MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

As a kid in New Orleans, we played "It" at recess instead of "Tag". Is this a southern thing or was it specific to New Orleans? Who else played "It"?

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

loving some Gwedolyn Brooks today:

Since people find being hopeful and optimistic so cringe these days, let me remind you once again that there isn’t a single liberation movement in the world that wasn’t built on hope and optimism.

Any of my New Orleans peeps have a recomendation for a where to have a fun dinner on NYE? Possibly a late seating?

great analogy:

Time for a recipe report out: What were your fave new recipes you tried this year? At my house the Pecen Pie from Smitten Kitchen was delish.

I can skip the big corporate balloons, but the National Dog Show is a non-negotiable part of today 😀

Share this with anyone who says they just want people "to do it the right way". Hint: there is no "right way" ...

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

This is an excellent antidote to the previous article I posted about the Border Patrol. Do yourself a favor and read it: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process — theonion.com/not-sure-how...

BP is functioning as domestic secret police. Where are all the conspiracy theorists when you need them? "The Border Patrol has for years hidden details of its license plate reader program, trying to keep any mention of the program out of court documents and police reports..."

Like some kind of grim Omen of things to come, #Hawaii ’s #Kilauea volcano just unleashed a MASSIVE WING SHAPED eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

If only they had believed women in 2005 when he revealed what a mysogynist creep he was back then...

Why is this man still employed as a professor? I started Div school there in 2005, right before he was ousted as President. He showed us who he was back then - these emails should be the nail in the coffin.

toy company CEOs: "at long last, we have created the Sinister Talking Doll Factory from the acclaimed movie 'Don't Create the Sinister Talking Doll Factory'" futurism.com/artificial-i...

Seemed topical:

Do you remember when the White House had good taste? Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.

When housing is percieved as an investment tool and not as a basic need, it opens the door to abuse and exploitation, whether you are at the high end (like here in Santa Barbara) or low end (like Baltimore) of the mareket. Real estate shenanigans explained:

Socialism is thier name for almost anything that helps all the people.....

Watching all those Trump party videos, not only is it offensive, it's also just so...dull. Boring. The facsimile of a good time without any real joy.

Wild notion: your monthly health insurance premium should not cost more than your rent or mortgage.

I'm not big on the Hitler/Trump comparisons (every dictator can be awful in their own ways), but sometimes history just hits you in the face:

It's not a Ballroom he's tearing down the White House to build - it's a Throne Room.

Good morning ☀️ 🚨Breaking News:

The entire government is shut down, and his main priority is the ballroom. This should be shouted from the rooftops, shared relentlessly by every Dem in every microphone they can find. Coordinate the message, people!

Today's mood, after a big week:

My jacket in action, and I got a pic with a frog! It was a good day with 13,000 friends here in Santa Barbara.

Getting my outfit ready for today' event:

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

What's gonna be on your sign? I need inspiration!

WOW... JUST WOW... In order to justify invoking the insurrection act in Portland, Oregon, trump faked a riot with professional videographers, the military and hired extras. Sen. Jeffrey Merkley tells us what happened :

Friends, I know so many of you are planning to attend a "No Kings" protest this Saturday, and you'll be bringing with you amazing protest signs. Why not recognize the creativity on display? I'm pleased to announce the Oct. 18th "No Kings" Protest Sign Contest... with cash prizes. (thread)

Who was Ada Lovelace? What were her greatest achievements? This ‘infoposter’ describes Lovelace’s achievements and describes why she’s thought of as the world’s first computer programmer. findingada.com/resou... #ALD25

The neighbors to the Chumash here on the central coast:

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Democrats need to start talking about corruption a lot more. They don't even need to go into details. But people need to hear "the most corrupt President ever" all the dang time. Make it an inescapable narrative. Make politicians answer questions about it. Skip the useless "hypocrisy", talk grift.

Why isn't this a bigger story?

A speech about military standards and "warrior ethos" is a chance to tell the brass: "It's OK to do War Crimes - we got your back! So don't be afraid to go out there and get violent, that's what the Department of War is all about!"

Motherfucking wind farms…

Joy is found in the depths (if you're the whale, not the squid):

...and there's the part that leaves the door open for more bribery and grift:

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

If I was in LA I would go to this:

The Washington Post now has no Black Opinion columnists - none - at a time when white nationalism is ascendant in our nation. I am grateful to Karen for the truth and fearlessness her work has always shown. Keep shining that light, my friend.

The extent to which CK's death is being used to remove and harass people who do not agree with Trump's worldview is astonishing. There will be a great silence upon the land.