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Government social media surveillance threatens free speech and privacy. Adding AI only compounds the harms. This makes the Trump administration’s "Catch and Revoke" program especially dangerous to our constitutional rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trump-administrations-targeting-international-students-jeopardizes-free-speech-and
Trump Administration’s Targeting of International Students Jeopardizes Free Speech and Privacy Online
The federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the United States for online speech the Trump administration disfavors in an effort to revoke their visas. This new program, called “Catch and Revoke,” appears to be a cross-agency collaboration...
PLEASE REPOST: Top insurer warns we're on track for 3°C (5.4F) warming… | Joe Romm, Ph.D.
PLEASE REPOST: Top insurer warns we're on track for 3°C (5.4F) warming where insurance and finance 'cease to function' and we can't 'adapt.' But the solutions are here. A Guardian story has elevated a must-read LinkedIn post by a top insurer who is warning that "we are fast approaching temperature levels—1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C—where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for" risks like floods, fires, extreme heat and other extreme events. Günther Thallinger, a board member of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurers, explains, "The math breaks down: the premiums required exceed what people or companies can pay. This is already happening. Entire regions are becoming uninsurable" But "if insurance is no longer available, other financial services become unavailable too. A house that cannot be insured cannot be mortgaged. No bank will issue loans for uninsurable property. Credit markets freeze. This is a climate-induced credit crunch." It doesn't just hit housing but also "infrastructure, transportation, agriculture, and industry. The economic value of entire regions—coastal, arid, wildfire-prone—will begin to vanish from financial ledgers. Markets will reprice, rapidly and brutally. This is what a climate-driven market failure looks like." He slams "the false comfort of 'adaptation'," since many risks cannot be adapted to "and as temperatures continue to rise, adaptation itself becomes economically unviable." https://lnkd.in/ecCvv_Hk He warns "Once we reach 3°C of warming, the situation locks in. Atmospheric energy at this level will persist for 100+ years due to carbon cycle inertia and the absence of scalable industrial carbon removal technologies. There is no known pathway to return to pre-2°C conditions." And we are headed towards 3C warming since, as I've noted many times, none of the top 10 GHG-emitting countries have policies and actions in place to keep warming below 3C. But at 3C, "risk cannot be transferred (no insurance), risk cannot be absorbed (no public capacity), and risk cannot be adapted to (physical limits exceeded). That means no more mortgages, no new real estate development, no long-term investment, no financial stability. The financial sector as we know it ceases to function." He does note "The good news: we already have the technologies to switch from fossil combustion to zero-emission energy. Solar, wind, battery storage, ... electrification, grid modernization, demand-side efficiency—these are mature and scalable solutions." He included "green hydrogen" but I put in ellipsis since it's a dead end. See >>BOMBSHELL: "Just 1% of ALL projected green hydrogen production has a binding offtake agreement" with $500 to $1,250 per ton of CO2 abatement costs<< https://lnkd.in/egDYXGqg?
Judge blocks dismantling of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, orders employees reinstated - ABC News https://apple.news/AakrkVaasSMO_-EVzKHAcTg
This is kind of a big deal
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Read this, if nothing else this week.
