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change is hard- especially when the system has been designed for near-frictionless fleecing.
It’s time to permanently downshift our fossil footprints… and that means rejecting as much new combustion and new manufacture of dinosaur-goo derivatives (plastics, polys, phthalates) as we possibly can.
Most marketing is a psychologically abusive, wealth-extracting psyop… different approach than religion, but similar ‘crowd control.’
Oil is the curse of the Middle East.
Oh, and religion.
Sharing and boosting this would go a really long way today even you can't chip in. 🌻
Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...
In 2009, on the Chicago-Incheon leg of a mama-toddler trip to Phuket, a hungover int’l student in the next seat tossed his cookies repeatedly, overflowing two barf bags and onto my lap. He was apologetic, but I still had to wear barf all the way to South Korea.
Intent pales by comparison to impact.
With today's strike, the United States has now killed more than 150 individuals in maritime strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean since September 2025.
Tracking by civilian harm monitor @airwars.bsky.social
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As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.
The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.
The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.
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Thank you! That makes a world of sense (peeking across state lines from MN).
“Simmons sponsored and passed a bill in the IL state senate that deems police calls on Black people when there are no active threats to public safety as a hate crime.”
(credit @bpopetv.bsky.social)
I mean, that’s theoretically why he’d be door knocking there, isn’t it?
Also ‘sorry that you feel that way.’
Yes! Guilt is self centered, and seeks to avoid shame/embarrassment. reactive, dismissive, defensive, avoidant.
To do the work of repair, we must be open to expressing regret and remorse. In order to reach resolution and shared understanding, there’s gotta be reconciliation, and often, atonement.
When your "apology" includes the word IF (as in "if you are offended"), it is not an apology.
A model to replicate in #Minneapolis and beyond:
Yes! Mpls has built on LA & Chicago learnings (w/ gratitude). 🙏
2020 also taught us about discipline: when agents provocateur triggered disorder, they were able to also torch community infra while gaslighting us for ‘burning down our own city.’
This time, we saw it coming & understood the stakes.
Isn’t it strange how evidence continues to refute false claims of distance?
Next stop: ‘I regret poor judgment in my association w/ Bad Man,’ followed by:
-check into treatment
- ‘let it blow over’ (faux-rehabilitation)
-pass go, collect $200
-return to society
-rinse & repeat
#GetAngrier
Data-driven decision making FTW!
GREENWIRE | The Interior Department on Monday unveiled a final rule that pulls back more than 80 percent of the agency's regulations tied to implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the nation's bedrock environmental law. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said NEPA for decades "has been twisted into a weapon" to block energy, infrastructure and conservation projects. "Under the leadership of President Trump, this administration is fixing that," Burgum said in a statement. "We are cutting unnecessary bureaucracy, speeding up approvals, and putting Americans back to work, while enforcing NEPA as Congress originally intended." The final rule largely adopts a draft the agency released last summer, which was criticized for curbing public input and analysis of energy projects. The draft cut close to one-sixth of the agency's regulations implementing NEPA, instead switching most of the remaining rules to less-stringent guidelines. The final rule rescinds more than 80 percent of Interior's prior NEPA regulations, "with the majority of those regulations moved into a streamlined Departmental NEPA Handbook of Implementing Procedures," according to the Interior Department. The regulation arrives on the heels of the White House last year pulling back nearly 50 years' worth of rules that the Council on Environmental Quality had issued to implement the law since 1977, when President Jimmy Carter signed an order directing the agency to issue rules under NEPA. Associate Deputy Secretary Karen Budd-Falen said that "Interior is restoring NEPA to what Congress intended — a procedural law that informs decisions, not a regulatory maze that delays them for years."
Holy shit.
The fossil-fuel industry wanted "permitting reform" (ie, gutting the National Environmental Policy Act) so badly that the Trump regime went ahead and did it illegally.
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Thank you. ❤️🩹 We are all just beginning to share our experiences with each other.
I feel fortunate to be part of this particular community, and wouldn’t have chosen to be anywhere else. My friends run the donut shop. My neighbors get arrested. We take care of us, & we’re in it for the long haul.✨
Morse code is something we’d do well to bring back. In fact, there are a lot of offline comms strategies that we’ll do well to relearn.
Until then—and speaking with experience from Minneapolis—using whistles loudly & persistently is effective in an ‘if you see something, say something’ sort of way.
Oh! it didn’t at all—and I prolly should have replied directly to the original share.🫶
The Mayan whistle has specific historical context.
Within my context, tho (Alex was shot while I stood up the block blowing my whistle to alert neighbors), a scream would’ve confused, whereas the screech worked.
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….
Not a fan, and for a shitty, systemic reason: women’s screams are often ignored as ‘domestic’ issues (many of us get taught to scream ‘FIRE!’ instead of ‘HELP!’?).
Let’s stick with effectively shrill whistles, please, for the sake of those whose vulnerability needs protecting NOW.
If the team is a bunch of dudes, chances are likeliest that I’ll prefer to ignore them.
Reframing accountability as persecution is the issue here.
Calling it a “hate train” or “segregation” turns legitimate harm against Black people into persecution of a disabled person. Disability may explain behavior, but it doesn’t erase impact.
Naming that impact isn’t hate — it’s accountability.
Sure! I was tracking this in real time around the time Epstein ceased to be incarcerated in 2019.
This australian podcast was strangely helpful:
certainly would’ve made Babette’s Feast more dynamic…
Countries That Made Deals for Lower Tariffs Are Left in the Lurch In Asia, countries that rushed to reach deals with the U.S. before the Supreme Court decision now face the reality that they may have been better off waiting. 6 min read
Negotiate with a conman at your peril