One of higher ed’s most LGBTQ-inclusive colleges is shutting down

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/education/hampshire-college-massachusetts-closes

"Trump also commuted the sentences of 14 people found guilty of organizing and leading the [#J6] attack, including former members of the #ProudBoys and #OathKeepers, which freed them from prison...
"Now,...Pirro has filed a motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia asking for the convictions to be tossed out completely...The motion cited Trump’s commutations but didn’t provide any other reasoning"

Daily Beast https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-jeanine-scrambles-kill-convictions-114620287.html
#USPolitics #TrumpRegime

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116409587609949458

#Ford needs to start selling, and #UAW to start making, the cars that drivers want to buy, not cars Ford wants to sell. Today, that means:
• safe (which means buttons and levers, not touchscreens)
• reliable (which means absence of features not necessary for one of these)
• efficient (which means not a wasteful giant box with terribly restricted driver vision)
• easy to repair (which means #rightToRepair)
• inexpensive to own and operate (which, for many, means a BEV car less expensive than the ICE Focus)
• nothing else (which, among other things, means no capacity for the car itself to connect to the Internet)

We don’t need an infotainment system: we need a sturdy place to mount a cellphone. We don’t need a built-in screen for kids: we can hang our own tablet off the back of a seat in a case with a strap. We don’t need driver distraction compensation features: we need the car itself to present no distraction. We don’t need a status symbol: we need to get us and our stuff from point A to B with minimal hassle.

Stop trying to persuade drivers to buy wasteful vehicles, and start offering drivers a means to avoid wasting their time and money.

Offer me a safe and reliable non-flashy and non-distracting EV sedan, with no needless bells or whistles, at a price which puts the payments below my current monthly cost of gas, and you’ve got a sale.

I'm writing a letter to my Congresswoman and I need a website to point her to to explain what #Linux and #FOSS are and why they need to be exempt from upcoming age-verification regulations.

Mastodon has an excellent website. I need something along those lines for Linux and FOSS. Help?

It looks like some Democrats are preparing to help the GOP reauthorize a little-known law that lets the government sidestep the Constitution and spy on US citizens.

Let’s be clear: Zero Democrats should vote to allow the regime to gobble up mass surveillance data to punish Trump’s enemies and round up immigrants. https://prospect.org/2026/04/13/congressional-black-caucus-support-spying-powers-blm-activists-fisa-702/