The tank's role is to draw aggro

This was just about my first thought after reading the quoted

Don’t wear swimming goggles to a riot or demo. You might think they might help with tear gas, and they will. But they may make blunt force trauma more damaging.

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Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Oh who could have known a racist misogynistic abuser would treat the country like he has treated everyone else in the history of his relationships?

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AI data centres are gobbling up environmental resources. Billionaires are flying around on private jets. Endless amounts of money & resources spent on wars around the globe. But inhalers are the real threat to the climate? They really will blame disabled people for everything

Here’s video of the incident

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Whole thread is well worth reading.

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Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

MYTH: “The President stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot [somebody].” FACT: It was East 57th Street, the President was on the sidewalk, and there were multiple targets.

They are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them. How a little-known appeal could force your insurer to pay for lifesaving care www.propublica.org/article/heal...

Chuck Yeager encountering 3 Me262s and realizing they can't maneuver for shit

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Imagine if a water pipe broke and the water department had to ask city council whether to fix it and then spend 12 months asking everyone on the street their opinion of how to fix it before they could start work. That's how cities manage curbs.

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America – and why democratic citizens have an obligation to hold the line on what we consider beyond the pale. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Israeli drone footage shows the destruction in Gaza:

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act. Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

People responded to news that Hegseth was attempting sic TXNG on Portland in various ways. 1) Screaming that Dems were pretending it wasn't happening which was false 2) Talking to Texans about how this is negligent 3) Addressing how this fucks over the Guard 4) Addressing Stephen Miller role

I'm seeing a) assertions that no one has been thinking about the issues raised by these NG deployments and b) confident assertions about complicated legal issues. So a friendly reminder that we do have experts on domestic use of the U.S. military, and even they don't have clear answers! ⬇️

Stumbled on this older post by accident but The Take and Gotan Project are both excellent; must watch/listen 🇦🇷

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

And the cult of SOF is a real problem given that, if we've seen one thing in Ukraine, it is that in a near-peer conflict, highly-trained, ultra-elite infantry cost a lot to form and field but get shredded by firepower at exactly the same rate, if not faster than, regular infantry.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

Literally the Mr Burn’s school of business

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one. @justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

thinking a lot today about the moral cowardice of any nation not following the hard data about Portugal's drugs decriminalisation project. it's the same as data from ubi trials. "we have found a way to unequivocally benefit people, but it makes my tummy hurt to think about"

An interesting and easy to read article: Why poverty leads to poor decision making. It underlines the fact that Universal Basic Income would go a long way to improving the lives and prospects of everyone involved. nonzerosum.games/poverty.html

Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees.​ The Irish language is a joy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

it is interesting to me how the MAGA right has a balkanized view of the United States that does not, at all, correspond with the reality of the United States

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

This would also degrade our readiness as a NATO member.

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

The police were never going to protect you from fascism. They are literally designed to protect the wealth classes property, and catch slaves. That is their history. That is the reality of what police have always been they will not stop fascism as fascism has always been a part of their history.

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

There's been a lot of confusion about which states could redraw their House maps before the midterms, so we've put together a definitive guide to every state that could actually do so—16 in all. We explain the likelihood of new maps, probable targeted districts, and any obstacles to passage.

UNRWA warns the world that Israel has labeled thousands of people besieged in Gaza City and northern Gaza as “terrorists or terror supporters.” Israel is in preparations for large-scale massacres.

Taps the sign Pygmalion Displacement: When Humanising AI Dehumanises Women. SocArXiv. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

He was here legally this is 100% punishment for his journalism about the growing protests against the Republicans fascist regime. This is textbook authoritarianism and an assault on all of our rights.

A rock solid indicator of fascism is the intermingling of paramilitary forces and governmental forces and secret police. We just checked all the boxes for textbook fascism in one meeting.

*cough* www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/w...