FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
"DOGE went weeks w/o updating its webpage. Just after midnight on Tues -removed nearly a $Bs worth of previously claimed โsavings.โ --M Alfred
"DOGE website -only public accounting of Musk & Trumpโs attempts to reduce fed govt spending: riddled with errors -incl revisions: suggest: previously overstating its savings by 100s of $Ms.
On Tues alone -removed ~$962M in previously claimed cuts & altered 100s of others to boost indiv itemsโ purported โsavingsโ values.
In a late-night update to its webpage, DOGE removed hundreds of previously claimed cuts and altered scores of others to boost the itemsโ claimed โsavingsโ values.
Hello all. Yesterday evening, I received a RIF notice that I was let-go from the National Security Archive (a nonprofit) where I was working as a metadata #librarian & #indexer of declassified U.S. government documents. So, I am looking for in-person work in the #Baltimore area or #remotework (preferred). I have developed skills in #cataloging, #indexing, #organization, #research and #writing. #fediverse #fedihire #fedijobs
NEW: End Slavery in MN campaign advocates for fair wages in prisons. According to panelists, an incarcerated worker makes $0.25-$0.50 an hour which is split in half to pay for essential needs for the worker, an equivalent to โdamn near free labor.โ
Minneapolis, MN โ On February 25, 2025, the Minnesota Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee hosted a panel discussion on Ending Slavery in Minnesota led by Marcia Howard, Vice President of the Federation of Teachers Local 59 and ex-prison labor wโฆ
๐ฌ 0ย ย ๐ 2ย ย โค๏ธ 4ย ยทย Senator heads to El Salvador to find Maryland migrant deported erroneously by Trumpย ยทย Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., has flown to El Salvador to seek answers over the contested depoโฆ
Democrat Nathan Sage announced a campaign to oust Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa on Wednesday, vowing to "kick corporate Republican Joni Ernst's ass."
A federal judge said there is cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt over its failure to facilitate bringing back migrants from an El Salvador prison.
Oh, this? Itโs just the federated Bluesky PBC, funded by federated venture capital, federatedly censoring people on behalf of the federated dictator of federated Turkey, Federated Erdoฤan. mas.to/@osma/11434616689055247โฆ
Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.
Looking at making Linux desktops (laptops) a blessed alternative.
What do you wish you knew about desktop Linux in a business environment before deploying it?
More general details: - Global remote-first team. - FinTech (so we have compliance requirements - 99.9% sure we can meet them all with existing tools) - Will be optional, only for those who want Linux.
so I used to support a team of developers who ran (mostly) Linux desktops and I reckon 90% of the problem was that everyone who wanted this setup had extremely strong Opinions about everything and also the tendency to want to get into the guts of it and tweak everything to get it *just right*, and no two people ever wanted the same thing. I tended to just give up, because the choices were that or locking everything down and making everyone hate me.
I would maybe look at locking down a defined home/data partition with extreme prejudice and letting them roam free a bit on the system level.
@mike We're pretty lax in terms of "locking down" - we do the bare minimum required to meet compliance (eg, full disk encryption, screensaver password required, etc) and other than that you're free to do whatever you like as long as you can get shit done still.
We have mandatory DLP software, and monitoring to ensure these minimum requirements are maintained.
Biggest compliance issue ironically is likely to be AV. Clamav here we come ๐
yeah this is the best possible situation, with people who primarily want a Linux environment doing too much is kind of a mistake. Better to start with the minimal basic requirements and leave them to it.
Heh, I'm still mad at one guy who after I spent a day getting his new workstation up and running, immediately wiped it and reinstalled the exact same distro on it. I still don't know why. ๐
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Canada has fewer "constitutional impediments" to slow down Poilievre's implementation of Elon Musk's DOGE policies on Canada, meaning that same destructive rampage (which remains the Conservative priority) will fall on us with lightning speed should Poilievre win the election and take office in Canada.
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If Pierre Poilievreโs Conservatives win the federal election, they could move at lightning speed to shrink the size of the public service.
