Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

New in PN: Costco demands a refund from Trump

"One of the biggest importers in the country has entered the fray, at the risk of finding itself crosswise with the Trump administration. This is what happens when you let the president break the law for a little while." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/costco-trump-tariffs-lawsuit

How Employers and Labor Groups Are Trying to Protect Workers From ICE https://capitalandmain.com/how-employers-and-labor-groups-are-trying-to-protect-workers-from-ice

Old technical folks tend to be ornery and opinionated also about stuff they do not actually understand.

Don't take it to heart.

From Lake County Public Library last year: https://lakecountylibrary.tumblr.com/post/769064384357089280/library-wrapped

Welp I think today is my one year unemployversary, or maybe it was yesterday, I’m fuzzy on the exact date. So if anyone has work for a DevOps engineer with 20+ years of Linux systems admin experience, a deep knowledge of internet protocols, applications, automations, software development cycles, containerization, virtual machines and more, hit me up! My money situation is not getting better over time, and I have a family to feed 😬 I’m in the US, Detroit Michigan area, and looking for remote opportunities anywhere or I guess local stuff if it’s available.

Thanks in advance!

Goodnight resisters everywhere. Don't give up the ship

You know. When I watch that video, I can almost hear the Nazi dude bros cackling at the part where she screams, "this is unfair!" To them that is going to be the punchline, that an uppity brown woman thought she got to demand fairness from white men. And got put in her place.

If you have to scream out in the streets affirmations that you are an #American citizen, while masked agents of the state with lethal weapons and qualified immunity detain you—assaulting you in the process—the #BodyPolitic has already bent the knee in its mind.

Some (agitated) thoughts about this: 1. The incident may be over. She may have been let go. But the trauma of this incident is forever. 2. ICE looks to be fully assisted by local law enforcement. ICE couldn’t perpetrate this amount of evil without being fully assisted by local law enforcement. 1/

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pwsjq3xnal6auzgeqho4ecw7/post/3m73xre6vuc24

Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”

Of all the guys not worth it, Pete Hegseth is the MOST not worth it!

Dear Troops: Please Don’t Go to Jail for Pete Hegseth
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/dear-troops-jail-for-pete-hegseth.html

#FuckPeteHegseth #FireHegseth #PeteHegseth #RepublicansOwnThis #Trumpkakistocracy #GOPIdiot #GOPRapist #GOPDrunkard #WhiteSupremacist #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Nancy Mace is reportedly considering retiring and that really sucks. Mainly because I was idly thinking about trying to run against her next year and I promise you I could have made her absolutely lose her shit on live TV and that's about the only way I'd ever be elected.

I sometimes wonder if urban planners ever think about how young people between the ages of about 10 and 17 who have nowhere interesting to go and nothing interesting to do will be spending the most formative years of their lives desperate to move literally anywhere else as soon as they can, and the ones who can muster the resources to do that will never come back.

European leaders wanted to meet with the trump administration/ rubio / witkoff team who refused stop over in #Europe and flew from russia back to the US.

Trump team isn’t interested in meeting with allies, because allies don't pay the Trump family. It's all very simple.

Putin is not only offering the Trump family billions in deals, but joint propaganda projects to make Trump look good. Trump is Putin's dog and will lick it all up like a good boy.

#Ukraine #EuropeanUnion #eu #uk #usa #news

Feeling watched ?

#cats #猫 #chats #caturday #FediCats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon

Just peeked outside to check for auroras, which are supposed to be pretty good right now. But between the nearly full moon, the high clouds, and the -25C windchill, I am ok with not trying too hard tonight...

Ben Wallace: russia allocated $1.8B in 2024 to misinformation campaigns in the West, aiming to undermine support for #Ukraine

They haven't been successful. We should take stock of where terrorist russia is: not as strong as they pretend.

#europeanunion #eu #uk #europe #usa #news