everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
Jesus fucking lord this entire administration is just manipulating the stock market in between murdering people.
My latest for @truthout.org examines ICE’s efforts to deport women who survived & exposed sexual abuse at FCI Dublin
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A large-headed white tiger with love heart-shaped ears and a red cross on its forehead stands in the street.
Heartora, a white tiger with heart ears and a red cross on his forehead, is the mascot for the Japan Red Cross.
Fun fact: I got fired once over TNPS surveys, and the issue wasn't even that I got bad surveys, it was that I talked to people who weren't in the system and couldn't be emailed surveys.
Striped tiger cat named waffles sitting on an artificial green lawn with his house behind him, a brick walkway and a red door in Tucson, Arizona
#cats
Waffles, a cat who apparently enjoys doing yoga on the newly installed artificial grass. This is my friend's house, they just finished a lot of refurbishing and it's quite lovely.
Let the waffles hit the floor
Trump *is* doing debt cancellation.
It's just not your student or medical debts.
In his second term alone, Trump has already canceled $1.5 billion of criminal debt — payments fraudsters owe the federal government and victims.
They don't mind debt cancellation—for themselves.
GardaWorld being one of the private contractors helping to operate the South Florida concentration camp (Alligator Alcatraz) which has conditions so vile and inhumane that Amnesty International has described the conditions as torture.
If someone breaks the law and nobody enforces it because of the offender’s power, then the law does not apply to the powerful, and the law, subordinated to power, is revealed as illegitimate in its helplessness and/or corruption.
He can do a perpetual damage control tour for the next 30 years, but it doesn’t change the fact that he’s trying to build the panopticon.
Worth also noting that some of these gig platforms also disrupted heavily unionized industries—taxis, etc.,—so not only do we now have a new 21st century servant class, we’ve had to start at square one in terms of organizing those workers (thinking of the Uber “independent contractor” fight)
hey internet, do your thing. i'm looking to chat with a PNW based bird expert who knows things about crows. i have a crow connundrum and i need advice.
The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:
6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools
(1/24) 🧵 Many people asked me for more information after my thread yesterday on the Tijuana River Valley health crisis. So here goes — what our @airborne.ucsd.edu team has found, and why no one should be forced to breathe this toxic air for another day.
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
Across the country, various right-wing nonprofits and tech bros (especially Elon Musk) are rewriting the laws in every state to make them MORE punitive, not less, thus guaranteeing that such grave injustices are more common.
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I think Lycos and AltaVista were my most used pre-Google. I switched to DuckDuckGo a few years ago, but I try one of the upstarts occasionally too.
Tweet from Paula Scanlan that reads, "the number of people I still see wearing face masks in the year 2026 is genuinely concerning" Tweet from Jerome Adams that reads, "Why do you care? Honestly asking. I thought the original mantra was “to each their own.” It sounds like you’re wanting to impose your priorities/belief systems on others while saying they shouldn’t impose theirs on you? What am I missing? Also, beyond Covid – many people have found wearing a mask, has lowered their allergy symptoms- and pollen counts are rising this time of year. And Asian cultures have worn masks for years – are you bothered by Asians? Again honestly asking. 🤷🏽♂️"
Appreciate former Sugreon General Jerome Adams pushing back on anti-mask sentiment on Twitter/X
Wow. @timnitgebru.bsky.social
Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
The obvious wisdom and effectiveness of Housing First is obscured by the fact we've made "a tiny, no-frills apartment" an expensive status symbol in huge swathes of the country by creating an artificial housing shortage
Explain ethics. Explain what it is to know. The more interesting question is, what is the moral justification for making a few people richer on a technology that’s largely used to bomb people better and to exploit people’s data to sell us more shit?
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
There's a bat rescue on here!: @azbatrescue.bsky.social
Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.
Not to repeat myself but: DHS lies brazenly because lying brazenly works
It's what police depts around the country do on a regular basis when they have unfavorable facts. Honed to perfection, amplified by media stenographers.
Recall, this is how they initially described George Floyd's murder:
@NYCSamKay Steve Daines: "The flood of Mexican meth...20 years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown." (Video still cc: “meth was homemade, it was homegrown,”)
There is nothing more unserious than US drug policy
