AND NOW THE NEWS
#488
February 22, 2025
Xitter to ad agency: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else.
Trump says feds should ‘take over’ governance of DC
Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
Trump threatens to blow apart entire G7 to protect Putin
What is G7 anyway, but the face of global capitalism? Here’s Investopedia:
The Group of Seven is an intergovernmental organization made up of the world’s largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Government leaders of these countries meet periodically to address international economic and monetary issues, with each member taking over the presidency on a rotating basis…
Yeah, fuck your G7. All will be forgiven, though, if they have the balls to expel America and become the G6.
Fresh executive order targets sanctuary cities, federal aid for undocumented migrants
Seattle is a sanctuary city, but the mayor is a milquetoast Democrat who loves cops, and the city council is even worse. We’re going to roll like a billiard ball.
Emergency food, TB tests and HIV drugs: vital health aid remains frozen despite court ruling
Trump commands HHS to terminate unpaid advisory committee on Long COVID
ICE arrests immigrants coming to court for mandatory check-ins or hearings
Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Sending transgender inmates to prisons where they’ll be the wrong gender is simply a death sentence. This ruling is a stay of execution, but it’s not enough, not until it’s permanent.
Texas wants the NCAA to start ‘sex-screening’ its student athletes
Trump claims power to fire administrative law judges at will
Trump cuts protections for Haitians, putting them on track for deportation
‘DOGE’ now has access to the top US cybersecurity agency
DOGE’s only public ledger is riddled with mistakes
“Mistakes.” Screw the Times.
It’s easy to save billions in taxpayer funds when everything is made up
Pentagon schools suspend library books for ‘compliance review’ under Trump orders
(Finally, these are the details on the Julianne Moore thing from several days ago.)
“It’s not being looked at as a crazy thing”: Emboldened Republicans renew push to restrict divorce
Sepsis and maternal mortality go up in Texas after abortion ban
North Korea rights groups face collapse amid US funding halt
FTC investigates “tech censorship,” says it’s un-American and may be illegal
Not that it matters any more, but they don’t even understand what the First Amendment says said.
Justice Dept. to drop discrimination case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Observe the phenomenal shallowness and dishonesty of this article from the New York Times. This is either the 4th or fifth government agency that had been investigating Musk’s crookedness, to back down or be gutted now that Musk is in charge — yet the article doesn’t mention Musk’s ‘DOGE’ nor even hint at the recurring corruption.
QAnon wingnut Kash Patel takes charge at FBI
This ought to be entertaining. Patel hates the FBI.
What the news doesn’t have the courage to say: Trump fired all women and blacks among the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches.
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings
This provides negligible cost savings, but it’ll be a pain in the ass for a lot of people. Like much of what Trump’s doing, the only intent is to be a prick.
Xitter pays Trump $10M to settle case it had already won
… And still, not a whisper from Bill and Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Barack and Michelle Obama…
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF NON-TRUMP DYSTOPIA
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls … then ditches ditches mandatory wait time policy due to ‘feedback’
GOOD NEWS
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This is how it’s done.”
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
Mapquest has a tool that’ll let you rename the Gulf of Mexico
History will not treat those sleepwalking through this crisis well
The fascist fuckers are coming for Social Security next, so here are the facts
FROM MY LEMMY PAGE
And that’s the way it is,
and it sucks more and more
2/22/2025
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Special thanks to Linden Arden, Becky Jo, Joey Jo Jo emeritus, Jeff Meyer, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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