Rudy Faust

Proposed transportation budgets keep Spokane's North-South Freeway on track OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State House of Representatives approved the 2026 supplemental transportation budget, emphasizing ongoing projects such as Spokane's North/South Freeway.

We may be gutting our urban forestry program but fear not, Washington State is still funding the construction of new urban highways.
www.khq.com/legislature/...

Paging @scalzi.com

How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...

Here's story we did, laying it out:

Derek Chauvin had a body-cam not only when he killed George Floyd, but also when he knelt on necks of others, including a 14-year-old. The boy's mother begged, "“Please, please do not kill my son!”

Supervisors ignored it all

www.propublica.org/article/how-...

Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, sitting alone on the surface of Mars.

It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.

It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.

It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.

NEW: New York resident Marc Safman voted in every election for 38 years — until 2025.

Like roughly a quarter of Americans with disabilities, he faced barriers that kept him from casting a ballot. Now, the GOP’s SAVE America Act could further complicate voting access. https://bit.ly/4aPpoU1

How US tech giants supplied Israel with AI models, raising questions about tech's role in warfare U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

I would like to remind people that AI has already been used to kill people

OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths

apnews.com/article/isra...

brady tkachuk and jack hughes, it is time for you to support your president, it is time for you to enlist

BREAKING — 51 Iranian children are dead after a strike hits Minab girls elementary school in Iran.

Moment of truth for the Bill Kristol summer romance

All Features Great and Small

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

First exhibit: Kerning!

I am devastated to hear of the passing of Nurul Amin Shah Alam. He was a refugee of the Rohingya genocide living in Buffalo, New York. Border Patrol agents wrongfully detained him and dumped him on the street in brutal winter conditions. Blind and walking with a cane, he died trying to get home.

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

I’ve heard a lot of things on C-SPAN, but that call was haunting. A brutal reminder of the real-world toll.

Cutest little rubbish truck spotted in Sydney.
Scale your vehicles to your city, don’t scale your city to your vehicles!

There of course is the glaring cruelty, but also notice how it has a chilling effect on mobility. It’s further exacerbated by the fact that drivers have no 4th amendment rights.

I live in Minnesota and I want the federal government to stop trying to kill us. And hurt us. I want them to stop attacking us.

It sucks.

We’re just trying to live our lives and take care of each other and we don’t deserve all this.

I kid around sometimes here but I’m not kidding now.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Border Patrol dropped a blind refugee 5 miles from his home at night.

No English, no call to his family / lawyer.

Nurul Alam, 56, was found dead 5 days later on a Buffalo street.

He had an immigration detainer - not a criminal warrant or order of removal.
www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

It’s insane that famous people GoFundMe for medical care is a regular thing.

Probably fine

All from Minnesota. Love to see it.

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

‪Dani Besky, an Epstein survivor, blasts Kash Patel. ‬

‪Why is the FBI director out there partying like a college kid when you should be investigating?”‬

Case 1:25-cV-02942-TJK Document 74 Filed 02/24/26 Page 1 of 17 1 of 17 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA L.G.M.L.., et al., Plaintiffs, V. Case No.: 25-cv-2942-TJK KRISTI NOEM, et al., Defendants. PLAINTIFFS' MOTION FOR AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE After a temporary restraining order narrowly thwarted the government's secret, middle-of- the-night attempt to expel unaccompanied Guatemalan children from the United States over Labor Day weekend, this Court certified a provisional class of certain Guatemalan children who are or will be in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other Defendants and enjoined Defendants from "transferring, repatriating, removing, or otherwise facilitating the transport" of class members from the United States. Defendants declined to appeal that injunction and it remains in place while this matter proceeds to final judgment. But Plaintiffs have learned that Defendants are engaged in a practice that openly flouts the plain text of the Court's injunction and the statutory protections guaranteed by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Specifically, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are returning unaccompanied children from noncontiguous countries, including class members, to their home countries within 72 hours of entering government custody, typically before they can be transferred

NEW: Remember when the government rounded up dozens of unaccompanied children in the middle of the night and tried to summarily deport them?

A Trump-appointed judge entered an injunction barring their removal.

But lawyers for the children say the government is trying to circumvent that order.

More Chicago traffic, construction coming to Kennedy Expressway as IDOT plans for next phase Honeymoon's over, drivers: Chicago traffic, construction and congestion on the Kennedy Expressway (I-90/94) will soon return as the Illinois Department of Transportation prepares for the third and fin...

Even the $70 million price tag for the capital stage isn't that expensive when you consider $10M per lane mile for an urban highway expansion, and the costs of maintenance ($150 M for the Kennedy project; minimal for a trail): www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/m...

Weber Spur Bike Trail Secures Federal Funding The 1.7-mile trail, a former Union Pacific rail line, would cut through the LaBagh Woods and connect to the North Branch Trail. The city still needs to buy the property and secure more funding.

Weber Spur Bike Trail Secures Federal Funding blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/24/w...

Trump Calls Cartel Members “Terrorists.” They’re Armed With Bullets From a U.S. Army Factory. The president blames Mexico for the flow of drugs into the U.S. — while enabling the flow of guns into Mexico by slashing federal regulators.

From October 2025: Our investigation documents the cartels’ use of ammunition from a U.S. Army-owned factory in enforcing mass displacement in Mexico.

I strolled into 10 Wild Turkeys once--it was an omen of a rough morning.

This is both completely horrifying and outrageous, and also completely not surprising. But to be clear, we should absolutely be horrified and outraged even though the Trump regime is completely predictable.