Notices by Anna Anthro (annaanthro@mastodon.social)

#Trump Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

“They’re ripping the HQ out of DC and shipping it to Salt Lake City, #Utah — the beating heart of the anti-public-lands movement in America.

They’re shuttering every single one of the ten regional offices that have governed this agency since Pinchot built the system over a century ago…”

https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2026/04/02/breaking-trump-administration-orders-dismantling-of-the-u-s-forest-service/

#Tesla Admits Its #Robotaxis Are Sometimes Driven by Remote Humans

“Six of the firms insisted that their remote assistance workers, who work across the US and even, in the case of #Waymo, in the Philippines, never actually drive the vehicles directly.

Instead, the humans provide input that the autonomous vehicle software then decides to use or ignore.”

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-says-its-robotaxis-are-sometimes-driven-by-humans/

#Texas megachurch pastor Robert Morris who pleaded guilty to child sex abuse freed from #Oklahoma jail

“Morris pleaded guilty last year to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child as part of a plea agreement under which he received a 10-year suspended sentence with the first six months to be served in the Osage County Jail.

The abuse began in 1982 when the victim was 12.”

https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-sexual-abuse-oklahoma-ac17d1fd200f5c8af99c469486862150

Nestle says 12 tonnes (over 413,000 bars) of #KitKat stolen in Europe

“The stolen truck had left central #Italy and was making its way to #Poland, with a plan to distribute the bars in countries along the way.

KitKat did not say where specifically the goods had gone missing, but said “the vehicle and its contents remain unaccounted for”.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/sweet-heist-nestle-says-12-tonnes-of-kitkat-stolen/

#Trump Admin & especially Miller Yelling Forced ICE Chief Todd Lyons to Hospital for Stress: Report

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-ice-chief-has-been-hospitalized-for-stress-report-11749530

Wow - the power of photography.

The front cover of this week’s The Economist magazine, entitled ‘Advantage Iran’

Genetic record for domestic dogs pushed back by 5,000 years

“Researchers have identified the earliest known dog genomes, which push the genetic record for #dogs back by more than 5,000 years.

They recovered these genomes from remains of between 14,000 and 16,000 years old found at #archaeology sites that span Europe and the Middle East.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00900-6

How the world's first webcam stream from #Cambridge University made a 1991 #coffee pot famous

“One of the things that's very, very important in computer science research is a regular and dependable flow of #caffeine”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20439301

#ICE Reports Another Detention Death While Congress Does Nothing: 2nd This Week, 13th This Year, 42nd Under #Trump.

“That’s one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating”

“I've been tracking every ICE detention death under Trump and publishing the data publicly. Read the full breakdown, including the searchable table of all 42 deaths”

https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predicted-ice-reports-another

I wake up to this… wth… Batsh*t lunacy!

The ‘Buy Canadian’ consumer movement is more than just talk — and now the numbers prove it esp in coffee, fruit juices, travel and stocks.

“Canadians took almost 10 million or 25 per cent fewer trips to the US last year.

The biggest drop was in trips across the border by land which fell by 8.4 million or 30 per cent.

Trips by air were down 1.2 million or 12 per cent.”

#Canada #tariffs #cdnpoli

https://financialpost.com/news/buy-canadian-not-just-talk-data-proof

The draft obtained by The Washington Post on Thursday mentioned #China trying to hijack the 2020 US election would be used to declare election emergency powers.

This Friday version of the draft emergency executive order for #Trump to take control of elections no longer mentions China -

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/exclusive-read-the-draft-executive-emergency-order-for-trump-to-take-control-of-elections/

Larry Summers finally announces that he will quit teaching at #Harvard after #Epstein files reveal his extensive contacts and friendship past date he said he had cut ties

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn716zkyddeo

Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All

Via Greg Sargent

This is the post-9/11 madness turned inwards…

https://newrepublic.com/article/206994/ice-stockpiling-military-weaponry-trump-forever-war

#Uk govt changes rules for dual citizens: you can only enter the UK on an Irish or UK passport as of March this year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/dual-canadian-british-citizens-scrambling-under-new-passport-rules-9.7099400

#Trump State of the Union 2026: List of Democratic lawmakers boycotting the Tuesday, February 24 speech for a ‘People’s State of the Union’.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/trump-state-of-the-union-2026-list-of-democratic-lawmakers-boycotting-february-24-speech-article-153641302

US Senate Dems Want to Ban Dynamic ‘Surveillance’ Pricing at Big Grocery Stores

“The new bill would require stores to disclose their use of facial recognition technology and would ban electronic shelf labels (ESL) in large grocery stores.

ESLs allow retailers to change the price of a given item remotely, opening up the possibility that they could be tied to algorithms which raise and lower prices based on conditions in the store or who’s trying to buy something.”

https://gizmodo.com/dems-want-to-ban-surveillance-pricing-at-big-grocery-stores-2000722182

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@mdrohan/116069343483886642

Madelaine Drohan is the author of ‘He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada’ and a senior fellow at the University of #Ottawa #Canada

#Trump admin sues #Harvard

“…accusing it of failing to comply with a federal investigation and seeking documents to determine whether it had illegally considered race in its admissions process.”

“The move comes less than two weeks after a news report that said Trump had dropped his demand for a payment of $1 billion.”

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20260214/trump-administration-sues-harvard-accuses-it-of-defying-admissions-probe

Senators urge #Trump to scrap social media vetting for foreign tourists

“Two Democratic senators urged the Trump admin to abandon a proposal to require millions of foreign visitors to provide all social media handles used over the past five years.

The proposed policy from US CBP would require travelers from countries in the visa waiver program to submit their social media data.”

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20260214/senators-urge-trump-to-scrap-social-media-vetting-for-foreign-tourists