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Not sketch up?

www.regione.toscana.it/-/geoscopio The Tuscan region has just released ortophotos of the entire region. A priceless resource for researchers trying to indentify why they keep producing mediocre comedians who rely on their aspirated C to sound funny.

Bank app has added "AI".

Me: What was my balance on <date>?
Banking "AI": Error. Error. Ask something else. I'm always improving. Come back later.

I'm angry that the bank has spent money on this shit.

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

Claim: rioters attacked ICE
Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

Safer streets ahead! 🚗

Cambridge’s new Speed Hump Pilot Program will add 48 speed humps, starting with 9 installations this month.

Learn more by visiting the City's website and news story: https://camb.ma/3VRcxIE

Likely Mayor Mamdani Supports Daylighting as DOT Digs In Heels - Streetsblog New York City The next mayor will have to overcome a deeply entrenched bureaucracy opposed to the common-sense policy.

If he gets elected mayor, Mamdani’s support for banning parking near intersections citywide could undo a bureaucratic knot at the Department of Transportation, whose leaders have vigorously pushed back against the movement fighting for the safety measure.

A major development in Dorchester re: Carney Hospital site

Watching a Free Gaza protest from the window of the Old State House in Boston.

1/ This is so f'ing outrageous. You cannot safely restrain people on their stomachs. They're going to kill people.

This is very well known now.

Bid to Renew Federal Grant Sparks Concern Boston May Help Trump’s DHS on Immigration The grant helps fund a law enforcement center that’s drawn criticism over privacy and over data-sharing with ICE. It would also come with new strings to spend money on border control.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has said that local police will not cooperate with ICE, though some advocates are warning that, the city is applying to renew a federal grant that requires law enforcement coordinate with federal agents.

Trump administration cuts nearly $8 billion in clean energy projects in states that backed Harris, including Mass. In Massachusetts, $466 million in grants to support more than two dozen projects are being rescinded, according to Gov. Maura Healey's office.

So much for those clean energy grants...In Massachusetts, $466 million to support more than two dozen projects is being rescinded. Gov Healey calls the Trump administration move "vindictive." www.wbur.org/news/2025/10...

Thoughts are with y'all. Helis in the night skies are not a great thing

Love scrolling my feed for real time updates on whether my own country’s military will be joining the dumbass gestapo already in my city. I can hear military helicopters flying overhead right now. Love love love it.

The “Free Market”: The Fatal Error of the Foundational Myth of Center-Left Politics Corporate boards and weak labor institutions—not shareholder value—explain CEO pay, inequality, and why executives cave to Trump’s agenda.

Great unpacking of the claim that the corporate restructuring of the past few decades has made the economy "more efficient." Only more efficient at shoveling money to the rich. cepr.net/publications...

you! are! a! lawyer!

I fear that the legal community will act like Trump admin's lawyers are normal lawyers--like they'll get nice firm jobs and their law schools will invite them to talk to students, etc--but the lawyers facilitating Trump's lawlessness should be professionally and socially shamed

Judge: That's what I'll do. Prohibit federalization or deployment of any NG troops into Oregon. For all reasons in prior opinion. Deployment of federalized military is ultra vires and contrary to law, violating Title 10, section 12406. I also find it's likely that defendants violate 10th Amendment.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

I’m gonna give it a 40% chance that Stephen Miller agitates for invoking the Insurrection Act tbh.

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, we are Chicago. We rose from the ashes. We never quit.&10;&10;We are the lake in the morning, the sun rising over the water, its reflection drawing a line straight to our shores.&10;&10;We are the Haymarket Martyrs, the Pullman strikers, always demanding better than what we've got.&10;&10;We are the words of Sandburg and Algren and Brooks and Wright.&10;&10;We are the 90s Bulls, making the impossible possible.&10;&10;We are the dipped Italian Beef. Messy, sure, but incredible.&10;&10;We are the humidity in the summer, the frostbitten cheeks in the winter.&10;&10;We are smoke-kissed rib tips.&10;&10;We are elotes on the street. We are pierogis in a pot.&10;&10;We are Curtis singing Hush now child.

Tonight of all nights I’m going to re-up my benediction for Chicago.

We are everything.

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UK so crazy. I don't think there's any overt contradiction here, but isn't it odd that on the international stage, they're beginning to take an at least vaguely more pro palestine stance, and at home, it seems they're just going crazier and crazier

i mean, he's not wrong, but we don't have to hand it to Massie, who was also just posting about how the shutdown means no more chemtrails

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

You're 100% not fighting fascism on substack. I don't care what you think you're doing. But it's not that

it's annoying from a strategy POV, and also annoying from a POV that the loudest pundits who convinced eg jeffires that representatives shouldn't talk about immigration have not engaged at all with the counterarguments

There has been basically no (public) reckoning with the democratic strategists who said that "raising the salience" of immigration/deportations in ~March would help Trump, which was obviously wrong at the time and has been proved wrong over the last 6 months www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

*Donald Trump says he is about to put 10 Marines in my home*

Wurman: Have you considered tort law?

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

If you are ever stuck on the tracks, drive through the gates!

They are designed to break away!

For this reason!