This is a good page to bookmark.

#kakistocracy #rightWing

“None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/15/2343622/-None-of-the-last-31-political-killings-was-by-anyone-from-the-Left-Not-one-We-can-count-them

Stop saying "the Ghislane Maxwell interview".

When the lawyer of the person accused of sex trafficking has a private ex parte meeting with the person who could provide evidence of the sex trafficking, that's called WITNESS TAMPERING.

Someone has figured out how to encode data into bird calls

The Register: Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

"...little bird successfully learned and emulated the sound in the exact same frequency range that he heard it, effectively transferring about 176 kilobytes of uncompressed information."

It's a neat demonstration of what a starling is capable of. "While there are a lot of caveats and limitations there," Jordan went on, "the fact that you could set up a speaker in your yard and conceivably store any amount of data in song birds is crazy."

We asked Jordan if there might be more attempts in the future. "I suppose if I were to try again, I'd use FT8 signals, which are used in amateur radio and designed to transmit data with the imperfections of analog signals.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/30/encoded_audio_starling_song/

#hamradio #ft8

Something I've found building a 'retro internet service' is the absolute culture gap with younger people (early 20's)

They find the project interesting but then get anxious asking "okay but what can I contribute". Like they need to "hustle" or "prove their worth to be here"

I have to explain to them "do things that make you happy. Build things that bring you joy"

The internet they grew up on is so *transactional* that it's just how they've come to expect it. That it wants something "of them"

The Guardian: Ice secretly deported Pennsylvania grandfather, 82, after he lost green card

"...Family of Luis Leon say they were initially told by someone he had died, but they found him alive in Guatemala hospital..."

"...long-time Allentown resident Luis Leon – who was granted political asylum in the US in 1987 after being tortured under the regime of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet – lost his wallet containing the physical card that confirmed his legal residency. So he and wife booked an appointment to get it replaced.

When he arrived at the office on 20 June, however, he was handcuffed by two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers, who led him away from his wife without explanation, she said..."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/ice-secretly-deported-grandfather

#ICE #fascism #fear

The family of a green card holder “was told he died in ICE custody. Then they learned he’s alive — in a hospital in Guatemala, they say.”

When this is all over—and I have to believe it will be over one day—there need to be trials.

https://www.mcall.com/2025/07/18/luis-leon-allentown-grandfather-ice-guatemala/

The whole idea of civil rights is that all people are equal members of a society and therefore mechanisms that make us unequal are illegitimate.

MAGA has built for itself a perverse mirror ideology in which certain groups of people are known to be inherently unequal and therefore any mechanisms that attempt to make us equal are illegitimate.

The very core of MAGA ideology is white supremacy. Second to that, Christian supremacy, and male supremacy. These are justified with a tautology. White people (Christian/male/hetero/cisgendered white men) are supreme, therefore they deserve social, legal, political, and economic privilege, because white male cis/het Christian men are supreme.

This is the evil heart of MAGA, and its only true core principle that they will not abandon. It lies beneath everything else; every corruption and every authoritarian attitude branches from an almost pathological need to create a racial and patriarchal underclass who can be dominated and tortured without consequence.

The entirety of conservative philosophy exists to justify and legitimize this core falsehood - that inequality is inevitable, natural, and desirable.

This is why there can be NO COMPROMISE and NO COEXISTENCE with MAGA, yes even blue, leftist MAGA. It is the cancer that we either purge completely, or will kill us.