Mr. Tugboat

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Broke out of Mississippi for a bit

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center “The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to their forced removal and incarceration,” one advocate said.

Japanese American groups blast the use of Fort Bliss, a former WWII Japanese internment camp site, as an ICE detention center.
www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Bird flying over a lake

accidental nat geo phone pic taken today on a walk

FEMA will no longer go door-to-door to assist disaster victims The move, says one agency worker, will “severely hamper our ability to reach vulnerable people.”

A reminder: FEMA is no longer going door-to-door to assist disaster victims

[From our Climate Desk partner @wired.com]

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

Even knowing this is where fascism was headed, it's still haunting and terrifying to the core to see the fully built camps

Overcrowding, hunger and days without bathing: immigrants transferred from Puerto Rico to Miami denounce inhumane treatment in detention centers El Nuevo Día spoke with the partner and the attorney of a detained Dominican man about the unsanitary conditions they are experiencing while separated from their families

Overcrowding, hunger and days without bathing: immigrants transferred from Puerto Rico to Miami denounce inhumane treatment in detention centers
www.elnuevodia.com/english/news...

I find ICE funding the most chilling part of the bill, but I think the people who will immediately grasp why that is so bad are probably already aware; hammering medicaid, CHIP, etc. is more likely to break through to the lower info people who aren't guaranteed Dem votes in the midterms.

You're telling you me concentrated a bunch of right wing terrorists and anti-communist extremists in one city and it backfired?
Wow. This just never happens. Somebody go get one of the hundreds of CIA agents hanging around town to overthrow them in the name of democracy.

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

Beers taste better if you drink them sitting on stairs. They don’t want you to know this

running the government like a business was always an idea for cold war addled dipshits and ECON 101 casualties but it's moreso than ever in a world where the most successful businesses either buy and kill Toys R Us and hospitals, or spy on you and sell your weaknesses to villains

There's no functional difference between this and someone walking around holding up a camera phone videoing everyone in front of them 24/7.

Oh so his problem is that he didn't get permission first

That Doomsday Clock gonna jump forward like it's the start of Daylight Saving Time.

My fed agency helped build an IRS login system that didn't rely on face recognition, we felt it was invasive. For this were attacked by The Daily Wire as "a cabal of perpetually triggered leftists obsessed with politics and pronouns"

Per Musk's tweets, this is part of the reason he fired us all.

"Impersonating"

Cannot express enough how much what happened at that meeting three weeks ago has changed things on the ground.

Courthouse arrests started within days, then check-in arrests. Worksite raids, once rare, began happening daily. Detention has skyrocketed over capacity. People are going missing.

as soon as those programs started I figured this is where they would take it eventually. still surprised they're not trying something like this in the US, but then they kinda are with trans people on a grand scale

us forces mired in two-front war with a nuclear-capable iran and [squinting] los angeles

You just don't get guys like that anymore

A picture of a mean looking truck that is the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle or JLTV in snow

how to start a JLTV:
1. unlatch the hood, open, find a red battery knob on pax side, and turn it to ON
2. on the driver's side, there's 3 switches, depress the left and rightmost VEH BAT and AUX BAT switches to on
3. Turn engine knob to ON, wait for computers, then hold Start

LAPD is firing at random people right now. A person is stuck in their car.

This, and it's what's missing from all the violence/non-violence/optics conversations: we need to make these guys have an absolutely atrocious time, and you can do 99% of that just by being where they are when they get there. Make them see the enemy in everyone they drive past

I believe it can go lower