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Yellow warbird airplanes in formation over fields on a sunny day. A Stearman biplane is in the lead and the plane opposite in the diamond is a Chipmunk (with me in the back). Photo is from the perspective of Lisa, who is riding in the back of a Harvard

The formation flight from my perspective in the back of the Chipmunk. The Harvard is opposite and the Stearman is in front

The Harvard and Steve’s yellow RV-14 in formation behind and to the right of the Chipmunk (photo by me in the back of the Chipmunk).

A fisheye view of the formation from a camera in the front of the Chipmunk. In the picture (a still from a video) the Stearman, Harvard, and RV-14 are visible in the diamond formation. Todd, who is in the front seat of the Chipmunk, is gesturing and I’m just barely visible in the seat behind him, concentrating on the Stearman while I try to keep us in the formation.

I was in my first formation flight yesterday! The Canadian Aviation Museum fleet (with @flightchops.bsky.social in his RV-14) did a flyover for a charity & I rode in the back of the Chipmunk (@peacewind.aero was in the back of the Harvard). I even got some stick time. More difficult than it looks!

You can in the Waymo app - in LA, SF and Phoenix.

Riding a Waymo is one of the few things in 2025 that truly make me feel like I'm living in the 21st century.

It is and it is Google's Waymo. You can easily find specs and pics.

Yes the entire fleet is Jaguars, the tech is impressive. So is the safety data from their test markets in LA, SF, PHX. Way better than human drivers. I've never felt this safe in a car in LA.

Cost is the same as Uber/Lyft.

I'll miss this in #FozdoArhelo #Portugal

Oh I have been waiting on this one.

As the ADA turns 35, groups fighting for disability rights could see their federal dollars slashed Congress is considering proposals from President Donald Trump to slash funding for disability rights centers in each state, and advocates worry that they could lose more than 60% their federal dollars...

Congress is considering proposals from President Donald Trump to slash funding for disability rights centers in each state, and advocates worry that they could lose more than 60% their federal dollars.

It's who we want to be.
For a fraction of ICE's budget, we could have top tier weather prediction experts working to protect American lives 24/7.

Instead.... we chose this <gestures around at everything>

This is only the beginning. This is the part where our center can no longer hold.

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The internet comes for trump today for drowning dozens of kids in TX because he wrecked the National Weather Service.

In a different time, another place that might matter.
Not in America 2025.

We did nothing after Sandy Hook.
Sacrificing our children means nothing in America.
It's who we are.

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There is nothing to celebrate in America today, which is burning by self-immolation, locked in an orgy of unrestrained racism, misogyny and end-stage capitalism.

Today, I value my EU citizenship like never before, its principles & privileges, like living freely across the EU. It is now invaluable.

Don't think for a second that native born US citizens will be spared.

A police force of this size does not discriminate, it simply exercises its power any way its pleases. It will be used against dissenters and dissidents and anyone els our govt does not like.

Fascism has arrived in America.

3/3

US immigrants will be hunted, harassed, persecuted like never been before in US history, with a police force juggernaut turned loose on them that knows only violence + cruelty.

Budget of 120B means $2,250 for *every legal and illegal immigrant*.

Nobody is safe.

It's a fascist wet dream.

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In 2023, ICE's budget was $8.5B + 22k employees

2024: $9.6B

2025: $25.9B

trump's Big Bill of Fascism adds:
$8B for more agents
$30B for admin + "bonuses"
$75B for ICE over 4yrs.

If bill passes, ICE gets 120B in 2026

That's why I'm leaving the US.

It is now a police state hellscape.

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ICE just murdered a Canadian.

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing. A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

A 6 year-old.

With leukemia.

Grabbed at Immigration Court.

Who has since missed medical appointments.

And who wet himself when an ICE agent showed him the gun in his waistband...and wasn't offered a change of clothes for hours.

Monstrous.
www.tpr.org/border-immig...

6/26/1900 — b. Else Kienle, German physician, surgeon, birth control activist and feminist. Detained and charged for performing abortions (1931); her second book was titled “Woman Surgeon” (1957) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #HistMed #OTD

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

😻😻😻CAT PICTURES AS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT AND SOOTHING CONTENT IS FUCKING PRAXIS AND A CONTRIBUTION!😻😻😻

YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin - Final Speech from The Great Dictator

"More than machinery we need Humanity..."
youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

Be prepared for radically expanded accusations of national security threats.

One of the few things I can't praise Al enough for is that you can use it to catch people who use Al in debates with you...One of the few things Al does do relatively well is catching people who let Al write their replies in debates with you...

Lander was accompanying an undocumented person out of a hearing, walking arm-in-arm to protect him from being snatched.

When masked ICE agents grabbed the guy anyway, Lander refused to let go until he was shown a warrant. Instead of showing him the warrant, they cuffed him and dragged him away.

OH: "Sometime I want some toxicity in my life so I just look at comment sections on Instagram."

One of 200 #NoKings demonstrations across #LosAngeles on June 14, this one near my house.

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This is awful in southern Nevada. It’s important desert tortoise habitat, and encourages sprawl.

It’s also going to be hard to get water for these areas. Groundwater is over allocated in these areas.

Being an hour outside Las Vegas isn’t going to useful in any way for low-income workers.

#NoKings
#LosAngeles

Massive Trump baby balloon in LA #NoKings

Scenes from Nashville’s #NoKings protest 1/

Sacramento #NoKings