When state actors use weapons to kill citizens of a country with which we’re not currently at war, that’s not a war crime. That’s murder. Call it what it is. #uspol

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social

Do not ask someone if they want a glass of water. Just bring them a glass of water. Everybody likes being given a glass of water.

We must keep paying attention to the particulars of what the Trump regime is doing to people. It is the only way we are going to stay galvanized in the face of large-scale, relentless fascism. It is what makes the utter moral wrongness crystal clear. Case was brought by people arrested by […]

As the judge explains, the law requires that any determinations related to warrantless immigration law enforcement violations be individualized and particularized. It is not sufficient to say that brown people or Spanish speaking people or people picking up work supplies at Home Depot are […]

Unsurprising that there was no basis to hold the detained people - they were arrested without a warrant, and without probable cause for believing they were in the U.S. unlawfully and were likely to escape law enforcement before a warrant could be gotten. 9/

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

“If pay for typical workers had kept pace with productivity over the past 45 years, their paychecks today would be roughly 40% larger.” https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

“Today former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously ‘considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,’ and called for ‘anyone who issues […]

Rules for thee, not for me, sayeth Patel the big shot. “When [Christopher] Wray used the bureau’s jet for personal reasons during his own tenure, Patel was one of his most vocal critics. In a 2023 interview, Patel chided Wray by name, saying he did not need ‘a government-funded G5 to go to […]

Meet the Veteran Who Chases ICE on a Scooter – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/baltimore-scooter-ice-patrol-buzz-grambo-us-navy-veteran/

How we deliberately created the homelessness pandemic in the 20th century. The Banished Bottom of the Housing Market - by Ryan Puzycki https://www.ryanpuzycki.com/p/the-banished-bottom-of-the-housing

Perhaps the clearest indicator of #Chicago’s growing #resistance is the sound of #whistles. The activist Baltazar Enriquez is credited with being among the first to introduce the concept. For months Little Village residents have used them to broadcast the persistent presence of #immigration […]

Their efforts—community patrols, rapid responders, school escorts, vendor buyouts, honking horns & blowing whistles—are a uniquely #chicago response that other cities #trump has targeted for federal intervention want to model. “The strategy here is to make us afraid. The response from Chicago is […]

As an unprecedented #immigration crackdown enters a 3rd month, a growing number of #chicago residents are fighting back against what they deem a #racist & aggressive #overreach of the federal govt. The #democratic stronghold’s response has tapped established activists & everyday residents from […]

Doctors in China have used lab-grown insulin-producing cells to treat a woman with type 1 diabetes. The cells were made from her own tissue, reprogrammed into stem cells, and then grown into tiny clusters that release insulin. A year after the transplant, her blood sugar remains normal without […]

Caity Weaver, a fine writer, expounds on pennies, lately for The Atlantic and previously (both times entertainingly) for The New York Times. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/pennies-circulation-mint/684935/?gift=RXPOOMoryRnayHP9s6YMzwIvnkP-fw_1-QbzK5qwbA0 #us #uspol #penny #pennies

Something just occurred to be about that 'ask a chatbot to draw a clock' thing that is going around this morning. If you search the web for "draw a clock", what you get is a bunch of papers on diagnosing cognitive decline. The clocks the chatbots draw look just like the examples in those papers […]

Snap! https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/115544281475812293

to understand New York City please imagine 100 people in your bedroom. Yet, somehow all 100 of them have found a way to be comfortable. They’re sitting on the couch, on the back of the couch and on every chair and every surface. They have built little shelves on the wall to make additional […]

Josh Johnson nailed it. https://substack.com/@marlonweems/note/c-173922195?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2024/03/05/are-superblocks-future-urban-living “if superblocks were implemented at a larger scale an estimated 700 annual deaths could be prevented” #Barcelona #urbandesign #publichealth #superblocks #cleanair #walkable #waroncars

Um, buried in the emails between #Epstein & Michael Wolff is an account of how the #Kremlin disguised a $100 million payment to #Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal. Involved in the deal were both Jeffrey Epstein & Trump’s #FHFA director #BillPulte who […] [Original post on masto.ai]

“The Soviet system of propaganda and censorship existed not so much for the purpose of spreading a particular message as for the purpose of making learning impossible, replacing facts with mush, and handing the faceless state a monopoly on defining an ever-shifting reality.” ~Masha Gessen in The […]

“It is now more than ever, after all, that America needs the message of its World War II cemeteries. On a Veterans Day when optimism about the American experiment can be hard to summon, they transport us back to a moment when America was an essential force for good.” […]

“It’s easy, once you get the hang of it.” https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOEPbdCjdj6/?igsh=aWRqZGk0NTVzbGRx #men #women #interrupting

“‘Americans proudly say that we live in the longest-lived democracy in the world,’ Judge Wolf said in the interview. ‘But that should teach us that all the others failed.’” #uspol […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/115516571652076611 #capitalism thrives on misery because the no.1 mission of capitalists is to produce poverty ―it’s the only way they can inflate the value of their holdings, invent wealth thru valuations & restrict access to money. once that’s done […]

Seems like a valid question. Why is ICE considered essential while ATCs are not?

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

Expect people working at Walmart an d McDonalds to be at least partially distracted these days, as both companies have unconscionable numbers of full-time employees on food stamps…which aren’t arriving anymore. Meanwhile, as Robert Reich points out, the CEOs of those companies make nearly 1000x […]

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

Nobel Peace Prize update: Israeli soldier killed, possibly by Hamas. Israel retaliates by bombing residential areas in Gaza, killing 100+, including 40+ children. Area Peace Prize candidate approves. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“Rallying the troops” three times in a month: TFG is readying the military to enforce his police state. Congress and SCOTUS won’t stop him. We’ve seen our last ”free” national election. https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/trump-just-announced-his-police-state?r=14j7ia #uspol

Great lede: “A decade ago, for the most part, phones were phones. Computers were computers. Cameras were cameras. Portable music players were portable music players. The idea that the future of the computer would be a phone, or vice versa, wasn’t merely absurd. It just wasn’t how people thought […]

“78% of Americans, including 59% of Republicans, support the Democrats’ demand for an extension of the tax credit that lowers the cost of healthcare premiums on the Affordable Care Act markets.” And that’s why the administration and Congress want to take it away. Right? Wait… […]

My mom texted me with a picture of her at one of the No Kings protests. Her first protest ever. The normies have awakened.

Best sign I’ve seen thus far: “United we ribbet. Divided we croak.”

@blogdiva It's really important that people who have a wide variety of legitimate grievances realize they're fighting for the same thing. That's one of the reasons these protests are important. The powers that be want people to fight each other so that they can keep everyone down.

#nokings #protest #resist #resistance #alt

“Dr. Goodall [said], “I don’t like to talk about animal rights. I prefer to talk about human responsibilities. The negative space of the idea of rights suddenly jumped out at me, like the classic picture of a vase that suddenly flips into two faces. I started to think about the way we talk about […]

“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~Elie Wiesel

This doesn’t end. Stop dreaming. Start fighting back. #uspol https://mastodon.social/@SteveThompson/115380159525111876

“If you think Trumpism will simply end in three years, you are naive. Left unopposed, global populism of the sort Trumpism represents could dominate for a generation. This could be the rest of our lives, and our children’s, too. “So why are we doing so little? Are we just going to stand in […]

From where did Arabic numerals come? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPH9caSCJF1/?igsh=M2hreTFndjY3ajVj

Maya Angelou on how our fear of death pushes us towards exclusion and ignorance. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPg4HxJiA2a/?igsh=N2w0ZndvYmo1MHlw #uspol #poetry

A republic based on law is rapidly circling the drain over here in North America. If we can find ways to agree, we’re going to end the experiment before we make it to 250 years. https://feelingagile.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/1607/ #uspol #endtimes #agreeordie