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“The judge, the prosecutor, the sheriff and the jail are basically all throwing their hands up and saying, ‘ICE told us to hold him, so we’re going to keep holding him,’ even though no one disagrees with the fact that he’s a citizen. So they’re right now unlawfully holding a US citizen. They’ve dismissed the underlying criminal charges, so the only reason they’re holding him is because ICE sent a piece of paper over that says, ‘Please hold this person for us. We’ll come pick him up later,’” Greer said.

breadwinner··on GOP Senator: 'We Are All Afraid'
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breadwinner··on [dead]
Not just political rivals. Protesting can get you sent to El Salvador prison. Remember, Trump wanted to shoot protestors back in his first term. Compared to that, being sent to El Salvador prison is getting off easy.
breadwinner··on [dead]
In the El Salvador stock market?
breadwinner··on [dead]
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Trump says his administration is actively exploring a proposal to detain U.S. citizens and send them to prisons in El Salvador. "The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You've got to build about five more places," Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.

"The problem of course is [Trump] already has illegally deported hundreds of people by just not giving the courts an opportunity to stop him," says David Bier of the Cato Institute. "I think that's the real fear, now that he is going to try to evade judicial review of deportations of U.S. citizens."

Also:

Appellate judges in the Abrego Garcia case have warned that the administration’s position would mean “the government could send any of us to a Salvadoran prison without due process.” [1].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opinion/trump-harvard-abr...

breadwinner··on IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status
Ultimately it is going to be Xi Jinping that rescues American democracy. How, you ask? By refusing to give in to Trump. When MAGA voters go to Walmart and find that everyday essentials have doubled in price, Trump will lose their support. When Trump loses MAGA support that's when GOP senators will be emboldened. We need 20 of them to convict and remove Trump from office.
breadwinner··on IRS making plans to rescind Harvard's tax-exempt status
CNN’s report that the IRS is making plans to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status the day after President Donald Trump suggested it represents an unprecedented use of presidential power over the tax code. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/politics/universities-tax-exe...

Other abuses of power:

Trump urges the FCC to punish ‘60 Minutes’ over reports on Greenland and Ukraine https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/media/trump-fcc-60-minutes-cb...

Trump orders DOJ investigation of two first-term administration aides who criticized him https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/09/donald-trump-retrib...

The IRS, FCC, DOJ are now weapons under Trump.

breadwinner··on Trump admin plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing
No it was the team known as 18F that Elon Musk "deleted".

https://apnews.com/article/irs-direct-file-musk-18f-6a4dc35a...

Excerpt: Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk posted Monday on his social media site that he had “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as the IRS’ Direct File program.

breadwinner··on Trump admin plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing
Intuit spends millions lobbying against simplifying the tax code and against government filing free tax services... while raising the price of their software.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

breadwinner··on Trump admin plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing
Over the weekend I helped someone file taxes using http://directfile.irs.gov/

It is very impressive in terms of usability and design.

Musk “deleted” 18F, a government agency that worked on technology projects such as Direct File.

breadwinner··on Significant performance improvements with Edge 134
I switched to Chrome after noticing severe problems with Edge: The laptop's fan would turn on and task manager shows no processes consuming high CPU. Eventually I found that Edge is the culprit. Killing every Edge process quiets the fan.

Another problem with Edge is intrusion into the web page. Curved corners for example. Every pixel in the page belongs to the application, and Edge is intruding. When you select text Edge shows its own menu, and you're confused as to whether the application is showing the menu or Edge.

breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
> highest combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio

Very hard to believe.

breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
Please backup your claim of more Gazans alive today. Gaza is a parking lot. In fact it is worse than a parking lot... it is not possible to park many cars there because of all the fallen buildings. (I am going by what I see on TV... not a single building is seen still left standing.)
breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
First of all, the proportional response should be delivered directly to the source: Iran. There are lots of bad guys in Gaza, but there are lots of innocent people too. Indiscriminately killing everyone is not the solution.
breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
Not committing genocide would be a good start. And yes, I am opposed to all genocide.
breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
The correct number of non-Hamas fatalities is 0.
breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
> when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

And where it gets disturbing is when you make the claim of different standard without any evidence, and launch accusations of antisemitism.

