Chez Crapau

@ChezCrapau
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Science, #WFPB 🥗, 💉x6, cyclic peptide enthusiast and friend to amphibians, 🏳️‍🌈

“Participants on a Signal group chat discussion about a strike on Houthi targets in Yemen are facing a lawsuit over a request to turn over all conversations they had on the encrypted app over the last 3 mos.

1st filed since reporting indicating #Hegseth discussed the same strike in a Signal chat with his wife, brother and personal lawyer” #SignalGate

https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftrib.al%2FWwpy2ci

If this is really about South Africa's position on Gaza, Ireland will be treated similarly, or pressured in some other way.

Because Ireland is home to a number of US Big Tech facilities, I'm betting we will see economic pressure first related to technology.

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U.S. expels South African ambassador Ebrahim Rasool for criticizing Trump

The United States has expelled South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool for criticizing the Trump administration, further heightening tensions between the two countries.

MSNBC
Elon Musk’s Tesla reportedly halts Cybertruck deliveries as owners complain of metal sides falling off

It comes amid numerous instances of build quality issues with the Cybertruck and marks the latest problem plaguing the once promising vehicle.

Fortune

Judge Richard Sullivan, of the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, said in his lifetime 4 federal judges have been killed in retaliation for their work on the bench.

"This is not hypothetical," Sullivan, who leads a Judicial Conference panel on #security issues, told reporters in a news conference this week. The Judicial Conference is a body of federal judges that frames policies for courts. "It's real. It's happened before. We have to be certain that it doesn't happen again.”

#law #Trump

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Via Rupar:

Merkley: "I am even more hell no. You don't stop a bully by handing over your lunch money, and you don't stop a tyrant by giving him more power. That is exactly what this House Republican spending bill does."

Fixed it for you, NYT.

Via Anna Bower:

NEW: Judge Chutkan GRANTS a request for discovery in the case brought by state AGs alleging that the conduct of #Musk and DOGE violates the Appointments Clause.

The permitted discovery includes documents and interrogatories related to the scope of Musk/DOGE's authority.

Really interesting analysis of the patterns of the attacks on Science https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-purge-defund-how-trump-following?
Censor, purge, defund: how Trump is following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities

I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come

Diving into Data & Decision making