Notices by josh buermann (buermann@mastodon.social), page 2

"Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, possessed a hard drive populated with sexual abuse images of minors under 14 years of age. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension began investigating the 55-year-old at the end of July, Religion News reports. My Faith Votes, which counts former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as an honorary chair, is one of a group of nonprofits founded to win support among the evangelical community for the former president."

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/this-trump-activist-vowed-to-fight-sexually-deviant-secularism-he-was-caught-with-child-porn/

@robert @i_give_u_worms

Funny how overboard the media monopoly techbros go de-escalating stochastic threats to themselves, but not for trans people or school children or synagogues or Muslims or anybody but themselves.

We've been over this thing where Republicans don't understand what the Department of Energy does so many times and their ignorance is so aggressive that every time it comes up again they bungle it even worse than the last.

https://gizmodo.com/at-the-last-minute-trump-asks-nuclear-safety-administr-1791440966

When Trump was ripping children from their parents MAGAHats yelled at me that he was protecting them from traffickers, but they didn't track who the kids arrived with so they lost both traffickers and parents and now there are hundreds of kids who will never receive justice either way.

Something about their not knowing how to contact the nuclear arsenal maintenance crews they illegally fired that they're desperately trying to rehire reminds me of that story.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345

Don't have to make it about Trump but his three ring circus of rapists, ethno-nationalist irredentists, and carnival barkers. I'm told the administration also harbors a few UFO abductees who were anally implanted with alien mind control devices, but they could be masquerading as any of the other three varieties of epistemic diversity hires.

I dunno, maybe federal workers being frantically called to take their jobs back should very publicly declare their refusal to serve the administration until adults replace the criminally incurious buffoons that indiscriminately fired them without cause?

"More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.” ...

"All previously held senior roles at such tech companies as Google and Amazon and wrote in their resignation letter that they joined the government out of a sense of duty to public service."

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

Gonna be some federal workers who were fired by DOGE and rehired by Trump but then didn't reply to Musk's mass default resignation email while they were still waiting to be onboarded back to their email and were fired again.

https://apnews.com/article/fda-layoffs-trump-doge-rehired-medical-devices-85d4743e4ce88dbe3b99c813bad4b702

All the more ludicrous now that it is Elon Musk smashing the china at DOE, the agency whose loan built Tesla's Fremont factory as part of the same program that produced the fake Solyndra "scandal" in which a tranche of a high-risk portfolio failed and the GOP pretended it was a grave threat to the integrity of the republic, like tan suits or sex without consequences.

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/electric-carmaker-tesla-pays-off-us-loan-idUSBRE94L165/

Just like techies to quit en masse instead of volunteering to be illegally fired while on strike by forming a bargaining unit, I think the joke goes.

One half of Presidents Mumps is suing the Des Moines Register for publishing an election poll while the other half is threatening to imprison 60 Minutes for interviewing a candidate for public office, seemingly in violation of their own executive order "that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-threatens-imprison-entire-154619494.html

Can a right to free speech exist in a world where you're not allowed to inform people of their rights?

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-investigation-illegal-migrant-video-tom-homan-2031045

Been a while since a sitting US president has personally participated in book banning, I think? Though I suppose it is what you would expect to happen after they campaigned on free speech, which has become the clearest indicator that somebody reviles it.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/a-great-shock-julianne-moores-childrens-book-under-review-by-trump-administration

President Biden did not have the power to cancel student loans, but an unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed presidential advisor on the perennial Presidential Catfood Commission will try to cancel the entire Department of Education, creating a fun puzzle for pundits.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaharziv/2025/02/14/will-student-loans-be-cancelled-if-trump-shuts-down-education-department/

"sources told ABC News the enforcement operations this week... are the type of routine immigration raids that have been customary of ICE for years"

Is that true, ABC News? Are 500 ICE arrests on a January day typical? Why should we believe 'sources'? Where's the data? Can anybody be bothered to do rudimentary journalism, or help readers do it themselves? Is this a dramatic escalation or is it escalating drama?

https://abcnews.go.com/US/newark-mayor-ice-raided-business-agents-make-arrests/story?id=118049052

Immigration theater is bad for business, among other things.

https://calmatters.org/economy/2025/01/kern-county-immigration-sweep/

So 200 above average for a day, but they're goosing the anecdata by sweeping up legal immigrants, citizens, and veterans at seafood stores, so you'll have to pardon the inconvenience while it shakes out.

https://myfox8.com/news/ice-agents-raid-seafood-store-detain-us-military-veteran/

You expect MAGA to brag about their ICE enforcement since the whole pretense of the movement is that Biden never arrested any immigrant for anything. But anybody could look up ICE's data (if you hassle google enough they'll eventually cough it up) and figure the same average of 300 ICE arrests per day for the first three months of last year as I just did.

https://www.ice.gov/spotlight/statistics

lol MAGA is gaming google's recency bias to muddy whether they're enforcing immigration more effectively or just with added cruelty in the already cruel and capricious system they created:

"Quick Google searches for Ice operations, raids and arrests return a deluge of government press releases... with the same timestamp and read: 'Updated: 01/24/2025'."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google

Since America is rolling coal into a bottomless maw one can only pray that Trump pushes his 30-day rounds of theatrical tariff threats too far and convinces everybody to buy all the Chinese solar panels and EVs they can make, since there doesn't seem to be any limit to that, either.

https://farmingdale-observer.com/2025/02/04/china-builds-a-massive-250-mile-solar-park-to-power-beijing/