Notices by Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org), page 2

A feel-good story in the news today...

Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books – one by one – to a new storefront about a block away.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one

The “book brigade” of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books’ former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.

“It was a practical way to move the books, but it also was a way for everybody to have a part,” Michelle Tuplin, the store’s owner, said. “As people passed the books along, they said ‘I have not read this’ and ‘that’s a good one’.”

Tuplin said the endeavour took just under two hours – much shorter than hiring a moving company to box and unbox the thousands of titles. The brigade even put the books back on the shelves in alphabetical order.

This looks to be a rather important scoop by Politico. Musk's DOGE brats are behind a lot of the deportation shenanigans that have been going on. They're inside ICE and Social Security, and IRS, and etc. funneling that info to ICE and even helping to develop the strategies to deport as many people as possible, i.e. to make the ICE director's dream of "An Amazon Prime for humans" a reality.

DOGE’s bread and butter has been slashing headcounts but it is now wielding its influence deep inside the nation’s immigration system — an initiative led by one of Elon Musk’s closest friends, three Trump administration officials granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics told POLITICO. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327

Antonio Gracias, a Musk confidante whose history with the billionaire goes back more than 20 years, is quietly heading up a specialized DOGE immigration task force that’s embedded engineers & staffers across nearly every nook of the DHS, two of the people said. The task force is also working with DOGE operatives stationed at other agencies like the Social Security Administration & the Department of Health and Human Services, which house sensitive data on undocumented immigrants.

With Musk’s trusted friend & fixer at the helm, the task force marks a significant expansion of DOGE’s portfolio — from primarily working on agency-wide layoffs to executing the president’s most hardline immigration policies. It’s also a test for how far DOGE’s reach can extend.

They are providing the technical infrastructure for a sweeping set of actions aimed at revoking parole, terminating visas, and later on, reengineering the asylum adjudication process, according to the officials. Their first mission: implement parole terminations for 6,300 undocumented immigrants who either have criminal records or are on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist. That effort required coordinating with the Social Security Administration to have their Social Security numbers effectively canceled by adding them to a database that tracks dead people, the New York Times and the Washington Post first reported. Their theory is that without effective Social Security numbers – needed for bank accounts and loans, among other things – these people would “self deport.”

But what actually happens in the government’s IT systems to make sure that those people are eligible for deportation? Who makes sure that that is reflected in the database? That is where DOGE comes in to comb through datasets at all relevant agencies & facilitate data-sharing between agencies so the enforcement actions can be carried out systematically & at-scale, one of administration officials said.

Tesla’s US sales are worse than what is reported, here’s more accurate data https://electrek.co/2025/04/11/tesla-us-sales-worse-than-what-is-reported-more-accurate-data/

Tesla’s electric vehicle sales in the US are worse than what the media is reporting right now. That’s partly because Tesla is hiding its sales.

The best way to figure out Tesla deliveries in the US is to take deliveries based on registration data in all other markets where Tesla sells vehicles in the world, which are quite accurate, and subtract that number from Tesla’s reported global deliveries. For the first quarter, Tesla reported 336,681 deliveries globally, and Tesla registrations in all markets except the US and Canada totaled 212,024 vehicles.

This would mean Tesla delivered about 124,657 vehicles in the US and Canada in Q1 2025. That’s already about 3,500 fewer deliveries than Cox’s estimate, but it includes Canadian deliveries, which are also hard to estimate in the first quarter. It’s safe to assume that they are at about 5,000 units.

This means that Tesla is down closer to 15% than the 8% they report in the US in Q1 2025.

#TeslaTakedown

The Hill: The Pentagon is trying to woo back to the military thousands of service members involuntarily discharged over refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccination, starting with “letters of apology” sent this week, according to the defense official overseeing the effort. President Trump, in Jan. 27 executive order, stipulated that the booted service members could be brought back with full back pay and benefits, with an easier medical screening.

