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The Unraveling of the #DOJ

60 attys describe a year of #chaos & suspicion.

Trump’s 2nd term has brought a period of turmoil & controversy unlike any in the history of DOJ. #Trump & his appointees have blasted through the walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful #law enforcement agency from political #influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted #ethics rules & caused a breakdown of institutional culture.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/16/magazine/trump-justice-department-staff-attorneys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.VI2b.6ch67ZHzsXz8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#GiftArticle

The Unraveling of the #DOJ

60 attys describe a year of #chaos & suspicion.

Trump’s 2nd term has brought a period of turmoil & controversy unlike any in the history of DOJ. #Trump & his appointees have blasted through the walls designed to protect the nation’s most powerful #law enforcement agency from political #influence; they have directed the course of criminal investigations, openly flouted #ethics rules & caused a breakdown of institutional culture.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/16/magazine/trump-justice-department-staff-attorneys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.108.VI2b.6ch67ZHzsXz8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

🧠 New preprint by Codol et al. (2025): Brain-like #NeuralDynamics for #behavioral control develop through #ReinforcementLearning. They show that only #RL, not #SupervisedLearning, yields neural activity geometries & dynamics matching monkey #MotorCortex recordings. RL-trained #RNNs operate at the edge of #chaos, reproduce adaptive reorganization under #visuomotor rotation, and require realistic limb #biomechanics to achieve brain-like control.

🌍 https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.04.616712

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience

By sending me the picture of @pluralistic talk besides mine a friend told me the #halfnarp for #39C3 is out

Of cause I did not understand what he meant at first 😊 but after dropping the word "halfnarp" I did :)

Never heard of a halfnarp? You can participate in creating the #CCC 's #program by clicking

https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/

So: Please participate in #Chaos 😉

Ps: hold your thumbs that my talk on #fascism #ai & #resistance won't be parallel to #corydoctorow bc I wonna be there

By sending me the picture of @pluralistic talk besides mine a friend told me the #halfnarp for #39C3 is out

Of cause I did not understand what he meant at first 😊 but after dropping the word "halfnarp" I did :)

Never heard of a halfnarp? You can participate in creating the #CCC 's #program by clicking

https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/

So: Please participate in #Chaos 😉

Ps: hold your thumbs that my talk on #fascism #ai & #resistance won't be parallel to #corydoctorow bc I wonna be there

Hi 😊 Wir von https://chaos-stipendien.de haben eine Hand voll toller Studis die tolle Arbeit leisten.
Unser Team stammt aus dem #Chaos Computer Club Umfeld und hat in diesem Jahr ein Bedarfs-Mentoring eingeführt. Bedeutet Ansprechpartner*innen die bei Bedarf zu einem Thema in einem Umfang wie es ihnen gerade möglich ist (Leben geht immer vor Ehrenamt) beraten.

Wir suchen noch eine Person die bei Fragen zu Bürgergeld, Alg1 etc nach dem Studium unterstützen kann.
Kennt ihr jmd?

Hi 😊 Wir von https://chaos-stipendien.de haben eine Hand voll toller Studis die tolle Arbeit leisten.
Unser Team stammt aus dem #Chaos Computer Club Umfeld und hat in diesem Jahr ein Bedarfs-Mentoring eingeführt. Bedeutet Ansprechpartner*innen die bei Bedarf zu einem Thema in einem Umfang wie es ihnen gerade möglich ist (Leben geht immer vor Ehrenamt) beraten.

Wir suchen noch eine Person die bei Fragen zu Bürgergeld, Alg1 etc nach dem Studium unterstützen kann.
Kennt ihr jmd?

"Trump and MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us and directed the force of the state against firefighters, aid workers, civil servants, and children. ...

Today we are also witnessing a takeover by the meanest of us, and it’s not simply that we are beset by those of middling and low talent. Their baseness of character is the most important quality they possess."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/3

"The scene is galling—firefighters sitting on logs as federal agents prevent them from doing the crucial and courageous work of fighting Washington’s largest active wildfire. The treatment reported by the crew is enraging. ...

