We think the US is falling apart because of Trump's reelection. But Trump is just a symptom of a bigger problem:
The US is falling apart as a result of the US allowing an insane wealth distribution, where the rich pay no taxes, because their companies are offshored and now have revenues larger than countries.
This has allowed the malignant to buy both media and social media, which has allowed them to hack democracy by polluting the minds of the uneducated, which THEN has gotten Trump elected.
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week as users look to avoid subscription costs. That’s the highest download number since 2023. It works on Linux, macOS, Windows and Unix like systems. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3840480/libreoffice-downloads-on-the-rise-as-users-look-to-avoid-subscription-costs.html
50,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza. Dutch @trouw.nl has the first part of the list of their names on its front page today. The list is ranked by age; these victims were all zero years old.
There is something very wrong in this country when six young people meeting to discuss politics in a Quaker Meeting House are arrested by the police after a mass (twenty officers) invasion of the building (armed with tasers).
The freedom to protest, or even the freedom to meet in a room to discuss current affairs, are central to a democracy... if this freedom is now compromised (further), as it seems to be, we are in a very bad place!
h/t @Thebratdragon
Must say there is something beautiful and healing about seeing a bunch of strangers in a #repairCafe helping each other fix their rice cookers, format their laptops, sew their teddy bears, patch up their clothes, figure out ways to solve problems with what they've got right there and each other.
Highly recommended activity to restore faith in ordinary people when we see so much cruelty from the top.
Easter Tip: Don't leave your child's chocolate bunny in the car.
A new commitment to fight malnutrition worldwide.
We have announced €3.4 billion until 2027 to support partner countries facing high levels of child malnutrition, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
The EU support will address children under five and young pregnant and breastfeeding mothers suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
We will work with partner countries to get closer to a world where every child wakes up nourished, grows strong, and thrives.
Dear Labour Government...
Top 6 (realistic) policy suggestions:
1. Rejoin the EU single market.
2. Bring in a tiny 2% wealth tax (£24bn)
3. Invest that in NHS, Schools and Rewilding
4. And avoid welfare cuts for the worst off
5. Get growth via investing in green economy (grew 10% last year)
6. End arms sales to Israel - because it’s immoral.
Interestingly, these are the policies of the Green Party. They are NOT policy for Labour, Cons, or Reform. Think of that the next time you vote.
Elon Musk should be in prison along with his co-president. Trump holds the nuclear codes, but in many ways Musk is more powerful -- and dangerous.
I want to make sure people know that in the U.S. a Presidential executive order is not a law. It is an internal memo from the head of the Executive to others in that branch. The President has no constitutional authority to legislate or adjudicate the law. 1/
Journalists lose their minds when Gary Stevenson talks about redistributing wealth from the rich to the poor, but we've spent 46 years redistributing wealth from the poor to the rich and that's fine?
"You don't always win when you fight, but you always lose when you don't."
- Rachel Maddow tonight on the law firms that surrendered vs. the law firms that fought.
Words to fight by.
Good morning! Today is a bit of a grey and rainy day, which feels like the perfect pretext to share this illustration!
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Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Things are definitely changing. Someone suggested a WhatsApp group for our Antarctic expedition, I asked if we could make it an @signalapp group instead and everyone instantly agreed. Most people already had #Signal on their phones too. #BoycottMeta
She went to the fruiterer’s
To buy him some fruit,
But when she came back
He was playing the flute.
From "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes," London, New York: 1877 #illustration #ChildrensBook #dogs https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/playing-flute/
Yesterday, a peaceful meeting in a Quaker Meeting House in London was raided by police and six arrests were made.
I told a friend about this. Her reaction: “They must have been criminals”. Ordinary people simply cannot believe how close to fascism our country is becoming. It’s going to be hard to change their views!
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03/29/first-they-came-for-the-quakers
