"The purpose of a system is what it does"

Evergreen

Literally doing the meme lol

Well, would you look at this? I spotted a P-8 Poseidon — which is a modified 737 airframe — with no reg # coming out of dark mode in flight data I posted the day of the first boat strike.

This picture was taken in 2000 by an Associated Press photographer who was allowed to be present as an observer. ICE now keeps press blocks away from the areas where they are operating. One of the first actions ICE takes during a raid is to confiscate phones.

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

This afternoon, retired Army general Stanley McChrystal spoke at the retirement ceremony hosted by HRC for six trans service members who were forced out under Trump’s ban. “I shouldn’t have to be thanked for being here. First off, we shouldn’t be here. This shouldn’t be happening.” Full remarks:

Make it viral.

Gallego's surprisingly good at messaging.

America’s global fascist war against reason and democracy is only just getting started. Trump will be long dead, and we will still be fighting the wars he started because fascism is not going to die with Trump. It is fully solidified as the government now.

DOJ plane carrying Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro lands at New York’s Stewart Airport.

"If we hadn’t already, we’ve unquestionably joined the league of ordinary nations—a league in which we’re acting as little more than a bully, and in circumstances in which no obvious principle of self-defense, human rights, or even humantarianism writ large justifies our bellicosity." Me on Maduro:

Here is J.D. Vance's rationale for seizing Maduro. He says Trump "was very clear throughout this process: the drug trafficking must stop, and the stolen oil must be returned to the United States." Very interesting, since the indictment says nothing whatever about oil, stolen or otherwise. /1

something worth pointing out is that Americans largely have zero concept of who Bolivar was, what he did, and what South Americans think about him

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

President Trump ordered strikes on sites inside Venezuela, including military facilities, U.S. officials told CBS News, as the administration early Saturday ratcheted up its campaign against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Yep there’s no legal justification here. Either we have laws or we don’t.

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever." - Dept. of Education to ProPublica's @megomatz.bsky.social "Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But ... their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated."

New blog post: California has done the big, difficult stuff to fix the housing crisis. Now it's time to start sweating the details.

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

GM global sales are already down 40% in the last 10 years. We are into the final years of the US motor car industry.

Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers

Recently saw the same thing here in DC. Bunch of unmarked HSI cars surrounded a bus, jumped out of the vehicles, and grabbed people at random. Within a minute they were gone. People need to understand that what this country has built is a secret police force that is capable of disappearing people!

The degree to which we're seeing a backsliding of higher education in this country is astounding tbh. When I toured UNL it seemed like things were on an upswing but honestly most of the educational opportunities that I had seem to be disappearing from red states

Sad to see that my colleagues in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at UNL saw their combined department eliminated late this afternoon by the UNL Board of Regents. No more meteorology no more geology at UNL. Words escape me!

Two weeks from today! Should be a super fun conversation on the intersection of imagery analysis and city planning with me and Prof. Ayda Kianmehr, and Prof. Maryam Hosseini. Free and open to the public: sjsu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'm sorry but WHAT

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

brb, emailing my smoke detector manufacturer for a refund because I never had a fire in my house

POLITICO: “.. Among those who received the ‘full, complete and unconditional’ pardons were Rudy Giuliani .. Mark Meadows, .. John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro, .. Boris Epshteyn .. and Sidney Powell ..” @politico.com @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Many city halls are deep in budget-time. Some are pushing austerity ideologies, and are ignoring the difference between costs and cost-savers/value creators. Citizens, PAY ATTENTION, and never forget that the TRUTH about a city’s REAL aspirations isn’t found in its visions. It’s found in its budget.

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

Why did the attacks on Mamdani’s socialism fail? A key reason: He made clear he was a “sewer socialist,” a forgotten American tradition created by left-wing mayors who asked to be judged not by theories but by whether they deliver public services effectively & fairly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

It’s late, I should already be asleep, I have no idea what he actually meant, but I certainly could believe that Trump saw all the news about Russia’s Burvestnik test, his smooth brain interpreted it as a big bang nuke test like in the time of yore, and now he is sad.

hey uh what the fuck

JD Vance said he doesn’t care if the US commits war crimes. Did it make the news? Donald Trump said he’s declaring war on Chicago. Did it make the news? Executive agencies keep posting Nazi blood-and-soil propaganda. Did it make the news?

Wild story of how Trump ordered a SEAL raid into North Korea in 2019 to plant a listening device. The SEALs killed everyone on a board a boat that they thought had spotted them, sunk the boat & bodies, and aborted. And Congress was told of none of this. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Back in January, I talked with friends and we all wrote down red lines that we worried this administration might cross in the coming years. This is one that I came up with. The idea that the president can murder 11 people and make up the justification - the founding fathers didn't want this!

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

You know that boat the administration blew up? A former law enforcement official told the NYT the boat seemed to be carrying not drugs but *’migrants * www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

This is the kind of free propaganda for anti-American sentiment dictators could only dream of previously Removed of context, it looks like America proudly massacred 11 civilians with no warning

US factory construction continues steadily declining as CHIPS & IRA projects either complete or cancel—in official data released today, overall US manufacturing construction activity is down 7% compared to last year & electronics/electrical manufacturing construction is down 14%

shout-out to everyone who had Stupider Gulf Of Tonkin for Venezuela on their bingo cards

The lead up to the declaration of martial law in Pakistan included the use of the military, called to stop a pogrom, for performing civic functions in Lahore like cleaning, planting trees and repairing roads. People began to see martial law positively. By 1958 Pakistan’s fledgling democracy died.

This is, quite literally, the most insane policy proposal I've ever heard in my life, and that includes reading the MX Basing Study!

I have one. Voters make decisions based on the ideas in their heads and their beliefs about the world, and those ideas and beliefs are heavily shaped by their social interactions, especially media consumption, and in the last 20 years most media consumption is from social media's sea of lies.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

A major determiner of when and whether Xi Jinping eventually thinks, "OK, *today* is the day it's finally worth the risk of invading Taiwan," is when and whether US cuts Ukraine loose. Surely Marco R "knows" that. And that it would affect "life in America on a daily basis, and around the world."