a browser is your intellectual property, you own the copyright to it, unless you're copying someone else's text. In order for Mozilla to pass what you type on to any website you're visiting, they need to "copy" that text (i.e., from the keyboard to the network).
I think this is what they're trying to address with their legalese. It's a pity that it has to come to this, but that's how the legal environment is these days. They can't afford to make expensive mistakes. Perhaps they can keep improving and clarifying the language though.
Yeah. That's certainly a possibility. Thinking about it won't give me the answer, though. It could be that, it could also be something else. We don't learn the truth of what's going on in the world by just making up a good-sounding explanation and assuming we must be right, even if that's how people discussing things on forums largely operates.
Firefox is not a legal entity needing a license. Mozilla is.
Firefox is a product, not a service.
When I write notes in a book, I do not need to give the manufacturer of that book a license for my notes. If I mail that book to a friend, I do not need to give a license for that book to the post office.
The only other software that I can think of that has taken a similar stance on TOS vs an open license is Microsoft and their VS Code product. Precompiled executables are license under a non-free (libre) license while the source code of VS Code remains under the MIT license.
The original license of Firefox MPL2 allow end users to freely use the browser, with no license needed to give to Mozilla. Thousands of open source software who all use GPL, MPL, MIT, et al. allow users to use their software however they want. The proposed TOS does not and you must abide by their Acceptable Use Policies.
Even if they require a license due to some legal reason, there is simply no reason why the license has to be a non-exclusive, perpetual license. If it really as they claim "to help you navigate the internet", then the terms should explicitly say that, and not make it implicit.
The fact is Mozilla doesn't need a license for me to operate Firefox locally. Any copyright claim they are making is in bad faith because anything you type into the browser would be covered under fair use. They have yet to convince me why they need a license for me to operate a browser fully locally.
The most likely reason why they are changing the license is because they want to start training AI data based on your browser habits. They may not be doing it now and they may say they have no plans to do it in the future. But the TOS, as currently written, gives them permission to do just that.
That condition is a despotic red-flag deal-breaker that should be countered with epic abandonment. Let them know this is not OK. If I hadn't uninstalled it years ago, I would have already. Lots of better browsers out there.
This is completely accurate, and people don't know how non anonymous it is.
Your hair one for example. Who cares, say you even have brunette hair, something generic. Okay, then let's add on that you're using an iPhone. How narrow is the search now? What state you're in? Who owns a specific model of TV?
I would argue that with only just a few data points you could be identified.
And now they are taking everything you put into your browser and everything you take out. Add some AI pizazz and they'll be able to build a pretty accurate profile about you.
What do you mean? Firefox alternatives in Debian/Debian-based repos? Or just an alternative for apt in general (in which case, I think you've replied to the wrong post)?
Yes, I'm asking for the best Firefox alternative thats available on Debian or debian-based distos. Only considering packages in the official Debian apt repos
There isn't a browser suitable to replace Firefox in the official Debian apt repos.
However, as far as I can tell, Mozilla's recent Terms of Use apply only to the Firefox builds downloaded from Mozilla, not to the built-from-source versions that you get from the Debian archive using apt.
You can use the Debian build under the terms of the Mozilla Public License. Read /usr/share/doc/firefox-esr/copyright for details.
I know you only want software from the official repos, but it's really simple to add the LibreWolf repo and use that.
Other than that, there's not really much in the way of Firefox forks in the official repos. I believe the Debian builds have their own configurations as well, but I'm not certain. You could use other browsers (Falkon, GNOME Web, etc.), but they're severely lacking in features.
Off-topic, LibreWolf uses the extrepo package to add their repo which is a great third party repo management program for Debian. It has a curated (by members of the Debian packagers) selection of other third party repos for some popular software that either doesn't make it into the official repos for whatever reason or aren't kept super updated in Debian Stable.
That and it's so much easier than adding signing keys, messing with sources lists, etc. I wish more software used it, honestly, but the maintainers know what they're doing.
Made the switch to Fennec and IceRaven on Android, and Zen on my Linux desktop, which also has Windows and Mac versions. Sure, they're forks of Firefox, but they are not subject to the same TOS. I used to use LibreWolf on my desktop but ended up having too many issues with it. Lots of crashing and instablility that regular Firefox just didn't have.
Another great tool for unGoogled Android users is FFUpdater. It will handle updating of many open source (not just Firefox-based) browsers. You could also use something like Obtanium for something less browser-specific.
