Notices by Bodhipaksa (bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot)

Capital One bank closed more than 300 Trump-affiliated bank accounts in March 2021 because of evidence of money laundering.

Five years ago.

I’m curious whether they reported their suspicions to law enforcement and what action, if any, was taken. Crooked Trump should be in prison, not in the White House.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/01/capital-one-trump-organization-money-laundering

I support almost all of these goals.

I don't know who designed the image, which came up on an image search. I found it here:

https://www.facebook.com/Vivian4ILDems/photos/1345277134266400/

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@bodhipaksa/116872815290955339

This datacentre planned for my home county, Fife, would use twenty freaking percent of Scotland's electricity. It's a monster and must be stopped. Please help stop it by signing this petition.

Kind of bummed that this petition against a monstrous AI data center has not yet broken 6,000 signatures.

“One of the world’s largest AI data centres is being planned next to Auchtertool village in Fife, Scotland. The height of six double decker buses and length of 100 football pitches. An estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy will be consumed by this.”

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-ai-data-centre-near-auchtertool-fife

RE: https://mastoart.social/@StevenLawsonPhotography/116866273529407618

Please sign this petition against a proposed AI data center in my home county.

“One of the world’s largest AI data centres is being planned next to Auchtertool village in Fife, Scotland. The height of six double decker buses and length of 100 football pitches. An estimated 20% of Scotland’s energy will be consumed by this.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116852299808101769

"A data scientist calculated how many fireworks that is per second (354) and how many you will miss every time you blink. (Between 35 and 142.) But this is America’s 250th birthday and Donald Trump’s people are in charge of it. So of course it must be so huge that it is dangerous, irresponsible, unnecessary, and indicates our president is overcompensating for something."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iamdavidobrien/116693644158702747

I feel sorry for people who spent thousands on World Cup tickets only to have their visas revoked, but a lot of us have been saying for a long time not to come here.

We have a fascist regime here. People are being put in camps without due process. Visitors are screened for their political views, which may be why some football fans are being turned away.

These people should consider themselves lucky they are losing only their money, and not their liberty.

Perhaps the strangest directorial decision in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) is that the count has armadillos scuttling around in his Transylvanian castle.

@kims This more like "Age and OS yourself," surely?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116621327185195576

‘A button gives the option to “text President Trump,” which, when clicked, opens a text message to a pre-selected number with the default text “Greatest President Ever!”’

RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116619038437392628

A new Museum of American Treason.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116521203382846336

This is insane. Google Chrome is now malware.

Theists look at the world and believe that such complexity and beauty can only come from some kind of intelligence.

Richard Dawkins looks at the words Claude produces and believes such complexity and beauty can only come from some kind of intelligence.

Dawkins is making exactly the same mistake as the theists he scorns.

https://www.dailygrail.com/2026/05/the-claude-delusion-richard-dawkins-believes-his-female-ai-chatbot-is-conscious/

Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense, argues that the greatest enemy of the United States is not Russia, China, or Iran, but any elected representative who opposes Donald Trump.

“The biggest adversary we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans.”

This is what fascism looks like.

This criminal investigation smacks of Justice Department targeting its political enemies. I'm pretty sure that not many donors to the SPLC will be upset that funds were used to pay people to infiltrate and spy on far-right groups.

https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be

Former attorney for the DoJ confirms my suspicions. This is warfare, conducted, though the DoJ, against a nonprofit that shows up the most hateful elements on the right for what they are.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vXk_GZWuojI

Orbán, who has just been sent packing, has been preventing the EU from sending funds to Ukraine. So the election really is a double-whammy for Putin and a double boost for democracy.

Up to 777 people have been held at an Arizona ICE facility designed for 157. There are no beds, no showers. People sleep on concrete floors and have been held there for up to 18 days — that we know of.

The treatment of these people is utterly inhumane. After we take power back from the fascists there's going to have to be a reckoning.

https://azmirror.com/2026/04/10/ice-overcrowding-like-sardines-congressional-oversight-arizona/

None of us are safe. The Trump administration does not accept that we have a firsdt amendment right to criticize them.

"The Trump administration has stepped up an effort to unmask a Reddit user who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). After failing to obtain information through a summons issued to Reddit, the government reportedly issued a subpoena demanding that Reddit provide the information and appear before a grand jury in Washington, DC."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/trump-admin-hounds-reddit-to-reveal-identity-of-user-who-criticized-ice/

"Behind closed doors [Trump] was talking about launching a preemptive strike against North Korea and of using a nuclear weapon against the country and blaming someone else for the strike."

I don't remember hearing in 2017 that Trump had to be talked out of nuking North Korea and blaming it on someone else.

Is this another instance of an NYT journalist sitting on a story of massive public interest for years so that they can write a book?