Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
07.03.2026 00:04
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Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
“Reading Is Fun!”
The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
But judges ordering new bond hearings say they still have the power to intervene when the bond hearings themselves are so egregiously flawed that they amount to a due process violation. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.
Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.
www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Judges across the country have been ordering do-overs that mean constitutional standards. But more recently, they've been ordering outright release, doubting the integrity of the bond process. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
They are still kidnapping our neighbors.
Abolish ICE.
It's 2026, and America has fallen into dystopia. The AI-God Cult is confused as to why there is backlash against their Brain-Eating-Plagiarism-Machine God, the Evangelical-God Cult is confused as to why THEIR sons are being sent on a holy war in the Middle East by the MAGA-God Cult's Melting King.
Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.
The important point from @sebkennedy.bsky.social
“The idea that you can cost-effectively decarbonise your economies by relying on a commodity that, in the space of 5 years, is subject to two illegal wars that send prices stratospheric, it just doesn’t make any sense”
Solar makes sense.
"Screw Covid, I'm going to Sturgis!" The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held in August 2020, was the epitome of the individual choice mindset. Of course it spread cases outward and caused infections, illness, and death. A new research paper allows us to watch the Sturgis Covid wave spread across the US.
While the US slides deeper into the Dark Ages, the European Medicines Agency has approved a vaccine that protects against both the flu & COVID.
You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.
Full stop.
"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name
We have to stop this.
theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...
you know what I got to thinking about this joke and now i'm thinking specific insurance against AI/Autonomous technology injury is absolutely going to be a thing
they made old glory robot insurance required
A mock Polaroid shows a family group of five humanoid aliens with large spotted heads, wearing typical American clothing from the 1980s. Also, one scruffy human crammed in at the back.
If they weren't all cowards they would bring back Alien Nation.
Apex data center project scrapped after community pushback
Natelli Investments has withdrawn its applications to build a data center near the Shearon Harris Nuclear Plant, citing the town of Apex’s ongoing deliberations over necessary zoning changes.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
The Q&As at @boltsmag.org are such great service journalism! Love this overview on state and local responses to ICE.
very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation
Miller thinks it’s common sense to throw water on to a fire to extinguish it, but this isn’t common crime and he doesn’t understand that drug prohibition acts as a price support for traffickers. He’s basically throwing water on to a grease fire. He’s amplifying their motivational feedback loop.♻️
This might not resonate with anyone who's never lived in the South, but do you know how *hard* it is to get BANNED from Waffle House?
This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States
We are tired.
Additionally what so many of the "No one's talking on Bluesky" people are actually saying is "I am lost and confused when there's not an algorithm to shove content into my eyeballs with no effort on my part"
A long table covered in open brown paper bags being filled with HRT harm reduction kits. 2 people stand at the far end of the table, looking over the bags.
A man wearing jeans and a pink tshirt sits on a table holding a small bag of supplies. Next to him are an assortment of small boxes containing different supplies for the kits.
A line of filled HRT harm reduction kits - sealed brown paper bags with customised labels
Another 200 HRT harm reduction kits ready to be distributed to trans people in Asheville, NC 🏳️⚧️
Each pack contains syringes, injection needles, alcohol wipes, bandaids, and a sharps disposal container, ensuring that people have safe and reliable access to gender affirming healthcare.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Even Greg Gianforte (that OTHER Montana politician who attacked someone in the past 10 years) was criminally charged.
It doesn't seem to have hurt his political career--he's governor now. But Sheehy's full de jure impunity seems even worse than de facto.
