US Republicans have proposed $80 billion in spending to deport and imprison immigrants. Including $45 billion for detention centers. $45 billion can build a lot of concentration camps.

The bill is here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/judiciary_recon_xml.pdf

"Disclosed files from the U.S. embassy in Venezuela indicate that far-right Venezuelan opposition figure and fugitive from justice Carlos Vecchio, received US$116 million through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)."

A good video on how movies pretend to criticize Capitalism, but really only criticize individuals and not the system. Also contains analysis of a film that does look at systems and labor relations.

"The administrators are correct: Their institutions do function in concert with the war machine powering Israel’s genocidal war; their mission does depend on maintaining this alliance, even at the cost of brutalizing their students; and it is this material reality, more than anything else, that explains the ferocity of their response to the Gaza solidarity encampments."

Supreme Court Justice Alto claimed that an inverted American flag flown at his house was not in support of "Stop the Steal", but because of an argument with neighbors. However the flag was flown on January 17, 2021 and the argument was on February 15. (The neighbors called the Altos fascists and Mrs. Alto a c-word)

rustc will use rust-lld by default on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu on nightly to significantly reduce linking times.

North Carolina’s… state budget contains a provision that gives extraordinary investigative powers to a partisan oversight committee co-chaired by Senate Leader Phil Berger (R) and House Speaker Tim Moore (R).

The Joint Legislative Committee on Government Operations — or Gov Ops for short — is empowered to seize “any document or system of record” from anyone who works in or with state and local government during its investigations. The rule applies to contractors, subcontractors, and any other non-state entity…

Gov Ops staff will be authorized to enter “any building or facility” owned or leased by a state or non-state entity without a judicial warrant. This includes the private residences of subcontractors and contractors who run businesses out of their homes…

Alarmingly, public employees under investigation will be required to keep all communication and requests “confidential.” They cannot alert their supervisor of the investigation nor consult with legal counsel.

“What is most striking to me, and most discouraging, is that [Americans] are so apathetic while being neither blind nor unconscious. They know and deplore the oppression [and] the terrible poverty… They witness the rise, more ominous every day, of racism and reactionary attitudes—the birth of a kind of fascism. They know that their country is responsible for the world’s future. But they themselves don’t feel responsible for anything, because they don’t think they can do anything in this world… In America, the individual is nothing. He is made into an abstract object of worship; by persuading him of his individual value, one stifles the awakening of a collective spirit in him. But reduced to himself in this way, he is robbed of any concrete power. Without collective hope or personal audacity, what can the individual do? Submit or, if by some rare chance this submission is too odious, leave the country.”

• Simone de Beauvoir, America Day by Day