Tomas Apodaca

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Trump deploys 300 California Guard troops to Portland; Newsom vows lawsuit Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to sue after he says Trump sent 300 California Guard troops to Portland to quell protests

BREAKING: Hours after California filed suit against the Trump administration Sunday seeking to prevent the president from sending 300 California National guard troops to Portland, Ore., a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking federalized deployment from any state to Oregon.

Newsom just vetoed a bill to regulate license plate readers — even as fresh evidence of misuse emerges The measure would have required regular purges of license plate databases and regularly audited how automated readers are used.

@calmatters.org on one of Newsom's Wednesday vetoes:

Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.

NEW: By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, the Heritage Foundation is promoting a false link between transgender identity and violence in a push for the FBI to create a new category of terrorism.

By me & @couts.bsky.social:

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.

One of the reporters on the piece responded to (and debunked) this claim. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Three people reflected in a large metallic button used to activate the pedestrian crossing signal; the sky is cloudy.

post a photo you took on December 26, 2005

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

Once again, 404 Media is very much worth supporting monetarily with a subscription. If you cancelled Disney+ or Hulu, maybe toss some of that money their way (and you'll still have a lot left over!)

good morning earthquake 😪

YouTube video by Tierra Whack Tierra Whack - Tip Toe from HIM Official Motion Picture Soundtrack (Music Video)

great song, great video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcxg...

Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence

1992 Colorado Amendment 2 - Wikipedia

For anyone curious, Amendment 2 passed in 1992 with 53% of the vote but never went into effect; a district court judge issued a permanent injunction in 1993, the Colorado State Supreme Court found it unconstitutional in 1994, and SCOTUS affirmed that ruling in 1996. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Co...

A man holding a funeral wreath that is in the back of a car. The wreath reads: “Adieu Papa Bata / Que Ton Ame Repose En Paix / Tes Enfants”

post a photo you took on November 5, 2007

CalMatters created a tool to help you get your money back from the DMV. Now the agency’s copied it The agency is now allowing vehicle owners to see if the state owes them money for sales of their towed cars.

Service journalism so nice, the DMV helped itself to the idea!

Newsom promised real progress on mental health with CARE Court. Here's what the numbers show Far fewer people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court than he projected when he launched the mental health program to help homeless Californians.

CARE Court made big promises to get the sickest Californians off the street. But nearly two years after it rolled out in the first counties, it's helping far fewer people than anticipated

We asked for data from every county in California. Here's what we found @calmatters.org

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

YouTube video by Caprice87 Chi Town Beat Trax (Mix) - New Dance Show 1989

an excerpt from Detroit's New Dance Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysvT...

"The idea of robot/AI rights acts as a smoke screen, allowing theorists and futurists to fantasize about benevolently sentient machines with unalterable needs and desires protected by law." firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Photo of DOGE staffer Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old white man in a blue pullover, carrying a black backpack.

Photo of 53-year-old Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi. He is sitting, wearing white pants and shirt with a brown vest.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media.

Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

A photo taken from the back seat of a car of a person on a scooter with a smiley face on the back of their helmet

post a photo you took on October 12, 2013

This is a useful and well designed resource

June Thomas, not Jane

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I miss Vine

Stop talking to ChatGPT, we know it makes mistakes, every single one of you talking to it to "show how wrong it is" is not necessary! Please!!!!

Why Doesn’t the U.S. Government Know How Many People Die in Custody? Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody — but the data is a mess.

This is a damning report on the state of public data about deaths in law enforcement custody www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/07/d...

We’ve launched a database with about 1.5 million pages of once-secret records detailing when law enforcement officers in California seriously injured someone or an agency found an officer violated policy with @kqednews.kqed.org, @sfchronicle.com @latimes.com @calmatters.org 1/

Chatbots help students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison As students use chatbots for quick answers, they can lose the human connections that are key to success in college and careers.

There are serious social capital implications of #chatbot use for #college students. Students are already inclined to avoid asking for help. When chatbots make it even easier, they lose opportunities to build connections that lead to long-term success: calmatters.org/education/hi...

PTSD is not something that can be detected from facial images/videos. this is simply scientifically bogus and a clear case of physiognomy