[Which is itself a lie:] rather than receiving a large windfall of back pay, troops, airmen and sailors would be given a sum that allows them to “stand financially in the same position they would have stood in had they never been discharged.” That figure would be reached by taking into account all basic pay, food and housing allowances and bonuses they would have received if never booted. But any dollar they’ve earned while out of the military as well as Department of Veterans’ Affairs payments or benefits given in that time would be deducted from that sum.
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Why would the military be desperately trying to grow their ranks with people that bought into right wing conspiracies enough to disobey lawful orders? hmmm?

FFS. Trump is expected to sign an executive order today that will redefine coal as a "mineral." minerals are inorganic compounds. coal is an organic compound. You can't just redefine scientific terms, jackass.

Dangerous territory. The cartels have some real reach, and are quite vicious. And increased violence in the US in response would be a convenient excuse for martial law. I'm increasingly convinced Trump wants to be a wartime president to increase his powers.

NBC: The Trump administration is considering launching drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico as part of an ambitious effort to combat criminal gangs trafficking narcotics across the southern border, according to six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with knowledge of the matter.

Still, the administration has made no final decision and reached no definitive agreement about countering the cartels. And unilateral covert action, without Mexico’s consent, has not been ruled out and could be an option of last resort, the sources said. It is unclear whether American officials have floated the possibility of drone strikes to the Mexican government.

The U.S. military and the CIA have dramatically stepped up surveillance flights over Mexico to collect intelligence in advance of what is likely to be a major campaign against the cartels, which the White House has labeled a threat to national security, the six sources said. The flights are being carried out with Mexico’s approval, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has said.

Well this is some bullshit.

Basically all they did is shift the case to Texas and away from Judge Boasberg. Which is a cowardly ploy to try reversing the decision without being accountable for it.

https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/supreme-court-requires-noncitizens-to-challenge-detention-and-removal-in-texas/

#ConstitutionalCrisis #SupremeCourt

The unintended consequences of this regime's actions are delightfully ironic.

Reduced consumption and a crashed economy may very well result in the US finally meeting Paris Climate Agreement carbon emission goals.

R.I.P. Freedom of Information Act.

“Hello, the FOIA office has been placed on admin leave and is unable to respond to any emails."

Having read more on violent and disturbing misogynist group 764 which preys on teen girls mostly. It is global. And there are a bunch of splinter groups including:

No Lives Matter, Com, Terrorgram Collective, Order of Nine Angles (O9A), 8884 and probably a number of others.

They appear to be active on Telegram and Discord channels. And seek victims via Minecraft and Roblox.

I've tried to make the post not need a CW for reach. but any search regarding them is bound to reveal very disturbing material. Parents should be aware of this threat.

Here are two recent Wired articles. consider them to have content warnings. I've used archive dot is to bust the paywall and ensure no preview loads...

There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. https://archive.is/gJrQk

The Violent Rise of ‘No Lives Matter’
“No Lives Matter” has emerged in recent months as a particularly violent splinter group within the extremist crime network known as Com and 764, and experts are at a loss for how to stop its spread. https://archive.is/japUi

Huh. Just learned of this non-profit news org that focuses on state-level news - presumably to help fill the gaps left by the gutting of news staff at smaller papers. https://statesnewsroom.com/

Noticed that a story in The Kansas Reflector by States Newsroom had information about the Ukranian emails story that wasn't included in CBS's or Reuters or any of the other articles I've read. Namely:

Attorneys challenging the Trump administration’s pause of humanitarian applications for Ukrainians and Afghans, as well as the end of legal status programs for nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela, filed a copy of the termination notice sent to Ukrainians in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts on Friday.

The notice, given on Thursday, instructs any Ukrainians in the Uniting for Ukraine humanitarian parole program to leave the U.S. within seven days of receiving the notice, according to court filings.

“It is time for you to leave the United States,” according to the notice sent to some Ukrainians that immigration rights groups filed in court. “If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States — unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here.”
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The other newsorgs made no mention of the court filings, which are probably what led the regime to officially say they were sent "in error"

Wow. Even the Wall Street Journal editorial board gets what's going on...

