Bryan Bruns

One of my favorite conferences and I'm looking forward to visiting Japan again.

Uncle Sam holding a piece of guardrail

Would you like your guardrails back?

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NO KINGS Greenbelt, Md. · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Greenbelt, Md.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Good analysis of how coordinated opposition can make a difference. Implication is coordination among those who still have autonomy: blue states, district courts, universities with endowments, etc., and the people power of anyone who isn't dependent on pleasing Trump.

So show up for No Kings Day!

Top 10 Rally Reminders for #NoKingsDayOct18th

Well said! This essay addresses vital issues that need to be discussed. I say that as someone who spent my career in international development, mostly in trying to help smallholder farmers have a say in designing and managing irrigation systems to water their crops.

Well said! This essay addresses vital issues that need to be discussed. I say that as someone who spent my career in international development, mostly in trying to help smallholder farmers have a say in designing and managing irrigation systems to water their crops.

I really wish I could donate to ActBlue or DNC and get on a list so that I don’t get any more texts from Democratic candidates and groups asking for money.

BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

Please comment on the proposed changes to Roadless Rules in National Forests - see below.

Press Release: 50501 Mobilizes for a National March In DC THIS SATURDAY, September 6th, And Announces a Second No Kings National Day of Action on October 18th The United States — On September 1st, over 500,000 working people in more than 1,000 communities joined the Workers over Billionaires Coalition for Labor Day demonstrations. Now, the 50501 Movement is gearing up for two key actions. First, it is answering Free DC’s call for a National March in the nation’s capital, this September 6th. And then, on October 18th, the 50501 Movement will be joining communities around the country for a second No Kings National Day of Action. Workers over Billionaires “With over 1,000 events across the nation this past weekend, we showed that we can do what Trump can't; show up for workers and for workers’ rights,” said Gloriann Sahay, Chair of Political Revolution and 50501 National Partner. On Labor Day, working people in all 50 states, Washington, DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Sweden gathered in solidarity to demand that the American government end its complicity in the billionaire takeover; protect and defend social services for working people; fully fund schools, housing, and healthcare; and stop its attacks on marginalized people and laborers around the country. We Are All DC The 50501 Movement is calling on every person who opposes Donald Trump’s illegal occupation of Washington, D.C., to join us in the nation’s capital for Free DC’s We Are All DC national march this Saturday, September 6th. “The National Guard in DC is a fascist circus of performative brute force that is meant to terrify the people,” said Sarah Parker, the Executive Director of Voices of Florida and 50501 National Partner. “But we are not afraid. We are mobilizing with local grassroots organizers and with the communities that are the most targeted, most impacted, and most ignored. We are rising up. We will not bow down to authoritarianism. We will not be silenced.” The demonstration will begin at Mal…

For Immediate Release: 50501 Joins Free DC’s National March this Saturday; Mobilized for next No Kings on October 18th.

Join us in DC this weekend, and in communities across the country in October. See you in the streets 📣

#nokings

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial | Press Watch The frog in the proverbial pot is dead.

Dan Froomkin of Press Watch: “The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state.” [presswatchers.org]

Every news broadcast should run the facts split-screen in real time while Trump spews his lies.

Nice work, @msnbc.com — every network had time to prepare because they knew what was coming.

We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series

Linking to this Scientific American interview again: www.scientificamerican.com/article/were...

It’s happening before our eyes, and can feel overwhelming (which seems like the intention). The recent polls showing support for immigrants and immigration point to one of the areas where pushing back might make a big difference, especially if Trump would dump Stephen Miller.

FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...

In 2011, FEMA's National Flood Insurance map was updated to include Camp Mystic in a "Special Flood Hazard Area." Camp Mystic fought that designation, getting 15 of the buildings removed in 2013, and 15 more in 2019–20.

You can change the map, but that doesn't change reality.

Good to know

Jul. 7, 2025 Re the Kratsios editorial on the "Gold Standard" Executive Order John P Holdren Formerly the Science Advisor to President Obama (Jan 2009 - Jan 2017) Currently Research Professor at Havard University's Kennedy School of Government Reading the June 24 Editorial by Michael Kratsios on the “Gold Standard” can only reinforce the impression, already well established by President Trump’s pathological prevarications, that George Orwell’s 1984 has finally arrived, 41 years late. How bizarre is it, after all, that an administration that has been cancelling crucial research projects and databases right and left―and whose top officials lie routinely about practically everything―has issued a demand for more reproducible and transparent science? And now we have the President’s under-qualified Science Advisor lecturing the readers of SCIENCE on what scientific integrity and transparency require. As for the “Gold Standard” Executive Order Kratsios praises, the poison pill is not hard to find (as many others have noted): the EO gives political appointees with no science background the power to declare a scientific result they don’t like is the result of “misconduct” or some other alleged shortfall on the “gold standard”. Aside from that, the only proposals in this EO that are sensible call for measures that both Obama and Biden implemented—and that Trump in his first term did not. And now the fox in the henhouse overseeing it all is Michael Kratsios? What a charade!

Skip the editorial by the director of Trump's Office of Science and Technology Policy on "sound science."

Read the letter by John Holdren instead: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Transcript: Trump Blurts Out Awkward Truth about ICE as MAGA Seethes As Trump angers MAGA personalities by vowing to suspend deportations of farmworkers, a journalist who covers ICE explains how he accidentally revealed the deep unpopularity and unworkability of his ow...

Insights on MAGA contradictions and tensions about immigration.
newrepublic.com/article/1976...

We’ve seen the bromance breakup between Trump and Musk. What would it take for Trump to dump Miller? Are there ways to help make it happen?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

this is a very good thread

Well said, though what’s happened is terribly wrong, and I wish UVA’s President, Board of Visitors, and state leaders had strongly maintained a principled stand opposing the Trump administration’s bullying and abuse of federal power.
(I grew up in Charlottesville.)

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Cooperative games (those with third-party enforcement) versus non-cooperative games (without). Most non-cooperative games have mixed interests, both conflicts and opportunities to cooperate for mutual gains. So coopetition is an appropriate word for such games and many situations in real life.

50501 Movement upholds a strict and unwavering commitment to nonviolence. We do not condone, support, or tolerate any form of violence, threats, or the destruction of property—whether public or private.

Our mission is rooted in integrity, accountability, and nonviolent action.

Zero-click searches: Google’s AI tools are the culmination of its hubris Google’s first year with AI search was a wild ride. It will get wilder.

Google’s AI transformation into evil exploitative monopoly.
“AI Overviews, and especially AI Mode, are the logical outcome of Google's years-long transformation from an indexer of information to an insular web portal built on scraping content from around the web.”

arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

“They want you to feel powerless and surrender and let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
• REBECCA SOLNIT

Excellent analysis of how misguided and destructive DOGE has been.

Yes, plenty more space between the courthouse and parking garage.