Mark Be Busy
@journeymansalvager.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 he/him | Reader, writer, baker, climber, carpenter, gardener, and a host of other minor hobbies when ADHD lets me focus on them.
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Encouraging info from CM Chavez. My issue here is that the entire history of Big Tech is doing illegal things and daring people to stop them, which rarely happens. We need to say a robot can't drive AND provide a framework for strong penalties when the companies inevitably ignore that law.
My understanding is that state law requires a human driver.
According to MPR, Waymo hired lobbyists to explore the possibility of changing state laws to allow for the operation of autonomous vehicles.
I’d be supportive of an ordinance that requires a human to be physically present.
According to MPR, Waymo hired lobbyists to explore the possibility of changing state laws to allow for the operation of autonomous vehicles.
I’d be supportive of an ordinance that requires a human to be physically present.
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Encouraging info from CM Chavez. My issue here is that the entire history of Big Tech is doing illegal things and daring people to stop them, which rarely happens. We need to say a robot can't drive AND provide a framework for strong penalties when the companies inevitably ignore that law.
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Raise your hand if your brain is sufficiently capable of complex thought to understand why advocating an explicitly Christian volunteer military is not ideal.
Add a dose of propaganda to your morning coffee.. This smells of Russian-like “special operation”
November 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Raise your hand if your brain is sufficiently capable of complex thought to understand why advocating an explicitly Christian volunteer military is not ideal.
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Yes, an important test for the midterms.
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
November 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Yes, an important test for the midterms.
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People need to realize that the republicans have effectively dissolved Congress that Trump
May very well never step in to turn it back on.
The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.
May very well never step in to turn it back on.
The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), vice-chair of Senate Intelligence Committee, tells Face the Nation that the shutdown won't end until Trump gets involved in brokering a deal
"My Republican colleagues can't move on anything without a Trump sign-off"
"My Republican colleagues can't move on anything without a Trump sign-off"
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People need to realize that the republicans have effectively dissolved Congress that Trump
May very well never step in to turn it back on.
The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.
May very well never step in to turn it back on.
The republicans who back Trump at a high level have been saying that is their goal for decades.
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The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people.
The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.
The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.
Q: Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?"
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
Trump: "No. I think they haven't gone far enough”
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people.
The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.
The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.
Anyone else looking at the Trumpite deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford to the Caribbean in the supposed "war against drug cartels" and thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Just me? Cool, cool cool cool cool. 🤨😬🫣
October 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Anyone else looking at the Trumpite deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford to the Caribbean in the supposed "war against drug cartels" and thinking of the Gulf of Tonkin incident? Just me? Cool, cool cool cool cool. 🤨😬🫣
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If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
October 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
If the National Guard is really in D.C. to protect federal
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
property, they should probably have been at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. two days ago
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holy crap
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
holy crap
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Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. https://to.pbs.org/3Lne3zV
Daniel Naroditsky, child chess prodigy who became grandmaster, dies at 29
Naroditsky quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport.
www.pbs.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport, died Monday. He was 29. https://to.pbs.org/3Lne3zV
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Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.
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this is going to be a partisan take but i dont think the president should be allowed to give himself $230M in taxpayer money
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases
www.nytimes.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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In all seriousness, seeing Trump demolish the East Wing to build a gilded ballroom for his wealthy donors is stomach-churning stuff.
The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began.
That should alarm everyone.
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The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began.
That should alarm everyone.
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I guess his symbolic destruction of the office just wasn’t cutting it.
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
In all seriousness, seeing Trump demolish the East Wing to build a gilded ballroom for his wealthy donors is stomach-churning stuff.
The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began.
That should alarm everyone.
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The Administration claims no congressional approval or historic-preservation review was needed before demolition began.
That should alarm everyone.
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"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
No Kings was a huge success. Just look at Trump's response.
Turnout was enormous. There was no violence. And the wannabe king is triggered.
www.publicnotice.co
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Any news organization that says Trump "posted a fake video of him dumping shit on Americans" is clearer and more informative than the New York Times. The Times' political coverage is useless at best, but essentially pro-fascist.
President Trump posted what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media showing him wearing a crown and flying a jet labeled “King Trump” that dumps brown liquid on protesters. He shared the video on Saturday, the same day that protesters participated in mass “No Kings” demonstrations.
Trump Posts Fake A.I. Video of Himself Flying a ‘King Trump’ Jet Over Protesters
President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.
nyti.ms
October 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Any news organization that says Trump "posted a fake video of him dumping shit on Americans" is clearer and more informative than the New York Times. The Times' political coverage is useless at best, but essentially pro-fascist.
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What's going on, NYT? You feeling okay?
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
What's going on, NYT? You feeling okay?
Lots and lots of people at the Boston Commons No Kings demonstration.
October 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Lots and lots of people at the Boston Commons No Kings demonstration.
So yeah, there were a lot of people at Boston's No Kings demonstration. ✊😁
October 19, 2025 at 11:37 AM
So yeah, there were a lot of people at Boston's No Kings demonstration. ✊😁
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Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...
October 13, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...
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lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
October 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day
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Another day of horrors in Chicagoland—
Immigration agents slammed the southwest side again, a fruit vendor kidnapped in Cicero, arrests and sightings across the suburbs, and feds were seen on video hassling people at the Pulaski orange line stop.
Immigration agents slammed the southwest side again, a fruit vendor kidnapped in Cicero, arrests and sightings across the suburbs, and feds were seen on video hassling people at the Pulaski orange line stop.
Federal agents again record observers; others load older man into the back of a minivan as another captive tries to escape • The TRiiBE
Here's a roundup of federal agent sightings and activity in the Chicago area for Oct. 2
thetriibe.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another day of horrors in Chicagoland—
Immigration agents slammed the southwest side again, a fruit vendor kidnapped in Cicero, arrests and sightings across the suburbs, and feds were seen on video hassling people at the Pulaski orange line stop.
Immigration agents slammed the southwest side again, a fruit vendor kidnapped in Cicero, arrests and sightings across the suburbs, and feds were seen on video hassling people at the Pulaski orange line stop.
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How is this remotely constitutional? Our Supreme Court has made a mockery of the separation of powers.
October 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
How is this remotely constitutional? Our Supreme Court has made a mockery of the separation of powers.