This is what the Huntington Beach City council is voting on tonight to give HBPD permission to use. Follow our meeting thread about it - weāre still waiting to get to Agenda Item 14, which would allow for this.
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This is what the Huntington Beach City council is voting on tonight to give HBPD permission to use. Follow our meeting thread about it - weāre still waiting to get to Agenda Item 14, which would allow for this.
Huntington Beach city council just approved giving flashbangs and rubber bullets to HBPD, with zero discussion. This is a deeply concerning update in this city. @chriswarcraft.bsky.social
Damn hard to find 9-6 machines with a bet less than $5 anymore. Those were the days.
Looks like I'm heading to Morongo Casino with my folks in a couple weeks. Thanks for the reminder to practice-and the link to the best place to do so.
BREAKING: On a 2-1 vote, D.C. Circuit denies the Trump administration's request to let Trump fire a Federal Trade commissioner during appeals. Citing Humphrey's Executor, about the FTC: "To grant a stay would be to defy the Supreme Court's decisions that bind our judgments. That we will not do."
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Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Itās time for these victims receive justice. Itās time for Trump to stop protecting the rich & powerful & to start telling the truth. Itās also time for Republicans in Congress to find the courage to sign the discharge petition that would force a vote to release the Epstein files. (2/2)
Weāre back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
Surely, the decision to hold a military spectacle at that time is just coincidence.
US military strikes vessel carrying drugs from Venezuela, Trump says reut.rs/47VPinF
BREAKING: Mayor Muriel Bowser ALLOWS federal law enforcement INDEFINITELY in DC. Gift article: wapo.st/3VyXMcY
It's funny I remembered where I put it at 10PM AFTER Labor Day is mostly over, but after having lost if for several years, I finally found the diverse fish graphic I made in 2018. It always bothering me that the school of fish was the same type. That erases the modern, diverse labor movement.
. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ā¬ļø ā¬ļø ā¬ļø .
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
BREAKING: Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges, according to a memo reviewed by the AP.
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And itās all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax ā it's cruel.
KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, āThereās no vaccine thatās safe and effectiveā. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: āI never said that.ā KASIE HUNT: āPlay the clip.ā RFK JR (clip): āThereās no vaccine that is safe and effective.ā (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com
Add in that the MN shooter might have been preventable if FBI and DHS hadn't refocused their domestic terrorism policing, and FBI didn't even MENTION the terrorist attack at CDC.
@wired.com sat down with @theonion.com ās CEO, @bencollins.bsky.social and what struck me in this was at one point they both talk about how theyāre the few remaining that are still covering whatās happening. A tech magazine and a satire site. Neither anticipated how easily media would fold. /
The interview covers many subjects, but that got me. apple.news/AVAphqjqnQGe...
BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Here's the response from Paul Bryant, the Black veteran and lawyer whom the govt arrested in part bc he had a legal weapon in DC, to USG attempt to get him detained. It leans heavily into the lack of Body Cam proving he shoulder checked some Guardsmen. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
hell i wish brands would post garment dimensions rather than vague sizing charts
1/ If you are feeling overwhelmed by the fast paced of legal news, remember that itās deliberate. Itās a strategy Trump uses, flooding the zone in hopes that people will tune out. Read what you need to know here to get ready for the week: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didnāt file the report in time ā and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
We analyzed hundreds of hours of his public comments from 2020-2024 to show this and refer to him as an anti-vaccine activist in our reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administrationās effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children āare in the process of being removed" today.
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
When Guard get pulled away from their civilian jobs to go on orders, many are taking a pay cut. BAH supplements the base salary w/ a special allotment specifically for housing. That isnāt EXTRA money. That PLUS salary is just APPROACHING civilian pay. Shorting them BAH is putting them in poverty.
Government Efficiency!!
Iām so tired. Iām so very very tired I put in so much work and yet you still say this shit
RFK Jr cut half a billion dollars in research funding for mRNA vaccines. He & Marty Makary claim mRNA vaccines are āriskyā so theyāll shift to ātraditional, olderā vaccine tech thatās āsafer.ā Guess what? We used to immunize people by blowing powdered smallpox scabs up their noses. 1/
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mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasnāt possible before. 5/
The Richard Sackler of the AR-15.
