Sunday, April 13th, 2025

Time	Event
8:38a	Violence prevention research funding cancelled The saboteur in chief has cancelled funds for various research projects about preventing *gun violence, sexual violence, domestic terrorist attacks and violent hate crimes.* This must be to please the gun fanatics among the magats. (Comment on this)
8:38a	SSA phone service Public pressure made the saboteur in chief climb down from the plan to close the Social Security Administration's service-by-phone system. That doesn't mean the problem is gone for good. When it comes to hurting people that the saboteur despises, which includes "useless" non-rich aged or disabled people, he is very persistent. He might decide to try it again some months from now, perhaps in a slightly different way. He might simply hire so few operators that one must wait a week for actual service -- or have a bullshit generator respond. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Urgent: US Postal Service US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say not to privatize the US Postal Service. If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121 (Comment on this)
8:38a	Clearview's sales pitch The application of political retaliation was part of Clearview AI's initial sales pitch. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Economic damage The wrecker's last-minute change of tariff plans avoided big problems (until he changes the plan again), but the uncertainty he has already caused will continue causing economic damage. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Resurrected dire wolves more hype than reality The announcement about "resurrected dire wolves" was more hype than reality. They made genetically modified wolves with around 20 pieces of their DNA copied from fossil dire wolves. At least, that is what they say they have done. There is no report of independent verification of what they have actually done. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Kilmar Abrego Garcia The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the bully to help Kilmar Abrego Garcia get back to the US from El Salvador, where he was illegally deported without due process. Since the bully has no reluctance to lie, I would not put it past him to pretend to be trying to help, this while quietly urging El Salvadors's cruel president to refuse obdurately. Then the bully will say, "I tried, but it's impossible." He can lie with a smile that means, "You know I'm lying but you can't make me stop." (Comment on this)
8:38a	14th Amendment defied The wrecker's deportation squads defy the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution by imprisoning and deporting people without due process of law. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Mahmoud Khalil In the preparation for Mahmoud Khalil's deportation hearing, the government did not try to accuse Khalil of breaking any law. It only said he was inconvenient for the bully's plans and claimed that is enough grounds. Specifically, the plans in question are to use weaponized accusations of "antisemitism" -- a stretched concept of "antisemitism" -- to bully and punish those who criticizes Israel for its war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Comment on this)
8:38a	(Satire) Trump strongarms Trump (satire) *[The bully] Boasts About Strong-Arming [the saboteur in chief] Into Pausing Tariffs.* If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS. (Comment on this)
8:38a	Princeton climate research funding cuts *[US government] cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding. White House claims university’s work exposed students to "climate anxiety" and "exaggerated climate threats."* No one deserves to be blamed for showing students the danger that human practices are causing. (Comment on this)

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