Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.

So many people over decades have been called conspiracy theorists for suggesting that U.S. intervention is driven by capitalist interests, and the interests of the oil industry in particular. Now the president just says it outright in press conferences and interviews.

Amid furor over Flock and the national laughingstock Houston Made of Oakland, Council Passed Significant Legislation That Could Affect Revenues, Public Participation and Campaign Finance Practices

Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one

While progressives often get accused of undermining the Democratic Party, the evidence shows that it’s the moderate wing that most often violates the “Vote Blue No Matter Who” principle.

https://trib.al/ayccoO7

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

As reported weeks ago, the EAP is on its way back to Council on December 2nd. Worth noting, with months to respond to the redline version from state, and warning Oakland's likely to lose millions in funding in current version, there's no amendments from Houston or the D6 office.

This is a list of the known jurisdictions that have cancelled Flock after recent revelations about the systems vulnerability to hacking and fed exploitation

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

The biggest hole in this element of Flock contract: Flock owns the cams, and the city can't remove them, Flock has to. If Trump took over Oakland, the cameras would remain, the platform would remain, the consent forms would remain. All in place for a new contract with Trump

Once the cams go up in Oakland, only Flock can take them down. We're about to mortgage our streets to a corporation that in its most charitable iteration does not gaf about us.

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine.

A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2.

Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2.

√a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

Biden/Kamala refused to compromise on genocide. Voters calling for a ceasefire were left at a moral impasse: support an administration enabling atrocity, or risk empowering a domestic authoritarian. It was a burden no electorate should bear—choosing between injustice abroad and danger at home.

Stop sharing the Ghibli AI slop, what is wrong with you:

aftermath.site/studio-ghibli-...

Worth noting, Loren Taylor is a landlord who made over $100K on just one property in 2024, per his statement of economic interest report turned in this week. His relationship with landlord advocates makes a lot more sense.

The Trump administration's outrageous detention of Mahmoud is designed to instill terror in students speaking out for Palestinian freedom and immigrant communities.

This is the fascist playbook. We all must fiercely reject it, and universities must start protecting its students.