Democracy and trains

Laying down in the garden and waiting for the earth to swallow me

They never ask the billionaires to sacrifice a penny. Instead, it’s a single mom who forgoes hamburger meat for her three kids for a month so she can afford transportation to her two jobs—all so Trump and his buddies can enjoy their $2 billion-a-day “excursion.”

June 19th 👇

What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

What's My JND? 0.0033
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Welp.

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me

This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology

Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

I’m sorry you guys are no longer allowed to all ride in the same elevator. Gotta selecta designated survivor to take the stairs!

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Y’all are a hot mess

Why Black and brown people find white folks who claim to be here for racial justice suspect af
Exhibit #3,000,745

The No World Order Meir Kahane, Netanyahu, Trump, and the war beyond Iran.

"One cannot understand the Iran War without understanding the Kahanists. But I rarely see analysts mention them. Maybe they did, and it was behind a paywall. If a war crime is subscription-only, does it make a sound? Is that sound a stifled scream?"
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition — Data Center Watch

A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small.

www.datacenterwatch.org/report

A president whose aides are afraid to tell him the truth, in charge of a war in the Middle East? What could possibly go wrong?

How about introducing a bill to increase federal spending on a clean energy transition you stupid stupid motherfuckers

JFC

None of the words describing that thing belong anywhere near each other

Truly the dream

Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...

He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Can y'all go vote for my @netrootsnation.bsky.social session? I wanna see everyone in Philly and bring this important conversation about the role of Faith Organizing in these times: netrootsnation.secure-platform.com/nn26/gallery...

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

The only high speed rail we’ve built covers the terrain between these opinions

But a ton of posting with no likes and few followers

Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.

It’s scenic!

I had popcorn and everything

I mean some of us generally contact our councilpersons, and some of us put in 311 reports, and some of us call in to S&WB… and I bet that’s maybe 5% of the issue covered right there.

I know there’s a lot going on, but we can’t ignore this.

Yeah, this seems like something that we would do really well if we did it as a blitz. Like, for three weeks everybody give cross streets and a photo, and make it the world’s simplest upload.