Funding bill let Democrats make a statement without creating a standoff.

That’s a very optimistic way of saying “lets Democrats make a feeble token gesture of mild disagreement while still going along with the fascist program.”

Who knew that real-life Big Brother would turn out to be as dreary and limp as Keir Starmer?

Tor gets better the more people run nodes. The main danger with Tor is that someone can control enough nodes to analyze traffic back to its source. The best insurance against that is loads of independently run nodes. I2p is less convenient than Tor but actually a little more secure against that kind of traffic analysis I believe.

Stop asking the Baileys, Chuck. They’re full of shit.

Yes, grab your meshtastic (or similar) gear now before you can’t any more.

OK. Here’s another:

Israeli fire kills 11, including journalists and children, Gaza medics say

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The NYT is still intent on portraying these as a sequence of reasoned policy positions, and not the aimless meanderings of dementia writ large on the world stage.

It’s because they’re privileged people who only notice government when it inconveniences them. Liberty for them means “I can do whatever I want and I am under no obligations to my country or anyone else.” Underneath the rhetoric, the motives are the same as for “small government” conservatives. They care only about what directly inconveniences them, not about principles or other people. Small government or freedom from government just means “don’t ask anything of me.”

More fascism. That’s a plus for “former” Hitler fan Nigel.

this is all assuming that Dems don’t immediately cave

That bit sounds implausible.

Michael Scott would make a better President than the orange fascist buffoon.

Is the US military by now really, as some want to imagine, populated by courageous conscience-torn patriots with a rock-solid allegiance to the constitution, prepared to take the huge personal risk of disobeying orders out of love for the laws and people of the USA? Or is it a bunch of young people who are bored until they see some action, who’d rather do as they’re told and get through in the hopes of better opportunities later, commanded by the remaining generals Trump has picked for their loyalty to him above the country? Probably somewhere in between, but some journalists’ hope that the military’s moral sense and commitment to their oaths will lead to mass disobedience of illegal orders seems highly optimistic. The US military has a long history of invasions and atrocities, and although it messes people up and they may struggle to live with what they have done afterwards, they still tend to do it.

https://archive.is/plLB2

It’s not clear how long Canada can fend off the far right, both internally and from the USA. I hope we can survive but there are too many damn Conservatives around.

Americans want all kinds of extreme and crazy things, like healthcare and education and housing and food and not being shot in the face. Unfortunately the best the government can do is shoot them in the face.

He might be better in being harder for MAGA cultists to like. But I’m not sure how much they care about being liked, when they’re talking about simply cancelling elections.

Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies. If you have investments, pull them out of the USA.

Unfortunately, we’re going to be feeling less keen to let Americans in while Trump is actively threatening our country.

Doesn’t sound fun to me.