I just realized that Trump does have a plan to end illegal immigration: simply turn the USA into a worse shithole than anywhere else on the planet.

Finished: Eye of the Storm, by Jack Higgins 📚. The fictionalized story of the 1991 mortar attack on #10 Downing Street. Higgins brings in many of his favorite characters, right back to Liam Devlin. Airport reading, but good airport reading.

Amazon has no choice but to display tariffs on prices now

Bezos answered the White House by rolling over and showing his belly and whimpering. The Verge rightly roasts him by quoting back some of his asinine rhetoric on how his wealth enabled him to stand up against intimidation.

Boycott Amazon.

Amnesty International warns of global human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends

The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights.

Color additives banned? Not exactly.

Marion Nestle (who has been a nutrition researcher and writer for decades) looks at what RFK Jr’s “ban” of artificial dyes will actually do. (Spoiler alert: nothing.) Also incidentally calls out some of the lies from his press conference.

Exclusive: Most Americans see Trump as “dangerous dictator,” poll says

The other 48% are in denial.

(And yes, I’m cherry-picking the poll that most sings to me. Deal with it.)

US dismisses all authors of National Climate Assessment, email says

Because the Trump/Musk administration wants everything to burn down literally as well as figuratively.

Michigan Democrat files articles of impeachment against Trump

Good for you, Mr. Thanedar. At this point, I don’t care how quixotic this is. I’d like to see new articles filed every day by every Democratic member of the House.

STRENGTHENING AND UNLEASHING AMERICA’S LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PURSUE CRIMINALS AND PROTECT INNOCENT CITIZENS

The latest deranged Executive Order. I’ll bet you didn’t know it was the poor beleaguered cops who needed all the resources of the Federal government to protect them. Including, by the way, that pro bono legal work he blackmailed big law firms into promising. Oh, and it also calls for using military personnel for policing crime. Fucking chilling.

Put an Old-School BBS on Meshtastic Radio

Tempting. Many many years ago I ran a dialup BBS on a Heathkit H-89 computer using Tom Jennings’s Puppy BBS software - the source code for which amazingly can still be found online. Perhaps I’ll go back in my dotage.

Trump: ‘I run the country and the world’

Megalomania much? If there was any sanity in this administration, section 4 of the 25th amendment would get invoked immediately. But there isn’t.

Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine

More good reporting from The Verge on another icky part of the current administration.

A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence

Gotta love astronomers: “nearby” in this case means about 300 light years away. Or if you’re a bit rusty on astronomical math, 1,800,000,000,000,000 miles or thereabouts.

American Panopticon

The surveillance state is several steps closer thanks to the Doge Bros. I hope they choke trying to integrate my decades-old FBI file into everything else.

“Howl”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/10, 1/25s, ISO 2500. Birds Nest Fungi along the Sweet Creek Falls trail.

“Vegetable Pigtail”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/16, 1/30s, ISO 3200. Along the Sweet Creek Falls Trail.

“Amanita Goblin”

Olympus E-M10 IV, M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 Macro lens @ f/8, 1/60s, ISO 3200. Along the Crawfish Trail.