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- Journalist Mario Guevara, facing deportation, deserves same energy as Kimmel
- How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
- Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists
- Plus, what we're reading...

https://freedom.press/issues/mobilize-for-mario-guevara-like-you-did-for-jimmy-kimmel/

They whined their way to the White House (again) and these pissbabies are still complaining. Get a hobby! https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

ByteDance (TikTok owner) valuation is north of $300 billion. Trump "deal" to give it to his oligarch supporters is "valued" at $14 billion, says Vance.

So correct me if this is wrong: They're essentially nationalizing a foreign company and giving it to cronies who'll pay pennies on the dollar.

Trump regime has disappeared billions of dollars of taxpayers' money -- not even Congress has been able to trace what it's being spent on, and who's getting the loot.

Congress isn't barely trying -- Republicans are complicit and the Democrats are not just powerless but incompetent.

Some journalists from smaller organizations are trying. They don't have subpoena power.

Given Trump world's epic corruption, the unaccountable billions are plainly that way by by design.

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/billions-taxpayer-dollars-virtually-untraceable-appropriations-trump-omb-russ-vought

Trump is adding a 100% tariff to branded pharmaceuticals made outside the US.

This move could be devastating to the disability community.

It will likely drive costs up and create more supply chain issues at a time when we’re already seeing unprecedented medication shortages

#uspol #trump #tariffs #disability #chronicillness

Pay attention to who is actually calling for violence. Arizona Republican Fascist Representative John Kingman calls for WA Representative Jayapal’s hanging. https://azmirror.com/2025/09/25/john-gillette-gop-lawmaker-calls-for-democratic-congresswoman-to-be-executed-for-urging-trump-protests/

Increasingly common use of "AI" in workplaces is "not proving to be that useful, has not resulted in widespread productivity gains, and often ends up creating messes that human beings have to clean up."

https://www.404media.co/email/641a2175-ca49-431e-b070-4c3e121d2bd8/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Solid roundup from 404 Media, one of the best new journalism orgs...

From Teen Vogue, which is doing some of the best journalism about the extremist cult now in charge of the U.S. government:

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend

We need to assume that every masked person kidnapping people off the street is a criminal, whether employed by the Trump regime or not.

For technical details:

There's a guest worker visa (H-2A) for people to come work on farms in the US.

It turned out to lots of "whoops there's slavery going on" problems.

DOL put in anti-slavery controls to clamp down on it in 2024.

Trump got rid of them in June.

https://cdmigrante.org/trump-dol-rolls-back-h2a-protections/

EFF at the movies! 📽️ Come hang with us at the Roxie Theater for a screening of 1984. We'll be in the lobby before the show so stop by and say hi! https://www.eff.org/event/eff-roxie-theater-1984-showing

This week's comic now up on Daily Kos
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Jimmy Kimmel and Strike Force 5!
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/25/2345215/-Cartoon-Tom-the-Dancing-Bug-unleashes-Jimmy-Kimmel-and-Strike-Force-Five

Is JREG the most astute political thinker of our time? Probably not, but he's still got some cogent observations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B46WaJOfls

We need an internet archive outside the US! We can't put all our eggs in one basket.

Oh, wait: we *have* an internet archive outside the US. Let's support it.

And now they have an office - a physical presence.

https://flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-sharing-at-the-internet-archive-europe/

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/

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If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏

#digitalliteracy #BigTech #tech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog

Today, in planet-eating machine cult news, OpenAI plans to build 5x 'Stargate' 'AI'-only datacenters, upping OpenAI's energy use at enough to power 5.25M homes.

CEO Sam Altman looks to a day where they can "create a factory that can produce a gigawatt of new AI infrastructure every week.”

Naturally the benevolent "cure for cancer" is cited as an all-justifying prize in all this, as if that really was their end-game

https://gizmodo.com/openai-announces-plans-for-five-more-stargate-data-centers-in-the-us-2000663145

(Thanks to @Christina for the pointer)

#climate #ai

We hate to say we told you so.

When the Disneys and Paramounts of the world cave to Trump, they open themselves and others up to more ridiculous demands from the government.

Media companies should stand up for the First Amendment to end this vicious cycle.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/trump-jimmy-kimmel-return-abc

"Donald Trump is ‘racist, sexist and Islamophobic’, Sadiq Khan says after president’s attack on ‘terrible mayor’

The London mayor said he was ‘living rent-free’ in Trump’s head after he criticised the capital

Sir Sadiq Khan has dubbed Donald Trump “racist, sexist, misogynistic” and “Islamophobic” in the latest in a long-running war of words between the feuding pair.

It came after Mr Trump branded Sir Sadiq a “terrible mayor” in a stinging attack over immigration and carbon-reduction policies.

Addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, the US president said: “I look at London, where you have a ..."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-trump-sadiq-khan-london-sexist-b2832736.html

#London #ukpol #felontrump #trump #uspol

The Amphora of Great Intelligence (AGI) Part 2

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater