I can say with complete confidence that this is completely bullshit, at least as far as Allegheny County, PA is concerned. Housing shortages in this area are far more attributable to blight resulting from an undercompensated population than any other cause, including nationalist, WS dog whistles.

They weren't terrorists. They weren't cartel members. They had no fentanyl. And they weren't coming here. They were transporting cocaine. To Trinidad. Most importantly, they were human beings. And they were murdered. By the government of the United States of America.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

We had so much fun and intense learning at #gdcr25 @coderetreat that we forgot to post anything during the day! Our eight participants in Global Day of #CodeRetreat in #Pittsburgh shared their gratitude for a new perspective on test driven development, system […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

'Twas the night before @coderetreat and all through the house, every creature was folding, including the mouse. #gdcr25 #gdcr #coderetreat

It was the night before @coderetreat.bsky.social and all through the house, every creature was folding, including the mouse. #gdcr25 #gdcr #coderetreat

trying to imagine the person that goes, "man, it's really important that i vote, i gotta keep steve bannon out of prison"

Look, I like using and teaching R, but come on: hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Hero jury saves democracy gone a-rye

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the Trump admin to pay full SNAP benefits for November by tomorrow, rejecting the administration’s plan to only partially fund food stamps for 42 million Americans. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/s...

If you're arresting people so fast that you have to hold them in squalid cells without access to lawyers or basic human dignities, you should stop arresting people so fast.

Overnight court filings seem to be giving us a peek at what U.S. Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino said in his deposition so far (it apparently continues today):

After gleefully and illegally plowing over every statute and regulation they don't like—such as by destroying USAID, refusing to enforce CFPB regs, and withholding SNAP funding—the Trump admin has decided 88 FR 8255 is ironclad law that must be ruthlessly enforced to ensure more people go hungry.

Being an undocumented immigrant in the USA is NOT a felony crime. It is a misdemeanor offense. I want y’all to think about that while we are routinely seeing ICE agents traumatize and terrorize these people who have not committed any sort of jail-able offense.

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/CVE-2025-62229/

“We are replacing pluralism with personalization, and surrendering our information-gathering to validation machines that always tell us we’re right.“ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Port of Linux to WebAssembly https://lobste.rs/s/8txnkh ##linux ##wasm

It is difficult enough to get sober even for people who have essentially infinite money and desperately want to. Look at celebrities like Whitney Houston, Demi Lovato, Drew Barrymore, Elton John. Getting sober when you're having trouble feeding or housing yourself? Almost impossible.

Trump wants him arrested. JB Pritzker is breaking through.

“this mass deprivation, which we insist is bad and not our fault, is a great opportunity for us to talk about our plans for long-term mass deprivation”

Changes in the proposed defense budget is signaling that military leadership wants to prioritize the speed of buying and new deploying technology over taking time to evaluate its effectiveness and efficiency.

Even worse when you find out Middlebury College had another death of a trans student in 2023, then hosted an anti-trans talk last winter, before kicking Lia off of both her teams this fall.

Just want to reiterate that there’s no reason for this. There is no increase in crime. There are no riots. There’s no insurrection. They’re doing this without provocation. At least until they create one.

ICE agents continue to radicalize people against ICE. This is obvious assault by an ICE officer, and it’s pure evil that ICE agents are getting away with these violations of people’s unalienable rights. This horrific terrorism by ICE agents must end now!!! 😡😡😡

ICE violently detains mother driving daughter to school—for not having social security number memorized. "Agent became flustered when she couldn't repeat the number... then just lunged at her," said daughter. She had work permit, social security card & drivers license. Harrisonburg, Virginia

Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

"Aye, Caesar; but not gone."

Tomorrow is the first time in months that millions of people will wake up and check their phones to see if it’s over, and it won’t necessarily be for that other thing

Stress-baked some cranberry white chocolate cookies. Well I have plenty of dried cranberries, B made some more cranberry powder and we had an overabundance.

@ThePSF did a big thing and said no to big government money in order to preserve its mission and integrity. They could use a hug right now. If you got it, put your money where your mouth/code is. Donate to the PSF: https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=2

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

By weight, today, I may be more than 1% Brazilian cheesy bread

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

So he wants to buy the troops’ votes by giving them a couple of dollars? These people tell on themselves so hard:

Timothy Mellon of the famous Pittsburgh Mellon family is the one who provided $130 million to pay US military personnel. His views on social safety nets are that Democrats “buy” votes by providing government funds to pay for food for infants.

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

We're hosting #globaldayofcoderetreat in #pittsburgh on November 8: https://meetu.ps/e/PC4Lx/SzJp/i Come learn system design, test-driven development, and pair programming in this day long #coderetreat exercise.

This lawsuit, which demands that the House of Representatives finally seat Rep. Adelita Grijalva, has, um, fairly major implications for our democracy's survival in 2026 and beyond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Is there a reasonable explanation I'm not seeing for why Immigration and Customs Enforcement needs guided missiles?

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

22 arrests. All Maga. Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman. I think we know who the violent ones are. #NoKings

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

With the evidence presented to the public so far, these and the others are state murders. All of these people deserve a day in court.

Uncomfortable political reality: Change starts with convincing Republican members of Congress to stand up for their own constitutional powers and duties. What Trump is doing is already illegal and unconstitutional, but lawmakers have to exercise their powers of impeachment of Hegseth, Bondi, etc.

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

The sooner you quit being part of a lawless secret police force, the more likely you are to avoid legal accountability for criminal actions. Don't think they aren't keeping records. Don't think all those prosecutors fired from DOJ just disappeared. Lawyers don't forget. Step lively!