Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
All you had to do was vote for a brown woman.
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
Meanwhile, these lawmakers are letting a ketamine addled weasel and his band of Lord of the Flies babies swim around in our data like Scrooge McDuck and no one is asking who he’s sending everyone’s data to.
New Law Would Make It Illegal to Use DeepSeek, Punishable With 20 Years’ Prison Time
https://futurism.com/new-law-china-ai-deepseek-prison
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
So, is this better?
BBC News
February 5, 2025
The president said he wanted the US to take a “long-term ownership position” and turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
US will ‘look at all options’ for Gaza takeover as UN warns against ‘ethnic cleansing’
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/clyn05y9x2xt
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
This.
Alt National Park Service
February 5, 2025
While Trump has been distracting America with everything else, Elon Musk’s staffers are quietly taking over NOAA and the Department of Labor. They are also using AI to help rewrite a significant portion of the federal government’s computer systems.
Concerns arose when it was suggested that employees’ personal data be aggregated in ways that would violate privacy laws without consent. When an employee raised this issue, the response was that the government would “try to get consent,” but that it shouldn’t stop them from moving forward with the project.
Don’t get distracted—that’s exactly what they want. Stay focused.
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
Reshare:
BBC News
February 5, 2025
As M23 rebels entered Goma and the city was plunged into chaos, female prisoners were attacked, the UN says.
More than 100 women raped and burned alive in DR Congo jailbreak, UN says
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgyrxz4k6zo
Margaret N. H.: I was wondering when this was going to break through on my timeline. NPR has been covering it for about a week give or take?
Radha Krueger: I haven’t been able to wrap my head around this one alongside all of the other horrors in the news.
Margaret N. H.: I mean- a whole fuckton of babies are going to starve because we cut off their food aid.
Radha Krueger: exactly. This is just so enraging.
Radha Krueger: crickets from the pro-life crowd though.
Margaret N. H.: I’m not going to say what I was going to say. I’ve added my parents to my personal pantheon and if ghosts exist they are going to haunt Rick Scott. I think my pop would quite enjoy spending his afterlife that way.
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
Does he hear the sharpening of the guillotine?
BBC News
February 5, 2025
The tech billionaire had complained that some Reddit users were advocating violence against his staff.
Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5xpmzo
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
They could be addressing homelessness of military veterans or food insecurity for kids living in poverty but instead they’re incredibly concerned about fairness in women’s sports.
BBC News
February 5, 2025
He said the move, which covers non-elite levels, restores fairness, but human rights advocates have condemned it.
Trump signs order banning transgender women from female sports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20g85k3z35o
Radha Krueger
February 5, 2025
An unelected ketamine junkie has control of all of our money. Remind your elected representatives that they are public servants and need to do their jobs by protecting the people they represent.
Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-4-2025
February 4, 2025 (Tuesday) – “Shortly after 1:00 this morning, Vittoria Elliott, Dhruv Mehrotra, Leah Feiger, and Tim Marchman of Wired reported that, according to three of their sources, “[a] 25-year-old engineer named Marko Elez, who previously worked for two Elon Musk companies [SpaceX and X], has direct access to Treasury Department systems responsible for nearly all payments made by the US government.”