You cant go back on never have never will without breaking the law. We need to get these ai tech bros out of these companies if we want them to remain good.
Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."
Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for "Boston") and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.
So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you're (probably) good to go.
Universities have been accepting funding from the fossil fuel industry for years, in exchange for suppressing dissent on campuses. motherjones.com/environment/20…
This is a tactical mistake on the fascists' part. Experience has shown that ignoring protests (i.e. no media coverage, no response, etc.) is more effective than banning protests. Banning protests only draws attention to them, which is exactly what a protest needs to be effective.
what a goddamned pathetic child. And yes, you're correct - this shows obvious fear. The bully is already scared, and let's put it this way: HE is the one who has to deal with US for the next four years. Never, ever let him or any of these criminals rest. Not for one second.
While the white people cheering draconian measures being taken against BLM, Standing Rock, and other protestors, I've got something for you to think about. Those same measures will be taken against you, Whitey. If you don't believe me, go read about the Bonus Army.
The best way to do this is to take to the streets. Make sure to document with pictures and video and post to social media. Legacy media is in the tank for the regime.
I've recently seen the episodes of "The Dictator's Playbook" - it's sad to see so many parallels to nowadays populism - not just the US ... pbs.org/show/dictators-playboo…
Protest at Starlink, Whole foods, the Whitehouse. And if I can't do that then I'll protest where I can how I can. Peaceful protest is Resistance. Depose the Oligarchy Now!
To be fair, the orange shit-gibbon *actually* said that this only applies to students engaging in *illegal* protests. Is your protest illegal? No-one knows any more. And THAT is the problem. When there is no law, the outlaws rule.
Image description: Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I was a teen in the 60s. Mass protests didn't do anything to stop the Vietnam War. I strongly encourage resisters to find creative (& sneaky) ways to inflict pain on the oppressors. What they care about most is $$ - take it from there.
The new protective wall around the White House will then presumably be extended, as it once was between East and West Germany, with mines, self-propelled grenades, dog patrols and snipers. After all, it's about the safety of possible protesters, not that Trumpzilla has to go into action or anything.
Yes Donnie, great idea. Force these young, angry, educated people into the working class and hopefully in the trades. Nothing bad can happen when the MOST IMPORTANT people in any civilization hate you. When the Liberated Intellectual Plumbing Syndicate decides that your plumbing should work backwards and floods trump tower with shit it will be very fitting.
Trump got elected by promising to lower prices. This is what his trade war with Canada is doing to the price of lumber. Everyone who needs to build a new house or renovate will now see a drastic increase in material costs.
I believe Trump is a sadist. His political ideology? Torture.
His decisions don't make sense politically, economically, or otherwise. They only make sense when they are understood in the context of a sadist, perverse mind who enjoys torturing others just for the pleasure of seeing them suffer.
That is the only benefit he gets from it.
The world will be a better place when Trump dies, and billions of us around the world cannot wait for the day we'll celebrate the death of the sadist.
If you think a brutal dictator whose armies have been engaged in an atrocity-ridden invasion of a neighbouring country is going to stop his armies after this and not launch another atrocity-ridden invasion of another country, and then another… you have not read a single page of European history.
That cost estimate is very underwhelming. I don't think it psychologically works as a point when you're trying to convince your cranky uncle about NOAA's importance and the general stupidity in having voted for getting vital tax/government-funded services dismantled.
What your cranky uncle hears is that he loses $ 73 this year. But next year, when his $ 1 in taxes isn't being extorted from him anymore for NOAA services, he'll be home free. And $1 richer than this year.
Or similar BS.
Tell your cranky uncle instead that he won't get a well-informed bad weather warning anymore and thus can expect to lose his home, his business building, his car. Maybe his life or that of his wife, children, brother and sister. Tell him how the increased losses from not being warned incur an increase in his annual insurance rates. Whether or not he lives in an area where extreme weather events increase damages: his insurance gets more expensive now. Because he voted for the orange dick tater. His grocery bill is going to increase too. Because farmers won't be warned and won't be able to protect crops or animals. Because he voted for the orange dick tater. And in case he gets to rebuild his home after a weather disaster, the prices for raw material and manpower will now increase further, now that NOAA can't warn anymore. Because simultaneous damages and hence, simultaneous rebuilding efforts will increase. Not to mention the undocumented immigrants who used to work in agriculture and construction: losing their work force increases bills for getting things done around the house and for groceries.
