The FAA just issued an absolutely enormous drone flight restriction over Chicago for the next week for security reasons. This is in addition to a 0.5NM TFR over the Broadview ICE processing facility. tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=d...

Some stories you may not be aware of if you’re not inside the circles where tech industry workers talk to each other: the groups at Microsoft that have been organizing for years to stop providing tech to enable genocide scored their first massive victory last week. www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Mecha 🏳️‍🌈 representation makes me happy

As regular readers of my bad posts know, this account is very interested in Gov. Pritzker as not only a 2028 candidate on-paper but as someone who is trying to model a kind of post-Trump version of 'wartime liberalism' that makes concessions to things Trump exposed but tries to use them for good 1/n

Chicago is under military assault, and this has (unsurprisingly) escalated from LA.

The hate is everywhere now.

…so the taboos on bad behaviour have weakened. For instance a small group of far right extremists traveled the country protesting at LGBTQ books being in libraries. In one case they assaulted librarians physically & in others they were so aggressive that librarians were in shock & had to be sent…

I don't even understand what goes on in these X box meetings "We shouldn't make console exclusives anymore, we should acquire a bunch of indie studios and then fire the people that make it unique, we should raise the prices of all our systems and our digital services" whole room goes great!

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US. And nobody covered it. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

At least everyone’s electric bills are going up for the good cause of letting a handful of creeps run an art stealing business

Here is NPR saying Trump's Mass Deportation is Housing policy

Every time I’ve seen Built to Spill live, Bill Martsch is always watching every single band from the crowd right before and after he performs. I appreciate that’s he’s just a big fan of his fellow performers. youtu.be/V6-iMYLz8HY?...

Folks, I'm not saying the guy claiming to have proof of Mike Johnson's Grinder account is a grifter, and I'm not saying he's not. I have no idea. I don't know him. He could absolutely be telling the truth. But please don't give him money for "legal defense" until he actually needs it. Free advice.

The ICE officer who violently shoved a woman at 26 Federal Plaza was reinstated without explanation. Yesterday, multiple photojournalists were assaulted by masked officers. @repdangoldman.bsky.social and I are demanding answers from Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and Secretary Kristi Noem.

The wisdom of markets!

Giant holes in the ceiling. Small chips in the floor from when it collapsed. Contractor keeps asking about the flooring. Dude there is a 4 foot gaping new hole to the attic I’m not really worried about the floor rn.

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Encrypt your iCloud. It’s kinda a small pain to have private keys but worth it. support.apple.com/guide/securi...

i wrote about the local company dhs loves buying weapons from interestingly, dhs's contracts begin exactly at the same time as the myth of organized retail crime......

In the first two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, prosecutors in 16 states charged more than 400 people with pregnancy-related crimes, new research released on Tuesday found. 300 in Oklahoma In 16 cases, law enforcement charged women with homicide.

woah

it feels like our culture snapped like a rubber band right back to 2002

Of course people with autism who can speak for themselves and advocate for how they're treated are labeled activists. The mothers leading orgs pushing the manufactured controversy are profiled as parents rather than activists. This is the same exact framing they used against trans people.

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum. archive.ph/Whji1

Why should we stay in a state doing everything to make sure my partner does not exist, is not valid, should be feared, should even be attacked in a bathroom. All the most resilient and “fuck you im never leaving Texas” trans people we know are giving up if they have money to move.

Trump defunded the police

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) made an apparent blunder on camera Tuesday when he said Republicans and Democrats should come together and "stop attacking pedophiles.

Horrific how profitable it is to be a horrible person while workers and influencers with a moral spine get pushed out of stable work.

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

🎬 Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film One Battle After Another shot nearly half its scenes in El Paso—and Leonardo DiCaprio says the city “shaped the course of the movie.” Locals even joined the cast and crew, bringing the border city’s streets to life on film: bit.ly/46vk3Px

President Trump wants to kill American citizens the right way. By Ezra Klein

I reposted this already, but this whole piece is extremely damning. Also, I don't know who these freaks are but I do think they should be shamed out of society (both bc of their choices and bc I'm not sure they know what comedy is)

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Trump himself is shocked how little resistance dem leadership is putting against him.

At fort hood the retaliation was sometimes murder.

What happens when a miscarriage is treated like a crime? That’s not a hypothetical anymore. It’s happening in the U.S. right now. 🧵 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

They should not resign, just keep their head down, because the military is going to need some institutional resistance when the next election and transfer of power is up. They might need to make hard calls on what to do with ICE (and local police) who will obviously support fascism.

Wealthy centrists: Why don’t young people get more active in politics, if you don’t get active you’re not allowed to complain Young people: Actually we spent years designing & lobbying for this bike line Wealthy centrists: 3 businesses owners who don’t live in the city said no, so STFU & go away

heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle

This passage nearly broke me.

There are two basic types of military thinkers: the ones who believe in the glorious charge, and the ones who keep track of pussy things like “supply lines” and “logistics” and “what the weather’s doing”

This is the administration that just fired a bunch of FBI agents for kneeling at a BLM protest five years ago.

The Quiet Rescission is when you just don't spend the money. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

Four singers, four boleros. Angélica Garcia, Mireya Ramos, Trish Toledo and iLe each offer something distinct in these songs written and performed by Adrian Quesada.

Yet another good reason for locals to resist data centers: "electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did five years ago in areas located near significant data center activity" Gift link from @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

DALLAS (AP) - Family says a Mexican man shot at a Dallas ICE facility has died, becoming the second detainee killed in the attack. @apnews.com

the Masque of the Woke Death

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...