Trump says museums focus too much on the ānegative aspectsā of American history, like āhow bad slavery was.ā And plans to purge cultural institutions. But be clear: heās not talking about alternately uplifting Black inventors, builders, and leaders we were never taught aboutā¦
I got arrested yesterday! (real drop off from being a corporate law firm associate five months ago. or upgrade.) I was blocking vehicles leaving from ICEās Broadview, IL, staging ground and de facto detention center at 1930 Beach St. full statement (for now) below.
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ā ļø Israel assassinated the prime minister of Yemen.
āILLEGALSā MY ASS! Green card holder Rami Othmane speaks out after being snatched off the street by ICE while driving to the grocery store. Heās a documented immigrant and the husband of Dr Wafaa Alrashid, chief of staff at a local hospital. He was locked in detention for 13 days.
The problem: Mortgages signed by the Paxtons contained inaccurate statements declaring that each of those three houses was their primary residence, enabling the now-estranged couple to improperly lock in low interest rates, according to an Associated Press review of public records.
š§µ Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
If you want to take your mind off Trump for a moment, consider this article and what it means about our society. ifstudies.org/blog/the-sex...
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein case, says Epsteinās estate will turn over a book that reportedly includes an explicit 2003 birthday message from Donald Trump to Epstein.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
another radioactive shrimp recall has hit the newswires
šØBREAKING: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed Republicansā gerrymander into law Friday, officially moving the redistricting battleground from the state capitol to the federal courthouse. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender ā 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender ā 4,193. Hope that helps.
JUST IN: Gov. Mike Kehoe called a special session starting Wednesday to help the GOP hold onto Congress. It's part of the battle to reshape the voting map and help Trump keep a majority for his agenda.
What Netanyahu is calling a "tragic mishap" claimed the lives of health care workers, journalists, & civilians. None of this is a mishap, and to say so is an utter disrespect of human life. We must end the genocide, cut off offensive weapons, and surge aid now. www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...
This is good: With Trump/RFK destroying CDC, JB Pritzker's officials are exploring the possibility of buying Covid vaccines from manufacturers and distributing them in-state themselves, source tells me. Dem govs must step up and fill the void. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1998...
There's going to be a lot of dumb political noise following this decision, so it's worth being clear about the key finding. It does not ban tariffs. It simply says that you have to convince Congress.
These funds were passed by Congress ā and many were signed into law by President Trump himself. And the official White House position is theyāre going to ignore the law and āit doesnāt matterā if Congress says no. A profound challenge to the self-respect of Congressional Republicans.
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So where did the money go to?
Friendly reminder. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/k...
Iām not sharing this to scare peopleāthough itās fucking terrifying. Iām sharing it because we all need to be on guard. We wonāt be getting reliable data from the CDC anymore. Worse, the guidance could be harmful. RFK Jr. has no medical training, no scientific backgroundā¦
Martin OāMalley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. š¤Æ www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Let's say a Democratic president had absolutely no respect for congress, a coequal branch, appropriating funds, tariff policy. Let's say that a Democrat was deploying the National Guard to cities controlled by Republicans.
RFK is cutting us off from vaccines.
Here's Dr. Daskalakis' letter of resignation from the CDC that @jenpsaki.msnbc.com referenced in her interview with him a few minutes ago. We'll have the full interview available online later this evening.
NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.
@apnews.com's @marthabellisle.bsky.social's follows-up on the firefighters fighting the Bear Gulch Fire arrested by the Border Patrol on the Olympic Peninsula.
It's possible ... hear me out, here ā¦. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Good on you USGS!
If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.
Breaking news: The White House selected Jim OāNeill, a top deputy to RFK Jr., to serve as acting head of the CDC after a clash over vaccine policy ended in the departure of several agency leaders.
