House Transportation proposes to include $20 per vehicle fee in GOP megabill
Oh look, another regressive tax!
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.
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.
Trump Administration Proposes Defunding Suicide Lifeline for LGBTQ+ Youth Beginning October 2025
Literal erasure in action.
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.)
White House blasts Amazon over tariff cost report: ‘Hostile and political act’
How’s that sucking up going for you, Mr. Bezos?
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.
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.