Every sentence here is even crazier than the last.

Ken Houston "Oakland didn't have a gang problem when I was growing up"

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 We're suing the city of San Jose for its pervasive ALPR surveillance program. With nearly 500 ALPRs, the SJPD allows its officers to search millions of records, all without a warrant. These unconstitutional searches must be stopped. Read the complaint: www.eff.org/cases/siren...

Tonight: oakland city councils public safety committee is meeting to vote on a proposal to expand its flock surveillance system. full house tonight. Council president Wang starts off by threatening attendees with removal if anyone pops off.

the more I look into flock and see the shoestring of evidence holding this things reputation as an effective tool against crime together, the more i realize that police depts across the country (who r uniquely positioned to assess flocks efficacy, but aren't doing so publicly) r investing in this

meredian bros were already one of my favs but now that ive translated the lyrics to this song im like "there will nvr be another like you <3" youtu.be/HTqS5fV99gI?...

USPS is one of the largest employers in the country and has been one of the few places trans ppl can reliably access steady employment and coverage for trans health care needs. My ffs was covered by kaisers postal plan. This one hurts

Councilmember: Mr Cop, ur report says the Panopticon led to a 15% decrease in crime, but fails 2 cite substantiating evidence; I have 1 question 4 u sir: how r u so sexy, & brave, &noble? Cop: I will shoot ur dog Media: despite passing sweeping surveillance bill, city leaders show anti-cop bias

after over a yr of not dating and hardly any casual interactions, I decided a couple weeks ago that I gotta start putting myself out there more and happy to report that so far it's been extremely worthwhile + good for my brain

yes, re "undo". & when I hear this line, I think about this piece + the lasting impacts of state violence, where 4 many, that trauma is something theyll struggle with 4 the rest of their lives, and in some cases, even pass down to the next generation www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/rev...

Why did Epstein and his friends communicate all of this shit blatantly unencrypted over their fucking emails? Because men like them have ruled this country for 500 years. They think they're invincible, that no one will ever challenge them. It's why they're losing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

my exes ex is liking all my posts and thirst traps lmao

This is going to be so fucked

the regime (including their dem collaborators) is about to push 170,000 formally homeless people back onto the streets

topped for the first time since I started smoking again and my goodness, gotta nip this in the bud real soon

was reviewing the contract for Oaklands proposed Flock expansion and found a hella sus provision buried like 60 pgs deep that basically says "if the feds take over the city this agreement is void (and we can use this however?) lol"

These politicians aren't in disarray. They fucking hate you. They don't work for you.

Anyone waiting on the Democrats to be an opposition shouldn't expect much. Don't be surprised if or when the Democrats (starting with the high-level establishment) start joining the Republicans outright and pushing this society toward a more openly one-party state.

Calling the Democrats “cowards” suggests that they're scared to do what's right when they show no fervent interest in being an opposition. They're largely colluders, not cowards. Many want their base to think they're cowards to maintain investment in the idea that they can be pushed to do better.

I [state your name] lmfaoooo

the right is pretty openly gearing up to challenge the 19th amendment and genocide-peddler centrists are eagerly laundering it for them.

Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee

tbh if you can't handle Herbie Hancock at his robot voice political manifestos you don't deserve him at his keytar shredding

NEW: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document 404 Media obtained. Photos taken by the app are stored for 15 years, including of U.S. citizens. We've published the full document here: www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

the platner situation is really illuminating the difference between bluesky and "left twitter", which is really just a place for the right to keep infecting peoples brains so they become more relaxed around nazi symbolism

i <3 hearty, intellectual debate

Wonder how many millions this is gonna cost and moreover what percentage of calfresh recipients it could subsidize food benefits 4 instead

kinda feel like turring would be more of a scruff guy tbh

BRO LEAVE ME ALONE FFS

TOMORROW Oakland Rally Against Flock Tuesday, Oct. 28, 5pm City Hall Rally against OPD’s proposed use policy & contract for integrating its public camera network with Flock Safety’s ALPR camera system & database. We don’t want our data ending up being used by ICE. Toolkit: bit.ly/noflock-oakl...

Capitalism, in contrast to market competition, is not about profit, it's about power. It *requires* economic inefficiency, doggedly pursues it. Capital self-perpetuation inevitably seeks things firmer and less fragile than money.

I really think Trump could have consolidated a durable regime if he had bucked GOP orthodoxy on social policy and gone full welfare chauvinist, but instead he’s going to set off a food insecurity crisis orders of magnitude worse than what we saw during the Great Recession.

music from the 60's and 70's is kinda funny. All these songs about dudes who obsessively stalk and abuse their girlfriends and everybody's like "ooooh so romantic 😍"

not having a good time

man i was so close to losing it last night. found myself in bed with a beautiful woman and her cute lil fanny/❄️ pack, and brother, let me tell yah... i was like william dafoe, night 40 in the desert, eyes full and oozing over with lust

There it is

I’m sorry but it is so funny to me that dudes flew in on short notice from Korea and Germany *for this*. Humiliation

is there a niche German word for that feeling u get when u know ur about to land it?

the trump quips add a nice comedic element, tho is unfortunately kinda spoiled by the surrealist effect it's also giving

Gallo holding onto that coveted "dumbest, most useless asshole on council" for dear life

this is SO funny. pls don't be mad at me 🥺 im just a lil guy! idek who Brown is!!

People still absolutely fucking hate Trump this is not a situation where a fascist dictator has mass popular support he's incredibly unpopular and he's getting more unpopular by the day Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

honestly growing up In Hell has equipped me for Hell x100 pretty well. thx to pops for being an evil bastard I guess

one of my favorite human beings is on life support rn. od'd. idek what to say rn... i love her and will miss her so much

Pritzker just welcomed the FBI, DEA, and ATF into Chicago and asked for civilian law enforcement’s help in the city when they’re all being used to help ICE and DHS so can we stop with the Great Khan shit already.

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us