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So we have yet another incident where a US citizen was shot and killed by ICE, and the official ICE account differs from bodycam footage.
This is the story that took nearly a year to break and now we have the bodycam footage.
This is one of the things that drives me crazy about our legal system: penalties for illegal government action are purely defensive.
Why not do tons of illegal things if the worst that happens is some are ruled illegal?
(In theory contempt of court or impeachment are solutions but they're so rare)
"Rising sea levels are a major threat to coastal communities across the world... Sea levels around the world have been underestimated due to inaccurate modelling... Average levels are 30cm higher than thought, and up to 150cm in south-east Asia and Indo-Pacific"
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is horrific and can't be tolerated.
“Fish” can be both singular (one individual) and plural (multiple individuals of the same species.) “Fishes” is multiple species.
🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐡🐟 Fishes
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
Snopes also sits at 'Unrated', which feels about right for now. If true, persistent and as widespread as alleged, should be independent reports / recordings soon:
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Until / unless confirmed independently from MRFF, some reasons to be skeptical of this story here:
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you...
Trump's trying to find the guy who did this.
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
So sorry you had to go through that growing up. This news is so totally consistent with everything we know about Hegseth & his loyalists, but still also shocking to me to see it happen at scale in the US military if that makes sense?
I know it must hit different when it's personal.
This is possibly the wildest thing I have ever read. US military commanders across dozens of units allegedly saying that the attack on Iran is to bring about Armageddon in keeping with Biblical prophecy.
Await confirmation, but ...
jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-...
✏️ A Marginal Note in the Shape of a Duck in an Ottoman Manuscript, 18th Century
This (and continuation in next post) is a pretty good list:
A hover fly resting on a green slender leaf. It has black and yellow bee-mimicking stripes on its abdomen, but distinctly fly shaped wings amd eyes.
I also really love Hover Flies
Hard same! Post yer (native) bees (and flies! And wasps!)
Please make a terrible ruckus about this, if you live in Oregon
Interesting backstory around Fetterman, Lamb, and Kenyatta in the 2022 Senate election:
Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees?
Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey.
The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.
"There’s nothing preemptive about these strikes [on Iran], and there’s certainly no legitimate self-defense claim."
Read the latest piece by international law expert @alonso-gd.bsky.social on the reasons why Trump's war on Iran is illegal.
Read here: zeteo.com/p/internatio...
the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also
It's not even that weird vs other countries: UK spends ~$100/person/year on public media vs <$2 in the US.
John Olivwr had a good discussion of this huge spending deficiency and it's ties to democracy:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
On the plus side, Fox News revenues are only about $13 billion/year.
Eternal public or independent media endowments of Fox News size cost at maximum a one-time government investment of $260 billion.
At 5% interest $260b -> $13b / year, forever.
Jan 6th happened almost exactly 25 years after Fox News was founded.
A 30 year old rioter could have that be the main news they heard since they were 5.
+ in historically Palestinian ("mixed") cities, Arabs are shunned from, and harassed at bomb shelters.
This picture was taken by my dad this morning, outside a bomb shelter in Ramleh. The sign reads "Gaza is ours, forever!".
What the hell are we even doing here?
Just sickening, monstrous atrocities for no discernible reason.
If I was a squirrel I would be so proud of my tail. Flick flick flick. Look at this beautiful thing
The sooner we get this funded, the sooner this project can help Palestinian kids who were in prison!!! We have a MONTH to fund this multi-day mental health intervention for these kids. Let's do it.
Support goes towards materials and facilitation!! chuffed.org/project/hmg
Demanding $1700/ person refunds for money taken in illegal tariffs seems like a pretty good line of attack.
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