Musk didnt learn his lesson from unplugging Twitter servers using his pen knife, throwing them in the back of random U-Hauls , driving across country, only to find no where to plug them in, that they were all had individually hard coded addresses, twitter was unstable for 6 months until the mess was sorted out.
It's the economics of quarterly value for a small set of stakeholders (shareholders) applied inappropriately to institutions built for the common good. Musk is a twat but magnified by an orange idiot's false correlation between wealth and wisdom
These are also sources for data on *gasp* climate change. That's the endgame. Not just bury the data, eliminate the sources so no one can contradict you. The Fascists are attempting to Year Zero climate change.
if they get some stupid $500 “refund” out to Americans the misguided morons will vote themselves into hell again willingly.
All the studies in the world can’t combat the takeover o the country by rent seeking oligarchy and the people will be glad to sell themselves out until it’s far too late.
You are of course completely correct, it’s sad that it is probably irrelevant kind of like counting the amount of plants that die while hectares burn and no fire suppression is deployed.
>>>>>>>>DOGE Response>>>>WHAT??? Gonna save u bigggly!!! Hey GOP FREAK SHOW on STEROIDZ!!! Lets jus return to the caves YA FILTHY FUCKIN SAVAGES!!! Wonder how this gonna work for fisherman/seagoing folks???
Worth point out that NOAA data is consumed as fact for not only the USA, but Canada and any other country or organization that is working in US based weather zones.
Unelected psychopathic immigrant Elon Musk may not know how to successfully lead a company, ruining the value of ex-twitter & of Tesla, but if there's one thing unelected psychopath Eloon for sure knows it's how to recklessly & ruthlessly abuse given power to hurt & harm people & their families by the hundreds of thousands.
In short: Elon Musk for sure knows how to make enemies.
i wonder if it is always cheaper for them than letting a investigation run it's course or if there is something even more frightening behind the payments
FAFO season continues. While diehard MAGA supporters seem to praise every decision President Donald Trump makes, there are more and more Republicans who are ...
Did you hear about the new "study" on people who say they were injured by the COVID vaccine? Well, it's actually 1) a preliminary look at 42 people 2) who all self-reported their symptoms and vaccine history 3) and it hasn't been peer reviewed. Oh and it's terrible skepchick.org/2025/03/no-a-new…
Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed a few comments here and there asking me what I think about the new COVID vaccination study. And it was weird because I tend to be generally aware of research in t
It's not that easy to get the nukes to start flying off. This isn't a fairytale utopia where we all die in a single, blissful instant and are released from the burden of consciousness.
This is classic. Legislator votes that "using incorrect pronouns" is freedom of speech. Gets pissy that he is addressed by "Madame Chiarman" www.thepinknews.com/2025/02/24/c...
The new Trump administration have begun their book banning, and Julianne Moore's children's book "Freckleface Strawberry" has been banned, because it teaches children not to be sad that they are different, because everyone is different in some way — and that is just too inclusive to the hate administration.
this is unbeliavable. A general question: Are you organizing yourselves to fight back? We're wondering that in many places around the world. The media outlets don't show any manifestations.
one comment (Evans) puts it perfectly: „… literally a children’s book that is banned for telling children that it’s okay to be different. It is now state policy that it is not okay to be different, not even with freckles …“
This is the main defining sign of fascism. Divide between people like you and everyone different and declare those as evil „Volksfeinde“. Thus forcing you to oust everyone different because you mustn't be friends with Volkfeinde or you're an evil Volksverräter.
yeah because according to them people should be separated and white people are superior only of course they don’t have any disability if they have any mental or body disability they as worthless as everyone that isn’t white
This is a very dangerous cultural shift they are trying to push, where difference and diversity is not seen as natural and positive but as something negative (and we all know where this leads), it's not just in the US this is spreading throughout the world. We are at a crossroads in Europe, or we go the route of a more united Europe and reinforce our shared values or crumble and all bets are off at that point, but it's not good.
The tipping point may be the next German elections if AfD gains strength we are all fucked, I don't know how the US sees them, but these people are Putin's puppets and let's not beat around the bush are fucking Nazis.
Off course, it's Trump's goal to divide Europe, AfD is the perfect party for that and shares a lot of this administration goals, especially in relation to Russia, they've said recently that if they win no more weapons will be sent to Ukraine and will resume commercial relations with Russia, but their anti EU stance, their reactionary ideas (this one is strange since their leader is a Lesbian married to an immigrant and they both have 2 adopted children, but they want to close the boarders, expel all illegal immigrants and are against same sex marriage and adoption, amongst other individual rights regression) are also important and no less dangerous.
