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Brian Hood, Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Zittrain, David Faber, Guido Scorza

Inspired by some tech bro saying their algorithm found this writing so awful it couldn't process it. I decided to have a read. It's wonderful. Well written and interesting.

What's more. It made me think about door knobs and handles. Everywhere I've ever lived has had handles. To the point I've always thought lever style door handles were the norm. Door knobs are rare. So rare, that at a friend's house recently. I couldn't work out how to open the front door...

https://sightlessscribbles.com/writing/nonfiction/20250626/

On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs, Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

More notable reporting on the flood tragedy in Texas, this time in Wired. (Thanks to @macosken for pointing me there.) Wired spoke to meteorologists Chris Vagasky and Matt Lanza.

Wired reports:

Meteorologists say that the NWS did send out adequate warnings as it got updated information. By Thursday afternoon, it had issued a flood watch for the area, and a flash flood warning was in effect by 1am Friday. The agency had issued a flash flood emergency alert by 4:30am.

“The Weather Service was on the ball,” Vagasky says. “They were getting the message out.”

But as local outlet KXAN first reported, it appears that the first flood warnings posted from safety officials to the public were sent out on Facebook at 5am, hours after the NWS issued its warning.

“Clearly there was a breakdown between when the warning was issued and how people got it, and I think that’s really what has to be talked about,” Lanza says.

https://www.wired.com/story/meteorologists-say-the-national-weather-service-did-its-job-in-texas/ or https://archive.vn/jSGWZ

#Texas #flood #TXwx #NWS

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas

DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

WIRED

@timbray

don't be silly, they'll be in every state and city

#OtD 6 Jul 1921 the Arditi del Popolo, an early militant anti-fascist organisation, was formed in Rome, Italy, to defend workers from escalating attacks by the fascist blackshirts of Benito Mussolini. Within a year it had over 20,000 members. https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10626/arditi-del-popolo-rally
Working Class History

Flock Safety has built a system where ICE can access local police data via informal backchannels and abortion seekers can be tracked under the guise of “missing persons.” And they’re continuing to expand it. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/flock-safetys-feature-updates-cannot-make-automated-license-plate-readers-safe
Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe

Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company's national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock Safety has blamed users, downplayed harms, and doubled...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Timelapse view of the July 2025 flash flood that swelled the Guadalupe River

This timelapse shows the Guadalupe River during the July 4th, 2025 flash flood that caused immense damage and many fatalities, including at Camp Mystic. 

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/07/timelapse-view-of-the-july-2025-flash-flood-that-swelled-the-guadalupe-river/

#DisasterRecovery #EmergencyPreparedness

Timelapse view of the July 2025 flash flood that swelled the Guadalupe River - In Brief

This timelapse shows the Guadalupe River during the July 4th, 2025 flash flood that caused immense damage and many fatalities, including at Camp Mystic. 

In Brief

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding

"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/microblog/2025/07/weve-been-ghosted-by-fema-officials-across-country-say-they-cant-get-answers-on-critical-funding/

#DisasterRecovery #EmergencyPreparedness

‘We’ve been ghosted by FEMA’: Officials across country say they can’t get answers on critical funding - In Brief

"As hurricane season bears down, a new layer of uncertainty is spreading through the disaster response system: a wall of silence from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that’s leaving officials from across the country scrambling for answers," CNN reports.

In Brief

@democratsabroad
Sure. Will you promise to work to bring down skyrocketing inequality from where the last 3 Democrat administrations put it? Say, to where it was after the first Bush administration?And present a coherent program explaining how you are gonna do it, and actually implement it?

Be sure that if you do that, millions of people will come join you. Otherwise only millionaires and billionaires.

The red ellipse shows what is expected from you.

#USpol #inequality #thePriceOfEggs

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This is where the Trump regime sent people innocent of any crime.
@georgetakei This is horrific. What is this document from and where can I download the original?

@pomegranate_stew @pixelkeen @georgetakei

Thank you all for finding this! As important as it is to be made aware of these things, it's even more important, and in my opinion, a major responsibility on us to cite sources.

Thank you all again!

@georgetakei Strike until they are back.
@georgetakei That is exactly what they did to the jews in the ghettos.
@georgetakei Sadists have taken over the fucking world full stop.
@georgetakei This has lawsuit written all over it.
@georgetakei Not innocent. Illegal aliens, gang bangers, known criminals.
@glennw56401 @georgetakei You're gonna lose your mind when you hear about the Trump conviction. Unless of course the only "known criminals" you care about are brown people.
@georgetakei “Is sending” as far as I know.

@georgetakei TIL "After his lawyers expressed concerns that he might be deported again were he released from prison, a federal judge in Tennessee ordered on June 27 that he remain in prison for his own protection until a court orders otherwise." 👀✌️💙

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_Garcia

Deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia - Wikipedia

@georgetakei
They still didn't break Trump's record of being on his knees with Putin
@georgetakei I believe that meets the definition of torture.
@georgetakei @pluralistic I don't care if he was guilty of multiple murder, that’s not a way to treat a human.
@georgetakei
German here. We have this stuff in school, extensively. You're describing concentration camps. That is very close to the original german fascism. They didnt initially start with industrial extermination. One could argue that if profit from inmates is the motive, that may not come. But make no mistake. This is still fascism.
@georgetakei Fascists, did they read ‘Mein Kampf’?!

@georgetakei

"No doubt. After all, the crueler the better."

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/american-dachau-trump-takes-the-next

And so it continues with ICE's $170B budget... BTW: bigger than the Russian military's $145.9B budget

American Dachau: Trump Takes the Next Step

Six months.

Charlie Angus / The Resistance