Florida will sink either way.

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

So they’re not allowed to talk about reality, or how to make anything better. And the fascists in charge must know this is what they’re doing, but they don’t care.

I keep thinking of how the Buddha recognized three poisons of the mind: greed, hatred and ignorance. Right-wing politics is pure poison.

ICE are not taking any care about what the tattoos are. There was a story of someone being sent to prison in El Salvador because they had an autism awareness tattoo, which looked a bit pride-y because it was rainbow colored. If they don’t like the look of you they’ll find an excuse. Nazis are like that.

Meanwhile the utterly incompetent Secretary of Defense has white nationalist tattoos all over him and that’s just fine with them.

It’s real Nazi science, this identification of criminals by skin colour, tattoos, and gestures. Perhaps they should study head shape too. Anyway, trigger their Nazi spidey sense and you’ll be kidnapped and trafficked into permanent imprisonment and slavery in a foreign country where you have no legal rights. They don’t have to prove you did anything. And half the US population will cheer because they can’t imagine it will ever happen to them.

Deep down, he knows, and it torments him. Unfortunately he’s rich enough to take it out on the world.

I don’t know, most middle schoolers learn and grow out of it. MAGAs are not up to that level.

Well played. This made me laugh.

What a terrible thing. I do hope this doesn’t start happening regularly, every few days.

“It is time to arrest those funding the attacks,” he wrote. “Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence.”

How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world’s most publicly obnoxious Nazi?

We’ve been hoping for a patriotic hamberder to do its thing since 2016.

This pattern of behaviour is why no country will consider any agreement with the USA to be trustworthy ever again.

So there was a deal with Iran which Trump ripped up, and now he’s threatening Iran with war if they don’t make a deal with him like the one he ripped up?

The Trump administration has been trying to brand anti-Tesla protests that damage cars as “radical left Terrorism.”

Trump says violence against Tesla is domestic terrorism

It’s good to see an effort to keep track of this. It would be great to have something like this for all the people kidnapped by ICE, not just the academics. But that would be a huge project, and many have probably been snatched and whisked away without the case becoming public at all. Is there a database behind this that people could contribute to if they know someone who has been abducted by the government?

Also, I wonder whether just listing the stated reason gives too much credence to it. They’re all labelled terrorist sympathizers, and it’s usually a lie or a very spun way of saying “they objected to Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.” Maybe the format could be updated with a link to some more balanced information about each case - a media article or a wiki page?

Still, it’s significant that only 32% of Republicans support Trump’s genocidal policy.

Or an innocent person may end up kidnapped and imprisoned for life in El Salvador because they have a tattoo.

Case 1:

Trump sends innocent man to El Salvador for having autism awareness tattoo

Case 2:

He has a tattoo celebrating Real Madrid. His lawyer believes it’s why he was deported

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Be a shame if it got completely clogged up with spam so no oil companies could get their pollution exemptions. Or if everyone wasted their time with trivial questions.

Protests don’t hinder such organization though, and they can connect and embolden people. They’re valuable as long as they’re not all that gets done.

Signal is pretty good. It takes a special kind of stupid to use Signal and still end up accidentally leaking everything.

Good stuff. Small acts of resistance like this add up.