“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Trump exploits antisemitism as a political weapon.

In 2016, for instance, he tweeted an image that featured Hillary Clinton backgrounded by hundred-dollar bills together with a Jewish star.

His campaign ran an ad that went after disloyal “globalist” billionaires,
illustrated, coincidentally […]

If we ever get out of this nightmare we'll know because being an ICE officer or in ICE leadership will be just as de facto prosecutable as having served in the SS, and their prosecution will seem in retrospect just as necessary, and for many of the same reasons.

#giftarticle

“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face govt #retribution, they no longer live in a full #democracy.

“By that measure, #america has crossed the line into competitive #authoritarianism. The #trump […]

Lincoln Project tries to scare the bottom tier carrying out hate policies, but nothing happened to those who kidnapped thousands of children from their parents in the Trump I regime. Child psychologists called it torture. But no one was held accountable. Biden admin did nothing. Hollow threat.

Was talking with a grad student, the project they were working on (not their idea) was using ML to solve X (in this case, estimate rigid body motion in some chaotic regime).

My observation is "why not just do finite element analysis and do it on the GPU?"

"There is no paper in that"

wise piece talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/into-...

Ding!

Via Max Berger:

The way these people talk about Abrego Garcia, it’s as if he sexually assaulted dozens of women, stole classified materials about nuclear secrets, colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, extorted state election officials & incited an insurrection to violently […]

FYI, if you happen to be a scientist in a large English speaking country with uncertain financing for your future career, my employer, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) is looking for grad students, postdocs and PIs.

It's a research institute, so no undergraduates, and the […]

It is INSANE that these children are who #trump has licensed to reshape (destroy) the #unitedstates #federalgovernment.

#fauxnews' Jesse Watters interviewed #doge members at their nightly meeting. The meeting was led by #elonmusk, who the #whitehouse & the #doj has […]

[Original post on masto.ai]

Federal Court of Appeals for DC (with two Trump appointees) leaves in place District Court preliminary injunction compelling USAGM to return VOA staff to their jobs & resume operations, but temporarily blocks the part of the order that operating funds be immediately reinstated for RFE/RL, RFA, MBN.

Orders to Investigate #columbia #protesters Raised Alarms in #doj

Behind the scenes, a top department official pressed employees to gather a #list of #activists & investigate them, people familiar with the matter said.

#law #ethics #constitution #freespeech #freedomofassembly #righttoprotest […]

The #trump admin today, May 1, asked #scotus to allow it to strip temporary protected status #tpsref="https://masto.ai/tags/TPS" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">#TPS] from >300,000 #venezuelan migrants, a move that would clear the way for their #deportation. The #doj asked the justices to put on hold US District Judge Edward Chen's order that halted #dhs Secy […]

Spooked By #tradewars, #trump Officials Hoard Supplies: ‘IT WOULD BE STUPID NOT TO!’

Some Trump admin officials are stockpiling toilet paper & food before Trump’s #tariffs cause prices to skyrocket

By ASAWIN SUEBSAENG

#us #economy #inflation #recession #trumpcession […]

A federal judge has permanently barred the #trump admin from using the #alienenemiesact, an 18th century wartime #law, to deport #venezuelans it has deemed to be *criminals* from the judge’s home district in southern #texas to a prison in #elsalvador.
The decision by the judge, Fernando […]

The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

Affirmative action has created a Black elite, but also nurtured feelings of disfranchisement among some white South Africans.

Less than two-thirds of white South Africans agreed that apartheid deprived black people of their […]

RESEARCH FACILITY within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities […]

WSJ - Tesla's board has opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk. https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-musk-ceo-search-board-0ce61af9?st=fzBa6i

DOGE Cuts Off Funds to Congressionally Mandated National Security Centers

The Department of Homeland Security-affiliated centers were housed at universities and researched everything from domestic terrorism threats and border security to weather emergencies […]

URGENT ACTION today in Boston:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJEgcFYOs9p/

🚨URGENT COURT SUPPORT🚨

A beloved community elder, Ruth, has been detained at Boston Logan Airport.

Ruth is a lawful permanent resident, a grandmother, a lifelong community advocate, and a member of the Worcester […]

I love this. Democracy Forward, one of the major legal forces using the courts to check Trump and his lackeys, is hiring lawyers formerly at CFPB and DoJ. These attorneys are experts on the laws Trump and the rest are violating - perfect litigators for the mission […]

@himself.bsky.social wrote this sketch of the political economy of artificial intelligence ("complex information processing systems") a year ago and I think it really holds up

lots of really fantastic systems thinking on his blog:
www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...

Holy hell.

"2 members of #Musk's DOGE have been given accts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons..

Luke Farritor, 23-year-old former SpaceX intern & Adam Ramada, Miami-based venture capitalist, have had accts on the computer systems for at […]