"While Texas drowned, he danced.
With people still missing, he golfed.
He gutted the weather service. Slashed NOAA’s budget. As a result, the alerts came too late. 78 people died, including 28 children, with 41 more missing."
~ From Letters from God at Substack, in an email to subscribers
Either drastic cuts to NWS and NOAA budgets play a role — for weal or woe — in how those services function, or they don't. We can't have it both ways.
If you are a citizen of the USA, I believe it is your moral duty to read this article. It is my moral duty to tell you how to avoid the paywall: https://archive.ph/imDhn
Part of the deal of democracy is you share responsibility for what your country/state/locality is and does.
Content warning: 32 short gutwrenching stories of death and near death in prison. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3ltdprqnjok2b
Pinch me! Last Tuesday Zohran Mamdani beat Andrew Cuomo decisively in the Democratic primary for Mayor of NYC and I am still in profound and happy shock. It seemed impossible that anyone would beat Cuomo three months ago, and extremely unlikely that Mamdani, outspoken critic of Israel's atrocities in Gaza
"Ministers are facing fresh calls to scrap VAT on all repaired and refurbished electronics, with businesses, charities and community groups arguing the move would help households cut costs and stop electrical goods being binned prematurely.
In a letter to the environment secretary, Steve Reed, the signatories say that removing VAT on repaired electronics should be part of a wider push to cut waste, extend the life of products and develop a 'truly circular economy'."
This sounds like a great idea. Not just on refurbished and repaired goods, but also on repairs themselves, in my opinion.
This is why Gaza is radicalizing people faster than ever. Watching this happen you simply can't continue to believe that our institutions are working for humanity.
And so it starts;
Police have arrested peaceful demonstrators under the Terrorism Act, for holding placards in support of Palestine Action.
Yes, Britain the home of democracy....
Yvette Cooper should be ashamed of herself for this attack on democracy & the right to protest.
How has it come to this?
[rhetorical Q.; I have a pretty good idea]
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvm1dyp9v2o
Oof
A copywriter talks about how her employment is changing
Now her job is helping companies recover from #AI drek they deployed on their websites. She frequently needs to rewrite the whole website
So our future is not employment to write copy/ code, but clean up AI disaster zones
It's Bastiat's "broken window" fallacy in #economics (the notion that breaking things stimulates the economy, but you're wasting your time treading water rather than making progress)
The next time a politician claims we can’t house the homeless, feed the starving or give medical care to the poor…. remember that they were able to build a concentration camp in 8 days.
We could provide for everyone if we wanted to, but instead we’re spending the money on fascist facilities and cutting taxes for the wealthy.
#uspol #fascism #immigration #disability #abolishice #alligatoralcatraz #ableism
Tamir Rice is 12 years old. He is playing in a Cleveland park with a toy pellet gun. A caller tells police the gun is “probably fake.” They pull up in a cruiser, don’t stop, don’t speak. Two seconds after arriving, they shoot him dead.
His sister, Tajai, runs to him. They tackle her to the ground.
No charges. No justice.
A child is gone, and the system that killed him still patrols the streets—still armored, still unaccountable.
Image: Tamir Rice, Source: Instagram.
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Downtown L.A., June 2025. Protesters fill the streets after mass ICE raids tear through immigrant neighborhoods. LAPD fire over 600 rounds—rubber bullets, tear gas, bean bags. Marines patrol the city. And still, they call it peacekeeping. Still, they call it order.
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Image: Protesters clash with police downtown near a VA outpatient clinic. (Luke Johnson / LA Times).
A road cuts through what used to be a neighborhood. Concrete spills from gutted apartments. Wires hang loose like veins. A single building leans like it’s trying to stand. Three small figures walk down the middle—no destination.
Entire families buried beneath what was once home. Walls turned to dust. Lives turned to statistics.
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Image: Aerial view of Palestinians walking past destroyed houses in the Gaza Strip’s Jabalia refugee camp, February 2024/Reuters.
And still, they say: this is defense. Still, they say: they seek peace. And those who bury their children are named the enemy.
Image: Protester lays prostrate surrounded by heavily armed LAPD. (Luke Johnson / LA Times).
Primary Sources:
Mason, John. A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable Taking of Their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1869. Originally written in 1677. Source: https://archive.org/details/briefhistoryofpe00maso/page/n8/mode/1up
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More Primary Sources
PBS NewsHour. “Cleveland Police Forced Tamir Rice’s Sister to the Ground, Footage Reveals.” PBS NewsHour, January 8 2015.. Source: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cleveland-police-forced-tamir-rices-sister-ground-footage-reveals
LA Times Staff, “How L.A. Law Enforcement Got Pulled into Trump’s Immigration Fight,” LA Times, Source:
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-10/lapd-sheriffs-department-immigration-protests
Nidal Al‑Mughrabi, “Israeli Strikes Kill 33 People in Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza, Medics Say,” Reuters, October 18, 2024, accessed June 22, 2025, Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sends-more-troops-into-north-gaza-deepens-raid-2024-10-18/
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According to new security footage released Thursday, Cleveland police handcuffed the 14-year-old sister of Tamir Rice and kept her nearby in a patrol car after a police officer shot the boy within seconds of arriving to the scene.
The sad fact is that we're a violent species, and as violent as things are at the moment they aren't a patch on the violence we have historically meted out against each other.
Don't misunderstand me, I know there are peaceful, kind humans out there, but violence wins out every single time and the sooner those of us in the "merciful" camp, per the attached quote, acknowledge this fact the better.
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A Brief History of the #Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable Taking of Their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637. Boston: S.G. Drake, 1869. ⭕Originally written in 1677
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@Deglassco they love to hide their crimes behind misuse of words, re-framing, and what-about-ism. Tools to distract, deny and deflect from the crime they commit.
and they are crimes. They will use words to try to avoid accountability in the pursuit of power.
Fuck those assholes. All of them. Fuck them all. :(
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