I wrote about the cancellation by NOAA of the ~$75M contract to procure the next phased array weather radar R&D instrument. Meanwhile, at least $245M of contracts using federal and state funds have been executed for this "facility" which lasted about 8 weeks. #priorities apnews.com/article/flor...
The fire sale at the end of the empire www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
In the midst of an IJ firing spree, Trump Admin cites the immigration court backlog in new rule loosening restrictions on "Temporary Immigration Judge" appointments. "Any attorney" who gets Pam Bondi's approval can be put on the bench. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-16573.p...
National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Context: The guard is picking up trash in DC because Trump and the Republicans gutted DC & the parks budgets.
šWe are now 24 hours into learning Trump's DOGE potentially put 300 MILLION people's private information at risk -- or worse, made this information available to bad actors, for profit. šWhy -- WHY GODDAMMIT -- isn't this getting the attention it deserves? šWE ARE AT RISK FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there. The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream. From me and others (see byline/contribs) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/w...
Trump is arming the National Guard and taking them away from their jobs and families to pick up trash around Lafayette Square, the National Mall, and the Tidal Basin. www.fox5dc.com/news/nationa...
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or canāt afford. Itās about priorities.
At some point Trump is going to call for the removal from congress of dozens of Democrats, all of them accused of mortgage fraud, and Corporate Media will obsess over details of the accusations rather than just calling it a partisan purge and fascist consolidation of power. Stop taking the bait.
A careful study of every populist episode since 1900 finds catastrophic consequences, which play out slowly. On average, incomes fall behind by nearly 15% over 15 years. For the U.S., this is a cost of about $13k per person per year. Over a lifetime, that's million bucks.
A lovely FT writeup is here: www.ft.com/content/727d... And the full research paper is here: iacmr.org/wp-content/u..., showing that Trump is following the standard populist playbook, undermining courts, the media, and institutions.
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
I'm genuinely glad for Canada and this is a smart business play by Moderna but it also stings when you consider the Moderna vaccine exists because of $10 billion dollars of US taxpayer money. And RFK Jr. might kill our access.
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit Americaās digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.
This implicates Ed "Big Balls" Coristine, whose alleged assault the DC occupation purportedly avenges.
Trump is canceling a wind energy project that's 80% complete while electricity prices spike, flushing potentially billions in investment down the toilet for no reason. The stupidity of this action is glaring, @ryanlcooper.com writes: prospect.org/environment/...
āIdentify or dieā, that was the mindset of a terrified Texas homeowner as masked men in tactical gear tried to raid his house. The intruders ended up dead after a fatal shootout. Police later confirmed they were not #ICE or law enforcement officers.
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
"It looked like the Hand of God had wiped away the coast." A powerful new Katrina film from @mississippitoday.org out Friday at 5 PM CT on YouTube. Honored to be among voices like Max Mayfield, Robert Ricks @drshepherd2013.bsky.social, @franklinjamesl.bsky.social, Gov. Haley Barbour, and others.
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ICYMI: After we requested records from DHS, the agency told us that ātext message data generated after April 9, 2025, is no longer maintained,ā raising serious concerns about its compliance with federal recordkeeping laws. americanoversight.org/is-dhs-savin...
Donald Trump can try to stop offshore wind. But he will not succeed.
Pritzker makes a crucial point here: Members of the National Guard have full-time jobs outside of their service and responsibilities. By frivolously calling them up, Trump is upending their lives just to weaponize them against their own neighbors and fellow Americans. It's appalling.
Note that DHS Sec Kristi Noem's announcement of this states AS FACT numerous charges against Abrego. But the administration couldn't produce real evidence of MS-13 ties despite trying for MONTHS. He has been convicted of NONE of the criminal charges lodged here. Guilty until proven innocent. 2/
As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout. Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
F*ckā¼ļø Fort Bliss Army base used for a WWII Japanese internment is now the nation's largest ICE detention center.
"Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist for The Associated Press, chronicled the stream of wounded and dead that every day flowed into southern Gazaās main hospital, where she was often based. [...] Dagga was killed Monday by Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, according to health officials."
America now