Dr. Professor Fred Rococo

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@flexghost @BonehouseWasps Yeah. Where's a well-regulated militia when you need one, eh?
Ces dossiers sur lesquels les Américains ne suivent pas Donald Trump

Un sondage de l’Ifop paru ce mardi montre que les AmĂ©ricains sont une majoritĂ© Ă  rejeter la politique douaniĂšre de leur prĂ©sident, la sortie de l’Accord de Paris et la baisse du soutien amĂ©ricain Ă  l’Ukraine.

La Tribune

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported French Resistance to Nazi occupation.

Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she is never captured. She died in 2011.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #Histodons

The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made

https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/the-hertella-coffee-machine-mounted-on-a-volkswagen-dashboard-1959-the-most-european-car-accessory-ever-made.html

The Hertella Coffee Machine Mounted on a Volkswagen Dashboard (1959): The Most European Car Accessory Ever Made

Current auto-industry wisdom holds that no car without cup holders will sell in America. Though this also seems to have become increasingly true across the rest of the world, I like to imagine there still exists a country or two whose driving public holds fast against that particular design vulgarism.

Open Culture

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts
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Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #DOGE #CFPB #Consumer #Business #Ethics #Law

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts

Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

ProPublica
WHAT ON EARTH? Multiple family members of Kirill #Dmitriev, #Putin’s money man, have held American passports as recently as this year – and used them to enter #Ukraine and the #US, @katielivingstone writes đŸ‘‡đŸ» https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51708
Speaking freely online shouldn’t cost you your visa. But the federal government is using social media surveillance to target student visa holders living in the U.S. for online speech the administration disfavors. This is an alarming attack on digital 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...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

This is a must read.....
Dr. Cox-Richardson - “Tonight, I’m telling you what I’m willing to do...is fight—for our democracy, for our liberty, for the opportunity for all our people to live lives that are meaningful and free. And I see around me tonight a roomful of people who are ready to do the same.”
“So I have one question for all of you,” Pritzker said. “Are you ready for the fight?”

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2025?

April 28, 2025

There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their own vision for the United States.

Letters from an American

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MarketWatch - The S&P 500 posted its worst first-100-day performance for a new administration in 50+ years. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-first-100-days-in-office-are-worst-for-stock-market-in-half-a-century-adfc8a80?mod=home_lead