Trump loves saying 'You're fired.' Now he's making it easier to fire federal workers


The Trump administration's plans to convert some 50,000 civil servants into at-will employees has some worried that essential government functions will be politicized.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Wham! - Last Christmas (Official Video)


Lyrics
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Once bitten and twice shy
I keep my distance
But you still catch my eye
Tell me, baby
Do you recognize me?
Well, it's been a year
It doesn't surprise me

Happy Christmas

I wrapped it up and sent it
With a note saying "I love you"
I meant it
Now I know what a fool I've been
But if you kissed me now
I know you'd fool me again

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Oh, oh, baby

A crowded room
Friends with tired eyes
I'm hiding from you
And your soul of ice
My god, I thought you were someone to rely on
Me? I guess I was a shoulder to cry on

A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man under cover, but you tore me apart
Now I've found a real love. You'll never fool me again

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special

A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
I gave you my heart
A man under cover, but you tore him apart
Maybe next year I'll give it to someone—
I'll give it to someone special

Special
Someone
Someone
I'll give it to someone—
I'll give it to someone special

Who give me something in return
I'll give it to someone—
Hold my heart and watch it burn
I'll give it to someone—

I'll give it to someone—
I'll give it to someone special

I thought you were here to stay
How could you love me for a day
I thought you were someone special

Gave you my heart

I'll give it to someone—
I'll give it to someone—

Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
You gave it away

I'll give it to someone—
I'll give it to someone—

#Wham #LastChristmas #GeorgeMichael #WhamOfficialVideo #LastChristmas #WhamLastChristmas #EverythingSheWants #AndrewRidgeley #80sMusic

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US farmers face a tough outlook as China's imports of various US agricultural products plummeted in May.

The trade war and China's concerns about the long-term relationship with the US could have deep implications for global supply chains and the US farm sector.

scmp.com/economy/china-economy…

#usa #economy

Capitalism is when the guy who builds a social media app and shares it freely with the world gets next to nothing for their effort while the fascist convicted criminal who uses their work makes billions.

Please, tell me again how capitalism breeds innovation. All it breeds are greedy psychopathic parasites (aka billionaires).

(Trump’s Truth Social is built on Mastodon which is licensed under AGPL. You should all continue pressuring them to keep releasing the source.)

github.com/boehs/truthsocial/t…

#truthSocial #mastodon #capitalism masto.ai/@Nonilex/114733459914…

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Mastodon is licensed under the AGPLv3-or-later.

The AGPLv3 doesn't require making the source code publicly available - only providing it to the users that it does the computation of.

If there is a refusal to provide the corresponding source to such users, that is a case of copyright infringement, which the copyright holders can respond to by permanently terminating the license.

Living Planet Symposium opens in Vienna


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Living Planet Symposium opens in Vienna

ESA’s Living Planet Symposium, one of the world’s leading Earth observation conferences, opened today in Vienna.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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🔥 This isn't "national defense." This is robbery.
And you're the mark.

💰 Bleeding the country dry at a rate of more than $32 million per hour.
💸 Contractors charging $71 for 4-cent pins.
🩸 $10 TRILLION blown since 2001.

Our real "national emergency"
tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/…

Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware (Full Documentary) | Future Cities


Future Cities, a full-length documentary takes us inside the bustling Chinese city of Shenzhen.

We examine the unique manufacturing ecosystem that has emerged, gaining access to the world’s leading hardware-prototyping culture whilst challenging misconceptions from the west. The film looks at how the evolution of “Shanzhai” – or copycat manufacturing – has transformed traditional models of business, distribution and innovation, and asks what the rest of the world can learn from this so-called “Silicon Valley of hardware".

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in reply to Shannon Kay

@shannonkay Well, if you want to, Kitten’s pretty much ready to play with today (kitten.small-web.org). The bits that aren’t ready yet are the Small Web hosting service for deployment (although if you make anything you want to deploy, I’d be happy to do so for you on small-web.org and/or, of course you can deploy on any VPS, etc., yourself, and the peer-to-peer social web app built with Kitten.

Reminder: The web you might miss of the 1990s or 20'00s is still out there!
So I feel no reason to miss it!

Its just that now these cottages lie within the shadow of corporate skyscrapers which dominate the skyline.

For all the vilification "the deep web" gets (not that there's a clear demarcation), I see most of the harm lying on the surface!

Empire is losing the narrative and its grip on the masses.

Empire always pairs physical war with media propaganda campaigns.

And right now, the propaganda is propaganda-ing.

The toxic and manipulative abuser (i.e. United States Empire) will go to any lengths to try to maintain control and possession. Fortunately, more people in the imperial core are recognizing this.

Americans don't want Trump's war


Donald Trump has dragged the United States into another unnecessary war because his “America First” agenda is failing at home. He is using big bombs like a little man.


commondreams.org/opinion/do-am…

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New post on my #knitting blog: about our Solstice celebrations, baking breads, sewing clothes, knitting toys, and trying to not to succumb to despair.

whitknits.wordpress.com/2025/0…

Interesting podcast discussing the Iran bombing & things to go back & re-watch & pay attention to. .

RESPECT: Talking Fake News w/ Derek Johnson

rumble.com/v6v6htl-respect-tal…

Does your government allow lawmakers to accept "donations" from billionaires or their proxies?

