Frank Bajak

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Journalist with tech focus. Ex-Associated Press foreign correspondent. First AP tech editor, Andes chief. frankbajak.com fbajak(at)proton(dot)me - DM for Signal#

Donald Trump as a Nazi
Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of America President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. The body of water has shared borders between the U.S. and Mexico. Trump's order only carries authority within the United States. Mexico, as well as other countries and international bodies, do not have to recognize the name change. The Gulf of Mexico has carried that name for more than 400 years. Refer to it by its original name. If it is relevant to the story, acknowledge and explain …
Screenshot from AP News Guild says 20 guild staffer jobs were cut across 12 states including people in U.S. news, photographers, investigations, business and sports. Meanwhile, AP has outsourced new video production jobs to India.
Trump was specifically angry about the NYT report on 4/7 outlining how Netanyahu pitched Trump on bombing Iran. it said U.S. intel officials viewed with skepticism Netanyahu’s argument that a work could end in regime change.
I crossed out “Says Pope Leo” from the headline “Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs”
Pope Leo with a baseball bat
“Queremos votar!” “We want to vote!”
Dear Joint Chiefs: You must disobey Trump if he orders war crimes. -Ted Lieu
Protester with Cat-In-The-Hat-themed poster “I do not like lying ways. I do not like hate for gays. I do not like you grabbing rumps. I do not like you Mr. Trump.
Gen. Green is a Black man
ICE has no heart. GOP has no courage. TRUMP has no brain. Wizard of Oz costumed protesters.
“THE KING IS A FINK!” From the Wizard of Id by Johnny Hart and Brant Parker.
“The President Is A Fink!”
Trump Lies People Die
NYT headlin: An Emboldened Israel Seizes Opportunities to Remake Region
Dario Amodei writes: “Frontier AI systems are simply not reliable enough to power fully autonomous weapons. We will not knowingly provide a product that puts America’s warfighters and civilians at risk. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems, but they have not accepted this offer. In addition, without proper oversight, fully autonomous weapons cannot be relied upon to exercise the critical judgment that our highly trained, professional troops exhibit every day. They need to be deployed with proper guardrails, which don’t exist today.”
WSJ reporter Trofimov on Tom Rose’s very much inappropriate behavior unbefitting of an ambassador to a valued NATO ally.
Your WaPo sbscription has been canceled.
Alfred E. Neuman. “What me worry?”
The path of least resistance for Washington and the Venezuelan govt is to avoid chaos and keep the oil flowing. The core power structures remain intact and the military and criminal networks are largely untouched.
The bombings in Venezuela and capture of its president “cross an unacceptable line.”
Bruce Springsteen and Joe Ely perform at the Austin Music Awards, held at the Austin Music Hall during the South by Southwest Music Festival, in Austin, on March 14, 2012. Gary Miller/FilmMagic via Getty
Karoline Leavitt, the White House press sec, has done nothing to help prevent the mother of her 11-year-old nephew from being deported since the Brazilian-born woman was detained by ICE in mid-November.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin and her husband, Ben Yoho, the Strategy Group CEO.
Comic book lazy private Beetle Bailey
Hamish McKenzie claims Bari Weiss’ ascension to CBS post shows the US news business is flourishing
Image of Trump fist-pumping on back of new one-dollar coiin.
1996 Los Angeles Times article on the US revoking the visa of Ernesto Samper
Unhinged Trump rant demanding Msft fire Lisa Monaco
Trump’s energy secretary calls on the world to scrap the Paris climate agreement on the same day China commits for the first time to greenhouse gas reductions.
Collage of Trump naked on crapper surrounded by Big Tech moguls in medieval garb, some with torches. Musk, the exception, does Nazi salutre.
Source: https://autismspectrumnews.org/autism-in-cuba/
Graph shows pessimism among Republicans spiking for hte first time since Trump’s second inauguration.
Korean Times photo at homecoming of S. Koreans seized by ICE and deported from US