I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding
The FBI thinks you are fucking stupid. Iran has zero capability to cross the Pacific and sea-launch a drone attack on California. This is too fucking dumb for me to comment on further.
@equalityalec.bsky.social
This sounds like something you might know.
just to get out ahead of any "what do you mean we" commentary. we produce guys like this in greater numbers than any civilization in history. there is currently no plan whatsoever to stop making guys. we should have a plan. we need to hobble these guys with crippling taxes and restrict their rights
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.
Next president will have to rebuild the federal government while fighting a cadre of insane billionaires the whole way. The more bleak things get the more absurd it seems to consider electing some common weasel who wants to be president because he wants to be president
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I and Bike East Bay have been advocating for these plate enforcement safeguards & regular reporting to the public be included as part an inherent of the speed camera program. This has NOT yet happened & we should all be nervous about this.
I'd believe that. Is there a better measure?
The "Accountability" issue is getting muddled and we should be clear about what it is and isn't. I don't need Democrats to post Trumpian memes and say swears on TV, I want them to impose legal consequences on our criminal president and his accomplices. Until they can, they should cheerlead for it
Having to watch shit like this go completely unchecked on a day like today of all days is absolutely fucking intolerable
I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.
And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.
I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.
The new In the Details covers the ascension of CM Houston to the new Public Safety Committee Vice Chair, despite a weekend binge of menacing FB posts; plus, City's parking transition circling the block; OPD is not here to help you with ICE; and more....
lol
@bauerkahan.bsky.social how are decision makers in your district concerned enough about bike safety issues to support drastic state law changes, but not concerned enough to even pick up the phone & talk to reps from the org that's worked on East Bay bike safety issues for over 50 years?
tbh nobody should be asking leftists if they'll support newsom and leftists should mostly brush off the question. it's a divisive trap that serves *only* newsom's personal interests. he isn't the candidate, he's a shithead and nominating him would be a bad idea. useless hypothetical.
Pascal's wager
the shortest verse in the English Bible - "Jesus bet"
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
I think collectively, we at least partially wanted the child at the Super Bowl to be Liam because the little boy on stage looked happy and healthy and our hearts want so badly to think these children can somehow magically recover from the evils our government is doing.
My queendom for a journalist and editor pair that can correctly frame and byline speed camera enforcement without mentioning "so much revenue!" And "how annoying it is that these cameras catch me breaking the law". Oh no! You're facing the consequences of your actions! How inconvenient for you.
The fact that there is so much revenue should 👏🏻 be 👏🏻 the👏🏻 alarming👏🏻 part👏🏻. Driving behavior is out of control. The cameras are typically legislated to give you a buffer of usually 10 mph over posted e.g. 35 in a 25. The literal difference between someone surviving a crash or not. WTF
Using Mr. Rogers in a Super Bowl commercial for mortgages should result in prison time
in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around
Amy Klobuchar running for Governor of Minnesota
Oakland’s parking department w/in the DOT recently won a planning award for their work. Moving parking to the DOT was among the few recommendations from the Reimagining Public Safety Task Force that was actually implemented, along w abandoned vehicle response, both w success.
Good. "But DHS isn't just ICE, it's also..." nope, wrong. DHS no longer serves any useful functions, the whole thing has been reassigned to repression. FEMA isn't even paying out to states. All DHS does is shooting, teargassing, facial recognition, and administrative warrants. Shut it down.
