#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
843 people live on Robinson Crusoe’s desert island now
“This location [Spruce Pine, North Carolina] is vitally important as it is claimed to be “the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.”” Extra pure silica. #manufacturing
The effort to rename #JWST back to its original name, “NGST”, was because of James Webb’s “complicit silence [with the Lavender Scare] during his leadership roles at both the State Department and NASA”, which he headed 01961–01968. #LGBT #history #public-shaming
#video of Paul Lagier’s keyfob-sized #e-ink e-reader #hardware called “Pala One”, based on #ESP32.
#video about #sex glory holes. YKIOK but definitely not my thing. It’s really just an audio #interview over a still image. I didn’t finish “watching” this, too little information density.
#Reason #video about what will happen with homemade “ghost” guns. The number of "ghost guns" (without serial numbers) recovered at #California #crime scenes went from 26 in 02015 to 167 in 02016, then doubled every year until 02019 (1623 guns), then leapt to 4671 in 02020 and 12388 in 02021, where it stabilized; the now-defunct Polymer 80 had sold 200k kits in California over the 6 years before the Supreme Court’s 02025 decision in Bondi v. Vanderstok. Outlines #Cody-Wilson and his arrest in Taiwan for paying for sex with a 16-year-old “who’d posed as a legal adult on a hookup app”. #Trump announced plans to ban gun ownership by transgender people. Talks about #Myanmar.
#video on #oil #shipping today by Sal Mercogliano. The #USA normally exports 4 million barrels a day, the Strait of Hormuz normally exports 20 million, and now only 4.5 million are making it across #Saudi, and another 4.5 million are being released from the SPR. The many tankers headed to the US now (60 VLCCs of 2 million barrels each) may not be able to fill up. The USS George W. Bush carrier strike group is going from the US (not the Mediterranean) to the Indian Ocean, not vice versa. And maybe that’s not because of the Houthis.
#paranoia #video claiming that over the last couple of years someone is assassinating #USA nuclear scientists and “nuclear” “scientists”, as Mossad did with the Iranians. Frank Maiwald at JPL, Carl Grillmair at Caltech (shot), Monica Jacinto Reza at JPL (missing last summer), Anthony Chavez, Nuno Loureiro at MIT (shot), Melissa Casias at LANL (a secretary, missing), Frank McCasland (a general, missing), Michael David Hicks at JPL (died for unknown reasons), Steven Garcia at LANL, and Jason Thomas. Not sure if this is the Chinese Robber Fallacy or not. Then ultra-right-wing streamer Asmongold goes off on a rant about extraterrestrials and UFOs. #Dead-Scientists-Mystery