Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

I for one cannot believe people are comparing textbook Nazism to Nazism! www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... #$RBI #TimHortons #BurgerKing #Popeyes h/t @tomshardware.com

"It is past time for both Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to step down and step aside. This fascist moment, this age of Trump, demands outspoken, unrelenting and fearless opposition... we all deserve better." I make the case, in my latest for The Guardian, for new leadership:

www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/m... #Windows #LawSky

*I tried to give the president an iron fist on immigration policy and abrogate settled international humanitarian law. Republicans stopped me.* – this post, essentially

ICE agent wearing a baklava.

Woody Guthrie wrote "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" in 1948. Here is Roger McGuinn in a Byrds cover in 1969: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Enj... [03:48].

"abolition of the distinction between town and country" www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

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@aclu.org I'm sorry to see that your website doesn't carry links to Bluesky. along with (or instead of) the fascist websites!

I wish @dataforprogress.org would advertise their presence on BlueSky as prominently as they advertise for fascist sites.

Oh god how stupid, how incredibly stupid is Gavin?

Welcome to Brexitland, US, in which waywardness is described as "strategic uncertainty", restrictions on trade boost performance and self harm is lauded.... Spoiler, it does not end happily www.ft.com/content/342d...

@governor.ca.gov says demanding civil liberties for Kilmar Abrego García is a "distraction." Fortunately, nothing can go wrong with his scheme to turn state governance over to privately-owned Generative AI. www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/29/g... #QuislingNewsom

San Jose Mercury News @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/25/m...

A naturalized citizen (meaning "he passed a test about the US Constitution which the President would fail badly") was denied his Social Security benefits he had paid for. 1/2

The Trump administration and “Christian” evangelicals are celebrating this Easter by defending the deportation of immigrants to a death camp in a country named after Jesus… 🙄🙄

Womp-womp, they DOGE'd the tariffs. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

He promised to appoint someone from his own klavern.

Meanwhile, investors from China funnel money into SpaceX, all very normal, nothing to see here. www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Post-Selma op-eds: Carville: "Bonehead bridge stunt alienates working class whites" Durbin: "Protesters lack decorum!" Fetterman: Why I'm co-sponsoring Josh Hawley's 'Free the Bridges' act, allowing motorists to run over protesters Jeffries: "God still on the throne" www.npr.org/2025/03/09/n...

Our capital city will be Solvang. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

"Professor Hancock’s citation to fake, AI-generated sources in his declaration ... shatters his credibility with this Court. At a minimum, expert testimony is supposed to be reliable." business.cch.com/ipld/KohlsEl... #StayInSchoolKids #Stanford #JeffHancock

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

West's uncle is former congressman (R-TX ) and war criminal Allen West, who himself accepted non-judicial punishment for torturing an Iraqi policeman. If Herman or Allen (or both) should join Trump/Hegseth's DoD, it won't surprise me. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

This is almost as funny as two Stanford law profs serving as _particeps criminis_ for Sam Bankman-Fried. Misinformation expert Jeff Hancock, testifying to support a law *against* AI fakery: www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/03/s... #Stanford

Hey everyone, I got early access to the Atlantic’s cover for the December issue:

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.