So if I understand this right, Trumpkins is defunding local police? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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So if I understand this right, Trumpkins is defunding local police? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"The cruel and contemptuous, in government and out of it, will tell you that poverty is about the choices you make, and I am here to tell you, from experience, that far more than that, it is about the choices we make." 20 Years of "Being Poor" whatever.scalzi.com/2025/09/03/2...
It is once again time to remember how Bari Weiss compared herself to Galileo from on stage at a conference for hedge fund billionaires
Dogo is very proud of being up there, good dog.
if the Biden Irrelevancy had one clear lesson it's that you can't retake democracy from those who would destroy it and then spend years slow-rolling the arrests of those responsible while failing to explicitly change the rules to keep them from power
About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”
Someone please setup a GoFundMe for this man. He needs our love.
Y’all this is absolutely wild. You need to read this article. Coordinated targeting of firefighters on a 10% contained wildfire for immigration enforcement under the pretense of *padding their time cards*. This is insane.
McGovern: "You guys think you work for Trump ... Let me repeat -- every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every single one. We heard last night that all Republicans want full transparency. But that's just not true."
That's right. The Ballers are on fire! www.oaklandballers.com/sports/bsb/2...
America now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021.
EXCLUSIVE: Ansel Adams’ series of Stanford photographs was never recorded in his otherwise meticulous photo log and fell into deep obscurity, never-before-seen by the general public and unknown to even his biographers and archivists. Until now. via @sfgate.com www.sfgate.com/local/articl...
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
The White House declares that it would be a “hostile act” if House Republicans voted for a complete release of the Epstein files. Trump seems desperate to cover up any connection with his friend who raped children.
A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...
We bought 4 budgies home yesterday and the dog is just utterly obsessed. Also while at the pet store the dog got into a bag and enjoyed a large chocolate bar so she's hyped up on caffeine too which is a horrible combination.
Scenes of chaos play out in Gaza City as military closes in on panic-stricken residents facing forced displacement.
At Union Station, veterans play a speech from General Mark Milley warning soldiers of the threat that President Trump poses.
CALLING ALL VETERANS IN THE DMV (the District, Maryland, and Virginia)!!! Pack a rucksack and get down to Union Station. Prepare to stay a while if you can. Please spread the word.
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
Oh goody he's back in the news again?
W.E.B. Du Bois: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel - not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
Leading with AI, following with diohrea.
Under US fascist rule my kids can no longer receive Christmas presents from their grandparents as Australia Post is no longer shipping parcels to the USA. Brilliant, so much Greater. Job well done.
Grace Hopper invented COBOL, and also the phrase- "It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission", a great way to (carefully) think about how to innovate in government tech. Credits offered by @pahlkadot.bsky.social #govtechlive
It was easy to blame COBOL for the unemployment insurance backlog, but it's not just technology layers, it's the layers of policy requirements, on top of more guidance, on top of more procedures that make change hard. @pahlkadot.bsky.social at #govtechlive
Superb, snark with class
New from me: Trump and RFK Jr. blathered on about autism being a “horror show.” But all the while, RFK Jr.’s the Department of Health and Human Services has terminated millions of dollars of grants midway through research projects, rendering the money wasted. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
The snowflake accusers were always the snowflakes. Pass it on. Fascists and sycophants are piss-weak as we say eloquently in Australia.
Stares in my family trip to DC taking public transit and walking all over with my three little kids and feeling great.
Inject this into my veins. All fascist parties come to an end, and countries must engage in truth, justice and reconciliation work afterwards, that will involve those names.
This is the rhetoric of dictators — across time & geography — that freedom (for some) must be sacrificed for security, reinforcing the power of the regime. Instead of engaging in fights about crime rates, the opposition to this madness needs to hammer on this authoritarian frame over & over again.
Leon?
Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians Classified intelligence from May reveals Israel believed it had killed ~8,900 militants in Gaza, indicating a proportion of civilian slaughter with few parallels in modern warfare. www.972mag.com/israeli-inte...
The WaPo is a fascist-apologist paper. Inexcusable.
Virginia Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley reacts to the Maxwell transcripts, saying Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly lied” to the government and is trying to “recreate history.” Full statement
That guy was so gifted, brilliant and that The City Sleeps track is superb
Was not on my 2025 bingo card either dude.
Convicted liar tells perfect truths to lawyers representing powerful figure who could pardon her.
The fact that any American is ok with the idea of their country illegally deporting people to countries they are not connected to is horrendous and tells you so much about just how much of a Christian nation we really are not.
Louisiana has to build three new natural gas power plants to accommodate the "AI" data center that Meta just crammed through because said center will use *Three Times* as much electricity (and, thus, attendant resources) as the *Entire City Of New Orleans*, every year. Y'all this isn't sustainable.
Thurs: why the hell is KQED/NPR platforming John Bolton and why does he sound halfway reasonable? Fri: FBI raids his house Perfect Mafia retribution cycle huh @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
Oh crap
You're in trouble it seems lol
Those streets are also the streets of the people he's deriding. They belong to us all, and as a country, we routinely underinvest in services for people who really need them, including affordable housing. This is what the Lord requires of you, to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly. Micah 6:8
Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, one can now lose an earbud into the bowl of beef pho one is eating while on a call, and simply wipe it off and pop it back in. #grosstech #lifegoals
one question to ask the editorial board is whether there is a minimum bar for what constitutes "american democracy." if most people in most states are gerrymandered out of effective political representation, is that democracy?
This seems bad www.404media.co/inside-the-u...
