A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,. The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.

Today's blog post: Journal Club walk-through of a paper describing AI use and personality tests of users among students & gen'l public. Conclusions: AI use is much less than you think, and heavy users score high on Dark Triad personality disorders. www.someweekendreading.blog/who-uses-ai/

For example, we don't want a perpetual cycle of purge and counter-purge in the civil service every time there's a new administration. But those protections can't be reestablished and strengthened until there is a purge of all the corrupt Trumpists and criminals now in place. They have to go first.

How Trump’s Greenland obsession could land him in a military stockade If Trump’s threat to annex Greenland ever became an actual order — it would be illegal. And he would be subject to a U.S. military tribunal

"Terrorism" refers to violence to achieve political ends. Research studies showing that immigrants commit fewer crimes means that ICE's actions are about Trump's racist politics, not law. That means ICE operates as a de facto racialized terrorist organization, not unlike the Gestapo.

Talked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.

Maybe Trump will collect trophy wives next? Pretty sure he wouldn't understand the cringe there, either.

Kicking hornets' nest for no reason sounds like a very Dark Triad thing to do. Coincidentally, guess what corresponds with using AI? pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/15/a...

If you're a writer, wondering why you should bother writing with the world on fire. It feels like it's not important, I need you to understand that it is. Even if it is just because it keeps you moving forward? Even if it only brings YOU joy, that gives you energy to fight & survive.

"Baba Yaga Malibu Dream Hut": just let those words sink in for a moment.

Oh yeah, Massachusetts is prepping. Apparently this bakery had anti-ice cookies and received death threats. They won't be open their usual hours tomorrow. Not out of fear, out of baked goods. They completely sold out and need to spend tomorrow restocking. fallriverreporter.com/massachusett...

The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.

Today's blog post: A chart that may reveal the priorities & values of US society, and thus where we need to do better. www.someweekendreading.blog/soc-prioriti...

PLEASE ARE THERE NOT TEN RIGHTEOUS SENATORS IN SODOM WHO CAN SHOW UP AND GRAB THE WHEEL HERE

Stay salty, because salt melts ICE.

Here's a summary, and some pokes at finding an explanation, that I wrote at the time: www.someweekendreading.blog/bad-doggies/ And a followup on their antics at Social Security: www.someweekendreading.blog/bad-doggies-...

This Post-ABC poll result from March 2016, explaining what factors made people more likely to back Trump in the GOP primary that year, was always underappreciated.

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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

How can justice ever be served They rushed Renee Good's car away ... Before state investigators could examine it What credence can we give federal officials who are blocking state investigators from removing evidence they're collecting?

/2 I assumed ”ICE took his phone and sold it” was a typo or something. Nah bro. Thug THIEF scum.

Well, Minnesota has a large population of people with German & Scandinavian ancestry, and 'stollen' is a popular pastry in that part of Europe. That's the closest I can come to making sense of what the president claims. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.

@funranium.bsky.social For a blog post, I was researching effectiveness of AI in corporations ("miserable"). Reuters (below) describes an attempt to use AI to educate rail workers on safety rules. It couldn't *remember* the rules & sometimes *made up* rules. www.reuters.com/business/bus...

Trump EPA assigns a new value to human human life: Zero www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

When I was 16, a deputy told my friend and me that he was going to have us raped in jail for the crime of sitting in a park after sundown. The desk sergeant refused to even take a complaint the next day. Don't tell me cops being unaccountable sadists is an invention of the Trump administration.

You can't call it "fact-checking" when you're just spraying yourself in the face with a BS firehose.

Today's blog post: A look at 7 or so studies of corporate AI use, and the miserably high failure rate. Oxford Economics suggests AI is being used as corporate camouflage, to make layoffs look good. www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-20...

If you're a municipal or state official & afraid that if you order law enforcement they'll refuse or revolt or that if you fire them they'll start breaking the law in retaliation, you don't have a police force or sheriffs department, you have criminals with badges, guns, & state power. 3/

Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally: "Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."

I know ppl hate the 287g agreements, which deputize local police to carry out ICE operations. But. What if we require ONLY those? Completely nerf ICE: no guns, no combat cops, nothing. They do the paperwork, then hand it over to some sort of state or local authority for arrest?

When the Trump era ends, and it will, the U.S. should use Germany’s model in how they currently deal with Nazism. In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.

The federal government seceding from the union is a new one

"Generationally horrible" is too cerebral to go viral, but it DOES summarize the Trump II era.

What he says…

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Today's blog post: Norwegian & French studies: COVID-19 mRNA vax LOWER all-cause mortality, for 4 years. Danish study: updated JN.1 vax LOWERS 10/29 medical events month post-vaccination. mRNA vaccines INCREASE effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies. www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent

It's ok to defend your own mental health. You already know they're evil.

CBS saluting Rubio and calling him "the ultimate Florida Man"... may not be the flex they think it is.

Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban. And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:

It was about public restrooms just as much as Jim Crow was about water fountains.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Today's blog post: Vanguard recommends retirement portfolios get more conservative: 60% - 70% bonds! I looked through their data, compared to another source and... agreed. It feels wrong to get that conservative, but that's what I did to start 2026. www.someweekendreading.blog/weekend-port...

Pay attention. Believe that they are planning the worst.

Every year on this day I’m reminded that hell really does exist, and it’s standing in a box in Times Square for up to 24 hrs—WITH NO ACCESS TO A BATHROOM—just to see a small glass ball slide down a pole. I study the often-incomprehensible, and this still makes no no NO sense to me. At all.

Today's blog post: Russian casualties in Ukraine now exceed 1.2 million. A regression model on the data over time clearly suggests a hinge model, where the death rate increases about 40% in April 2024. www.someweekendreading.blog/ukraine-1200k/