unbelievable. the canonical example of an illegal order in the Law of War Manual is "an order to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

IL transit reform: "Does something rare in U.S. transportation politics: it writes a coherent vision into law. [O]ther states have good reason to watch what happens next, as Illinois has quietly become the most important state to follow on transit and rail policy." www.railway.supply/illinois-int...

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal. theconversation.com/the-world-lo...

COP30 overpromised, underdelivered, empowered distractions, backtracked on issues and once again gave big oil and big ag a free pass. Unfortunately, the suspicions of climate scientists (here in Brazil and abroad) were confirmed again.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

#Agrivoltaics moving into the mainstream in #Italy Would be good to see some horticultural production in the mix, beyond sheep. Italy awards 2 GW in agrivoltaic tender backed by #EU funds. #agsky #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2025/11/12/i...

New Yorkers: we have to run it through the tape for Mamdani. Assume nothing until it’s all over. Vote, and get everyone you know to vote. We all know how things have gone in the last decade when folks got comfortable thinking we had it in the bag. It’s not over until it’s over.

California, don't forget to vote on Prop 50. Turnout is expected to be low, and we can't afford to unilaterally disarm while rightwingers pack congress.

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

Remember Pennsylvanians to vote YES to retain our three state supreme court justices Don't forget down ballot and retain Dubow and Wojick on the other courts as well

Here's my take for @the-independent.com on the AWS outage today and what it tells us about the future of relying on a handful of names www.independent.co.uk/voices/inter...

1866 law forbids putting a living person on currency. 2020 law allows coinage “with designs emblematic of the United States semiquincentennial”; Treasury Secretary asserts that this overrides the 1866 law, since what’s more emblematic than Trump? Now, I did not graduate from law school, but … WTF?

"everybody has a smartphone these days lol" false. that's something you made up. only 91% of Americans have smartphones. those last 9% are still people who deserve services (and probably need them more than anybody else). that's still like 30.6 million people

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

I can't believe I have spent my entire life being told to shut up about feminism and now it's 2025 and women are not allowed to have acetaminophen.

So how much longer till everything that's running on some USA based cloud system (even if what's run is running in an EU datacenter) is going to be monitored and vetted by the US government?

Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.

You should say what the alternatives are so people understand what you mean by this. Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Is the US included among those countries?

So after the Epstein survivors themselves said this matter wasn't a hoax and told their stories, the President told them they were lying. That's the headline every reputable media outlet should be running.

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.

According to federal data, 13 of the top 20 cities in homicide rates have Republican governors. None of those cities are Chicago. 8 of the top 10 states in homicide rates are led by Republicans. None of those states are Illinois. And yet Trump is sending troops here.

Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.

Submerged in 40 meters of water off Scotland's coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity — a durability mark that demonstrates the technology's commercial viability. 👍 uk.news.yahoo.com/underwater-t...

If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely: 1. Purge govt of non loyalists 2. Weaponize law against opponents 3. Use military to police opposition strongholds 4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel 5. Change election rules in his favor.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

Since Camille Zapata is the force behind Gavin Newsom's recent social media hits, is it okay if I endorse *her* for 2028? Or is she forever tainted by taking money from a guy who it turns out has had bad policies on the unhoused? (Just in case nobody had heard about that already.)

"Ellie, why are you posting so *aggressively*?" because the red states are invading the blue states. because literally human freedom is being dragged back decades by people who reject all the values of modernity, and because I've been warning people that this is what Christian cons are my whole life

Can't believe people don't get this; but the reason this payment processor shit has to be all or nothing is because once these freaks establish a line on what fiction is or isn't okay the line will only move further and further in. You have to fight against the line entirely.

Don’t be like Torgo! Reject the Manosphere!

Today we had to say goodbye to Ruby, our albino rat, after 2 years together. Rest well, little girl. Some rainbows don't need many colors.

do not upload your photo to any ID verification service to BROWSE THE INTERNET i am being so serious id much rather buy a vpn. learn how to pirate. this data is so obviously going to be used in nefarious ways

This is as good an example of our new reality as you can find. We now live in a "heads we win and tails you lose political reality. Also white is now black, left is right and down is up. Thank you Fox News, Newt and Mitch McConnell.

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly met with Trump's DOJ. Let that sink in. A known trafficker with direct ties to Epstein and powerful elites met privately with a Justice Department led by Trump and Pam Bondi. No transcript. No oversight. No transparency. #EpsteinFiles #DOJCoverup #AccountabilityNow

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If there's one thing that getting yelled at all day for saying that I will not vote for Gavin Newsom in a hypothetical 2028 election has made me more sure of... it's that I will not be voting for Gavin Newsom (or any other politician who pushes anti-trans nonsense) in 2028 or any other year.

We intentionally did not put Rosie in the headline because this is not about Rosie O’Donnell it’s about everyone

Here are some jokes about dating, a topic that I invented. I hope these jokes reach everyone in the world who might enjoy them AND some people who will tell me that they don’t believe I’ve ever been on a date and should go to the gym. Love to all! #standupcomedy #jokes #funny #standup #comedy

I don't really want to elaborate, and this isn't talking about me, but an acquaintance - online sports gambling has real consequences, and should not exist in its current form. It destroys lives.

reading this all-timer for bedtime

People on this app get really angry every time I point out that social media manipulation is a real phenomenon that we are all stewing in and that’s having real world consequences and I’m sure part of that is engagement farmers who do that manipulation not liking people talking about it

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

$3.3 trillion to the deficit over the next decade🤬😡🤬 and smiling about it while playing grab ass

Even tho Dems don’t have the numbers to stop the bill, what they are able to do is still important. If they’re to regain the power to repair the damage Rs are doing to America, people MUST see them using EVERY available tool NOW to fight.