• “Weaponization Czar” Ed Martin Threatens U.S. Security
• The DOGE Committee Has Become the Modern-Era HUAC
• MI Republicans Think It's “Inappropriate” to Ask GOP Lawmaker to Prove Their Gender
• Republicans Seek To Cut Medicaid By Imposing Work Requirements
• A Devastating New Exposé of Johnson & Johnson Indicts an Entire System | The New Republic

• How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes | WIRED
• Donald Trump Is No Longer the President of the United States
• An Obituary for the FBI
• Raising My Children in Bucks County Between Two Identities and Cultures - Bucks County Beacon
• My no-plastic life: I tried to cut out single-use items for a month – and it almost broke me | Plastics | The Guardian
• Why Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris in 2024 election
• U.S. Credit Downgrade Rattles Markets in Run-up to Budget and Debt Standoff
• Pennsylvania election overhaul clears Democratic-led House - Votebeat
• Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship - PEN America
• Corruption and a Security Catastrophe in Plane Sight

• The murder business - by Judd Legum and Noel Sims
• Far Right Federal Judge Rules Gay And Trans People Can Be Discriminated Against In Workplaces
• "Chilling Effect," 11th Circuit Blocks Florida's Drag Ban
• How ‘Job Loss Penalty’ Reframes the Fight for Medicaid
• American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show
• Having a clear vision in a blurred world | by Thomas Ricouard | May, 2025 | Medium

• Inside Lucy the Elephant, the 143-year-old Shore monument to kitsch
• Lower Salford Township v. EPA (2:11-cv-06489)
• The Aura of Invincibility is Fading - by Jennifer Rubin
• Republicans target Democratic Pa. Supreme Court justices in retention election
• Philly university leaders skipped City Council DEI hearing
• The Papacy and the Pathway Out
• Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US – Krebs on Security
• Governor warns Pennsylvanians will lose health care, hospitals will close under GOP cuts to Medicaid | AP News
• The Trump administration wants to end LIHEAP. 300K Pa. households could struggle to pay heating bills. : r/Pennsylvania
• PA GOP silent after Dawn Keefer calls for rebellion against Shapiro’s budget
• Ground control to Major Trial
• DOGE’s Fraud Tracker at Social Security Turns Into a Massive Self-Own
• Democrats pass sweeping election bill through PA House • Spotlight PA

Links submitted to me in this thread​

• New Worldmaking: Reparations as climate justice, climate justice as reparations
• There’s hope · Nils Mielke, the Website
• Build Then Smile
• Prepare ye the way. But what is the way now?
• Ungovernable Love: What is Ungovernable Love?
• Ariadne Systems - Ecologically Harmonious Lifestyle
• 🔭 The Branding Essay

Links I stumbled on​

• MAGA, Measles and the Wellness Hustle
• US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return – POLITICO
• World's longest range LED flashlight : r/flashlight
• New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots - Ars Technica
• Government Furiously Trying to Undo Elon Musk's Damage
• Still Getting On The Air – KC8JC
• Twitterlike is a Bad Shape

• The Moderate Case Against Transgender Sports Bans
• Hypercritical: Apple Turnover
• OPM appears to cancel sole-source award for cloud HR system
• Potentially Useful | Weeknote for 2025-W12
• Trump’s Anger Spins Out of Control at Presser as Another Bad Poll Hits | The New Republic
• Why does it feel like when I learned history in school those women protesting for suffrage and rights were awesome at making a political impact but nowadays when I see protestors it looks like it’s doing nothing? : r/NoStupidQuestions
• Why annexing Canada would destroy the United States
• Exclusive: US CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say | Reuters
• Cancelling, Crybullies and Consequences - by Laurie Penny
• Letter I received from Sen. Alsobrooks : r/maryland

• A Maryland town wanted Trump to cut waste. Now it's a target : NPR
• Resin Shine Co
• Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads
• Whistleblowing in Federal IT: What I Did, Why It Matters, and How You Can Speak Up Safely : r/fednews
• Trump’s tactics familiar to some who fled authoritarian regimes : NPR
• She Found Her Video | Illegal Parker Says She's Suing Us.. Again - YouTube
• The Brain Behind the Strongline Staff Safety Badge System | Jefferson Health
• PA schools use equity funds to cover rising cyber charter costs • Spotlight PA
• Wrong turn leads to hundreds of immigrant arrests at the Detroit-Canada border bridge : NPR
• Man suing Trump puts president on notice: 'We're not going to let him get away with it' - Raw Story

• Burning rubber: residents fight power plant planning to burn tires for cryptocurrency

• Christopher Pelkey — AI ‘victim testimony’ from beyond the grave – Pivot to AI
• John Fetterman’s alleged outburst, behavior concerns staffers • Spotlight PA
• Counterclockwise Universe — I think a lot about how we as a culture have...
• places.pub - places.pub is a service that makes OpenStreetMap geographical data available as ActivityPub objects.
• Pennsylvania: Five Democratic Senators Defect for Anti-Trans Sports Ban
• Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied.
• Roundup: Experts Condemn Trump Pseudoscientific Anti-Trans "Report"
• Disengaged Voters Supported Trump In 2024 And Now They're Jumping Ship
• The head of FEMA defended the agency, so Trump fired him. | Grist

• Montgomery County Concert Band celebrates 30 years - North Penn Now
• Dem-aligned PACs mail fake Republican sample ballots in MontCo
• The Majority Turns on Trump: Support Shrinks, Protests Grow
• The AI Slop Presidency
• DOGE’s Gavin Kliger Received Conflict Warnings Before CFPB Firings — ProPublica