Joe Brockmeier

Not to be all "if Biden did this" because the hypocrisy is the point, but people would rightly call for the man to step down if he had done this. And I'm not even talking from a political perspective here.

No Kings Ocean Beach, San Francisco

#NoKings

I wonder if they should redo the old UK public service films about not smoking, with character "Nick O'Teen", but they're now about not becoming an exploiting corporate bastard, lead character "Gill O'Teen"

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

JFC how huge were the founding fathers

Same energy

Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals

"Diorama of power dynamics." Beyond euphemism, that is glib glorification of dictatorship. The #BrokenTimes would rather show off its turn of phrase than call fascism what it is.
Oval Office Becomes a Diorama of Power Dynamics as Trump Goes After Rivals www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

The Senate's “Big, Beautiful Bill” will create a disaster for rural moms and babies Medicaid cuts could endanger maternity services at more than 140 rural hospitals.

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill" is generally terrible for families. But women and babies who live in areas that voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump are likely to suffer some of its most sweeping and damaging effects.

The first part in Daroc Alden's series on how to write Rust for inclusion with the Linux kernel. Useful for Linux developers new to Rust, and Rust devs new to the Linux kernel. #Linux #Rust
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It's definitely not for everybody, but Nyxt is an interesting approach to providing an extensible web browser for those who like Lisp and Emacs. #OpenSource

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What are the benefits of Arch that are keeping you on it if has instability issues?

I wonder - have you considered running Debian/Mint and then Arch in a Distrobox for packages, etc.?

The handling of kernel core dumps has been a constant source of vulnerabilities for the Linux kernel. With luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of them in the future. lwn.net/SubscriberLi... #LWN #Linux #OpenSource

At Flock this year, two members of the documentation team (Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy) led a session on the state of Fedora's docs and how they plan to bring in more people to contribute. #Linux

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Adams on van hollen

Eric Adams cleaned out his City Hall staff. He cut his deal with Trump, and got his case dropped. Since then, the mayor has gone even more MAGA -- and has become even looser with the truth.

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I absolutely refuse to donate to anything that passes through Act Blue or the Democratic party at this point because the party is clearly more interested in preserving their fundraising jobs than electing good people and governing.

This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*

Very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very bad.

This is really moving

That is one of the weirdest moves... somebody said on Mastodon, "that's like drinking bleach because they're out of your favorite beer."

Coverage of a great talk from SCALE 22x about the making of the OpenWrt One router. Impressive what the Software Freedom Conservancy and OpenWrt project have pulled off in just such a short time. #OpenSource #OpenWrt #FreeSoftware

And it's very likely they don't mind at all, because 1) They are so unfathomably wealthy they they literally do not notice their "net worth" decreasing by billions, and 2) because crashing markets means they can fatten their portfolios at fire sale prices.

This isn't painful. This is a long con.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

WE

TOLD

YOU

This is what got Reality Winner specifically because the Intercept scanned her documents instead of typing them up.

Also, it's not just laser printers it's also many inkjets.

Hands off Social Security! Social Security is facing the greatest threat of its nearly century-long existence. We have to fight back! Social Security Works is working to have as many rallies at Social Security offices as po...

We're organizing rallies around the country to save Social Security!

HandsOffSocialSecurity.org

One thing I thought people would never, ever tolerate is futzing with social security. If we -- as a country -- are willing to sit by and let (gag) DOGE and Trump futz with social security, we've pretty much given up on governance and kind of deserve to lose the republic (as a collective). Bastards.

stand and be counted.

i salute you, Rachel Cohen.