a twice-weekly news round-up,
usually on Tuesdays and Saturdays
AND NOW THE NEWS
#515
MAY 3, 2025
Not to be Douggie Downer or anything, but America is fucked up...
GIVE US YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR, YOUR HUDDLED MASSES YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE, SO WE CAN IMPRISON THEM
Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
They know what’s coming. They’ve heard through the grapevine, or been told by sadistic guards, that they’re destined for Trump’s gulag in El Salvador, and there’s no getting out of that place alive.
Anyone who’s OK with that ought to be forced to trade places with those men.
Immigrants who came to the Texas Panhandle legally have been ordered to leave
ICE seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute
Trump says he could free Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, but won’t
ONLY THE RICH HAVE RIGHTS
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025
The real-world costs of eliminating Head Start
TO HELL WITH HEALTH AND SCIENCE
RFK Jr.’s HHS orders lab studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases to stop research
Kennedy orders search for new measles treatments instead of urging vaccination
US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously known. as hurricane season nears
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
Tennessee Governor signs law allowing doctors to deny care if it violates their ‘morals’
GOOD NEWS
Volunteer patrols are working to protect San Diego immigrant communities from ICE
Trump regime folds, reinstates funding illegally withheld from Maine
AND I SAY TO MYSELF, WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Israel has no duty to allow UN aid agency into Gaza, says US state department lawyer
After Canada, Trump could drag down conservatives in another election in Australia
Brazilian justice orders government to seize lands with proven illegal deforestation
THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT
The bureaucratic nightmares of being trans under Trump
How Trump’s America is normalizing violence against women
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DYSTOPIA
75% of America would be dead if not for Trump, says AG Bondi
‘Free Speech’ Republicans threatened billboard company to remove Democrats’ ads about Medicaid cuts
FBI reassigns agents who kneeled during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
Trump begs reporter to accept that doctored photo is real
EYE ON AI
Schools using AI emulation of Anne Frank that urges kids not to blame anyone for Holocaust
Australian radio uses AI DJ without acknowledging it
Dead composer makes new music — with a lab-grown brain
Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days
Your children’s children will die in our factories
Luigi Mangione musical set to debut next month. The entire run is already sold out.
What could be more American than trying to make a few bucks off Luigi Mangione? Very few bucks, though — the theater has 49 seats, and they’re staging five shows, so being “sold out” means a total of 245 tickets.
American police are out of control — 4/30
Ignoring the climate emergency — 4/29
The Lord works in mysterious ways — 5/2
And that’s the way it is,
and nothing will
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
5/3/2025
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, Lorem Ipsum Dolor, Sloth Unleashed, Toad’s Lily Pad, Voenix Rising, and anywhere else I’ve stolen links, illustrations, or inspiration.
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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