To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

ICE out of Portland!
#abolishICE #resist #PDX

It’s time, beyond time, really, I’m leaving Substack. I didn’t do it before because I had no other income to rely on. I don’t think abandoning spaces is always the right answer but sometimes it’s necessary www.patreon.com/posts/why-i-...

i am making a THEY DO NOT BREAK US THEY BREAK UPON US flag that i will wave as high as i can on saturday for no kings. repost this with what you intend to do. encourage every person you know to hit the streets.

Highly recommended. I didn’t know much of anything about her at first; turns out I could have saved myself some research time by just waiting for this video

Another man was reunited with his family after 2 years. Israeli soldiers had told the family he was dead. They'd grieved and mourned this man.

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

So glad we’re burning down rainforests and drying up lakes to help total losers masturbate in an entirely new way

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
A disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered W Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the sea.
At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Bequest of the family.

Competely unfamiliar to me as a Hopper fan, but not sure

I’m sitting here writing a thing and it occurs to me that I should inform any newspaper editors or other media administrators who see this that I am happy to write something for your outlet if you want it to be six weeks late and not about what you asked for

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud

It’s called getting your ass whupped, Scott.

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

You know it's a really shitty deal when even freakin Newsmax refuses to sign it.