That is exactly how the road to full fascism happens

Republican Bill Would Legalize DOGE and Let Trump Dismantle Everything

rollingstone.com/politics/poli…

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Iran’s Health Ministry rejects radiation risk after attacks en.mehrnews.com/news/233505/Ir…
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@rw

Here's a Brit you should take seriously.

noauthority.social/@jazzilla/1…


AA Parvini on ww3, or "will he have to eat his hot cigar?"

youtube.com/live/cdyb-PRfMs0


Recently Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta was building an AI data center so large its size would be equivalent to a significant part of Manhattan. What Zuckerberg did not mention was the constructions of 3 new Meta-subsidized, gas power plants 404media.co/a-black-hole-of-en…

A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is:

hamiltonnolan.com/p/nations-ar…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/bil…

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in reply to Cory Doctorow

"Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us."

cr: @EpiEllie

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

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@amiserabilist
Here's a short story by Lord Dunsany, written in 1915, about the food of the day. It's pertinent.

THE FOOD OF DEATH

Death was sick. But they brought him bread that the modern bakers make, whitened with alum, and the tinned meats of Chicago, with a pinch of our modern substitute for salt. They carried him into the dining-room of a great hotel (in that close atmosphere Death breathed more freely), and there they gave him their cheap Indian tea. They brought him a bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as children drink in England.

Death arose ravening, strong, and strode again through the cities.

Unknown parent

mastodon - Link to source

WallOffTrump

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I have been waiting for a Trump era espionage novel. Just read A Spy Alone by former MI6, Charles Beaumont. Nice ripping yarn but also the best yet analysis of the current coup of globalized oligarchs and propagandists against "the masses" and citizens of every nation. It ain't east vs west; it's 1% against 99%.

Through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, NASA nurtures visionary yet credible concepts that could one day “change the possible” in aerospace, while engaging America’s innovators and entrepreneurs as partners in the journey. These concepts span various disciplines and aim to advance capabilities such as finding resources on distant planets, making space travel safer […]

Xi and Putin discuss crisis engendered by Israeli aggression against Iran socialistchina.org/2025/06/23/…

Israeli bombing of the #Evin #prison in #Tehran was much heavier than the media reported earlier.

The #hospital and the administrative office of the prison were also bombed

#IDF says they dropped over 100 bombs on Tehran this morning.

Video shared on #BlueSky
bsky.app/profile/faab64.bsky.s…

And #Telegram:
t.me/newsvideofa/3472

#Iran #Israel #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael #StopGenocide
#WarOnIran #WarCrime
@iran @israel

In einem Handbuch geben Wissenschaftler*innen aus den USA und Europa Ratschläge, wie sich Menschen im akademischen Betrieb gegen aufkeimenden Autoritarismus stemmen können – abgestuft nach Risiko-Level. Das ist nicht nur für Forschende lesenswert.
Anti-Autokratie-Handbuch: 26 Werkzeuge zur Verteidigung der Demokratie

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Klingbeil will mehr Schulden machen: Wehretat soll bis 2029 auf 153 Milliarden Euro anwachsen


Am Dienstag will das Kabinett die Finanzplanung des Bundes beschließen. Laut Regierungskreisen soll der Verteidigungshaushalt enorm wachsen.
Klingbeil will mehr Schulden machen: Wehretat soll bis 2029 auf 153 Milliarden Euro anwachsen

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"Hirohito @-RealHirohito
We have completed our very successful attack on Hawaii. All planes are now outside of America air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Pearl Harbor. All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great Japanese Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attention to this matter

12:00 Ρ. Μ. 07 Dec 41 Twitter for Android 1M Retweets 2M Likes #Iran

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I used those think of this sort of thing as a kind of personal insult.

I’ve decided instead that it’s just a reflection of the brokenness within the organization and that I am not going to be able to fix it.

It’s a clear message that the people who put the idiot there have no idea what they are doing either!

No need to stress, no need to try to change things. Just keep them from hurting you as best you can.

givehim15.com/post/june-23-202…
GH15 prayer for June 23, 2025
Peace Through Strength - My Response to the Strike on Iran
Dutch Sheets

youtu.be/Q3rkyNqR3ws

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Yeah, but Mark and Elon need that power for their spicy autocomplete machines!
mastodon.social/@Snoro/1147325…

The internet blackout in #Iran is ongoing and I am trying to find information about how its actually enacted. Hearing that local services are working. Would like to understand how exactly the blackout is enacted. Are they filtering IP blocks? Are all .ir domains still accessible? The media keeps talking about it like it's a big on off switch but that's obviously not the case
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_I…

TIL: Axel Health (axelhealth.com/) is still using Debian 8 - From 2015 💀

I don't know if they are actually using it only for the displays (that show patient numbers etc) or for the central configuration server, but in either case that's diabolical.

Holy shit

#axelhealth #finland #linux

in reply to CyberFrog

once saw a dentist chair running outdated windows 7 (yes, after EOL) with an anti-virus security alert popup which was ignored, and a horribly outdated Java version installed that was begging for updates

this person was doing minor surgery with that machine daily, I had no choice but to let them use a probably malware'd device on my face, or leave and pray the next guy isn't as stupid

nothing about this is fun

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I don't really consider hospitals to ever be correctly air-gapped because in reality there are like 6,000 endpoints literally a single hop away from the "air gapped" devices with full internet access, and hacking the firmware of something like an insulin or drug pump is laughably easy because they simply ignored computer security for 30 years, you can still buffer overflow to RCE on those things without any issues

@pluralistic@mamot.fr wrote about this in 2014/15 and from the new research I've seen very little has improved since then
boingboing.net/2014/04/27/hack…