🚨 “BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.” | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Hundreds join protest against #Hamas in northern #Gaza https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/hundreds-join-protest-against-hamas-in-northern-gaza?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
I would have had less of a problem with it if the people who oozed such concern for the Palestinian people that they wanted us to abandon Biden & Harris had turned their outrage to #Trump once he got elected. But they didn't. The outrage of the "Genocide Joe" crowd was all fake.
Judge Benjamin Settle, a George W. Bush appointee to the federal bench born in 1947, had this to say to the Trump administration tonight about its defense of its anti-trans military ban: https://www.lawdork.com/i/159798593/update-a-second-injunction
Extraordinary story. The African Nazi oligarch and Worm Brain Bob are ending clinical trials without warning, and without establishing safety protocols for safe termination, ending the active vs placebo treatments, etc. Tens of thousands of patients put needlessly at risk. Many will suffer injury or death.
russia sentences abducted and tortured Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant engineer to 18 years on grotesque charges
#Ukraine engineer Serhiy Potynh is the latest of many employees of the plant abducted tortured and then ‘tried’ on preposterous charges aimed at accusing Ukrainians of russia’s terrorism
Continuing the war on education. https://mastodon.social/@LindaCollins11/114234471987614950
In case you ever wondered why entertainment of any kind is so expensive and how that's sustainable: the top 10% of households account for more than half of all consumer spending in the United States
the markets know you're broke and they aren't after your business: they're sustaining themselves by targeting the wealthiest person out of 10
https://retailwire.com/discussion/wealthiest-us-households-spending/
🇨🇦 NEW: PM Carney's bombshell presser today:
He intends to totally reconfigure Canada's supply chains across business sectors.
He sent a direct message to US administration that Canada has already made our plans & we WILL move on without the US.
“He will be tough for the Americans to deal with”
“He’ll make mincemeat of the second-raters in the Trump team”
“He’s made it quite clear that #Canada is not going to put up with this BS.”
#cdnpoli #elxn45 #carney
https://newrepublic.com/post/193287/donald-trump-canada-prime-minister-break
20 Deaths A Day: Australia’s Ongoing Covid Toll.
https://codeblue.galencentre.org/2025/03/20-deaths-a-day-australias-ongoing-covid-toll/
Kelly, Gallego call for Hegseth to resign over Signal leak of attack plans https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032725_hegseth_signal/kelly-gallego-call-hegseth-resign-over-signal-leak-attack-plans/
Arizona’s senators called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to resign on Wednesday, accusing him of egregious carelessness for sharing plans of an impending attack in a chat group that included a journalist.
#Tucson #Arizona
#Republican Rep #EliseStefanik's nomination for US ambassador to the #UnitedNations [#UN “phew!”] is in jeopardy as #GOP pressure mounts for her to back away from the position.
…There are ongoing discussions about whether she should withdraw from consideration. Stefanik has not resigned from her seat in #Congress, & w/the narrow majority in the #House, #Republicans need all the votes they can muster.
#USpol
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elise-stefanik-nomination-un-ambassador-in-jeopardy/
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