"A bigger Washington swamp. Tariffs impose costs that businesses will want to avoid. They will thus be a windfall for Beltway lobbyists as companies and countries seek exemptions from this or that border tax.

"Mr. Trump is saying there will be no tariff exemptions. But watch that promise vanish as politicians, including Mr. Trump, see exemptions as a way to leverage campaign contributions from business. Liberation Day is Buy Another Yacht Day for the swamp."
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it's possible they even made the editorial paywall free... https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-protectionism-82d0aa3a

but just in case: https://archive.is/b6GAj

Tragic Girls #AI comic

How embarrassing.

The United States is sending a three-person disaster response team to earthquake-stricken Myanmar, days after much larger contingents from China and Russia began pulling people out of the rubble. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-02/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts-emergency-response/105125224

The NYTimes reported the US team was expected to arrive on Wednesday — five days after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake flattened large parts of the country's biggest cities on Friday. Mr Konyndyk, former lead for disaster relief at USAID said the first five days after a disaster was the key time-frame for finding people alive. "The US has missed that window, and the cost of that is lost lives of people who could have been saved in Myanmar," he said.

"It's not a case of worst-practice, it's really a case of no-practice," Mr Konyndyk, who is now president of Refugees International, told the ABC. "It just makes the US look, frankly, kind of weak and irrelevant to most of the other countries that have shown up in force to support the people of Myanmar."

There’s a LOT of tornado warnings coming through right now. Good thing the regime finally extended (at the last minute) the NWS contract that gets them the data and imagery needed to issue these

TIL. This is why capsules turn around and re-enter the atmosphere butt first…

The heat load experienced by a re-entry vehicle is inversely proportional to the drag coefficient. counterintuitively, the greater the drag, the less the heat load. Through making the reentry vehicle blunt, air can't ‘get out of the way’ quickly enough, and acts as an air cushion to push the shock wave and heated shock layer forward. Since most of the hot gases are no longer in direct contact with the vehicle, the heat energy stays in the shocked gas and simply moves around the vehicle to later dissipate into the atmosphere.

It's usually assumed that the mechanism of heating in reentry is by friction (i.e. viscous drag in the atmosphere). In fact, this is the predominant mechanism only at lower altitudes, as air density increases. During the fastest and hottest part of the descent, less familiar physics are in play. A reentering vehicle develops a very energetic pressure wave at its leading surfaces. The energy density is sufficient to cause atmospheric molecules to dissociate, and their component atoms to become ionized. The vehicle thus descends in a superheated shroud of incandescent plasma.

@evan while all that may be true, I would suggest that such statements are only helpful as a release of frustration and anger. They do little to gain allies in any cause and instead sow division in the very ranks you’re trying to enlist.

I would posit that similar (equally justified) sentiments of anger and frustration aimed at men for not doing enough during the MeToo era resulted in riper conditions for the likes of Jordan Peterson to gain a following, which in turn contributed to the fascist pickle we find ourselves in down here.

I could be justified in saying it was the responsibility of all Canadians to stop your madman Jordan from spewing all his hatred south of the border. Note how that statement makes you feel. Does that kind of passive aggression motivate you to do something about him? No. It sows the very division that makes achieving our mutual goals further out of reach.

I see you. I hear you. I feel you. And we will do what we can, but that may not be enough. Iraq remains fresh in my memory after all.

Need a hopeful story? 22 students at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, 4 years ago, set out to "really inspire people and the market and society to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable future. What we’re trying to do is to show people and show companies what’s already possible.”

So they made a #solarpunk campervan fully equipped with living essentials including a double bed, sofa, kitchen area and a bathroom with a shower, sink and toilet. It can fit two people, who can drive, cook breakfast and watch television using just the vehicle’s solar-charged battery.

Then they took it on a tour of Europe driving 1,200 miles without stopping for fuel or plugging in to charge. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/stella-vita-solar-campervan-netherlands-spc-intl/index.html