Doomloop Dispatch

I have to thank Taylor for pointing this out. So far this year the government has said my life doesn’t matter because I’m trans, but now they are actively trying to cull me since I’m immunocompromised (and will be for the rest of my life). But if I try to fight for my life I’m just being hysterical.

In 2021, I sat in a room with press orgs and then-LAPD Chief Moore to ask him why LAPD kept assaulting and arresting journalists at protests. He never had an answer, but instead claimed people were using press passes to commit crimes. When asked for proof, he didn’t have any.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

I recently complained/asked how to stop (there were no good answers) the Democratic fundraising texts. A friend shared this piece about what a total scam it is: "$11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees."

The one that I talked to said that orgs reached out to her after she started making some waves posting/advocating for EVs, and then transit. She even said she turned down offers from YIMBY

none of this shit is gonna matter when the great khan of the plains sweeps the field like a horde of locusts destroying the entire consultant class

Back on my bullshit*

*claiming US Maple did more than The Beatles

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

Never engage with Walk Bike folks because lots of them are paid to push their bullshit

Seriously, it’s folks like you that push away the working class from the left. You’re basically fighting on behalf of feudal lords and acting like you’re undoing racial injustice. It’s misguided at best

This is ridiculous. Having folks buy property is a better distribution of wealth. You’re just protecting the upper class. Are you a GEORGIST too?

This is ridiculous. Having folks buy property is a better distribution of wealth. You’re just protecting the upper class. Are you a GEORGIST too?

My “wealth” was not built on racial segregation and I don’t appreciate you trying put that shit on me. I also don’t live in the Suburbs - I just see the point of them. Folks should be able to buy houses with yards and not forced to rent apartments in a skyscraper

Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It Broadcaster Al Jazeera says its correspondent Anas al-Sharif has been killed in Gaza City, and Israel’s military confirms it.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli strike, while he and other journalists were inside their tent

This dude got his PhD 5 years ago and works at Heritage - here's his unpublished diss with 1 citation www.proquest.com/docview/2452...

Here's the fired Comm. of Labor Statistics with 20+ years of government economics experience and an extensive publishing record
scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Ahhh Urbanists will stretch any truth to make their case. I’m talking about the promise of folks buying homes and not being forced into tenement buildings to please wealthy landlords. Because I’m anti-landlord, this jerk wants to paint me as racist

Also that’s about banks, not suburbs. You’re stretching the truth and that’s disgusting

Oh Jesus I don’t support redlining and redlining existed in cities too - Seattle for example. But now all that upzoning even forced out the Black residents that lived in the redline areas.

anyway,

Inserting devices into cars that could falter does hinder travel. Also, people aren’t going to give up cars if they like them, especially when using transit/biking can triple or even quintuple commuting times. I did the transit thing and it sucked.
I’m never going back

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

That’s made street-level journalists like Stern, Buer, and the others who’ve been assaulted or arrested — freelancers or reporters for small independent sites — more important than ever. They are arguably the truth’s last line of defense…They can’t be bought, so they are bloodied.”

Trump Media Awarded CEO Devin Nunes $5.9 Million in Stock, Despite $20 Million Loss As it builds a bitcoin war chest and rolls out new tech products, Trump Media is handing executives millions in stock awards—despite mounting losses.

🚨 New: Trump Media awarded CEO Devin Nunes $5.9 million in stock on Weds.

The company recently reported a quarterly loss of $20 million on $883,000 in revenue—or about what a mall-based Chick-fil-A typically brings in.

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me, for @forbes.com

No new episode this week. Too much going on and we couldn’t find time to do it. But we will have something next week. And we’re working to get merchandise!

Goddamn Walk Bike people are the worst

It wasn’t a factor in some deaths and that’s the truth. Quit being an asshole

Oh god “car brain.” If you drive a lot for your work or your family, you don’t have “car brain.” You are using the most sensible vehicle for your situation. Goddamn Walk Bike folks are so dumb

Jesus Christ you Walk Bike folks do a great job of pushing away from the left. I think working class voters are cooler than real estate developers, but you do you and keep trolling like an ignorant asshole

Vision Zero is about curb appeal and real estate values, not saving lives, so I won’t answer this ridiculously stupid question

No cycle tracks. Bike lanes are fine but cycle tracks suck

I’m in Berkeley and they’re trying to do the same shit. It sucks. It’s just bullshit to please developers and improve curb appeal

I’m already here. In a house. With a backyard. It rules.