Anthropology

So, no national guard on January 6th, but definitely on August 11th. Makes total sense.

Crime is down…he’s testing the waters. Wants to see how we will react to the militarization in DC.

He’s going to take over DC to avoid talking about Epstein.

Not great.

CDC workers in Georgia left to work through grief, anger after shooting After Friday's deadly shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, workers say they feel unsupported by federal officials.

CDC employees work tirelessly to keep Georgians safe and ensure our public health stays in check. Yet in the last year, these hardworking men and women have faced reckless mass firings, funding cuts, the politicization of their public service, and now targeted gun violence.

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Horrific

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Governors Can Not Remove Elected Legislators. Period. A democracy must have an independent legislature. Only voters elect and unelect representatives.

History and Article IV’s Guarantee Clause makes clear that a state’s governor cannot remove members of the legislature. No governor has ever claimed such power. It runs against the full history of Texas and American democracy as a whole.

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The Washington Post published an opinion piece from one of its writers in which he writes:

"Nobody is pure in this debate, but the fact that both parties have felt the sting from gerrymandering should be an opportunity to find common ground."

I wish I was joking.

This evening!

Just one problem. Crime is down in DC.

Read about the facts, & also the legal context as the administration’s legal authority to interfere with local law enforcement goes on trial today in a California courtroom. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.

An anti-zohran A.I. bot run by this Canadian dude attacks Zohran thousands of times a day.

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The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making.

What is ICE doing with all its new money? Nothing good. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-worst-...

"If you live in Alaska, I need you to buy a Ukrainian flag and turn any area that Putin is going to be into a sea of Ukrainian flags - so many that, when Putin lands, all he's going to see is just yellow and blue."

Hard to Disagree with Mr. De Niro !

So ridiculous. (And so familiar)

Trump considering deploying up to 1,000 National Guard to D.C. The number of Guard who would be assigned is still in flux, the officials say, and most of the troops would likely be pulled from the D.C. National Guard.

Trump’s move to mobilize the National Guard against Americans in DC is another telltale sign of his authoritarian ambitions. But at some point signs of authoritarianism stop being signs and become symptoms of an autocratic regime. We’re far past that point now. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

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Ohio managed to get thousands of people to hold hands and link arms in a human chain that stretched 8 miles to stand against ICE.

8 miles of humans linked together.

Inquiring minds want to know...

ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.

Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.

Crazy how the guy on the Epstein list is also the guy making sure you never see it.

Stats on violent crime in DC; as of early August, it's ⬇️ 26% year-over-year:
—12%⬇️ in homicides
—49% ⬇️ in SA cases
—20% ⬇️ in assaults w/ dangerous weapons
—28% ⬇️ in robberies

In 2024, DC had its lowest violent crime rate in >30 years, w/ total violent crimes 35%⬇️ from 2023.

i thought the line was that this was a democrat hoax?

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

I do not find this on home pages of the NYT, WaPo, WSJ; only a small headline on The Guardian. A journalist has been murdered. Where is the outrage--about anything?
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza aje.io/0pa37x via @AJEnglish

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.