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They played you for a fool. No one’s going to come out and say it… | Hussein Hallak | 2,586 comments
They played you for a fool. No one’s going to come out and say it plainly, so I will. The scandal isn’t that they used an unsecured app. The scandal is that YOU trusted they were the best, the brightest. That they had your back. That they were restoring competence, protecting freedom, defending the country. But these aren’t competent people. These are the dumbest, most self-serving cowards to ever hold power in a modern democracy. They’re not just betting you’re dumb, they’re betting you’ll stay that way. They handed war plans to a journalist by accident!!! Real-time details of airstrikes!!!! I'm running out of emojis and exclamation points here!!!!! Then they denied it. Lied. Blamed someone else. Blamed the journalist. Blamed the press. Blamed the Atlantic. And now they want you to believe it wasn’t even a big deal. But it was. It is. This wasn’t a mistake by a staffer. This was the top national security officials of a U.S. administration exposing American soldiers, leaking classified data, and celebrating death in emoji-laden chats like it was fantasy football. And instead of being fired, they’re being protected. Why? Because this regime isn’t run by patriots. It’s run by grifters in suits, backed by billionaires, feeding you propaganda while they siphon off power, destroy institutions, and call it "efficiency." They’re firing veterans and career public servants while keeping clowns who violate your trust. They think you’ll swallow the next lie, and the next one, and the one after that. That you’ll argue over flags and pronouns while they steal everything not nailed to the floor. They’re claiming to save taxpayer money while giving billionaires tax cuts and private companies control over public assets, your assets. They are not making government more efficient. They are looting it. They are not protecting your future. They are playing roulette with it. They’re not smarter than you. Not better. Just more shameless. So stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. Stop thinking this is about left or right. This is about the powerful believing they’re untouchable. Because the real scandal isn’t their mistake. It’s that they looked you in the eye, did it anyway, expected you to shut up, say thank you, and go about binging your next Netflix show. WAKE UP. SPEAK UP. OR YOU ARE THE PROBLEM. | 2,586 comments on LinkedIn
Saadia Mirza on Instagram: "This week, The Atlantic published a stunning article on a group Signal chat that included the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military and intelligence community, coordinating and executing a bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic and author of the article, was tagged into the chat by national security adviser Michael Waltz, a mistake that afforded the EIC a front-row seat to officials as high up as the secretary of defense and the vice president debating the decision. Once the attack plans for Yemen were revealed, Goldberg chose to remove himself from the group chat, and before reversing course after public backlash, he censored parts of the conversation on national-security grounds. In a phone interview Tuesday with NBC News, President Trump appeared to defend his national security adviser, telling the press, “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” adding that “it was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.” Whether Waltz has fully learned his lesson seems to be more of an open question, especially given the Prospect’s discovery that his personal Venmo account remains public, with some 300 “friends” actively listed on his profile. And while Goldberg doesn’t appear in Waltz’s Venmo contact list, several other journalists do, according to a Prospect review. Approximately ten minutes after requesting comment, Michael Waltz’s account disappeared from Venmo. Wired was the first to report the news. In a statement, National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt said, “NSA Waltz was previously a U.S. Congressman and Fox News contributor. He has relationships with people who work in media. There should be nothing surprising here.” Like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose Venmo account I reported on several weeks ago, Waltz’s account was never set to private, showing hundreds of names who are likely in his phone as contacts, some of whom he may or may not have exchanged cash transfers with. Unlike Goldberg, we are not going to redact and revise this publicly available information. From @americanprospect"
3,194 likes, 64 comments - saadia___m on March 26, 2025: "This week, The Atlantic published a stunning article on a group Signal chat that included the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military and intelligence community, coordinating and executing a bombing campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor in chief of The Atlantic and author of the article, was tagged into the chat by national security adviser Michael Waltz, a mistake that afforded the EIC a front-row seat to officials as high up as the secretary of defense and the vice president debating the decision. Once the attack plans for Yemen were revealed, Goldberg chose to remove himself from the group chat, and before reversing course after public backlash, he censored parts of the conversation on national-security grounds. In a phone interview Tuesday with NBC News, President Trump appeared to defend his national security adviser, telling the press, “Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man,” adding that “it was one of Michael’s people on the phone. A staffer had his number on there.” Whether Waltz has fully learned his lesson seems to be more of an open question, especially given the Prospect’s discovery that his personal Venmo account remains public, with some 300 “friends” actively listed on his profile. And while Goldberg doesn’t appear in Waltz’s Venmo contact list, several other journalists do, according to a Prospect review. Approximately ten minutes after requesting comment, Michael Waltz’s account disappeared from Venmo. Wired was the first to report the news. In a statement, National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt said, “NSA Waltz was previously a U.S. Congressman and Fox News contributor. He has relationships with people who work in media. There should be nothing surprising here.” Like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose Venmo account I reported on several weeks ago, Waltz’s account was never set to private, showing hundreds of names who are likely in his phone as contacts, some of whom he may or may not have exchanged cash transfers with. Unlike Goldberg, we are not going to redact and revise this publicly available information. From @americanprospect".
This is a big deal…
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#dictatorship
Billionaire Carlos Slim Reportedly Cancels $22 Billion in Starlink Orders Due to Elon Musk's Outburst - CleanTechnica
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