Aaron Buckner

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Something the Democrats will need to come to grips with is that a large slice of the electorate is motivated by culture war issues (aka racism, transphobia and other bigotry) so policy issues are secondary.

They’ve ignored this for a decade by misreading Obama’s wins but they need to adjust now.

Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄

Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.
https://wapo.st/4jfr8a9

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging

An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

The Washington Post

OMG the new ChatGPT Mac app is so wildly overreaching, requesting access to my system.

It is repeatedly asking for access to VS Code and the Terminal. Frightening.

Version 1.2025.084 (1743213073)

#Katie #Porter ( California's next governor) writes:

At a time when our president is trying to rewrite history and erase important voices, I’m so glad our state’s library system is making books more accessible than ever.

https://bsky.app/profile/katieporteroc.bsky.social/post/3llhmryvnzs2z

Katie Porter (@katieporteroc.bsky.social)

At a time when our president is trying to rewrite history and erase important voices, I’m so glad our state’s library system is making books more accessible than ever. https://www.library.ca.gov/uploads/2025/03/pressrelease-2025-03-26-californiasbookshelf.pdf

Bluesky Social
Hard to think of any analogy for that Duke chokejob except winning the election on inflation and then immediately raising the price of comsumer goods by 22%.

They will minimize it. Mock it. Insist there’s no point.

But we know.

Next round on #May1.

If everyone who protested today brings one more person…BOOM. 💥

#April5 #HandsOff #uspol #democracy #RMOL

@Techmeme so he lied again. Who’s counting.

Sources: a TikTok deal, which was largely finalized by Wednesday, was put on hold after China indicated it would the reject the deal over Trump's tariffs (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-deal-put-hold-after-china-indicated-it-would-reject-deal-over-tariffs-say-2025-04-04/
http://www.techmeme.com/250404/p29#a250404p29

It’s going to be awesome when everything costs 50% - 100% more, but people aren’t paid 50% - 100% more.
Tim Sweeney’s Praise for Microsoft

Link to: https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1908303468349063539

Daring Fireball