News: Hands Off Crowd Estimated At 2.3 Million By Alt National Parks
"Wow! Updated estimates now put turnout at 2.3 million — and we're still waiting on reports from coalition members in other areas, with some events yet to begin! If you're free, come out and join us. Over 1,400 events are planned across the country. People often ask what a coalition of 200,000 can do. The answer's simple — with all our free time (since a lot of us got fired), we're out here causing a lot of good trouble."
I can't get close enough to hear much because the crowd is simply too large. But the signs are terrific! #handsoff
When the GOP tariffs kick in, every retailer should post two prices on their goods, showing the price with and without the Republican/Trump tariffs.
Every week a guy with a podcast discovers stoicism and thinks he’s invented the concept of not freaking out
NYT - The DoJ prosecutor who questioned the Trump administration’s decision to deport a Maryland man to El Salvador is now on indefinite paid leave for a “failure to zealously advocate” for the department. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/us/politics/justice-dept-immigration-lawyer-leave.html?smid=url-share
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Later this month, #TechWontSaveUs turns five years old. It’s hard to believe I’ve been making the show for this long!
Over that time I’ve interviewed hundreds of guests to spread critical perspectives on tech far and wide — and I know it’s had an impact.
Read this. Spread it. Our nation does this in our name to a tourist--and much, much worse to immigrants without power or protection.
"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled & sent to an immigration detention centre"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre?CMP=share_btn_url
Pessimist me looks at all the photos/video of the excited and exercised folks attending the anti-Trump demos around the USA and is remembering the inexorable process by which the Biden administration tracked down and arrested the January 6 rioters.
If he isn't stopped FAST the same process will happen to today's demonstrators a year or two down the line, only with far less due process, far harsher sentences from the puppet courts, and no hope of a presidential pardon.
This layout on Bill Gates’ site, announcing the release of the MS BASIC source code, is cool as hell.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe. https://ssd.eff.org/module/attending-protest
It's not true that the four U.S. soldiers who recently died in Lithuania weren't honored by a sitting president. The problem is that wasn't the U.S. president who honored them. It was the President of Lithuania. Trump couldn't be bothered with it.
Read: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/trump-picks-golf-over-dead-american
5 April 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Malcsiner, was born in Szombatheley.
In July 1944 r. She was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
Hi, I wrote a piece trying to convince you that Doctor Who is the best show ever made. Please take a look. https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why #doctorwho
Featured story, from Mary Tuma: “These laws are torturing women, there’s no other way to put it. It is absolutely horrible having to try to help patients get care when the state has barred us from using our best medical judgment.”
https://www.texasobserver.org/republican-abortion-laws-texas-legislature-exceptions/
#Painting picks of the day:
@Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Free open source painting software
@Curator - Highlighting Fediverse artists
@WatercolourCurator - Highlighting Fediverse watercolours
@TheWeeOwl@mastodon.art & @TheWeeOwl@pixelfed.art - Charming paintings of nature
@artcameroon - Cameroonian artist, bright paintings with African imagery
@humanum - Delicate watercolours of trees & nature
@kristinagehrmann - Well-crafted digital paintings, usually historical subjects
1/8
Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Transmitter Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 20009.
All the pixels, none of the static, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4141766569
No comment, story speaks for itself: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.vra-.Gf5dDxLOptRd&smid=url-share [Gift link]