Thatโs according to Ian Brodie, a former chief of staff of prime minister Stephen Harper, who believes the most surefire way to usher in deregulation in Canada (a main priority for Poilievre) is to reduce the head count of the public service and fast.
โOnce you deprive the public service of the people to create policies, guidelines and regulations and letters and contract documents and so on and so forth, the burden on society is reduced,โ Brodie told an audience at the Canada Strong and Free Networkโs annual conference in downtown Ottawa on April 11.
For Brodie, time is of the essence to reduce the federal budget. If elected, he said the Conservatives should move quickly to downsize the Privy Council Office and give ministers mandates to cut down departmentsโ workforces.
โThe good thing, compared to the United States, is that, for all sorts of constitutional legal reasons, the impediments to DOGE (the Department of Government Efficiency) moving quickly, we donโt really have to worry about in Canada,โ Brodie said at the conservative conference. โCanada can move as quickly as it wants in fixing the fiscal problems.โ
Itโs been the approach for American and Argentinian right-wing governments that have sought to reduce public spending and regulation by trying to eradicate whole government agencies and departments. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has laid off hundreds of thousands of government employees in recent months.
Poilievreโs Conservatives have said they will reduce the size of the public service through attrition, which would shed 17,000 jobs a year.
Yes, the same hosting service that's taken a banhammer to paying LGBTQIA+ users based on false reporting of *non-pornographic LGBTQIA+ content as pornography* has now spun up their very own instance.
Edit: And if you need another reason? They provide hosting to Germany's AfD - [edit 2] a group recently declared to be a right-wing extremist organization by the German government. (source: euronews.com/my-europe/2025/05โฆ )
Germanyโs Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has designated AfD as a right-wing extremist organisation, citing xenophobic stances as the reason.
The past tense of slay is slew. The past participle of slay is slain. I don't make the rules, I just enjoy bizarre verb tense spelling changes. Can you imagine if we conjugated "play" the same way?
That said, I applaud the simplification of English for learners, so from here on out it's slay slayed slayed. Also we're spelling laid "layed" from here on out. Sorry.
Christians beware. If he's coming after academia's tax exempt status for pushing back against his agenda, then he has no choice but to also come after churches who don't support him. You're next! #USPol
(Note that thanks to the Fediverse I now distinguish between "Christians" and "followers of Christ" because the two aren't the same anymore.)
The Trump administration has just claimed an astounding new power: the ability to deport lawful permanent residents based on their โexpected beliefsโ (including perfectly โlawfulโ expecโฆ
๐ฌ 101ย ย ๐ 5376ย ย โค๏ธ 10705ย ยทย Nazi propaganda and Trump propaganda are the same thing. Republicans are too busy licking boots to say anything.
"I literally drove my car to Canada for the weekend, & on the way back, I was treated like a criminal,"said Atallah, who has been a #US #citizen for 10 yrs.โฆ
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged informationโฆ,"Atallah said.
After several requests, Atallah says CBP called his sister, an #immigration atty.
"It's not about the immigrants,"Celine Atallah, Bachir's sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's โฆall of us."
it's Maine Governor Janet Mills. I wanted you to be the first to know: Iโm officially suing Donald Trump.
When I recently visited the White House, President Trump chose to single me out in a room full of governors from both parties and threatened to unilaterally withhold federal funding from Maine unless we fall in line with his personal demands.
When I stood my ground, he claimed he was "the law," never mind Congress or the states.
I told him Iโd see him in court.
His administration has ordered investigations into Maine schools, tried to cancel millions of dollars worth of federal grants awarded to Maine's education system, and worked to terminate federal contracts based in Maine โ a decision his own administration says would increase Social Security fraud.
They've even called me a "petulant child."
But I refuse to back down.
โญ๏ธWe've officially filed our lawsuit against Donald Trump for overreaching his authority and illegally freezing funds that go to feeding children in Maine.
I โ along with my fellow Democratic governors across the country โ will not be intimidated by the President's threats. We refuse to be bullied. Instead, we're taking action.
We're doing everything we can to fight for democracy and push back against attacks on our freedoms.