Proud of my homeland, this is he way. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Let them know you're filming them and keep asking the key questions: "Do you have a warrant signed by a judge? Show me." "Do you have a badge? Show me." "Do you know how pathetic you are? You showed me."
Make a band a food: Cold Cuts
This is what a police state looks like—with masked secret police serving a political agenda not legitimate law enforcement needs.
Rad cars yeah, early Datsuns too, so fun. Used to race Mazda RX7s, gorgeous ride.
Love bikes, but seriously love me some muscle car, or a fast 4, or any fun car. But prefer staying alive most ..
"We've spent a lot of money on the military and now they have nothing to do so we might as well let the president use it domestically to satisfy his own petty grudges" is precisely why the Founders feared a standing army. I mean, it's pretty much fucking verbatim.
Taking photos and video of law enforcement officers performing their duties in public is our constitutional right. This includes police, FBI, National Guard troops, ICE agents, and other government officials.
A country that cannot be honest about its past is lost, just as we've been for a couple hundred years.
I'll say it a thousand times -- any account of the past that only celebrates the good parts of a nation without reckoning with the bad is not what we call "history" It is propaganda, pure and simple.
I'm a leftie , watch out. But, I have a mirror on my left drop too
Firm Biskit
Yesterday: They Might be Average Height. Today: They Might be Fricking Ginormous
Going on TV to announce that you’re an enormous baby who is scared to go out in public has become a core tenet of the Republican Party.
The future: all your data secure and easy to manage online The future (reality): endlessly filling out fucking 2FA Are You Human Can You Identify Ten Buses forms?
A 4-year-old boy’s ongoing care for stage 4 kidney cancer was interrupted when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers illegally deported him, his sister and mother “without even a semblance of due process.”
NEW: L.A. and D.C. are only the beginning, as Trump's team has been drawing up plans to unleash federal forces in other Democratic strongholds. Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.
Going all in on this meme tonight Dan.
I think it's partly this, but more about removing any forms of potential accountability for their incompetent/corrupt governing.
Nothing means anything to these pricks, only power and money.
So cool, great futures ahead. All so people can get more dubious answers from chatgpt.
Big revisions come from low initial response rates. BLS was working on increasing response rates, but the Trump administration fired the voluntary committee working on it.
Only a concern as the youths were not white I presume. Also not the Aussie band either? Recently went to a Christian music concert w my kids in San Jose and a bunch of youths on motorbikes were doing wheelies on he side street standing on the seats, amazing. Also safe for me, just not for them...
Bowser: "If people are concerned about a president's ability have the MPD be responsive to the DOJ, the time to address that is when we're talking about statehood for DC."
A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.
Without reading, can this be blamed on e-bikes somehow?
File under "Statements boldly stated yet certain to age poorly".
Exactly like Washington, all three of these cities have reported a drastic DROP in crime over the first half of this year.
New: The new "Truth Search AI" tool on Trump's social network keeps contradicting Trump. Says the 2020 election wasn't stolen, crime in D.C. isn't out of control, tariffs are a tax, Jan. 6 was an insurrection, and Obama has "highest favorability" rating of all living presidents wapo.st/3HpR2uG
![Was the 2020 election stolen? No, the 2020 U.S. presidential election was not stolen. Multiple independent investigations, court rulings, and reports—including those authored by prominent conservatives and state governors—found no substantial evidence of widespread fraud or irregularities that would have changed the outcome of the election[1][2][5].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/bafkreibdj3zqrcodenijm4evqzi2rd7du4inzqurojrsa5e7nhauuvo5o4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![Are tariffs a tax on American people? Tariffs are a type of tax imposed on imported goods, and their cost is typically passed on to American consumers through higher prices. Most economists and tax experts agree that although tariffs are charged to importers, the increased costs are routinely absorbed by businesses and ultimately by consumers in the form of higher retail prices[2][4][3]. This results in tariffs functioning as an indirect tax on Americans.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/bafkreigygjp2c2q3k4ddsbp5y3xxmhx33p2shr4m7twfdhwfncfzpyfaai@jpeg "Click to view full size")
![What happened on January 6, 2021? On January 6, 2021, a large group of supporters of then-President Donald Trump breached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., disrupting the formal certification of the 2020 presidential election results by Congress[1][2]. The event, commonly referred to as the January 6 Capitol riot or insurrection, resulted in violence, deaths, extensive investigations, and significant political fallout, including a second impeachment of President Trump[1][2].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j5fbnzh57rn7xz65yjc36gxb/bafkreiewxhwef7stpmkxnw7qhbz6wfuzgqze3g63zjezto4vvpqskeeub4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Phang: The Constitution says representatives shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons. It doesn’t say you’re only supposed to count U.S. citizens. Trump says you’ve got to redo the census but can’t include “illegals”? Tough shit—the Constitution says otherwise.
This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now
At a vacay farm stay w my sisters and their kids, and our 9 kids combined have played "Mafia" for over 5 hours today, inside w the rain mostly. Family is amazing.
Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.
There is still joy in the world, not the incident, but this excellent pun laden piece. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Elon Musk's DOGE wasted more than $21 billion in just six months. Other studies have found that in the long term it may cost the government more than it saved, while resulting in millions of deaths. www.commondreams.org/news/doge-wa...
NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com
Ontario court strikes down Ford government's plan to remove Toronto bike lanes
I'm in rural south western Australia, so far the small, country Baptist Church has vocally prayed for peace and liberation for Palestine, and there was a march downtown of 20 folks committed to anti-genocide and bombing children. The world stands with Gaza, our leaders need to demand peace.
“Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israeli Defence Forces, without a doubt. Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.