They are therefore the perfect partner for this administration, they will not win, but the pols are giving them 2nd place so they will have a lot of power and forming a functioning and stable government in Germany will not be an easy task.
We already have Hungary on Putin's side and turning into an autocracy, if Germany follows suit and then France with Le Pen, the EU, and the world, is in serious trouble, but let's keep optimistic and fight to change people's minds showing them the lies of these parties while we still live in democracy, because it is at risk
It’s only a matter of time before the public book burnings begin. It’s all so sadly predictable, brutish and stupid. As if truth, knowledge and reality can be denied through forced ignorance.
@Saket wasn't that long ago (even in my living memory) Americans were burning disco records in sportsball stadiums as that music scene was considered "too diverse" and encouraged folk from different races to party together...
Everything is too inclusive for an administration whose unofficial president is mocking blind people on his social platform and whose official president made fun of a disabled journalist.
Unless you're bullying people, you are too inclusive for them.
I'd have thought an overweight, old, bald man with a very long candly floss comb-forward-up-around-and-back-down on his head, has a vagina on his neck, and wears orange clown makeup, while spouting the most moronic shit anyone has ever heard would love a book about how being different isn't something to mock, but perhaps he enjoys being mocked, ridiculed and bullied. 🤷🏼♀️
yes, I wasn't there myself but I love my music enough to remember that in the mid-sixties, it was #America that was burning #Beatles records for being 'bigger than Jesus' (Lennon quip taking out of context, as he said 'right now we are bigger than Jesus', which was a fact). So the puritan KKK nazi strand and love of burning things and people was always there, it was just given way more oxygen this year.
yes, it's a scandal - amoung so many - and a stepping stone to a fascist state ("gleichschaltung" like the nazis called bringing everything in line). not to forget the hypocrisy talking about "the states" and making top-down policy, talking about "free speech" and doing everything to suppress it.
and clearly saying in their world being different is dangerous.
but could we find a more exact wording? they are banning it from schools and school libraries, not (yet) to be sold.
Había oído por opiniones como la de Vicente Garrido que la actitud y forma de ser (además de las estrategias) de Trump coincidían con las de un psicópata. Y lo que siempre se dice y es bien sabido, es que nunca sale rentable trabajar con alguien así. Y he aquí la prueba, yo creo... Pero eh, "make America great again" y esas cosas 🙃
They sure look ridiculous, don't they? First, they okay bullying and violence against "different," then they tell the "different" people they SHOULD feel bad for their effrontery of difference.
As a European person, I have no idea how many schools are operated by the Department of Defense and which people visit such schools? This would help me put this a little bit more into perspective. Thank you in advance. (PS.: my fear/hope is that this would not harm that much people as only the ones already favouring Trump would be affected?)
The U.S. Department of Education dismissed 11 complaints related to book bans, saying it was ending “Biden’s book ban hoax.” PEN America counted nearly 16,000 book bans in the past several years. It's no hoax.
* When the German nazis deported politicians, I didn't bother, I wasn't a politician. * When they deported jews, I didn't bother, I wasn't a jew. * When they deported artists, I didn't bother, I wasn't an artist. * When they deported writers, I didn't bother, I wasn't a writer… ... * When they deported me, because of my freckles, who was there left to bother?
As a German, I really bother what the TrumpMuskGOPfascism is doing, and how they could be stopped before more people get killed?
can’t indoctrinate the next iteration of the Waffen SS if they are constantly relating to the people they are oppressing. I guess Freckles and red hair aren’t ‘normal’ enough. When do they start mumbling on about Aryans?
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.
@ingalls I'd rather pay TurboTax $100 than pay a CPA $600. There's no way any free service can handle the complexity of my tax returns. And that's not a problem with TurboTax; it's a problem with the US tax code. Sadly, it's not likely to be one that this administration fixes.
I started the process last Friday, but the second I mentioned HSA, it said, sorry, you have to upgrade to one of our premium plans. Sorry, I just closed out. I will go do it at my local library for free. #tax #Turbotax
A lot of Trump voters are getting to the "find out" phase of FAFO. For those with legit mea culpas and wanting to fix all this mess, I'm here for you and will show sympathy. Welcome to the fight and let's make sure this doesn't happen again in our lifetimes. For those that just want their particular "find out" problem fixed while holding on to whatever combination of anti-immigrant, anti-minority, pro-Christian Nationalism crap that made you vote for or love Trump/MAGA in the first place, you all can go pound sand. You'll get as much sympathy from me as you give all those groups you love seeing MAGA fuck with: zero point zero. #uspoli #rant #maga
"Food Bank Limits Market Match Assistance Without Warning A federal funding freeze has affected a low-income food assistance program in New Hampshire. This week, the New Hampshire Food Bank imposed a $5 limit on the Granite State Match program, which previously covered half the cost of fruit and vegetable purchases for SNAP[1] users without a cap."
