Jack Johnson. Such a beautiful lyricist. His war protest:
"Shock and awful thing to make somebody think
That they have to choose pushing for peace supporting the troops"
"We say anytime, anywhere, just show your teeth and strike the fear
Of God wears camouflage, cries at night and drives a Dodge"
FWIW, I’ll take dystopian sounding voice over dystopian actual words and/or unintelligible.
This isn’t any endorsement of what DHS is saying, just a condemnation of LAPD completely screwing up their supposedly scripted announcements over and over and over and over and over …
NAL, but if it's intelligible and initiated by law enforcement, I think it can give a lawful order.
Whether order is lawful is another question!
Note: Message to press is a "request" not an order.
Someone got similar recordings last week, automated and human. Both had weird mispronunciations. 🤦♂️
"They have no accuracy whatsoever," says man who mixes up Greenland with Iceland, Armenia with Albania, and Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi.
Amid typical news biz headlines, this is so wholesome and heartening:
"The extensive archives survived the fire, and Tim Schneider hopes that they can help return photos and revive cherished memories for community members who lost personal memorabilia to the smoke and flames."
Good luck Pali Post!
One of the highlights of working at Paramount during peak of #metoo movement was coming into office and hearing, "Hey, this creep is gone" ... "Hey, that creep is gone."
Article indicates this reversal isn't "statement about second chances" just hiring people who are now cheap. 🥴
Sorry you're having to deal with this. Hope you're doing OK.
You're not alone. I'm with a US press freedom org. I'll let some international counterparts know and ask about Canadian orgs. Don't hesitate to reach out. (Your DMs seem closed, likely for good reason, but that may slow responses.)
The Arabs now have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
variety.com/2026/tv/glob...
First they came for the journalists.
We don't know what happened after that.
Awful
“This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives.” This is how the DHS ends their press release announcing the death of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes in ICE detention in California. @lataco.bsky.social
I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:
Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.
“Journalists pay the heaviest price,” Zadeh says. “The right of information is always the first casualty when the government [prioritises] its security objectives.”
Empowers people to vote for what they want instead of against what they fear, which encourages candidates to appeal to that and build consensus instead of tribalism to win plurality.
Granted, almost every system favors well financed and well connected. Where have you seen RCV differ from baseline?
The first op-ed I ever wrote was during the Gray Davis recall/Schwarzenegger election, saying we should have instant runoff voting (aka ranked choice voting).
25 years later, we're still stuck with political parties making a hot mess of everything.
I'm also good with approval voting. Look it up.
Full page "ad" in The Onion for "60 Minutes": "Is NBC Hiring? Lesley Stahl investigates."
Americans: "We want health care!"
American government:
"At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, staff members have asked federal officials to decide whether a document that describes an abolitionist’s murder by a mob might 'denigrate the murderers.'"
JFC. Yes, of course it does. It should. That's the point.
Every poll like this should ask respondents to point out Iran on a map, and we should be able to sort answers based on who answered correctly or not.
Would be telling how many of those who approve of Trump's actions even know where Iran is. Or Venezuela, etc.
That's just one example of many reductive headlines. Kuwait, UAE, lots of headlines from lots of places right now that may only be seeing the start.
Ahhh, I can see what you mean. I'm looking at a lot of international feeds and seeing headlines about Kuwait, Lebanon, UAE, etc. Certainly U.S. troops too. But this wasn't intended as some U.S. centric post. Just remarking on headlines diminishing how bad this will get.
Headlines are counting off narrow categories like 6 US troops, or numbers in countries besides Iran.
They all count, as do the hundreds (thousands?) of innocent people already lost IN Iran. Media is reaching for numbers they can verify, but the reality is this is surely so much worse already.
Headlines talking about US military standing out to me right now. They might be accurate, but they also feel naive.
I'm only referring to the way headlines are treating it. Indeed, hundreds (thousands?) are dead and every loss is horrible.
Each is a tragedy. A lot of news headlines are counting off in small numbers, which is how it felt early Covid. One death here. A couple there. The reality is that way more people have likely been killed than we realize. Surely hundreds of innocent people already killed.
Watching headlines about Iran with single-digit death counts feels like the early days of Covid.
Each death is heartbreaking. And you also get the feeling that soon, this moment will feel like simpler times when we could count the losses on two hands.
DC journalists have a golden opportunity.
Just say something like "since they will be honoring an avowed enemy of free speech and a free press, I will not be attending the Correspondents' Association dinner this year."
It's telling how many will not, even when handed to them on a silver platter.
Minneapolis-area prosecutors are investigating disgraced Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced today.
I've found AI tools can provide excellent feedback on written drafts!
In particular, it's been good at IDing problems/weaknesses. Also figuring out what to shorten. Proposed solutions can realllly miss the mark. But like a good editor, it can help identify issues in my writing and debate solutions.