But we can't do it without your support. So Iโm asking supporters like you for the 4th time: can you add your name to stand with me and other Democratic governors as we work to push back against Trump and his Republican trifecta?
With Donald Trump already taking extreme actions โ including threatening to hold federal funding from my state โ will you take a moment to answer the following questions? Your feedback is critical to setting our 2025-26 cycle strategy.
I'd suggest reading up on Guantanamo Bay to appreciate that running detention camps out of the reach of the judiciary isn't exactly a new idea in (modern) US history.
These (implicit) comparisons are not fair. Concentration camps were built to murder people. Guantanamo and the camps ICE are using are "just" camps with torture and "only" a few "occasional" deaths caused by mistreatment, but as a German I need to point out that the concentration camps were one of the most horrible places ever created by mankind. It is hard to imagine how cruel people can be but usually the answer is "much more cruel" and you should not use "the German superlative".
As a Latin American, I can tell you about the SAME in LATAM may decades ago. You know, Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Balaguer (same country, puppet after the US invasion), the Somozas (in Nicaragua) who FDR called "our SOBs", Castillo Armas (Guatemala, after the coup against democratically elected Arbenz).
So now US people are experiencing that very same thing.
I'm not sure I would necessarily agree in full. There probably should be some kind of reference to the basic idea of adherence to the rule of law too rather than rule by law.
You could have a judicial decision but if it is not independent of the executive, for example, then I'm not sure that the involvement of a judicial decision somehow makes it less of a "concentration camp".
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Mars Need Women is a hopeful yet deeply dystopian feminist SF web-novel (free-to-read on Mastodon) that leans heavily into Women's rights issues. It is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise.
Our wannabe engineer heroine May Ri escapes a disheartening life, faced with becoming little more than a housewife because she lacks "blessings," to help colonize Marsโif you can call being shanghaied escaping and being contracted to have children a benefit. (She does choose the gorgeous supportive guy to "work with," though, so that's a positive.) As she learns to make uniquely useful martian machines, she keeps putting herself at the center of a global martian dust storm as martian power shifts from being male-dominated to a predominately female 1st generation of martians. May Ri together with her five daughters, shape a world (Mars) the way unfettered women might imagine it.
When the men of Earth take affrontโof course they doโthey learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen
Below is a slightly revised and updated version of the jacket blurb for this novel. It was published daily in March 2024 as part of a #Writever challenge, and I completed all 31 chapters using all 31 Women's Rights prompts, managing to complete the last chapter and post it only 20 minutes into April 1st.
The story was definitely beta, with a plot hole and janky science and a few character boo-boos, but I like the result. I have since greatly revised the story and added plenty of material. Writing content daily to fit it into a toot-length that worked out to 750-800 words max forced compromises.
I plan to publish the novel in book form. As such, I have deleted the original free-to-read version. When I've sold or published the novel, I'll be sure to inform all my followers.
If you were part way through the story, PM me.
For you that read it, and for those who favorited chapters, Thank you.
In order not to 404 dozens and dozens of links, the version below is slightly updated and retained as a placeholder.
May Ri bought into the hype and the spiel, not realizing it was the last gasp of a long dead oligarch's dream. When the money dried up, nobody would finance the supply missions. Who cared about the ten thousand up there when you could outrage the millions down here with something less expensive? Earthers returned to their petty games of slaveryโthat wasn't called as suchโand empire that ate nations.
On Mars, colonists were pushed to their limits: The asteroid mining missions, the expanding the domes and monorail-lines, the spinlaunchers and Deimosbase, the raising the first and second generation martians. Men died disproportionately. In the end, a few strongmen attempted to corner the growing "female resource" to their benefit and to the benefit their sons, working to crush the whisper of the half-forgotten promise of democracy that had followed May Ri to the planet of war.
She and her nisei daughters led the way, fighting. Together with "sisters" and with "aunts," the women redefined which gender would be considered a "resource."
They found that the blood of the ever-absent fathers spilled on the rusty regolith of Mother Mars blended in nicely.
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