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#Journalists there’s a story bigger than #SantaFe here. ⬇️ Santa Fe is the capital of #NewMexico, a state critical to stopping Republican Fascism. Yet the City is unconstitutionally burdening mass protest of Trump and his ilk.
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@musicman Sorry, I've added it now.

Fallout From Iran Oil Shock Deliver Another Blow to World Economy

▶ Countries walloped by a breakdown of international trading order, war in Ukraine and chaotic U.S. policy are facing potentially lasting economic damage.

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@cdarwin kleptocracy and kakistocracy are conjoined twins. Billionaires, who now own most of mass media, hope to capitalize on the free pass for theft with kleptocracy, but they also are stuck with the stupidity and ignorance of kakistocracy.

The hardest thing for the media to wrap its hands around over the last year is that
⭐️Donald Trump has no plan
— for anything, ever.

Time and again, national pundits and the White House press corps invent a logical Donald Trump who sets, announces, and later “changes” real “policies” or “plans […]

I meant to put a bit of commentary in this repost.

Dr. Berg has been doing yeoman’s work on tracking NIH funding. As you can see here, funding for new scientific research has been severely reduced by The Regime so far this year.

This harms all of us.

“This is all being read inside of Iran as a war on the Iranian people.”
As oil prices threaten to spike to $200 a barrel amid Iran’s pressure campaign against the U.S. and its allies,
professor Narges Bajoghli returns to Democracy Now! with an update on the war on Iran and its place in the […]

Erin Rode: #California tribe takes back over 600 acres near Palm Springs in historic land return. Over 1,200 acres have been returned to the tribe since 2024.

#NativeAmerican #PalmSprings #AguaCaliente

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds. #Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for #coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS.

#fossilfiuels #ClimateChange […]

‘Invasive’ AI-led mass #surveillance in #Africa violating freedoms, warn experts. Countries across the continent have spent more than $2bn on Chinese tracking technology that is not ‘necessary or proportionate’, new report finds.

#AI #China #freedom […]

Jennifer Gollan: ‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy change.

#California #SFBay #Bayarea #Speak4 #fraud #cleanair #environment
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/air-district-policy-change-21955027.php

Not a Dime More for Trump’s Illegal War Funding the war means supporting it

Jennifer Rubin: Not a Dime More for tRump’s Illegal War: Funding the #war means supporting it.

#trump #Iran #TheContrarian #WarPowers
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/not-a-dime-more-for-trumps-illegal

Global Health After USAID Is Vulnerable and Volatile The new era of American investment trades sustainable care for short-term savings and narrow self-interest

Global Health After #USAID Is Vulnerable and Volatile. The new era of American investment trades sustainable care for short-term savings and narrow self-interest

#TheContrarian #health #HIV #TB #Malaria
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/global-health-after-usaid-is-vulnerable

Thousands of Americans with HIV at Risk of Losing Access to Lifesaving Care This moment demands new urgency and new solutions.

Jeffrey S. Crowley: Thousands of Americans with #HIV at Risk of Losing Access to Lifesaving Care. This moment demands new urgency and new solutions.

#healthcare #ADAP #AIDS #TheContrarian
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/thousands-of-americans-with-hiv-at

Professor Hannah Fry and Michael Stevens (vsauce) discuss human anatomy and topology. You're likely to enjoy it even if you're not into math and you'll almost certainly learn something.

The Evolution Of The Butthole - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgvKoGnBBd0&t=1s

#math #topology […]

Tessa McLean: This housing trend might make buying a home in California more affordable. Can house relocation become a real #housing tool in #California?

#affordability #Altadena #housing
https://www.sfgate.com/california/article/house-relocation-california-21945677.php

Exclusive: U.S. dismissed Ukraine deal for anti-Iran drone tech last year Snubbing Ukraine's offer ranks as one of the U.S.'s biggest tactical miscalculations before the war, officials say.

Of course, this comes after having BLOWN OFF Ukraine's pitch to give the US the drone techniques the US is no badly needing.

So: Ukraine had the most important cards, but Trump didn't want them. European allies were there to bail US out in emergency.

Next up, Danes?

www.axios.com/2026/03/10/u...

Varsha Bansal: #Amazon is determined to use #AI for everything – even when it slows down work. Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to #surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’ […]

Sophie Hurwitz: Meet the Americans withholding their federal income #tax to #protest against #tRump. Some US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid #ICE surges, the war with #Iran and more

#resistance
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/11/trump-income-tax-protest

Michael Sainato: Nearly 4,000 US meatpacking workers to strike at plant run by top #tRump donor. Workers at #JBS #USA to strike Monday in what will be the first #labor #strike in the meatpacking industry in decades

#union #meat […]

Jennifer Rubin: tRump's Delusions Come at Americans’ Expense. The mad king says our suffering is ‘worth it’

"In his broken brain, evidently, the war can be both 'complete' and 'just the beginning.'"

#trump #TheContrarian #Iran #incompetence #foreverwar […]

Apparently, the #future stinks…

Madilynne Medina: 7 #Disneyland employees hospitalized after 'unknown odor' in Tomorrowland

https://www.sfgate.com/disneyland/article/disneyland-employees-unknown-odor-22063896.php

Sam Mauhay-Moore: #tRump order prompts Redwood National and State Parks to flag 9 books for banning

"The flagged books are sold at visitor centers inside the park, according to the Outpost. All of the books are about Native American culture, with several concerning the histories of various […]

This week, tens of thousands of game developers and producers will once again gather in San Francisco,
as they have since 1988,
for the weeklong Game Developers Conference.

But this year’s show will be missing many international developers
who say they no longer feel comfortable traveling to […]

Margaret Sullivan: From scripts to sermons: is #AI going to be writing everything soon?

"…working journalists such as Phil Lewis, a Huffington Post editor who wrote on Twitter/X: 'An editor for a newspaper encouraging ‘removing writing from reporters’ workflow’ should just resign.'"

#religion […]

Alice Speri: ‘I wish I could push #ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of #AI. As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

#criticalthinking #education #universities […]

Leyland Cecco: Family of Tumbler Ridge shooting victim sues #OpenAI alleging it could have prevented attack. Eight people were killed by 18-year-old in #Canada, who had described violent scenarios involving guns to #ChatGPT

#law #AI #crime #murder #TumblerRidge #BC […]

Civil Servants on the Front Lines: DOI Targets for Removal from National Parks under EO14253/SO3431

"This data belongs to the American people, who need to know what is being done in their name. Donald #tRump, Russell Vought, Doug Burgum, and the rest of this corrupt administration are trying to […]

Kylie Mohr: Nude beach signs under federal review in tRump's latest national park upheaval.

"SFGATE reviewed a database with hundreds of materials that employees sent to National Park Service leadership over the summer. An anonymous group that described themselves as 'civil servants on the […]

Stephanie Kirchgaessner: #RFK Jr’s pick to review #Covid vaccines authored misleading research, experts say. #HHS says the #MIT professor is ‘more than qualified’ to serve on the agency’s vaccine advisory panel and calls ‘attacks’ on him ‘politically motivated’.

#antivax #vaccines […]