Matt Chambers

@slothrop Probably. I did.

In Nevada, insurers are now allowed to exclude wildfire damage from their homeowners policies. #ClimateCrisis […]

@kim_harding exactly.

Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs –...

Chimps Can Revise Their Beliefs When Shown New Evidence, Study Finds
https://www.sciencealert.com/chimps-can-revise-their-beliefs-when-shown-new-evidence-study-finds

Something that MAGA types don't seem to be able to do...

CHICAGO — The Justice Department has levied federal conspiracy charges against Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five others over protests outside the Broadview ICE facility since last month, according to an indictment unsealed on Wednesday. Abughazaleh, Michael Rabbitt, Andre Martin, Catherine Sharp, Brian Straw and Joselyn Walsh are each being charged with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers, according to a federal grand jury indictment that was returned under seal on Oct. 23. Some of those indicted protesters also face individual counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers as they protested outside the Broadview ICE facility last month. Sharp is a Cook County board candidate and currently the chief of staff for Ald. Andre Vasquez (40th), and Rabbitt is a 45th Ward Democratic committeeperson. Straw is running for a seat on the Oak Park board of trustees. The indictment focuses on a Sept. 26 protest and accuses the six people charged of surrounding a government vehicle as it approached the Broadview building “with the intent to hinder and impede” an agent from proceeding. According to the indictment, those six, and others, “banged aggressively” on the vehicle, crowded together and pushed against the vehicle. Someone scratched the word “PIG” on the vehicle and broke a side mirror and windshield wiper, the indictment said. Abughezaleh and others are accused of putting their hands on the hood of the vehicle and remaining “directly” in its path. In a post on social media, Abughazaleh on Wednesday described the case as “yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up.” “That’s why I’m going to fight these unjust charges, but I need your help to do it,” Abughazaleh wrote to her followers alongside a fundraising plea. “We cannot diminish ourselves in the face of these tactics; it’s time to unite and show up for humanity, for our rights, for everyone terrorized by Trump’s lawless secret police.” Abughazaleh has been a regular presence at protests outside the Broadview processing facility, sharing videos on social media of federal agents throwing her to the ground at one point last month. > View this post on Instagram > > A post shared by Kat Abughazaleh (@kabughazaleh) The Justice Department has now charged two dozen people with either assaulting or impeding federal immigration officers in the past month, coinciding with its Operation Midway Blitz effort aimed at enforcing federal immigration laws, according to records reviewed by Block Club. Five cases were quickly dismissed by prosecutors, including one in which a grand jury refused to return an indictment. When U.S. District Judge April Perry issued a ruling that temporarily blocked the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois, she pointed to some of those dismissals when questioning the Department of Homeland Security’s “credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago.” _This is a developing story. Stay tuned for updates._ * * * **Support Local News!** **Subscribe to Block Club Chicago, **an independent, 501(c)(3), journalist-run newsroom. Every dime we make funds reporting from Chicago’s neighborhoods. Already subscribe? **Click here to gift a subscription** , or you can**support Block Club with atax-deductible donation.** **Listen to the Block Club Chicago podcast:** Listen OnApple PodcastsListen OnGoogle PodcastsListen OnSpotify Why Are Chicago Men So Afraid To Go To The Doctor? Episode play icon Why Are Chicago Men So Afraid To Go To The Doctor? Episode play icon What’s Up With The Obama Presidential Center? Episode play icon A Chicago Teen Had Just Returned From Chemo — Then ICE Arrested Her Dad Episode play icon Meet The ICE Resistance — Cameras, Whistles, And Neighborhood Rapid Response Teams Episode play icon Judge Blocks Trump’s National Guard Push Into Chicago — For Now Load More Search Results placeholder Previous Episode Show Episodes List Next Episode Show Podcast Information

Congratulations to kat abu for being the first one of my regular customers under federal indictment https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/29/broadview-ice-protesters-including-congressional-candidate-slapped-with-federal-conspiracy-charges/

@CelloMomOnCars @kim_harding same reqason they quote Musk.

