Trump is framing this as a law enforcement operation so he doesn’t need congressional authorization. He’s not defending our country. He’s defending his grip on power with endless wars. “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
#Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “synchronization.” 
Gleichschaltung refers to a process of #Nazification designed to turn Germany into a single party state under Hitler and the Nazi Party. 
Even children were brought into the Nazification process. Participation in the Hitler Youth (Hitlerjugend) and League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel) became mandatory.
At midnight on 1 January, the flexible credit card-sized pass used by millions of New Yorkers to get through subway turnstiles is being terminated from sale just as a new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, takes office. The transit system will fully transition to #Omny, a contactless payment system that allows riders to tap their credit card, phone or other smart device to pay fares, much as they do for other purchases.
The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research library on Friday, a facility that houses tens of thousands of books, documents and journals — many of them not digitized or available anywhere else. Jacob Richmond, a NASA spokesman, said the agency would review the library holdings over the next 60 days and some material would be stored in a government warehouse while the rest would be tossed away. “This process is an established method that is used by federal agencies to properly dispose of federally owned property,” Mr. Richmond said. The shutdown of the library at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., is part of a larger reorganization under the Trump administration that includes the closure of 13 buildings and more than 100 science and engineering laboratories on the 1,270-acre campus by March 2026.
Billionaires with $1 salaries – and other legal tax dodges the ultrawealthy use to keep their riches Billionaires can enjoy growing wealth entirely free of income tax and reporting Mark Zuckerberg was the lowest-paid employee at Meta in 2024, and he made US$1. But he is not the only very rich person who has collected $1 for a year’s work. Why would incredibly rich CEOs make only $1 a year when they could pay themselves millions? The reason is taxes. Income from work is the most heavily taxed type of income, as it is subject to both income and payroll taxes. A self-employed person who makes a modest income of $60,000 will pay over $13,000 of it in payroll and income taxes. Meanwhile, high-income earners who earn a $400,000 salary can pay about 30% of their income in payroll and income taxes. So the first step in avoiding taxes is avoiding salary, and that is what our richest Americans often do.
Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.
A new ad campaign is fighting ICE by trying to convince agents to quit their jobs. In the minute-long spot, an ICE agent returns home to his young daughter after a long day that includes real footage of masked federal agents breaking car windows and terrorizing immigrants. “Daddy, how was your day?” she asks. As he hugs her, text appears on the screen: “What will you say when she asks about your day?” The evocative ads from Women’s March Win encourage agents to “walk away before the shame follows you home” They have run in Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina, where ICE has been deployed, and in West Palm Beach, home to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club
More than 20% of the videos that YouTube’s algorithm shows to new users are “AI slop” – low-quality AI-generated content designed to farm views, research has found. The video-editing company Kapwing surveyed 15,000 of the world’s most popular YouTube channels – the top 100 in every country – and found that 278 of them contain only AI slop. Together, these AI slop channels have amassed more than 63 billion views and 221 million subscribers, -- generating about $117m (£90m) in revenue each year, according to estimates. The researchers also made a new YouTube account and found that 104 of the first 500 videos recommended to its feed were AI slop. One-third of the 500 videos were “#brainrot”, a category that includes AI slop and other low-quality content made to monetise attention.