First Mate Peat

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The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Amplifying a question from the replies - Why preemptively resign in the face of authoritarianism like this? Won’t it just allow the network to impose a sycophant? Is it performative dissent or do they believe their resignation will change the execs’ minds?

Jimmy Carter had to put his peanut farm into a blind trust

Your grandparents probably bought a house for less than your 6 month emergency fund. The GI Bill allowed returning veterans to pay as little as $400 to purchase brand new homes in the suburbs. www.archives.gov/milestone-do...

Tesla has an entire home solar setup that has been on and off for several years. If they do production in the US it’s an easy guess that Elmo is behind it

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Just so we’re clear, everybody calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist” or a “gang member” are lying, and they know they’re lying, and they repeat it for purposes of confusing people who don’t follow this stuff closely into accepting what was done to him.

Mr. Abrego Garcia was illegally abducted by the Trump Admin and, by their own admission, wrongly deported to El Salvador. He shouldn’t have to spend another second away from his family.

I'm flying to El Salvador tomorrow morning to check on his condition and discuss his return.

People need to be hearing about this shit every single day. Zoom in on literally anything here.

musk's daughter is incredible

DOGE Privacy Act Requests U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (...

Jamie Raskin suggests that we flood doge with a FOIA tsunami. 🌊

You can find the form via this web page.
jamieraskin.com/doge-privacy-act-requests/

Folks you can’t say you ever seen a better loaf than this one

I know what you’re thinking: We should mirror the United States government based on how this website is run.

I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

The AP provides a model of effective press resistance Credibility is more important than access.

"If Trump is denying access to outlets that refuse to lick his boots, then any media outlet that has access is compromised. Journalists who want to be worthy of the name have a moral obligation to follow the AP’s example in enraging the toddler in chief."

government should be run like a business

They’re doing the meme

Rep. LaMonica McIver: "We are at war!"

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

A picture of a rodeo from the stands texted to the user by his mother with the caption “at my first rodeo”

absolutely incredible text from my mom

“If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

-Noam Chomsky

The most powerful words you can say right now to these fascist bastards is:

"No, make me."

They cannot actually be everywhere and enforce their fascist policies. They rely on fear to do the job of governing for them. By refusing to comply, you make their means of compliance ineffective.

I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

I argue with the word ‘decline’. It was a purposeful, targeted sabotage

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

If you want to drive in our densest, most transit-rich environments and cause pollution, congestion, and safety hazards, that’s fine, but you’ll have to pay and if that upsets you well so it goes. Drivers have had it their way for a century at the literal expense of everyone.

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.