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If this isn't illegal, it ought to be

🇺🇦🕊️ A just peace does not fall from the sky — it is fought for through concrete actions, strength, resilience and unity of Ukrainians, and the security and independence of Ukraine have no alternative, — Budanov

“We need a comprehensive federal privacy law that covers this sort of data collection and misuse,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @theverge.com. That means requiring opt-in consent, no deceptive design tricks, & data minimization that limits companies to only what’s needed to provide the service.

Southwest Side families can get and donate school uniforms at a free store this week. buff.ly/6f1Xfqs

Clarke: It’s hard to take Justice Thomas and Justice Alito seriously. They are not engaged in independent interpretation of the law or our Constitution. They are solely focused on putting their thumb on the scale of Donald Trump’s agenda each and every time.

WARREN: You and Kennedy are keeping these pharma deals secret. The companies say they are immaterial. You still want the American people to believe they are a great deal? KLOMP: Billions of dollars have been saved in out-of-pocket transactions— WARREN: Then show me the receipts.

Ossoff: "Here are Qs I have: is it the case that Kremlev was in China with Putin just days before he attended the wedding and gave what appears to have been a lavish gift to the president's son? And what are his ties to Russia's security services?...these folks are not just corrupt. They're clowns."

A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk. Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?

A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government won’t say if any agents have been punished. (Published January)

RIP

Someone posted an article yesterday that detailed the statistics of the percentage of ICE agents with either assault, sexual assault or sexually assaulting a minor on their record. Am not recalling exact numbers, but It was very, very high. These are bad, bad guys.

America: meet your new “civil rights division…”

"It’s not just that the crystal is old. It’s that something this small and this fragile-looking has outlasted almost the entire physical Earth it formed on. Continents have assembled and broken apart, oceans have opened and closed, and entire mountain ranges have risen and eroded"

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McBride: Donald Trump and his entire administration—it’s like a borderline homoerotic Greek or Roman trilogy that we’re watching. It’s absolutely obvious. These insecure people are playing out their masculinity insecurities for the entire country to see.

Meiselas: The media has ceded its role as the Fourth Estate. They have fought for access, and in fighting for access and for who is gonna call Donald Trump first and get his message— It’s dangerous, it’s lazy, and it’s actually not helpful to their ratings.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

KARL: Rs are gonna make you the poster child for the D Party MAMDANI: Let them. We don't have to ask ourselves what life looks like if a socialist wins. I won last year & over the course of the last 6 months what we've delivered for working people are the very things we were told were impossible.

Thank the well-oiled gods! A New @randyrainbow.bsky.social gem just released!

Francisco Varela, neuroscientist and philosopher, has had an enormous influence on my life and view. Here is an essay based on a talk I gave at Mind and Life Europe on Zen and the Enactive View. www.upaya.org/2026/06/enac...

New from me @notus.com: The DOJ has cancelled biannual election-crimes classes for investigators. It deleted the manual that explains how to avoid tampering with votes. And it isn't prepping for the usual Election Day command center at FBI hq. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Reminder, my art show in Los Gatos will start on June 8, not on June 1. Meanwhile I finished my painting "Venice Graffiti." More info on it at my paintings page. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

Homeland Security is lying? Say it ain’t so!

Trying to understand all of the ins and outs of digital security can be overwhelming, but our team at EFF is here to help. With our security starter pack, you can take a few simple steps to improve your digital privacy. ssd.eff.org/playlist/wa...

Lifted off food stamps. Dropped into hunger.

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Drawn by Dr Seuss over 50 years ago.

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

AOC on Trump’s reported plan to use $1.7 billion in IRS funds to compensate January 6 insurrectionists and pardoned fraudsters: “He’s using the entire government as a slush fund… one of the most unpatriotic and un-American acts I’ve seen in my entire life.”

This is pretty amazing.

The dismantling of USAID is a humanitarian crisis. Only the cartoonists are covering it.

President Obama: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz.”