There is a fascist logic at play here. It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/2

"This past Wednesday, the Seattle Times reported that Customs and Border Patrol agents interrupted two crews of firefighters working to control the Bear Gulch wildfire. They lined them up, checked IDs, and ultimately arrested multiple men."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/1

~ Alan Elrod

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-what-an-immigration-raid-on-washington-firefighters-can-teach-us-about-maga-fascism/

"Trump’s strategy is always to overwhelm and even horrify people, in hopes that it will be too much. That they’ll decide to unplug because they just can’t deal with the constant deluge. Saturday, he 'retruthed' this image, which, as many commenters noted, appears to have him holding a 'Q+' sign in the palm of his hand. 'Nothing can stop what is coming.'”

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #chaos #destruction #fascism#Epstein #economy
/1

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/sunday-morning-wrap-up-cff

The image Trump posted showing him holding a cross in the palm of his hand points to a trope Christian rulers adopted from the Roman empire, an image called "globus cruciger" which "represents Christ's dominion over the world, literally held in the hand of a worthy earthly ruler."

Trump is deliberately pointing to himself as divinely appointed ruler of the world.

#Trump #chaos #destruction #fascism#Epstein #economy
/3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globus_cruciger

"It’s just the kind of scam Mr. Trump likes to run, reigniting the Q conspiracy theory that I’m sure we all fervently hoped we’d seen the last of after the 2020 election. Why would Trump do something like this? It’s to ignite controversy, of course. Anything that deflects from his failure to release the Epstein files after he promised he would, anything that allows him to take more and more power without the majority of the country becoming alarmed."

#Trump #chaos #fascism#Epstein
/2

"Trump’s strategy is always to overwhelm and even horrify people, in hopes that it will be too much. That they’ll decide to unplug because they just can’t deal with the constant deluge. Saturday, he 'retruthed' this image, which, as many commenters noted, appears to have him holding a 'Q+' sign in the palm of his hand. 'Nothing can stop what is coming.'”

~ Joyce Vance

#Trump #chaos #destruction #fascism#Epstein #economy
/1

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/sunday-morning-wrap-up-cff

"Trump and MAGA have turned the country over to the cruelest, most rapacious, and least honorable among us and directed the force of the state against firefighters, aid workers, civil servants, and children. ...

Today we are also witnessing a takeover by the meanest of us, and it’s not simply that we are beset by those of middling and low talent. Their baseness of character is the most important quality they possess."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/3

"The scene is galling—firefighters sitting on logs as federal agents prevent them from doing the crucial and courageous work of fighting Washington’s largest active wildfire. The treatment reported by the crew is enraging. ...

There is a fascist logic at play here. It’s not merely rule by the worst but an active assault on virtue wherever it exists."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/2

"This past Wednesday, the Seattle Times reported that Customs and Border Patrol agents interrupted two crews of firefighters working to control the Bear Gulch wildfire. They lined them up, checked IDs, and ultimately arrested multiple men."

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#CBP#ICE #chaos #destruction #fascism
/1

~ Alan Elrod

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/let-it-burn-what-an-immigration-raid-on-washington-firefighters-can-teach-us-about-maga-fascism/

"Every cancer patient should know the next round of life-saving drugs is being stolen from them by people in Washington who don’t want them developed. Every parent should know their children are more likely to become gravely ill—or even die.

Make Cancer Great Again."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump#RFKJr #CDC#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism #healthcare
/14

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-death-cult-in-washington

"Every cancer patient should know the next round of life-saving drugs is being stolen from them by people in Washington who don’t want them developed. Every parent should know their children are more likely to become gravely ill—or even die.

Make Cancer Great Again."

~ Elliot Kirschner

#Trump#RFKJr #CDC#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism #healthcare
/14

https://elliotkirschner.substack.com/p/the-death-cult-in-washington

"Social Security Administration chief information officer Charles Borges resigned in an email sent to select offices within the agency on Friday."

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism #SocialSecurity
/13

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/charles-borges-ssa-chief-data-officer-whistleblower-resigns-email