The electric hydrofoil future looks pretty awesome.
The electric hydrofoil future looks pretty awesome.
Palestinian Columbia student detained by ICE at citizenship interview
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/14/columbia-mohsen-mahdawi-arrested-ice/
#Kleptocracy, Inc.
Under #Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
As the #StockMarkets crashed on Fri, April 4, Donald Trump left Washington, DC. He did not go to NY to consult w/ #WallStreet. He did not go to Dover, Delaware, to receive the bodies of 4 American servicemen, killed in an accident while serving in #Lithuania.
#USpol #GiftArticle
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-kleptocracy-autocracy-inc/682281/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxSls_LA6-_tGPrkDIGvHH2A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
It’s time to compel officials at #DHS & #State to testify on #KilmarAbregoGarcía
The courts can halt #Trump admin word games on a man wrongly sent to a Salvadoran prison.
Opinion by Mary B. McCord
Mary B. McCord is the executive director of Georgetown Law School’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy & Protection & a fmr acting assistant AG for #NationalSecurity & longtime federal prosecutor.
#law #immigration #Constitution #judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://wapo.st/42wB8oT
The #ConstitutionalCrisis Is Here
#SCOTUS told the #Trump admin to “facilitate” the return of #KilmarAbregoGarcia from #ElSalvador’s infamous #CECOT prison. So far, the admin is pretending to comply while refusing to do so.
By Adam Serwer
“This matter is no longer just about deportations or undocumented immigrants. The Trump administration's defiance of a Supreme Court order is a new step into presidential lawlessness.”
#law #tyranny #authoritarianism
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/bukele-trump-court-order/682432/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxQO_Y7atv5TLspDPHJWYWqY
"'We have a clinical definition of A.D.H.D. that is increasingly unanchored from what we’re finding in our science.' ... The preferred treatment for A.D.H.D. remains stimulant medications"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/magazine/adhd-medication-treatment-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4.TfKC.evgb_b6QSaQs&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#feditips You can see a lot of #giftArticle links at the hashtag, or you can read them on https://mastogizmos.com/gag.html
#giftArticle https://wapo.st/3RKSQQt it talks towards the end about a couple of efforts to declare this misuse of the social security death list and data structures illegal. Is there really any way these kinds of actions could lead to jailing the whole administration including the president, and a change in government in fewer than 4 years?
"For her part, Ms. Petrova is seeing the United States from a new and unsettling vantage point. “I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”"
Ozturk was not a leader in last year’s protests at Tufts and her arrest has drawn widespread condemnation, including from a pro-Israel group on campus and Tufts Republicans. #giftArticle #freedom #us
https://wapo.st/3ElWuNF
The title soft pedals what's happening, but still a good read
This is illegal as hell. I hope that legal migrants fight this, quickly. And wait for it: US citizens will 'accidentally' be put on this list, too. Maybe folks Musk doesn't like, or lawyers Trump can't exhort
#Twitter #defamation #influencers #lawsuits #GiftArticle
'Ms. Ellis filed a defamation lawsuit on Wednesday against Matt Wallace, an influencer on X with more than two million followers. Mr. Wallace was one of the more prominent people to spread the falsehood in a series of posts.'
42nd Street and Casablanca are my faves out of this list. 42nd Street, from 1933, predates strict Production Code enforcement, and has some wonderful racy lines that shock kids who thought all old movies were sweet and pure. #giftarticle
Flashback to a time of hope — September 2021 descalation in the Middle East with Biden. #giftArticle #uae #peace
‘Even Beijing is stressing an authoritarian version of “build back better” in recent statements stressing shared domestic prosperity. The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, though badly botched, reflected a growing global consensus against “endless wars,”’
The authors of the #Constitution separated powers for a reason.
…The #Republicans who lead #Congress have refused to use the power of the #LegislativeBranch to stop #Trump or moderate him, in this or almost any other matter. The Cabinet is composed of sycophants & loyalists who are willing to defend contradictory policies, even if doing so makes them look like fools. The courts haven’t decisively intervened yet either.
#law
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/dictatorships-trump-republicans/682387/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxY6mkr1cwhtnhGKPzVPmmqo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
We might as well just put our personal data on the dark web directly