Mastodawn

Anything less than revolution is capitulation to these swine: "Wall Street’s biggest banks reaped almost $37bn in trading revenues in the first quarter of the year — their best performance in more than a decade — as Donald Trump’s administration unleashed a barrage of market-moving announcements."
#corruption #capitalism #RiggedMarkets #InsiderTrading #Trumpism #banks #finance
https://www.ft.com/content/d535bf1a-0bb3-4cfd-9f45-22ec805ae13b

Wall Street banks reap $37bn from Trump trading boom

Banks have gained from surge in volumes amid market gyrations

Financial Times

SPQR 3d ago

More than a constitutional crisis, this is a fundamentally tyrannical assertion of illegitimate power. To claim the authority to remand any American, citizen or otherwise, to a distant prison beyond the reach of any legal remedy is to violate centuries of Anglo-American legal tradition and shatter the very foundations of constitutional government in the United States.
#Trumpism #fascism #dictatorship #legal #constitution #collapse #USA #USpolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-court-order-constitution.html

Opinion | America, This Is an Old and Brutal Tyranny

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should not be in prison. Especially not in El Salvador.

The New York Times

SPQR 3d ago

Global News 3d ago

‘We do get it’: Operator of Langley seniors’ apartment with broken elevator responds
Residents of Langley's The Fir seniors' residence have been without a working elevator since January. Management says a new part still won't be ready for more than a month.
#housing #maintenance #senior #Langley #News #Brokenelevator
https://globalnews.ca/news/11137760/langley-seniors-apartment-management/

‘We do get it’: Operator of Langley seniors’ apartment with broken elevator responds

Residents of Langley's The Fir seniors' residence have been without a working elevator since January. Management says a new part still won't be ready for more than a month.

Global News

SPQR 3d ago

Nihilists, flat Earth kooks, and fascists can all unite behind the Orange Orangutan God.

"The scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal. About a fifth of the roughly 200 board members — who provide an independent, expert layer of review for the vast research enterprise within the NIH — were fired."
#NIH #science #collapse #USpolitics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/women-and-minorities-fired-nih-board-science/

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

The Washington Post

SPQR 4d ago

The Barbarian hordes feasting on the carcass of liberal democracy.

"NASA’s science budget could be cut nearly in half under an early version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, a move that would terminate billions of dollars’ worth of ongoing and future missions, according to two individuals with direct knowledge of the administration’s plan."
#science #NASA #USpolitics #research #astronomy #Space #aliens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/11/nasa-science-budget-cuts-trump/

Massive cuts to NASA science proposed in early White House budget plan

The preliminary version of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal to Congress, known as a “passback,” would cut the agency’s science budget funding nearly in half.

The Washington Post

SPQR 4d ago

No matter how the scientists revisited their readings, the signal stayed strong. They concluded that K2-18b may in fact harbor a tremendous supply of dimethyl sulfide in its atmosphere, thousands of times higher than the level found on Earth. This would suggest that its Hycean seas are brimming with life.
#science #biology #astronomy #exobiology #aliens #physics #chemistry #NASA #JPL
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/science/astronomy-exoplanets-habitable-k218b.html

Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

The New York Times

SPQR 4d ago

earthling 4d ago

A catalogue of potential Israeli crimes

Al Jazeera's I-Unit has collected hundreds of videos and images that implicate the Israeli military in potential war crimes as well as military conduct that does not adhere to the standards.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/16/israeli-soldiers-filmed-themselves-destroying-gaza-see-the-video-evidence

@palestine
#Gaza
#Israel
#WarCrimes

Israeli soldiers filmed themselves destroying Gaza: See the video evidence

Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit compiles evidence of potential Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

SPQR 5d ago

George Takei

🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽5d ago

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

SPQR 5d ago

Failed state watch.

"Three students were wounded in a shooting on Tuesday at a Dallas high school where, almost exactly a year ago, a student was shot in the leg by a classmate, the authorities said."
#Texas #GunViolence #MassShooting #USA #America #sociology #2A
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/dallas-school-shooting-wilmer-hutchins.html

4 Injured in Dallas School Shooting, Authorities Say

Three students were wounded by gunfire and a fourth also was injured when gunfire erupted at Wilmer-Hutchins High School on Tuesday afternoon, officials said.

The New York Times

SPQR 5d ago

Nullstring 🏴‍☠️5d ago

look in the fucking mirror, america.

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