mvarioTed Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding | Texas floods 2025 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts
Doug Grinbergs
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Hike, bike, snowshoe, XC ski. iNaturalist, OpenStreetMap, Wikipedia. #VisionZero. #MedicareForAll: healthcare where and when you need, Uncle Sam pays the bills: USA Uncle Sam's #AmeriCare. I support Bernie, FDR Wallace progressive populist New Deal Dems. History interests incl. Boulder photographer Rocky Mountain Joe Sturtevant, Doc Susie, Ivy Baldwin, Lutie Stearns.
Michael MagrasEstablishment Democrats are scared. They know that democratic socialism is a winner once people finally hear the truth about what it is, and they're scared of candidates like Zohran Mamdani, AOC, and the like. They should be. Better yet, get with the program. #Politics #Democracy #Democrats #DemocraticSocialism #Socialism #ZohranMamdani #AOC #US #USpol #NewYork https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/nyregion/mamdani-cuomo-adams-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.M2Ji.xdXn-8XRHH6E&smid=url-share
ICE Said They Were Going to Louisiana — And Sent Them to Africa
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/08/ice-deportation-louisiana-south-sudan/
#StopMassDeportations #AbolishICE #ICEGestapo #OpposeTrumpsAmerika #GOPFourthReich #NoNazis #StopFascism #SaveDemocracy
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Trump2 tax law: $1 trillion less for Medicaid, $75 billion more for ICE
https://19thnews.org/2025/07/trump-big-beautiful-tax-law-numbers
* tax breaks for wealthy
* slashes Medicaid/food aid
* expands immigration enforcement
* threatens health care, nutrition, safety nets for millions
Spending $200 Billion on ICE Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-miller-big-beautiful-bill-200-billion-spending-increase
* covered federal law enforcement for 2 decades. Here are the things that worry me most
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 #Christofascism #SCOTUS #transgenocide
🏳️⚧️ #TransLivesMatter
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TechCrunchMastodon’s latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/mastodons-latest-update-readies-the-app-for-quote-posts-revamps-design/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
LibreOfficeMore good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
European News 🇪🇺Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
The US State Department published a memo urging Washington to back far-right parties in EU elections to build obedient “civilizational allies,” branding mainstream Europe as anti-democratic and making threats against governments that resist—effectively exporting Trump’s culture war to erode European sovereignty.
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department, writes Caroline de Gruyter.
Danielle ForéTwo standard URIs we need in [current year]:
1. Music. I should be able to share a platform agnostic link to a song that your music service can match and open correctly
2. Maps. This one should be like especially straightforward. Why can’t I send you a link from Apple Maps that opens in Google Maps or Open Street Map or whatever.
Let’s go standards body people. I know y’all are on Fedi
Edit: hey maybe check replies before replying. A ton of people have already mentioned geo:// 🙂