[1] Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) - provides food benefits to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget so they can afford the nutritious food essential to health and well-being.
We may laugh about this but don’t forget Trump does NOT take back his words. So the new reality is that Trump has found fraud in the Social security system and he will act accordingly. The Trumpers will echo what he says and believe it because they do not understand COBOL or anything else. When does Trump get removed ? #uspol
COBOL is still used everwhere in financial systems. Do a bank transfer or use a credit card a COBOL application probably processed it in the background.
fuckin called it. 19-25 year old web devs and crypto idiots going into the American federal government? They're going to meet cobol and fortran and perl codebases originally written in the fifties running on hardware maintained since the... Also fifties, and even the smallest component of how it hangs together and what it does will be incomprehensible.
It's a good thing that it would be totally unrealistic that they'd just delete those persons' data to be able to push a "We saved THIS much money" statement ...
A screenshot of two tweets on a white background. The first tweet is by Toshi [@]toshiHQ, with a profile picture of a person in a yellow hat and sunglasses. The tweet states, "It looks like Elon's genius coders don't know how COBOL works. Social security runs on COBOL, which does not use a date or time type. So the date is stored as a number using the ISO 8601 standard. The epoch for this is 150 years ago (1875) - aka the metre standard. So if you don't know the date of something, it will be a 0 value, which in COBOL will default to 1875 - 150 years ago." The second tweet is by Donald Trump Jr. [@]DonaldJTrumpJr, with a profile picture of Donald Trump Jr. The tweet, dated Feb 11, states, "OMG!!! It's so bad what's been happening to our country and your money! Breaking: Musk says there's people over 150-years-old collecting Social Security...Show more."
This wasn’t just a toddler owning Trump. This was Musk letting it happen. No 4-year-old comes up with those lines on their own. He’s an innocent child. thegodpodcast.com/p/hot-mic-ca…
Brandon Russell formed the Atomwaffen Division (ADM) in Central Florida in 2015 and even recruited on the campus of the University of Central Florida (UCF), according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a nonprofit dedicated to confronting rac…
A Donald Trump-voting cattle farmer in Missouri was blasted on social media for complaining about possibly losing his land after he "didn't have time to research" the presidential candidates ahead of the election.
It's not this one farmer who has voted for the trump that bothers me but a very large minority of the electorate in Western democracies that consistently vote against their best interests that bothers me. It's like you & all your friends book a plane to Spain for your holidays only to find your drunk friend is the pilot while, at least, 25% of the passengers are cheering him on.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is no more.
It was created by Congress, not the executive. It is funded by the Fed, not the Treasury. By law, the president cannot shut it down. But Elon Musk has shut it down.
Absolutely wild. The US financial services regulator has had their website suddenly deleted this weekend and according to the NY Times they’ve been told to stop all supervisory activity (ie regulation).
It’s supposed to be protected by an act of Congress but President Musk has decided to ignore that.
The CFPB still exists in statute and in authorized funding. Whether it can operate right now is a separate issue. I am wary of pronouncements that give the current regime the ability to define reality.
So even when a white person is clearly at fault, the real fault lies with people who aren't white.
Convenient! And really fucking racist!
Brandon Friedman:
#JDVance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
Musk to rehire Doge aide who resigned over racist posts
The account connected to Mr Elez - first reported by the Wall Street Journal - posted a variety of inflammatory comments that were verified by the BBC as authentic.
"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," read one post from the pseudonymous account in July.
Another post, in September, said: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
The Trump administration is rescinding protections for Venezuelan refugees that have been in the country under protected status to prevent them from being de...
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in reply to Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson • • •The rubble from the destruction of Black Lives Matter plaza tells the other side of that story. Fascism is rising, and they are on the upswing. But hold this rubble in your heart, for with its stones, we will destroy fascism again, and again, and every time they rise, we will pick up our rocks and go to war.
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Worth a read.
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Does no one care in the US?
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Unknown parent • • •Seems easier to help Jerry with his golf skills. 🤷
Seriously though, here in Europe, in most countries there would be big protests already, probably right after the first DOGE action...
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