Trump’s DOJ says they’re gang members, but these people had no trials or hearings, and the regime hasn’t even said who they are. They’re simply unknown people now vanished, sent to a forced labor camp in El Salvador — “a mega-prison where visitation, recreation and education are not allowed.”
This is banana republic stuff.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says “we’re going to keep doing it” after arrest of Columbia activist
AND NOW THE NEWS
#498
March 17, 2025
Trump’s latest weapon against critics: destroying their lawyers
Trump administration mulling new travel restrictions on citizens from dozens of countries
Why bother? Who’d want to come to America anyway?
SSA weighs axing payments to 170,000 beneficiaries
Musk’ϟ Starlink will be the White House’s internet provider
This is a colossal security risk — bigger than colossal. Musk will have access to everything the Trump regime does, and he’ll have an internet off-switch for the White House.
Trump tries to undo Biden pardons via social media proclamation
WAR ON SCIENCE AND SAFETY
Scientists say NIH officials told them to scrub mRNA references on grants
Heads up: mRNA is a near top element of promising vaccine and cancer research. Abandoning mRNA research will lead to a major brain drain from American science, a big boost for other countries, and you can forget any daydreams about a vaccine or cure for the next pandemic.
Memo to science: Don’t surrender — speak truth to power
NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
Trump halts Agent Orange cleanup, putting hundreds of thousands at risk for poisoning
‘DOGE’ cuts reach key nuclear scientists, bomb engineers and safety experts
LIFE IN THE REPUBLICAN REPUBLIC
Milwaukee-area woman abducted to Laos though she’s never been there, doesn’t speak the language
Man’s wife snatched at airport, after a domestic, not international flight
Doctor abducted despite H-1B visa and court order blocking abduction
Musk aims lies at Seattle-area Tesla protester
German tourists detained for weeks, then deported from US
German thru-hiker detained, deported, and banned from the US without a hearing
Texas midwife arrested for allegedly providing abortions amid state’s near-total ban
The head of Trump’s antisemitism task force just re-posted two antisemitic Xitter accounts
Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid
To these monstrous people, anything accomplished by someone who was not a straight white male — even war heroics — is ‘DEI’, worrisome for white people, and must be erased.
⯐ Pentagon webpage for Black Medal of Honor winner restored after outcry
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website
Navajo Code Talkers stupidly erased from military websites by Trump’s ‘DEI’ orders
Idaho teacher stands firm after she’s told to remove “Everyone is welcome here” signs
Texas police raid museum, seize five photographs from exhibit
AND ALSO
Trump executive order guts seven more federal agencies
US Institute of Peace says ‘DOGE’ has broken into its building
‘How gratifying’: Cheers in China as Trump dismantles Voice of America
‘Do you have communist links?’ US sends 36 questions to UN aid groups
French Euro-deputy asks for return of Statue of Liberty
The US is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders
OUR FRIENDS, THE DEMOCRATS
Democrats vow not to give up hopelessness
Chuck Schumer helps pull Democrats back from brink of courage
GOOD NEWS
Harvard Law School students pass referendum urging university to divest from Israel
Oy, such antisemitism!
EYE ON AI
Study finds that AI search engines are wrong an astounding proportion of the time
MY BROWSER HISTORY, MINUS THE PORN
Watching the destruction of DC’s Black Lives Matter street
Excerpt: The first word they chose to remove was Matter.
I’m not a big fan of Al Gore or, for that matter, Doonesbury, but…
Harvard Crimson asks Harvard to do the right thing
What the Department of Education actually does
FROM MY LEMMY PAGE
And that’s the way it is,
and nothing wil
meaningfully improve
until billionaires fear for their lives
3/17/2025
Logo illustration by Jeff Meyer. Tip ‘o the hat to the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Bleepity-Bleep, 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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