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The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media | Privacy International

Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:30:52 +0000

The U.S. Government intends to force visitors to submit their digital history and DNA as the price of entry. With this much data AI tools will likely be deployed to unlock details of your life for border and immigration agencies.

Tags: #privacy #tech #trump #uspolitics

The Zurich protocol

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:11:04 +0000

They lined up the editors first, zip tying their hands together and leading them into vans downstairs. Then they began to gather the rest of the journalists. Laptops were gathered from desks. The server room, such as it was in the wake of zero trust and enterprise cloud services, had its door kicked in, switches and rack servers ripped out of their frames. One IT support engineer objected and found a gun in his face, the safety off, its owner ready to make them into an example.

Tags: #fascism #internet #journalism #politics #tech #uspolitics #writing

So, we're still doing this, huh? - Portland Mercury

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:25:56 +0000

This whole "talk about politics on the internet" as if it makes a difference thing? We're still doing this? We think the things we say on the internet matter to literally anyone? We think if we craft the perfect anti-Trump argument, maybe one person will change their mind? I mean listen, go ahead. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it. I'm just saying it's worse than internet porn. Because at least with internet porn, you eventually achieve end goal with that.

Tags: #online #politics #social #uspolitics

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age • The Register

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:24:18 +0000

American doctrine here, as far as such a thing exists, is to reduce its fab yields to zero by using 2,000 lb kinetic contaminants via the B-2 bomber deposition process to turn them back into the sand from whence they came. This would destroy more than half the world's silicon supply and almost all of the latest circuits that drive the most active sectors in IT. It would take ten years to rebuild, assuming that this could even be done with the revenue taps turned off, the world economy in massive recession, and infrastructure scattered to the winds.

Tags: #taiwan #tech #uspolitics #war

Schrodinger's Democracy: Why Isn't Anyone Doing Anything?

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:01:36 +0000

And in the end, it’s impossible to convince people that it’s worth throwing away whatever we have left in this life on an abstract idea of “doing something” when the very leaders whose business is telling us how very serious this is, how awful the fascistic future is going to be, how deeply in danger we all are, won’t risk even a sliver of their comfort to do much of anything but continue talking about how brave they are to talk about how brave they are.

Tags: #grim #politics #protest #uspolitics

If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You | Defector

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:41:39 +0000

The background: the US is currently in the midst of its longest-ever federal government shutdown. Trump and the Republican Party will only agree to a deal to reopen the place if Democrats agree to drastic, inhumane budget cuts to Obamacare. Democrats said no, and so Trump said, OK, well we’ll just fuck everyone until you say yes.

Tags: #travel #trump #uspolitics

Zohran Mamdani knows how to win - Salon.com

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:26:03 +0000

Mamdani undeniably has a lot of personal charisma, but the concepts that elevated his campaign can be replicated across the country: Bold ideas that draw attention, and that ideally anger the very people your voters don’t like. Such campaigns should emphasize outreach over fundraising, while being assisted by social media methods that allow the candidates to circumvent the usual gatekeepers to get their message out. They should remember the invaluable lesson of treating conflict as an opportunity to get attention, rather than something to run away from due to the fear of alienating jumpy donors. The establishment may not like it, because it’s a threat to their personal power. But if Democrats want to get their groove back, it will have to be through tactics like this.

Tags: #mamdani #nyc #politics #uspolitics

The president has never understood that the White House (and government) aren’t his – pbump

Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:10:19 +0000

The metaphor of Trump crushing a portion of the White House as he aims bulldozers at democracy itself is almost too obvious to note. But it’s not just a symbolic parallel: both are rooted in the same indifference to what these American institutions mean to Americans and to America. Both are rooted in Trump wanting to treat those things as his own and now feeling empowered to do precisely that.

Tags: #america #politics #trump #uspolitics #whitehouse

Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is an Escalation in Every Way - The Atlantic

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:11:14 +0000

Of course, mocking the sitting president has long been a cornerstone of pretty much any late-night program throughout the medium’s history. Trump has been the butt of countless jokes over the years. What’s happened to Kimmel is an escalation in every way, a chilling precedent that could have further consequences if it isn’t swiftly undone. How Kimmel himself reacts to the situation will be important—he’s a major celebrity, a multi-time emcee of the Academy Awards who’s been hosting TV shows since the 1990s. There’s a chance network television could become even more reticent to broadcast anything remotely provocative, which in turn could also inspire blowback from their audiences.

Tags: #charliekirk #kimmel #speech #trump #tv #uspolitics

Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke | The Verge

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:20:12 +0000

Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.

Tags: #charliekirk #latenight #maga #television #tv #uspolitics

City of Portland will issue land use violation notice for ICE facility, triggering process to determine next steps at the site | Portland.gov

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 00:07:32 +0000

Following an investigation, the City of Portland will send a land use violation notice this Thursday for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Southwest Portland – launching a process to determine whether the site’s detention practices comply with the conditions of the site’s land use approval. Federal government records from a 10-month period show more than two dozen detention policy violations of the facility’s land use conditions of approval with the city, which does not allow detainees to be kept overnight or held for more than 12 hours. The notice also references a second violation related to boarded windows, which is not associated with the land use approval.

Tags: #ice #pdx #portland #uspolitics

Trump Executive Order Declares NASA Is Now a Spy Agency

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:10:03 +0000

The Trump administration issued an executive order late last month, quietly declaring that NASA will operate as a national intelligence and security agency going forward. The order stipulates that the agency will now "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence, investigative, or national security work." It's a major departure for the agency, which has historically focused on space exploration, as well as space and Earth sciences over its 67-year lifespan.

Tags: #space #trump #ugh #uspolitics