In the US, there is this unwarranted belief that the rich are genuises and that we should give credence to everything they say.

America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/29/americas-super-rich-running-down-planet-safe-climate-spaces-oxfam
Exclusive: Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the […]

@mattblaze https://member.everbridge.net/1332612387832012/notif/uz00MkjMj

@mattblaze loud here in Shepherd Park, too. supposedly for a funeral in Arlington . . .

@GottaLaff @paul Not worth it, in my experience. At least half the time I'm not interested.

Glad to hear someone is working on this.

@slothrop In 1992, I went to Czechoslovakia (it was about to split, but hadn't yet) as an SEC employee on a US AID project. In the lobby of the Ministry of Treasury in Bratislava, the elevators had no doors and the cabs didn't stop as they passed thru the doorways. You just jumped into the […]

@slothrop @dgodon I am in the cave, too. I use Evolution, but only because I like the interface more than Tbird, not because it's great.

@JessTheUnstill Just want to point out that some public libraries provide access to such new sources, so you can view without paying.

@fheinderyckx @driesverlinden I agree completely.

@brandibuchman.bsky.social He is a fool.

@tchambers @Vivaldi

I've hopped between FF, Chrome, Edge, Opera, etc. for years, never being satisfied. I started using Vivaldi about 3 weeks ago and I am pleased as punch.

@kim_harding Another reason to use Linux!

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Once again glad to be posting on the most resilient social network in the world (several computers in france rented from a guy named hugo)

@radleybalko.bsky.social Just wait until the US Army invades Columbia, Maryland!

A person in an inflatable owl costume with a sign that reads "I'm nocturnal. I got out of bed for this."

A picture of a crowd of joyous protesters, many with signs, with the National Gallery of Art in the background, with snipers on the roof.

Two people holding signs, one reading "This is my resisting b*tchface" and the other "Keep your tiny hands off my rights."

Two people in inflatable animal costumes. One is in an eagle costume.

Some pics my spouse took at yesterday's NoKings rally in Washington DC. (I was there too, but she is in charge of photos.) #NoKings #WashingtonDC #FreeDC

@mathling Not the case in Washington, DC, I'm glad to say.

@slothrop Does it use Bluetooth?

@radiyan Wow! I haven't been able to get any Arch-based distro to install next to Linux Mint. Don't know why it doesn't work, but it just doesn't.

Loving my country by going to the NoKings rally today in Washington, DC! #NoKings

@Ruth_Mottram More than anything else, OneDrive convinced me to switch to Linux. I am so glad I did.

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit […]

Peter du Toit (@peterdutoit@mastodon.green) Attached: 1 image NEW from the WMO: "From 2023 to 2024, CO2 in the global surface atmosphere increased by 3.5 ppm, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙤𝙣𝙚-𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 1957." (emphasis mine) There is 100% certainty that 1.5ºC will be crossed premanently There is 97% certainty that 2ºC will be crossed premanently We are completely unprepared. WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin No.21: https://wmo.int/sites/default/files/2025-10/GHG-21_en.pdf #ClimateCrisis

With 90% of the world having their heads in the sand.

“I’m sure solar panels and electric cars will save us.”

#degrowth #ClimateCrisis https://mastodon.green/@peterdutoit/115378024620113090

A black and white dog (a springer/border collie offspring) and a brown and white dog (a springer spaniel) sit on a porch. The brown and white dog has her paw on a human's chair.

Our wonderful dog, Izzy (the brown and white dog) was taken to a shelter in March 2020 with four very young puppies. One, Star (the black and white dog), lives nearby and he and his human often stop by on their walks. Even after 5 1/2 years, Izzy gets more […]

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Just checked Mastodon’s trending hashtags, but didn’t see #NoKings.

I wish there was something good people, tired of bad actors seeking unchecked power, could do about this.