Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

Trump says he’d be willing to go to jail over gag order violations

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4647233-donald-trump-jail-gag-order-new-york-trial/

Billionaire #HarlanCrow Bought Property From #ClarenceThomas. The Justice Didn’t Disclose the Deal

The #transaction is the first known instance of #money flowing from Crow to the #SupremeCourt justice. The sale netted the #GOP #megadonor two vacant lots & the house where Thomas’ #mother was living (& still is).

by Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski
@ProPublica
#SCOTUS #SCOTUSstench
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-real-estate-scotus

Discussion in this thread is reminding me of the utility I wrote in Borland Pascal in 1990 which would quickly check a folder on the hard-drive against the contents of a (3.5" 1.44 MB) floppy, and copy newer files over older ones in both directions. I think it kept a log, too.

I used that so I had copies of all my libraries and apps at home, where I sometimes worked on them.

I'm a geek.
I carry a floppy.
💾
[cue theme to "Disknet", the popular weekly TV series about hard-boiled coders and their eternal fight against bugs]

(Motto of the HTTPD: "To Serve and Protect")

I think the mistake a lot of people make with so-called AI is in assuming it's an innovation analogous to like, the internet or automobiles, when really a better point of comparison would be DDT or radium toothpaste

"It is well-funded and not at all grassroots. They have signs, sites, and lawmakers who are bought and paid for to do their dirty work."

And its goal is to confuse voters and discourage them from signing petitions to place abortion on the ballot — because Republicans know they cannot win this fight fairly. So they intend to cheat and lie to try to win it and to impose their minority position about abortion on the majority by those means.

#abortion #Republicans
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Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely.

Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt.

The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

More States Are Allowing Child Support Payments to Reach #Children
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Since a ProPublica investigation found that states were seizing child support headed to #families as reimbursement for the mother having received welfare, at least six states have changed their policies. Others are debating doing the same.

https://www.propublica.org/article/more-states-allow-child-support-to-reach-children?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

SpacemiT MuseBook: #RISCV Laptop with Octa-core K1 ($300)

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/chinese-startup-launching-risc-v-laptop-for-devs-and-engineers-priced-at-around-dollar300

@polisci @ramsey @GottaLaff

The termination of the carried interest loophole was foiled by that traitor Sinema, using the filibuster.

Billionaires lined her pockets to buy her vote, a clear case of public corruption

https://newrepublic.com/article/167318/kyrsten-hedge-funds-inflation-reduction-act-carried-interest-tax-loophole

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kyrsten-sinema-delivers-gift-private-equity-democrats-big-agenda-bill-rcna42394

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/business/dealbook/sinema-tax-loophole-carried-interest.html

https://itep.org/kyrsten-sinema-fights-to-protect-tax-breaks-for-private-equity/

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/inflation-reduction-act-carried-interest-private-equity-kyrsten-sinema/

https://www.pionline.com/washington/senate-democrats-reintroduce-bill-targeting-carried-interest

Remember: Most billionaires are not “self-made.” They’re made via a combination of inherited wealth, government subsidies, tax loopholes, labor exploitation, and policy failures. Can we stop perpetuating a myth that blames wealth inequality on the choices of everyday Americans?

It appears that some universities are banning masks of any kind at sites where they are holding their graduation ceremony. This is ableist, exclusionary, and completely unacceptable.

(Photo: Dr. Mary Donegan)

#Pysanka - a traditional decorated egg - is one of the main Ukrainian #Easter symbols and an important feature of Ukrainian #culture heritage.

The word "pysanka" comes from the verb "pysaty", to write. A tradition of making pysanky dates back to the pre-Christian era

Watch (40 Second) Insta Reel Source: #Ukraine

Lightning struck the top of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala

Fuego is a stratovolcano in western Guatemala. Altitude above sea level - 3763 m.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Volcano

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9TVoZ78V1Ec&si=8A1GqZmu8aSHNVTs

Look, all I’m saying is really angry mediocre white guys strapped with AR-15s and enough magazines to survive an Uvalde classroom stormed statehouses all over the US in 2020 to protest masks, vaccines, and whatever other insult to their freedom they could find, and nobody opened fire, so I don’t really think the riot cops need to be guns out on college campuses.

No. 1 and No. 3 have hatched 2 minutes apart.

#chickens #hatching #incubuator #chicks #SwedishFlowerHens

Trump threatens to prosecute Bidens if he’s re-elected unless he gets immunity

Donald Trump has threatened that Joe Biden and his family could face multiple criminal prosecutions once he leaves office
unless the US supreme court awards Trump immunity in his own legal battles with the criminal justice system.

In a sweeping interview with Time magazine, Trump painted a startling picture of his second term, from how he would wield the justice department to hinting he may let states monitor pregnant women to enforce abortion laws.
Trump’s hush-money trial enters third week: Here’s what’s happened so far

Trump made the threat against the Biden family in an interview with Eric Cortellessa of Time, in which he shared the outlines of what the magazine called “an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/30/trump-second-term-abortion-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

... And it's back. #Hubble resumed science operations yesterday.

It's using all three gyroscopes, all of the instruments are online, and it's taking science observations. Huzzah!

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-pauses-science-due-to-gyro-issue/

Four Southern states are suing the Biden admin for the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ kids
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/04/four-southern-states-are-suing-the-biden-admin-for-the-right-to-discriminate-against-lgbtq-kids/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation