“From Nebraska to Born to Run, his music has spoken truth to power for decades, and that is exactly what he is doing now,” they continued. “Musicians have the right to freedom of expression, and we stand in complete solidarity with Bruce and every member who uses their platform to speak their […]

«Besides recounting acts of violence, dozens who spoke Tuesday said state and local police violated Vermont’s fair and impartial policing policy, which generally bars officers from “facilitating” civil immigration enforcement. Lambek said police clearly coordinated with federal agents. He […]

Another good rude sign

A few of my favorite signs from today’s No Kings protest in Farmington Hills, Michigan. March 28, 2026. #nokings #michigan

Today was a nice, sunny day to break out the stained glass protest sign. #nokings

#nokings photo dump thread. It's easy to fall in love with a country that looks like this.

FCC reply comments are due by 5pm Monday 30 March on Reflect Orbital. If you wrote in a comment, please please please write in again saying that they did not address your concerns in their letter (which is very hard to find in the FCC dumpster-fire-of-a-website). Instructions here […]

Tried photographing starlings but I only got these really dark shots of dark shapes high up in trees. Ugh. But then suddenly one of them decided to perch right next to me and start talking. Such a sweetie. But maybe felt sorry for me?

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

This March 8th, a day in which the world honors the working woman, we pay tribute to the anti-imperialist women of our continent. With their body-territories, their intellect, and their example, they are writing the most dignified pages of the contemporary history of Nuestra América. Popular […]

Pleased with the way the pepper seedlings are progressing. Eggplants (not shown) went in a little later but now all have true leaves #gardening #pnw

Alina is aligning herself unequivocally with the Holy Bible(s). #caturday #catsofmastodon

«As religious groups lobbied for a “Christian Amendment” to the Constitution in the late 19th century to make the United States an explicitly Christian nation, Gage feared that all government legislation could become subject to a church doctrine litmus test.…Gage rallied marginalized groups to […]

“Parents were forced to leave their children under the informal care of friends or family members who were also vulnerable to deportation. Others were separated from young children and toddlers – including a mother who was deported without her two-month-old baby.” #ICE #deportedparents#ice[…]

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work […]

Mavs owner Miriam Adelson dwarfs Texas sports rivals in political giving, pushes gambling Her $432 million in donations eclipses other team owners, Rockets' Tilman Fertitta & Cowboys' Jerry Jones & his family. Her political donations surged in 2012, two […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Just the earliest #iran strikes cost the #unitedstates $5.6 billion in munitions, #pentagon estimates The figure, accounting only for the #Trump #war’s first 2 days, is likely to intensify concerns in #Congress that #US forces are churning through a scarce supply of advanced weaponry […]

«Since the 9/11 attacks, US-led wars have left nearly 1 million people dead in more than half a dozen countries in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa—over 400,000 of them civilians, according to the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public […]

OpenAI’s robotics lead has resigned from her role, criticizing the company’s haste in partnering with the Department of Defense. Read more from @Engadget: https://flip.it/MZ2cAQ #tech #openai #ai #dod #technology #artificialintelligence

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@peterbrown/116186884755076982 oh no shit

Believe the women. Marches for International Women’s Day denounce war, abuse and oppression https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/8/marches-for-international-womens-day-denounce-war-abuse-and-oppression

[HCR March 8th] https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-7-2026?triedRedirect=true

Sick of Microsoft and Google? This new European office suite is a private, open-source alternative https://www.zdnet.com/article/europe-open-source-office-suite-alternative-to-microsoft-google/ Built on open-source software, this European cloud office suite aims to keep your data out of […]

“At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had […]

“Every day felt like a week. Every week felt like a month. Every month felt like a year,” said Owen Ramsingh, a former property manager in Columbia, Missouri, who spent several weeks in the camp before his deportation in February to the Netherlands. “ #campeastmontana was 1,000% worse than a […]

"Teacher shortage" (e.g., in AK, AZ, FL MI) is shorthand for "shortage of teachers willing to work under crappy conditions and/or for insufficient pay." More generally, as author Garret Keizer reminds us, "Our entire economic system rests on the principle of paying people less than their labor […]

This beyond — way beyond — reprehensible. Who needs machines to make a dystopian world when humans without empathy or conscience are so readily available? This is incomprehensible. “US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say” #pregnantchildren […]

This beyond — way beyond — reprehensible. Who needs machines to make a dystopian world when humans without empathy or conscience are so readily available? This is incomprehensible. “US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say” #pregnantchildren […]

Here’s Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch being right about the utter unconstitutionality of Trump regime’s war on Iran. https://share.inquirer.com/Qsla9j

Is there anybody on here from #wanaka #nz ?

Video footage reviewed by TheWashington Post, however, showed that the location had already closed, except for the drive-thru. In video footage released by IP, Shah Alam could be seen walking past the drive-thru window, then pacing by the locked front doors, before he eventually wandered across […]

The FBI spoke an Epstein victim who also accused Donald Trump of sexually and violently assaulting her, according to records in the Justice Department’s publicly searchable Epstein database. FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Catholic bishops warn the Supreme Court that Trump is threatening the “moral foundations of American society.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/02/donald-trump-birthright-citizenship-immigration-catholic-bishops.html

There's a lot going on. But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention. Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic. www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...

A federal judge in Virginia rejected DOJ’s request to search through a #washingtonpost reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security #leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsible for conducting the search. The Tuesday ruling suggested that Magistrate […]

BREAKING: NPR is reporting that DOJ withheld files that contained information about allegations that Trump sexually abused a minor. “More than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor” are being […]

“Given the documented reporting on #government #leak investigations & the government’s well chronicled efforts to stop them, allowing the government’s filter team to search a reporter’s work product — most of which consists of unrelated information from #confidential #sources — is the equivalent […]

Porter also sharply criticized prosecutors for not briefing him in their search warrant application on a federal #law that protects #reporters against searches in many situations: the #privacyprotectionact of 1980. Their failure to inform him about the law before he approved the warrant in the […]

https://teenvogue.visitlink.me/cRg6na This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. Click the link for the step-by-step guide. #ice #iceout #icewatch

3/ The SAVE system had at least a 14% error rate in one Texas county, as reported here. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...

2/ Link to the latest version of the Save America Act. x.com/debillbreakd...

6/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Here's a useful guide to voting on California's proposed wealth tax. The massively corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and (of course) the state's billionaires absolutely hate the idea. That is a key reason why I'm voting for it, and urging everyone I know in California to do the same.

“[In] music spaces, the denial is huge,” phytocene said. “Because I think if musicians were to admit that every day they put themselves at risk, they wouldn’t be able to do that career.” https://thesicktimes.org/2026/02/17/these-artists-are-making-concerts-safer-with-covid-19-precautions/ […]

Bruce Springsteen Tour Promises “An American Spring Of Rock ‘N’ Rebellion” https://deadline.com/2026/02/bruce-springsteen-tour-2026-schedule-1236727755/

They focus on identity politics because it’s proven to be an effective distraction for their base, it’s “easy” (requires no real talent), and they literally have nothing else in their toolkit. No ideas, no competent governance, nothing.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

Federal judges keep ruling that Trump's violent, masked goons are illegally arresting and jailing people, but the regime goes right on doing it. How close are we to outright fascism? This close […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116085440408773572 Seriously. Every story of "AI will solve climate change" is a children's story to allow us to feel okay with not doing what we know needs doing to save the climate: Transform energy production and reduce use. You are grown ups. Act like it.