John Holland

Unfortunately, the solution requires more work than most people should have to do: decentralized, federated technology. Mastodon, Nostr, etc. A database that tracks it counts less than a million accounts in the whole “fediverse.” Humans aren’t wired for it.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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the civil war should have ended with the summary execution of every elected confederate official and all confederate military officers

Absolutely this. So many of our problems today are based on our accommodation of racism after the Civil War.

We see the same thing with Jan 6.

Am I the only person who delights in people as they are? Or do we all do that, and just think that no one else does?

Of course you do. So adorable.

“Little ditty ‘bout Jack and Danielle,
Two American kids growing up in Republican hell…”

Devastating Report Details How Underage Homeless Girl Allegedly Had Sex With Matt Gaetz For Money to Buy Braces Newly-unsealed federal court documents revealed the devastating story of a homeless 17-year old who allegedly had sex with former Rep. Matt Gaetz.

A Republican love story.

“Without the comments, the community is either silenced or needs to find a new outlet. This is why places like Truth Social etc. exist these days.”

Indeed.

You have to be a special kind of horrible to be one of the hostile conservative anonymous trolls that haunted @berkeleyside.org’s comments for years. Their ideas were wrong, their arguments were poor,, and they never, ever used their real names (except for one of the worst, who just ran away.)

“Am I naive in wondering if the party of crime, malice, bigotry and cruelty may be thinking that in Epstein lies their deliverance from crime, malice, bigotry and cruelty?”

Unfortunately, it’s more nuanced than that.

In general, paywalls are super imperfect mechanisms to try to help journalist get paid.

Because the right-wing spends millions of dollars to make their propaganda freely available, often paywalls obscure excellent journalism.

But, yeah, not this time.

This is the first time in my life I’ve been grateful for paywalls.

I’m not familiar with that part of the story. Would you please cite the verse?

Republicans have a Nazi problem Podcast Episode · Today, Explained · 11/12/2025 · 26m

“Dogs have a canine problem.”

Which Mary are you talking about?

Mini earthquake in Berkeley.

Asking Republicans to dump Trump for his bad behavior is like asking grizzly bears to dump honey drizzled salmon.

Keep in mind, these are the same people who say the 15-year-old can’t get an abortion without parental consent after being impregnated by said adult men.

Also, the Bible tells us that it’s fine to elevate a leader like him. This, according to the Bible‘s biggest fans.

In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation

After reading this, I have a better understanding as to why he appeals so much to Evangelicals.

I’m on Divine.

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The evangelicals have always been fine with it:

Fun tip: search for “girls.” Or, “models,”

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Hence his appeal to Republicans.

‘You Covered Up for a Pedophile’: Thomas Massie Warns GOP Colleagues Against Opposing Epstein Files Release Rep. Thomas Massie offered a warning to his fellow Republicans on Wednesday and urged them to vote for a bill that would compel the Department of Justice to release its Jeffrey Epstein files.

This puts Massie’s Republican credentials into question.

New Epstein emails claim Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim The emails raise questions about President Trump’s knowledge and involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.

I hope he wasn’t having the same sexual thoughts about this young girl as he expressed about his daughter Ivanka. That would make him pretty disgusting.

Hence his appeal to Republicans.

What does this reply even mean? It’s always a “you don’t understand” word salad.