When people oppose the expansion of the police surveillance state, it is generally not because they are mad at the wrong private company or delusionally refuse to see that police surveillance is actually benevolent and good.

Kettle says exempting footage from the police cameras from public disclosure will solve the problem. Exempting police from public disclosure is not the solution!

During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭 news.agu.org/press-releas...

A wild revelation from @theurbanist.org: Seattle Public Library’s new head of security is a former cop who is on the Kitsap County Brady List*

This May we are getting BOTH a new Murderbot book by @marthawells.com , AND a new Radch universe book by @annleckie.com ! It's time to get excited. www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/02/18/s...

Would you rather have a stable state government that can effectively deliver services or two sales tax holidays?

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Also, Jesse Jackson loudly stood up for gay people at a very serious moment when hate and fear against us was at its peak in the AIDS crisis. This was a real risk but the right thing to do. And it’s a reason I despise modern Democrats who waffle and hedge on trans rights. BE MORE JESSE JACKSON ⭐

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

i can’t stop laughing

Happy Valentine's Day

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury. Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation. Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it. Restore all the small random agencies to Justice. Be done with it.

This is ideal Olympic meta-commentary, or reporting, or whatever you want to call it.

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

Review Finds Multiple Police Failures Preceded Violent Response to Counteprotests During Anti-LGBTQ Event in May Police didn’t engage with community before the anti-LGBTQ event, weren’t familiar with Capitol Hill and its history, and referred to protesters as “transtifa,” the report found.

i've talked about this before but clicking a substack link feels bad! it's not, at least for me, something active like a "boycott," it's just that it Feels Gross, in the same way that watching a harry potter movie on a streaming subscription i already pay for does. and i don't like feeling gross

Supreme tier multitasker, respect

as someone who reported on drone and counter-drone technology for a decade, and who has only ever fired a laser (never a kinetic weapon), I feel I am uniquely qualified to say: lol, LMAO, these doofuses. Abolish CBP *and take away their lasers* x.com/JenGriffinFN...

White Sands is like an hour away, they're just being lazy

This is a famously messy Norwegian biathlete who was banned in 2023 from the Biathlon World Cup because he accidentally fired his competition rifle in his hotel room (he was also teary and apologetic then)

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

The sorest losers in the world are having a really bad day today.

Do the same with Oakleys/Meta ads. Making citizen surveillance look cool and sexy. Basically cigarettes 2.0.

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

I get that Mayor Wilson wants to keep competent people in charge as long as they're aligned with the vision, but frankly this new map demonstrates that the OPCD director is not aligned with her vision. We need to create homes that working families can afford. Instead, they downzoned the proposal.

Takeaway: Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service" This has 2 parts: 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

Fascists quickly tire of safeguards. Three days ago the head of CISA (🤯!!!) got busted circumventing these safety measures, throwing sensitive government documents into the growing pile of privatized data.

The theft isn't over. ICE thugs are now demanding state-level voter data at gunpoint. If they get that data, presumably, they will throw it into the mix with all the other stolen data available to repression as a service.

my this is just so visionless and depressing not even a half block depth of apartments on most of these arterials. this is not how you make a walkable, livable, affordable city

We DO deserve libraries. Palaces for the people.

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

being an elder millennial is super cool because i was born in the 80s, forged in the furnace of the 90s, and then melted by the furnace of the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s oh hmmm

The aggregation of 22 separate federal agencies, most of which had nothing to do with each other, into DHS was the second most corrosive post-9/11 action taken (after the passing of the PATRIOT Act) and I will die on that hill

brilliant work here

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

A reminder that the King County Prosecutor is up for reelection this year.

Pretty confident the video of "feds" gassing people outside of a MSP "preschool" "this morning" is not from today and is probably from Saturday. 1. If you only see it from aggregators/randos/"dem strategists," pause. 2. If the caption says "uncovered footage," it probably didn't just happen.