Not everyone in Gaza is Hamas. As of January 2025, at least 46,707 Palestinians have been reported killed, including about 18,000 children. Israel has a right to annihilate Hamas, but those 18,000 children were not Hamas.

breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
If anything negative you can say about Israel is equated to antisemitism then Israel gets a free pass. Hamas engaged in terrorism, but Israel's response was out of proportion. Saying that aloud doesn't make one antisemitic. The ICC and UN are not antisemitic organizations for ordering arrest of Netanyahu and condemning Israel's use of excessive force.
breadwinner··on Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes
Being anti-Israel should not be conflated with being antisemitic. After all, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for a reason.

Trump is using “antisemitism” as cover for the imposition of authoritarianism. This comes from Putin's playbook. Putin used denazification as an excuse for invading Ukraine.

Trump himself has espoused antisemitism from time to time, see below.

John Kelly, Trump’s former White House chief of staff, reiterated his assertion that Trump said, “Hitler did some good things, too,” in a story published Tuesday in The New York Times. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-said-hitler-did-...

Donald Trump dabbles in Nazi allusions too often for it to be a coincidence. https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/trump-nazi-allusions...

Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53098439

Trump’s latest flirtation with Nazi symbolism draws criticism https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4677700-trumps-latest-...

Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/11/fac...

Donald Trump's 'Star of David' Tweet About Hillary Clinton Posted Weeks Earlier on Racist Feed https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” are still on the shelves but “Memorializing the Holocaust” was removed. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/politics/naval-academy...

breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
I don't get that warning on my Windows 11 laptop. Instead it updates and reboots while the laptop lid is closed.
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
You can still give users a 24-hour warning at a minimum, and only force a reboot for really critical issues.
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
It doesn't let you type text on the image. That's so important! The main thing I want to do when I take a screenshot is to circle something, or draw an arrow, then type some text about the item I am pointing to.
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
That's not enough. Sometimes it is system tasks that don't show up in the task manager.
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
I laughed at your response too, because tar is part of Windows 11. See C:\Windows\System32\tar.exe
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
Markdown should have a UI viewer
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
So much easier to use tar -z
breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
Here are my gripes with the modern Windows experience:

- Runs Windows update and reboots without my permission

- Keeps trying to make me switch to Bing

- Keeps trying to make me use Microsoft Account vs. local account

- Does a crappy job of reopening windows on reboot. Miserable copy of macOS.

- Fan spinning on my laptop with no easy way to figure out what process is consuming CPU

- Flat UI

- No built-in way to view markdown files

- No tool to graphically show where my diskspace went; allowing me to find and delete large files

- Printers keep getting disconnected; it is easier to print from iPhone thanks to bonjour

- No dictionary app (macOS has it)

- Can't airdrop to iPhone (3rd party apps can do it)

- No screenshot tool that allows you to type text (in addition to circling and highlighting and arrows)

- No command-line zip / unzip

- No instant search (macOS has had it for how many years now?)

breadwinner··on Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft
> First large scale application of proof of correctness technology.

Curious about this. How does it work? Does it use any methods invented by Leslie Lamport?

breadwinner··on Executive Order Revoking Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Clearances, Review of CISA
As of yesterday 46% approve of the job he is doing [1] so not quite 50% but not far below it. Unless it drops to around 20% GOP senators aren't going to be emboldened to oppose Trump and without GOP senators you can't get a veto-proof majority.

[1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trumps-approval-rati...

breadwinner··on Executive Order Revoking Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Clearances, Review of CISA
> the quicker something can be done about it

Such as what, exactly? Trump still enjoys higher than 50% popularity, and unless his popularity dips significantly there ain't shit you can do about it. And his popularity is chiefly among uneducated people who cannot be reached, if they could be reached he wouldn't have won the election.

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