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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Indiana turned so confederate that it looped all the way back around to saving the Union

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

the US war escalation in the southern hemisphere is 100% about trying to destablize and control venezuela and cuba leadership. classic neo-con “spreading freedom” type agenda

You are all required to use the consent manufacturing machine. It contains only correct answers. Don't ask how it got to those conclusions. Thanks!

Copy of Hegseth's new AI order that I obtained

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Activist arrested for vandalism after painting Los Angeles crosswalk deemed unsafe Frustrated by the city’s slow progress in painting crosswalks at intersections they believe are unsafe, activists in Los Angeles have been picking up paint rollers and doing it themselves.

City leaders tell us safety takes years of studies and budget meetings. ​Yet when a resident spends $50 on paint to fix it themselves, the police response is instant. ​Funny how the bureaucracy suddenly disappears when it's time to punish someone.

I will never pay for a Chicago-based news org that can't say with its whole chest, "THE YEARLY COUNT OF HOMICIDES IS AT ITS LOWEST SO FAR IN THE 21st CENTURY."

You do not love Chicago. You want me to fear Chicago. And for that: fuck you.

Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum

Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory)

Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

I love that someone posted about a dangerous sidewalk in our neighborhood in the local Facebook group and it took less than 10 comments for someone to complain about parking spots.

Yes, parking is harder when it snows. NOT THE SAME as pedestrians trying to not fall on icy sidewalks!

If you want to know who your city is actually built for, wait for it to snow. The machines get a heated red carpet. The humans get a frozen obstacle course.

I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.

A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.

In practice, what it means right now is that red states like Indiana and Florida will get a free pass to gerrymander racial minorities into oblivion, even if their maps are blatantly illegal and openly racist. That gives a huge advantage to Republicans because in many states, their one neat trick for gaining a partisan advantage is diluting representation for racial minorities to create more safe GOP districts. And so they can now go full steam ahead, changing the rules, rigging the maps, hampering democracy, without worrying about any pesky litigation that will cause for them. That is the sign of a party that’s desperate to cling on to power because it is losing popular support.

We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Woman fatally struck by CTA bus after apparent slip in South Shore: Chicago police

What a tragedy.

#PlowTheSidewalks is literally a matter of life and death in Chicago.

wgntv.com/news/chicago...

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

the anti-war candidate

Donald J. Trump + @realDonald Trump Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States. The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

so none of what he’s saying is real btw

In 1977 the area is dominated by parked cars on both sides of the road and on the footway. Today there are no parked cars, replaced mostly by greenery and some bike parking

Bellamystraat, Amsterdam in 1977 and today

Pure, uncut Nazism.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Watching Democrats denounce the "horrors of Socialism" in Congress on the same day Trump is absolutely glazing Mamdani's policies from the Oval Office is one of the most remarkably stark examples I've seen in my life of why Democrats lose so many national elections.

god it's like not even good joke fodder because it's too much

TRUMP: [playfully batting at Mamdani] Go on...

^ like what the fuck lol

how are you supposed to make jokes when that's a transcript of reality