VeeWhat you may not know is that this was drawn 6 years go today by Marc Murphy. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.
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ProPublicaNEW: Inside Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections
When Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, the institutional guardrails of American democracy held.
But if faced with the same tests today, those barriers — and people who held the line — would largely be missing.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover
Ars TechnicaIBM folds to Trump anti-DEI push, admits no misconduct but pays $17M penalty
IBM is first firm to pay penalty under Trump's "Civil Rights Fraud Initiative."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/ibm-folds-to-trump-anti-dei-push-admits-no-misconduct-but-pays-17m-penalty/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
IBM is first firm to pay penalty under Trump's "Civil Rights Fraud Initiative."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/ibm-folds-to-trump-anti-dei-push-admits-no-misconduct-but-pays-17m-penalty/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Texas Observer“I’ve never seen anything like this, and the national security justification has never been invoked until last week.”
New from Justin Doud: The administration has a new "exemption" to endangered species protections that puts vulnerable wildlife at risk. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-god-squad-endangered-species-gulf-drilling/
#Trump #environment #ClimateChange #nature #wildlife #animals #politics #USpol #news
Scary AustinCartoonist Rob Rogers was fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2018 for the cartoon below. While he seems to have done all right for himself, it's just one episode of many showing the rank cowardice of the media that contributed to this disaster.
Andrea Junker 
So Trump deleted the photo depicting him as Jesus. — When asked about it, he will claim that it was posted by a staff member. However, he will neither name nor fire this alleged staff member, and 99.9% of MAGA influencers will simply act as if the whole thing never happened.
Kaiiak ;(Ж)"
Prof. Sam LawlerThis figure shows that SpaceX's million data center stupid idea would result in dozens of satellite streaks per exposure (from the FORS2 instrument at Paranal) over half the sky, even an hour after nautical twilight. The part of the sky where you could still do astronomy research would be extremely limited.
William Lindsey 
"The loss was especially bad news for JD Vance, who spent time in Hungary last week in an unprecedented move for an American leader, openly campaigning for the Putin-aligned Orbán. The Republican Party, of course, remained silent about that. Hopefully, Vance will campaign across the U.S. ahead of the midterm elections."
~ Joyce Vance
