"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.β¦
"So I had to, under duress, give him permission to look through my email, through my priveleged informationβ¦,"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 β¦all of us."
it's Maine Governor Janet Mills. I wanted you to be the first to know: Iβm 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 Iβd 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 β 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.
βοΈWe've officially filed our lawsuit against Donald Trump for overreaching his authority and illegally freezing funds that go to feeding children in Maine.
I β along with my fellow Democratic governors across the country β 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 Iβm 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 β including threatening to hold federal funding from my state β 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".
Self-promo time! Drop links to your creations, including writing, art and other media! What do you want to share with the #Writephant crowd? #writing
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 Marsβif 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 affrontβof course they doβthey 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 slaveryβthat wasn't called as suchβand 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.
12 Democratic Senators and 48 Democratic House members voted for the Laken Riley Act and helped it become law.
The Laken Riley Act allows the US Govt to deport immigrants on the mere accusation of a crime.
If you see any of those 60 Democrats complain about Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, or K ilmar Abrego Garcia, among hundreds of others, please know they enabled this fascism. With Democrats like these, who needs MAGAs.
The US soul appears to have been sickened even deeper and lost it's human sensitivity and sensibility even more than already seen and feared! It's up to those that still live up to that standards to stand up and resist!
In 1841, Adams successfully argued before the Supreme Court in the Amistad case that captured African slaves should not be sent out of the country for trial.
It is official! We are hosting our own Nextcloud server for the students and staff of Amsterdam University College (AUC).
Rather than dwell in our frustration and disappointment about the university's ever increasing dependence on Big Tech, we decided to simply create the world that we want to live in.
That is why, over the last few weeks, we have set up and tested our own, free and open source alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox.
Link to Nextcloud server: https://nextcloud.opentech-auc.org/.
On 22 December 2019, the presidents of the boards of directors of Dutch universities raised the alarm:
βThe universities have little or no influence on the way data is collected and persoβ¦
When Donald Trump finally loses his stranglehold on America itβs heartening to know that he, Musk and everyone else involved in the destruction of American institutions can be deported to foreign prisons without due process by using Trumpβs own executive orders.
2 sadistic despots: Bukele has assc himself w the key figures in Trumpβs orbit to solidify his credibility w him. On X, he interacts with & reposts Musk, R-leaning journalists... He's used SM to revel in helping Trump circumvent orders from US courts.
Bukele publicly floated the idea of taking in US-citizen prisoners: SLV "prepared to help the US βoutsource part of its prison system β¦ in exchange for a fee.β
It is appearing very likely that #RationalWiki will be dissolved this year due to lack of legal representation (no pro bono lawyers came forward and we do not have funds to hire a lawyer). Meritless #defamation lawsuits were filed against us by "human biodiversity"/"scientific racism"/pro-eugenics plaintiffs. The plaintiffs are consequently likely to win their cases by default.
Racialism (also known as scientific racism) is a set of far-right pseudoscientific ideas which hold that humanity can at all be meaningfully divided into biological categories ("races") that are both broad (each category should include many humans, sβ¦
π¬ 2Β Β π 179Β Β β€οΈ 552Β Β·Β Factories of the 1950s are not coming back.
We need green energy jobs, technology, education, research, and infrastructure investment.
We need the opposite of MAGA.
So, just picked me up a new used LG Ultra wide monitor, got it set up and...
1920X1080 maximum available resolution. Yeah, that's a problem, the native resolution is 2560X1080 and that's why I bought it. Sure, size is wrong in the preferences, 34in, but the 29in LG ultra wide has always done that.
So, we go searching for an answer and on one thread, the question of cable quality comes up along with some ways to determine port, mode and things like that. Notably, despite it having an HDMI input, it shows my computer is using Display port. Hmm, that means I'm using one of my old Amazon Basics DP to HDMI cables, I wonder...
The computer has both HDMI and DP output, at one time I'd had two monitors connected, and I guess I just kept using the DP for no particular reason, switch to HDMI, and Bob's your uncle.
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Is anyone else seeing Medicare not pay for prior auth stuff now?
Last year #medicare approved #Botox for #migraines after two hospital admissions where they were billed about $25,000 each.
I guess they figured preventative measures at $5000 a pop would be better than $50,000 in a summer. I had this procedure 20 years ago and after the third round of shots it lasted almost a year and it was amazing.
This time my first round was in December, my second round was in February, I was supposed to get the third set in April but they kept postponing it. I assumed it was a staffing problem. Then I looked at my EOB.
Medicare had paid them NOTHING. I am shocked & I think they are too.
I get financial aid at this hospital so regardless I donβt have to pay, but I also donβt want the Hospital system I appreciate and depend on getting ripped off for $10,000 worth of bills.
I would be freaking out right now if I had this procedure at pain management because that would mean I would be shut off from pain management if I was unable to pay this $10,000.
Maybe itβs just me, but please be warned. It doesnβt seem like having a prior authorization matters much anymore. If you qualify for Hospital financial aid please apply now before they stop giving it out.
I donβt know what to do about this but I canceled my next appointment. They keep moving it anyway I assume they want to make sure theyβre going to get paid before they do it again. I donβt even think itβs helping anyway. These are menstrual related migraines not tension headaches triggering migraines.
I sent them a message and I asked them if I should be appealing this before itβs too late. I think I only get 120 days to appeal. Concord Hospital Nurology is so awful Iβll never go there again but I still donβt want them getting ripped off.
Anyone know how to get a Keyspan USA-28X USB to two port 8-pin serial adapter to work with a Raspberry Pi? It shows up under lsusb but says "no firmware." I'm guessing these needed to have firmware uploaded to them when they were plugged in?
I found an 11 year old Github repo that has Keyspan firmware, but maybe it needs to be compiled in a new kernal?
Anyone done this before?
Update! Simply copy the *.fw files to /lib/firmware/keyspan/
I don't think this needs to be compiled. The Keyspan package seems to be absent from Debian. Here is another repo: github.com/RasppleII/keyspan-f⦠You should be able to either build a dpkg out of this, or just dump the .fw files wherever Debian puts firmware...
On my system the driver modules will automatically get firmware from /lib/firmware. I *think* this is a standard thing, but not sure. I had a keyspan USB-serial adapter which did a firmware load when Linux spotted it but I no longer have it so I can't jog my memory that way. I do have other stuff that needs firmware uploading to it, for instance my wifi adapter, but again, the module just grabs it from a pile of firmware in /lib/firmware
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