'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
'Today, we celebrate': Judge says National Park Service must reinstate all fired employees
The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America
President Trump’s anti-DEI playbook doesn’t just affect the makeup of America’s workplaces. It also impacts cultural production. Just ask Netflix’s former head of diversity.
https://www.wired.com/story/anti-dei-agenda-reprogramming-america/
Outgoing Broadband Chief Issues Stark Warning Against Elon Musk
“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” wrote Evan Feinman
Paywall Free: http://archive.today/Bgtc6
Democratic Resistance Strategies
Less polite language on protest paddles, sick burns in the private Slack, and other techniques for sticking it to the Republican party.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/democratic-resistance-strategies
Democrats demand investigation into Musk over possible criminal corruption
#corruption #kleptocracy #TechnoFascism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/democrats-elon-musk-investigation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Over 100,000 protest in Belgrade at an anti-government rally.
More than 100,000 protesters converged in Serbia's capital Belgrade on Saturday in what was likely the largest in a series of anti-corruption demonstrations that have upended the Balkan country in recent months.
325,000 protesters rally in #Serbia capital, against a train station collapse that killed 15, blamed on #corruption and corner cutting https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2g8v32q30o
Massive #protests against #corruption, #kleptocracy and #russian interference today in #Belgrad, #Budapest and #Bucharest.
#Europe is waking up!
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
Party power is key to autocrats maintaining control amid corruption, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-party-power-key-autocrats-corruption.html
FTC Claims That It Can’t Take on Amazon Case Due to DOGE Cuts, Then Changes Its Mind
The federal agency appeared to realize this was not a good look for Trump.
Recently, a bloc of self-proclaimed conservative reformers invoked the Sharpstown debacle in their crusade to take down the speaker of the house and root out an alleged cabal of corrupted “RINOs” who they claim have conspired with lobbyists and #Democrats to control the chamber. https://www.texasobserver.org/ethics-reform-texas-house-legislature/
#Newsmax reached a ‘confidential’ settlement with #Smartmatic last year. We now know how much the #MAGA outlet paid
#Argentina: #GeneralStrike called against repression of protests, economic policies like wage suppression, and increased #IMF debt
https://en.mercopress.com/2025/03/14/argentina-s-cgt-announces-24-hour-general-strike
Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024
https://itep.org/tesla-reported-zero-federal-income-tax-in-2024/