William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"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
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"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
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"Tens of millions of people are gonna die because of [RFKJr}.

I don’t know why they want that—why the MAGA want that, I’m not really sure. The only explanation I can think of is that Putin wants us sick and dead. If you can come up with a better explanation, please enlighten me."

~ Greg Olear

#Trump#RFKJr #Putin #CDC#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism #healthcare
/12

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-villains-a-review-video
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

"This moment cannot be seen in isolation. It reflects a broader 'pro-death' political movement that prizes ideology over evidence, power over public health, and partisan gain over human life."

~Danielle Moodie

#Trump#RFKJr #CDC#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism #healthcare
/11

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/rfk-leads-the-gops-pro-death-march
William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

"I don’t think Trump’s vulgarity is irrelevant to understanding what he’s doing to America and the world. One of the best explanations I’ve read of who Trump is, and implicit predictions of what he would do, was a 2017 discussion of his design tastes titled 'Dictator Chic.' ... Trump has vandalized the world trading system as casually as he has paved over the Rose Garden."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump#FederalGovernment #chaos #destruction #fascism
/10

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/decline-and-fall-of-the-american
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump also wrote that he wanted to get rid of voting machines, which he described as inaccurate & expensive [wrong. Far more accurate than hand counting]. He claimed, incorrectly, that the US was “the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.”
His post did not elaborate on what the #ExecutiveOrder would say. It was also not immediately clear whether the Trump admin could stop the use of mail-in voting, which is largely entrusted to individual states.

#law#ElectionLaw #access#BigLie
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
#Trump argued in his post that #states were “merely an agent’ for the #FederalGovernment in counting & tabulating the votes.” [he is so unbelievably ignorant]

“They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them,” Trump said. [whatever happened to the #StatesRights party?]

#law#ElectionLaw#Constitution #access #seniors #military #students #disabled#VoterSuppression#BigLie #idiocracy

Kathy Reid
Kathy Reid boosted
ABC Feeds
@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Voice actors are already losing work to an AI disruption expected to reach everything
By Romy Stephens

The Productivity Commission says artificial intelligence could offer a $116 billion shot in the arm to Australia's economy. But for people like voice actor Colin Cassidy, that means a disruption to their daily work.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/how-artificial-intelligence-could-threaten-jobs/105642364

#Technology#FederalGovernment#FederalParliament#ComputerScience#PerformingArts#RomyStephens
ABC Feeds
@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Voice actors are already losing work to an AI disruption expected to reach everything
By Romy Stephens

The Productivity Commission says artificial intelligence could offer a $116 billion shot in the arm to Australia's economy. But for people like voice actor Colin Cassidy, that means a disruption to their daily work.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/how-artificial-intelligence-could-threaten-jobs/105642364

#Technology#FederalGovernment#FederalParliament#ComputerScience#PerformingArts#RomyStephens
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#Trump threatens to take over #WashingtonDC governance

Trump said on Tues the #FederalGovernment could take control of #Washington, #DC if the local govt "doesn't get its act together," with his comments coming in a social media post complaining about crime in the #US capital.

"The Law in DC must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, & lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14," Trump posted.

#law #democracy#Constitution#ArticleOne#HomeRuleAct
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-take-over-washington-dcs-governance-2025-08-05/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#Trump threatens to take over #WashingtonDC governance

Trump said on Tues the #FederalGovernment could take control of #Washington, #DC if the local govt "doesn't get its act together," with his comments coming in a social media post complaining about crime in the #US capital.

"The Law in DC must be changed to prosecute these 'minors' as adults, & lock them up for a long time, starting at age 14," Trump posted.

#law #democracy#Constitution#ArticleOne#HomeRuleAct
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-take-over-washington-dcs-governance-2025-08-05/
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

The #Trump#DOJ requested that a #Louisville police officer #convicted in connection with a raid that resulted in #BreonnaTaylor’s death serve just one day in prison. In an unusual sentencing memo, the #FederalGovernment suggested to a #judge that the #Biden admin should not have prosecuted the officer on #CivilRights charges.

#law#BlackLivesMatter#BLM#WhiteSupremacy #racism
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

…The NYT has learned new details about how the operation came together after the election, mapped out in a series of closely held meetings in Palm Beach, FL, & through early intelligence-gathering efforts in Washington.
Seasoned conservative operatives like #StephenMiller & #RussVought helped educate #Musk about the workings of the bureaucracy. Soon, he stumbled on an opening. It was a little-known unit with reach across the government: the US Digital Service [#USDS]…

#law#Trump#DOGE#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago
#Musk & his advisers — including Steve Davis, a cost cutter who worked w/him at X & other companies — did not want to create a commission, as past budget hawks had done. They wanted direct, insider #access to government systems. They realized they could use the #USDS office, whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix #technology problems, to quickly penetrate the #FederalGovernment — & then decipher how to break it apart.

#law #regulation#Technocracy #kleptocracy#Trump#DOGE#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

…#Musk held forth on the patio on a variety of topics: his visit to the US–Mexico border; the war in Ukraine; his frustrations w/govt #regulations hindering his rocket company, #SpaceX; & Ramaswamy’s highest priority, the dismantling of the #FederalBureaucracy.

Musk made clear that he saw the gutting of that bureaucracy as primarily a #technology challenge. He told the party of around 20 that when he overhauled Twitter,…the key was gaining access to the…servers.

#law#Technocracy#Trump#USpol
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

Wouldn’t it be great, #Musk offered, if he had #access to the #computers of the #FederalGovernment?

Just give him the passwords, he said jocularly, & he would make the govt fit & trim.

What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a #radical takeover of the #FederalBureaucracy. It was driven with a frenetic focus by Musk, who channeled his #libertarian impulses & resentment of #regulatory #oversight of his vast #business holdings into a singular position of #influence.

#law#Trump