Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@qoto.org

“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power and hostile to the principles of liberty. An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of the heart, will be represented as mere pretense and artifice, the stale bait for popularity at the expense of the public good.“

#Federalist1 #uspol #politics #uspolitics

There are tornadoes in Iowa and Oklahoma right now that are so powerful they are debarking trees. Y'all be careful out there.

(JTA) - Israeli police arrest seven rabbis and activists, including Ayelet Waldman, a Jewish American author, as they tried to cross into the Gaza Strip with a symbolic delivery of food. https://www.jta.org/2024/04/26/israel/israeli-police-arrest-author-ayelet-waldman-and-6-others-in-gaza-border-protest

Horror upon horror, where are the Palestinian people supposed to live?

"Gaza’s 37M tonnes of bomb-filled debris could take 14 years to clear, says expert."

#IsraelHamasWar #WarCrimes #Ecocide #HumanRights

Honestly, the Supreme Court justices today sounded even more deranged and clueless than I even expected. They are just too worried about hypothetical future presidents to focus on the fact that we have a former president indicted for attempting to overthrow an election who is now running for reelection on an explicitly authoritarian, anti-democracy platform. 1/ #LawFedi

This one goes out to the one and only former First Lady hooker spy illegal immigrant mail order bride gold digger soft core porn star of all time!

Happy Birthday Melania!

“Melania’s Lament”

https://youtu.be/YTcQLCchdaU

@Kierkegaanks

who amongst us can claim not to have gone on month long cocaine binges raw dogging commercial sex workers and contacting incurable sexually transmitted diseases, then run for presidency because you can't take a joke.

https://www.noelcasler.com/news/full-disclosure-an-interview-with-noel-casler

@Skepticat

The Supreme Court is not immune from a Democratic House and Senate impeaching their asses!

#SCOTUS #SupremeCorruption #ImpeachTrumpAppointees #UnFuckTheCourt

What is the difference between a “militarized response” and a fascist beatdown?

Asking for a friend.

@Wearepatriots2 All ten female Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives voted against repeal of the 1864 abortion ban. Every last one of them should be kicked out of office in November.

I’ll just take this news of ShotSpotter being creepy police-state surveillance apparatus that operates outside of normal oversight mechanisms as an opportunity to remind everyone that is ShotSpotter is also a mechanism for whitewashing police bias with statistics by taking a map of where police put microphones and presenting it as a supposed map of where gun violence occurs. https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/112332381931147559

Jay Hartzell, President of the University of Texas at Austin, yesterday broke the single most important compact that academics have with each other and their institutions: do not intentionally hurt students.

The TX governor, for his own political purposes, sent state trooperst o campus before a student protest even began. Hartzell both let these outside law enforcement agencies in, and provided cover for the violence they inflicted on dozens of peaceful, unarmed UT students.

#UTAustin

USC went from cancelling their valedictorian’s commencement speech on a made up claim of safety, to canceling all commencement speakers, to canceling commencement altogether—all to prevent the student USC educated on genocide studies from applying her USC education at USC.😑

What a complete failure in leadership.

Via Emptywheel:

Here's a question Alito should be asked today:

If a female President got an abortion during her term, could Idaho arrest her? #SCOTUS

Donald J Trump is first of all

@festal @pluralistic I've been saying for a couple of years now, corporations are the inhuman competing species we've been afraid AI would become.

We are both dray animals and livestock to this predator and it's winning the evolutionary arms race against us.

Am I supposed to rage against Florence too? I don't know if I have time for that.

#DonaldTrump

Michigan Fake Elector Case

Trump, Giuliani, Meadows are unindicted co-conspirators in Michigan fake elector case

"Former President Donald Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani are unindicted co-conspirators in the Michigan attorney general's case against the state's so-called "fake electors" in the 2020 election, a state investigator revealed in court on Wednesday."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-giuliani-meadows-unindicted-conspirators-michigan-fake-elector/story?id=109578220