Robb Caruso

“3. Choose different ways to get around your city. Walk, bike, take public transit, as many times a week as you can. Focus especially on those short trips–for example, buy a shopping trolley and walk to the grocery store if possible. Lobby your leaders for improvements to support more choices.”

Now do cars.
ktla.com/news/califor...

Saying there are “too many non-working holidays” on Juneteenth is so on brand for a man who is actively trying to erase Black history.

This from the same man who’s wasted over $26 million in taxpayer dollars and spent more than 30 days golfing since January 20, 2025? Please.

If the US saw what the US is doing in the US, it would invade the US to liberate the US from the tyranny of the US.

Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26  and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.

Actually, yes, this and a fantastic set of encyclopedias

Because 70+ years ago we allowed an industry to dismantle a highly robust passenger rail network that spanned the nation, all to restrict people's freedom of mobility and tie them to perpetual debt found in car dependant culture.

Driver alone in a car taking up most of the street space beside a packed city bus, a bike lane that’s too tight, and a sidewalk crowded with people. The driver says “Damn those bike paths and bus lanes taking up all the space.”

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

It's why social media has, if anything, had a profoundly anti-social effect on society.

It only works if everyone is a 'reasonable person'.

Sadly, that isn't the case; add in commercial and other nefarious interests, and the resulting cocktail is most likely psychological poison.

Am I the only one reading White House tweets in Bane’s voice in my head?

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope: "Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."

Kurt Vonnegut man

In defense of hope.

Judge finds Newsmax aired false and defamatory claims about voting-tech company A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

Who did this?

Math is hard

How to stop Trump’s power grab Trump isn’t inevitable. Here’s a plan to keep democracy intact.

I'm happy to publish something I've been reporting for a while: a guide for how to fight the Trump-Musk power grab and win, with specific advice that you can start acting on *today*.

www.vox.com/politics/399...

Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF.

Now.

Print hard copies.

And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action. Here is a template: www.muellershewrote.com/p/informal-g...

DOGE could save $18 billion by canceling Musk's SpaceX and Telsa subsidies.

Secret Service: $7M to $10M.

Air Travel and Motorcade: $4M-5M.

Stadium Security Upgrades:
Additional metal detectors, bomb sweeps, security checkpoints: $2M.

Local Law Enforcement: Overtime and personnel: $1M.

Trump's Super Bowl attendance: $15 to $20M. Where’s DOGE?

Crazy how they spent so much energy accusing lgbtq people of being groomers that the christians didn’t notice the way they were being groomed into white nationalists

Lawyers for Justice Dept. employees threaten to sue, saying dismissals violate the law.

Yes. Finally, some meaningful pushback against these constitutional outlaws.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too.

Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more.

Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

Most folks under 50 really don’t know what govt does for us. They never heard of DDT, rivers catching fire, two headed fish, thalidomide, gas masks in LA for smog, superfund sites or a hundred other horrors the EPA and state agencies addressed for us.

The Media’s Mega-Failure on LA’s Mega-Fires Even as the LA fires still burn, most journalism is not representing how the climate crisis is driving increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather.

Co-founders of Covering Climate Now: “Too much of the coverage [of L.A. wildfires] has simply ignored the climate crisis altogether, an inexcusable failure when the scientific link between such megafires and a hotter, dryer planet is unequivocal.” www.thenation.com/article/envi...

"Ideas ate like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powetful and more pute. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful." David Lynch

More post truth, pro profit for a few