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why sleep when you could wait for DNS records to propagate.

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Can confirm this too on the Chicago side. Running red lights, speeding, and deliberately brake checking….in a school zone.

A good repost. I'm shocked every year how so few people know about it or I guess choose to accept it...

"Nithya Raman, who has been compared to Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass." NYT gets the scoop

It feels like a miracle that Trump’s thugs in Minneapolis haven’t killed more people, honestly.

Facebook launched 22 years ago this week. In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping at least $65 million into super PACs to stifle regulation of AI and tech. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy.

My brain will be like anyone in prison has a path to redemption but people who worked for Palantir do not

Hey remember back when Russian dash cam videos were everywhere and it was a big sign that the state had basically collapsed and people had to record everything to be safe? Yeah, well guess what that's us now. Buy dash cams for MPLS. www.amazon.com/registries/g...

More importantly will this affect the sale of Casey Wasserman's home, which has been on the market for 136 days. Price recently cut by $2.5 million!

Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

From Augusta Free Press in Waynesboro, Virginia: No tickets are shown as sold at any of the four showings at Zeus in Waynesboro on Friday. Three of the four showings at the Harrisonburg Regal have no ticket sales. The Regal Stonefield shows a total of 26 across its four showings on Friday.

This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk

3. ICE is using government data from state DMVs and federal agencies and refuses to answer questions about how that data is used. I'm also leading that fight in the Senate to rein them in, and warned states that care about their residents to stop sharing DMV data with ICE.

2. ICE is buying your private location data from sleazy data brokers through a legal loophole. I've had a bill to stop this since 2021. I'm renewing my push to get it passed into black letter law as soon as possible.

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

America is blessed with a world class megacity that has a perfect year-round climate and is mostly in a flat basin. And this is the best we can do for bicycles.

Periodic reminder that the core of Los Angeles city, the central million residents, is higher density than San Francisco, Boston, or Philadelphia.

UPDATE: seems like the discourse around deleting TikTok and ICE's execution of Alex Pretti has led to another surge in Bluesky usage. We have never seen five weeks of sustained, organic growth on this platform

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Had a pretty convincing scam call from a lady pretending to be from my mobile operator. Said there was a Jan promotion of 20% off — did I want in? And if so, I’d get a six digit code texted to me. Which immediately came (from my real operator’s SMS)… (—> cont’d)

DHS wants to learn from the best on how to use large datasets to target people. (The best is Ad Tech). sam.gov/workspace/co...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Now that the TikTok deal is done, we've lifted a few articles out of the paywall for today in an effort to see how we got here. First, here's @laurenfeiner.bsky.social on the TikTok ban that kind of wasn't.

An ICU nurse. A biker. A martyr. Today, Alex Pretti was murdered by US Government. This is America.

Power to the people of MPLS, as Prince once sang.

If there's a solidarity rally in your city, that's a good place to start. There's also a fund for union workers impacted by ICE, and another Linktree for mutual aid more generally (linked below)

SEIU, which represents nearly 2 million workers around US, are holding Friday actions in solidarity with the Minnesota economic blackout, from the Twin Cities to Orlando, to Columbus, to Phoenix, to Seattle, to Boston, to LA, to New York.

Join us and @seiu721.bsky.social in LA! #ICEOUT

If you're in LA and want to be in the same space with me I'll be here. Don't talk to me. I'm busy!!! Pointing and being angry for the camera ONLY!

Fucking incredible.

“Metro staff report said SB 79 could harm the transit agency’s expansion by galvanizing opponents against new light rail stations & dedicated bus lanes,” because law requires higher densities there. But if a transit station area isn’t planned for higher densities… the station shouldn’t be built.

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article. Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

7 Dems are: —Jared Golden (ME): retiring —Henry Cuellar (TX): pardoned by Trump, targeted by new GOP map —Vicente Gonzalez (TX): targeted by new GOP map —Don Davis (NC): targeted by new GOP map —Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA): running —Laura Gillen (NY): running in Long Island —Tom Suozzi (NY): same

@vykster.bsky.social getting us started with a little background on #DataAndDonuts and #Compiler! #GovData #Networking #DTLA

Why is everything so expensive in places like SF? The housing shortage. Usually this is indirect, the need to pay labor enough to live within a reasonable commute. Sometimes, as here, the connection is literal and direct. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

I did this in 2024 and had fun despite the very long hours. You get to meet your neighbors and be helpful. LA County even pays a modest stipend.

He goes on to describe one of his officers being stopped when she was off-duty solely because she's non-white, harassed by ICE goons who slapped her phone out of her hand as she tried to record, only to be let go when she finally revealed she was a cop.

Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks. One is rent. The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.

ICE really slammed Pomona today. Pro tip: You can set a proximity alert on iceout.org/en/ so you get an alert when ICE is spotted nearby. If you aren't busy, it's a great opportunity to go there and start (peacefully) heckling and recording them. Speed is the key to victory!

if you're organizing folks against ICE right now, consider rethinking your comms strategies: - minimizing signups (folks don't need to sign up for a protest) - using broadcast channels (e.g., www.fightforthefuture.org/signal) - refreshing consent & data minimization (see this Mozilla example)

Subscribe to my new ~biweekly newsletter, Tech Shadow Work, where I will write about the unspoken "shadow" behind tech policy discourse: rebeccawilliams.info/welcome-to-t...

For transit projects, delay doesn't just reduce faith in government - it's causing us to fall behind on our VMT and emissions-reduction goals. The climate crisis has a deadline, and we're not on track to meet it with current practices.

nice long shake in dtla

The "worst problem you've never heard of" is the leading cause of Black land loss in this country. Over the years, it's seen Black families stripped of hundreds of billions of dollars in land. It's called "heirs' property." From the ProPublica archives: