I am now a monthly ACLU donor. I haven't slept well since November. Society is much better, safer and more prosperous with civil rights, justice for everyone, inclusiveness, separation of religion and state, and public education. Without those, wealth and life quality for everyone degrades rapidly.

https://www.aclu.org/
#USPolitics
#CivilRights #LGBTQ #justice #WomensRights

One thing I believe we have to ask ourselves is this: if a whole segment of the Democratic Party and its possible supporters get furious with 10 Democratic Senators, who benefits? #uspol #uspolitics #democrats

Marco Rubio is really trying to snatch that Top Lapdog spot from Lindsay Graham isn’t he? What a sniveling little toadie he’s become. #USPolitics https://youtu.be/DbPFoIh4nVI

Over 90% of Americans demand a "right-to-disconnect" law which would protect them from out-of-hours work communication

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/over-90-of-americans-demand-for-a-right-to-disconnect-law-which-would-protect-them-from-out-of-hours-work-communication

Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/

"The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU).
..the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures of the EU"

#EU #HeritageFoundation #FarRight #USPolitics #EUPolitics

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

How a Quack TV Doctor Made It to Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/opinion/dr-oz-medicare-medicaid-trump.html

The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/continuing-the-reduction-of-the-federal-bureaucracy/

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-digital-coup-doge-data-ai/

The Trump administration is coming for student protesters

Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest reveals the Kafkaesque nightmare that awaits those arrested by ICE — whether or not they have a green card.

https://www.theverge.com/policy/630129/trump-student-protesters-mahmoud-khalil-columbia-deportation

Fear and resignation after ‘world’s most powerful company’ pays Trump a $100 billion ‘protection fee’

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/tech/taiwan-tsmc-us-investment-reactions-intl-hnk/index.html

Apparently the week-long Amazon boycott had no effect on the company whatsoever. I'm not surprised because I've known for a while there is no way to practice conscious capitalism. The only paths are either to continue trudging in the ruts they've chained us in, or break the chains, slaughter the slave drivers, and burn the whole death ship to cinders and ash.

The oligarchs are too entrenched, too wealthy, and too smug to defeat by simply not opening our wallets for a week.

Capitalism can't be brought to heel or redeemed. It has to be destroyed.

#Amazon #Capitalism #Boycott #USPol #USPolitics.

Anyone remember the GOP freak out when Bill Clinton visited Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her plane? The mere appearance of meddling with the Justice Department sent them into world-ending tirades.

But now that Trump declares himself “Law Enforcer In-Chief”… crickets. #USPolitics

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/politics/justice-department-trump-speech-takeaways/index.html

Some have criticised new Canadian PM Mark Carney for having no front-line political experience.

Sure enough, his answer to the suggestion that Canada should become a state of the USA is not a politicians answer, but it is an honest answer and absolutely correct in the circumstances.

The article has some useful context about Musk's career, notably what a sleazeball he has always been in his business and public dealings. It also points up the way governments have refused to do their regulatory jobs – and, less explicitly, how journalism has been a lapdog along the way.

But as it accurately points out Musk's desperate efforts to slow or reverse the well-deserved slide at Tesla, it doesn't get into the truly scary stuff. Namely, Musk won't give a damn about Tesla or its shareholders if his coup (per the first piece in this newsletter) succeeds. If he can divert U.S. government spending even more (see: SpaceX) into his bank accounts, Tesla will be an afterthought. Everything we know about this guy says there are no boundaries on his lust for money, and power. - @dangillmor

#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEgkDEKZYs7EieUCMLo2g4Cg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share