Waiting for the big outlets to put two and two together and realize that police whose identities are secret and facilities are secret are secret police.

Literally, 24 hours earlier the national news was dissecting the breakup of two idiots, and then suddenly we’re having a conversation about Posse Comitatus? How interesting.

on my socials and watching ICE shoot gas grenades on live helicopter feeds from local news. And still no national reporting.

4) Oh and then the national news kicks in, once Trump talks about sending the national guard in, & Hegseth sticks a shoe in his mouth.

2) But then I heard about the ICE raids in LA and it made some sense. I’m a member of an SEIU affiliated union, so the arrest of David Huerta got my attention pretty quick.

3) However the national media was *barely* covering it by mid-day Saturday. I’m sitting here with local friends reporting…

So I have been watching the national news media over the last few days, looking at when & how they started reporting on the situation in Los Angeles.

1) I was suspicious of the Trump/Musk kayfabe from the drop. Trump 2.0 always starts shit on Fridays, strange that the feud broke on a Thurs. 🤔

Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic

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Apparently my spouse hadn’t seen this gem before? If you haven’t seen this, please enjoy.

And #shutthefuckup

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

Solution: A few years ago with got a Bosch w/ built in water softener. The racks in that thing are so confusing that no one can figure out how to load it. It’s inscrutable.

So we all decided there’s no right way & live in peace knowing that we all fail at the dishwasher every single day!

Did my part. Did you? Will you come out next time?

Libro.fm is awesome. The only audiobook service I use anymore.

I also need music.

I mean, there’s things to be said to pitching a big tent for the opposition. But why would I give actual $$ money to that dude when I could give it to the locals following around ICE officers with megaphones?

Journalists at mainstream US publications are absolutely allowed to engage in activism as long as it is aimed at reinforcing existing hierarchies and undermining progressive change. NYT news reporters recently engaged in a startlingly effective campaign against trans rights, for example.

Is he like… aware that some people’s jobs don’t involve email???

Remembering Edward Gorey on his birthday

You know what I like to hear about AI? Valid use cases! Those are cool! 👍

What I get more often is someone pointing to something & saying “AI made this” like AI is the name of their toddler. 🤷‍♂️ I don’t care. I’d be proud of your 3 year old, I’m not ever going to be proud of ChatGPT.

I never know what to say when someone shows me AI and asks me my opinion. Like… eh…

Hate to make this about the aesthetic, but uniformity is boring.

In terms of broad intent? I can see the point there, & I think these actions need to be strongly opposed in the present moment because that is the clear intent.

But I was worried I was missing a more direct legal parallel (which I think is there when we look at the EO on birthright citizenship)

BREAKING: Two unions with over two million government workers are suing the Trump admin over illegal executive orders.

AFSCME and AFGE assert that Trump illegally exceeded his authority by unilaterally trying to roll back a regulation that protects civil servants.

I was originally planning update my discussion on federal funding for university research, but instead caught influenza (tested & verified) and today was the first day this week I haven’t woken up with a fever over 101, so that’s not happening….

Yeah, the “Pro-Women’s Healthcare Centers” consortium is an explicitly anti-abortion organization. They also advocate “fertility awareness” over other forms of contraception.

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Yo, didn’t we already go through this “substack’s owners suck” business a while back?

A SEXEY AND MUSCALAR SKELTON LEANIN AGIANST A DOOR WAY AND SAYING " WE CAN STOP AI ALL WE NEED IS ONE PERSON WHOSE WILLING TO TURN OFF THE AIR CONDITIONING IN DA DATA CENTERS" - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Oh we did that. It resulted in a baby boom of squirrels, which was only resolved a couple years later when a mama skunk took over one of the squirrel burrows for a stinky maternity ward. 😆

This includes during the previous Trump administration. Depending a lot on what specific language they’re looking for. Most training grants and workforce pipeline funding is probably off the table.

It doesn’t have to be super bad, but it might be. We will know more in the coming weeks.

Things may hinge on how they define DEI, but language that could be construed as such is part of many grants because things would not be funded over the last 5-10 years if those elements weren’t in the grant.

As an example of the scope here: California has 8 UCs that are classed as R1 universities, which means more than $50million in R&D spending. Not all of that is federal money, but a lot is.