Temporary visitor to this planet...
https://justmytoots.com/LairdJames@techhub.social
Opinions entirely my own
Which American Cities Are Becoming Bike-Friendly the Fastest?
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/06/24/which-american-cities-are-becoming-bike-friendly-the-fastest
Hey Establishment Dems?
You know who you are...
43-36
Read that again
Forty-three to thirty-six
GET WITH THE FUCKING PROGRAM OR GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY
[ETA: this is about the NYC mayor election where Andrew Cuomo was a favorite but lost to Zohran Mamdani, the candidate that the Dem machine desperately tried to tank]
ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their child
https://apnews.com/article/ice-detains-marine-veteran-wife-clouatre-802305fe0a364ef86a7cb61805129ee1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans. Paola Clouatre is the mother of a breastfeeding infant and one of tens of thousands of people detained and facing deportation as the Trump administration pushes for immigration officers to arrest 3,000 people a day. Immigration law experts say directives for strict immigrant enforcement have cast away practices of deference previously afforded to military families. Adrian Clouatre says Paola Clouatre accompanied her mother into the country from Mexico more than a decade ago seeking asylum and had been applying for legal status.
Krugman:
❝What we’re looking at now isn’t the worst job market college graduates have ever seen. It is, however, the worst such market compared with workers in general that we’ve ever seen, by a large margin.
…
We have low overall unemployment, only slightly above historic lows, but unemployment among college graduates between 22 and 27 at recession-like levels.
This has never happened before.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bad-times-for-college-graduates
Dear Fedi friends, may I ask you a favor?
I would really appreciate it if you could boost this message. I have created a French version of my Fedi promo video - and a French landing page – that I hope can spread far and wide in the Francophone world:
https://news.elenarossini.com/fedivers-video/
Cette vidéo explique ce qu'est le fédivers en 4 minutes. N'hésitez pas à partager cette page avec vos amis et vos proches qui ne sont pas ici... J'espère que cette vidéo éveillera leur curiosité 💙🤍❤️
ETA: GOOD NEWS!
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821
In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086
I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.
These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
🚨 BREAKING: #Israeli Channel 14 reports that #Trump is expected to sign an order within hours to formally enter the #IsraelIran war.
Reports also suggest the U.S. may have already begun strikes on Tehran.
Aircraft carriers. Jets. Troop movement.
This isn’t posturing anymore, it’s positioning.
“Very, very official,” they’re saying.
And when they say that on live TV, it usually means it’s already underway.
This may be the moment the U.S. crosses the point of no return.
Mark Stoneman
Elliot
Kim Scheinberg
Associated Press
Erin Reed
Paul Cantrell
Elena Rossini ⁂
CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Cory Doctorow
Malcolm Nance