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Me being on Twitter after getting suspended..
Still doing the "ok" symbol?
Putin is pitting the right and left against the center. The pro-Israel right is pitting the right and center against the left. It's a two two pronged attack attack. Leftists and liberals have to stop attacking each other and attack all the conservative movements instead.
Can I just say: As weary as you may feel, do not turn away from the degradation and desecrations, the violations and the violence. This is what the lawless Trump regime hopes--that our fatigue will make it easier for them to consolidate their power.
Who put this MFer in charge of the world?
The fact that Donald Trump is going to try to subvert the 2026 elections doesn't mean he will be successful. We have shown before that we can fight back in court and win. The key is that we must educate everyone about what is going to happen and what they can do as well to defend democracy.
there is literally nothing wrong with being trans and anyone who says otherwise is a fascist who would kill and/or enslave your entire family at a moment's notice
The purpose of advertising in digital media is to drive sales of paid tier subscriptions, not of whatever is being advertised.
criticize biden all you want on gaza but he got about a quarter of the GND through a hung legislature
...there are unfortunately many pragmatic contexts on Earth that oblige a degree of collective decision-making...
I likewise sometimes find misfortune in necessary things, like haggling over prices or responding to incentives.
The inescapability of rulership is something I think of as an open question.
Is your critique of democracy rooted in the "voice vs exit" rubrics of the classical liberals, or do you roll your own?
Likewise I've also always seen the implications of public choice theory to be anarchist, specifically anarcho-capitalist.
If self interest is what works and altruism is what doesn't work, why not simply be an Objectivist™?
Is there truly no middle ground between the self interested individuals and the altruistic individuals?
I have to believe there's more to life than self interested agents.
Wtf is a nomi?
i prefer a job i "don't mind" over a job i love or hate! lol
I have a hard time believing Elinor Ostrom had anything to do with public choice theory. I understand it to be a framework for constructing arguments against democracy.
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Can we make minimum wage be indexed to the CPI? Or perhaps the GDP? Can we haz?
Iran is using cluster munitions? Serious war crime if true.
Also there's at least a theory that blowing up the machinery of repressive state power might encourage people considering an anti-government popular uprising, but I'm pretty sure raining oil and rivers of fire in Tehran wouldn't.
Russia is pitting the left and right against the center. Israel is pitting the right and center against the left. It's a two two pronged attack attack. The only way out of this is a left-liberal alliance. Let this skeet be my public pledge to no longer be drawn into left vs. liberal flame wars.
Finally cancelled my Washington Post subscription after many years. Their front page article today praising Trump's "unique style" as a "wartime" President made it clear it's simply pro-GOP propoganda. Trust NOTHING from the Washington Post--not reporting, not opinions-not even the sports section!
Russia is pitting the right and left against the center. Israel is pitting the right and center against the left. It is a two-pronged attack.
#NoKings is coming to #Michigan. So far we have #Detroit, #Ferndale, #McComb county, #Troy. Make sure you attend at least one of these. I will be at Detroit doing the sound.
Detroit: Grand Circus Park 3pm
Ferndale: Downtown 12pm
McComb: Schoenherr & Hall Rd 11am
Troy: Gateway Park 1pm
My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it. On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned. Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.
What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right. "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.
I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:
