Then, about a month ago, I learned that the only hygiene center in my neighborhood was being shut down. The property was being sold...destined to be developed.

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So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.

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Journalists also recalled being bludgeoned, shot at, pepper-sprayed and tackled by officers.

They were treated as potential participants or even “agitators,” and a camera and notepad seen as threats rather than instruments of accountability.

The Tracker documented nearly as many assaults of journalists in 2025 — 170 — as it did in the previous three years combined.

Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.

This year, nearly 90% of the arrests and detentions of journalists in the U.S. occurred at demonstrations.

They centered around one issue: immigration.

pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/press-a...

It may be a sign that I'm getting old but it seems incredible to me how fast people forgot about (or never learned about) the whole "pre-existing conditions" thing.

If you lost a job the only way to ensure you didn't lose coverage entirely was a expensive program named after a deadly snake (COBRA).

My friend's husband was denied insurance in those days for ... plantar fasciitis.

I was once denied health insurance because, get this, I had broken an ankle within the last two years. That somehow qualified as a “recent major injury” that made me an unacceptably high risk.

you younger freelancers, self-employed comrades, I cannot even begin to explain what a fucking horror this was, back in the day.

Exactly, the House voted for it, governor and lt. gov have been pushing it. This is an unexpected aberration, not a sign of anything improving here.

Not a nativity scene, but the president of Notre Dame is talking about it too www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level.

Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.

This is a factory approach to 4th amendment violations. And a dangerous precedent in building a citizen data system in secret, something which should never exist in a free society.

The story here is not just about the hidden cameras, like this one.

This is also about data consolidation. It rhymes with what DOGE is doing at the federal level.