#Oregon sues #Trump admin over order to deploy #troops in #Portland

The #defense secretary issued a memo saying 200 members of the Oregon #NationalGuard would be activated, an action state leaders say is #unlawful.

#law #PosseComitatusAct #MilitaryState
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/28/trump-portland-national-guard/

Bridging Science to the Fediverse

The "fediverse" is the term for the federated social web, a collection of social media concepts (Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, Friendica, Bookwyrm, etc.) that can all talk to each other by virtue of a common protocol: ActivityPub. The technical details don't matter. What matters is that, in the fediverse, everyone can have a home without paying tribute to a private company or sacrificing their content (or eyeballs) to somebody's…

https://steve.cooleysekula.net/blog/2025/09/28/bridging-science-to-the-fediverse/

Everything You Need to Know About Hantaviruses
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hantaviruses?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health & Medicine @health-medicine-DiscoverMag

"Research from cities with established cycling infrastructure—like Copenhagen and Amsterdam—shows that increasing cycling actually reduces car traffic, easing congestion for everyone."

I'm always dumbfounded when people say this as if it's a surprise. What did they expect to happen when alternatives to single-passenger automobiles, the sole cause of traffic congestion & gridlock, are made accessible? Transit too, whom many rely on even when it hasn't been made reliable.

https://momentummag.com/ontarios-bike-lane-hogwash-lessons-on-what-cities-lose-by-giving-in-to-car-culture/

#DonaldTrump is entering his second term with vows to cut a vast array of #government services and a radical plan to do so. Rather than relying on his party’s control of #Congress to trim the budget, #Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to withhold funding from programs they dislike.

#News #Law #Politics #USPolitics #Impoundment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loC-UTFPizQ

Just going to leave this here, again. And it’s important to remember the U.S. isn’t the only country being targeted.

Sure wish I could say I don’t see these kinds of things being spread in the Fediverse, especially since the great Twitter migration, but I do see them each and every day.

Russian propaganda includes deepfakes and sham websites : NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/06/g-s1-2965/russia-propaganda-deepfakes-sham-websites-social-media-ukraine

Who would have thought that a hacker who goes by "Waifu" would be hoisted on the petard of his own misogyny? This is my most shocked face.

My dude, you could have just not threatened a woman who runs her own security research company.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/accused-kitchener-hacker-unmasked-after-threatening-woman-online/article_3501ea8b-1514-5524-8de6-f52e92c3e103.html