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did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume

This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power. local12.com/news/offbeat...

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

i mean

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

i'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using outlook?

US Fed Railroad Admin is apparently directing Amtrak to split itself into 3 entities: —Operations —Rolling stock [& maintenance facilities] —Infra [mainly Northeast Corridor & stations] This approach could have major ramifications for Amtrak. I'm personally quite skeptical it will improve outcomes.

Farewell to the great Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead who kept the long, strange trip rolling long after the death of Jerry Garcia. variety.com/2026/music/n...

Partaking in the traditional NYE watching of 200 Cigarettes.

It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.” www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.

When it’s fishermen they’re pretending are low level drug runners, they’ll bomb and then circle back to finish off the survivors. But someone convicted in a court of masterminding a massive cocaine trafficking scheme? Well, he’s wearing a suit. Come on.

Trump admin Is attempting to massive cut federal transit funds, seeking to: 1–Eliminate transit account, which funds billions of $ in capital expenses for transit agencies 2–Prevent state DOTs from “flexing” funds for transit These changes, if they occurred, would be devastating for US transit.

Heads up: Indiana's Republican governor just called a special session to consider a new congressional map. Trump and JD Vance have been pressuring Republicans in the state for months to further gerrymander their map.

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Highland, IN this afternoon.

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

gene kelly is antifa

Signs of the times in Chicago today: My daughter's school went on soft lockdown because of reports of ICE. Volunteers showed up at the nearby H.S. to escort people who didn't feel safe. Walking around, I saw lots of orange whistles around people's necks.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

A good overview from @apnews.com of Trump admin's funding pause for Chicago's Red Line Extension because of US DOT's complaint that CTA is using "race-based contracting." The contracting approach CTA used was mandated by US DOT & Congress. The pause will increase costs, lengthen project timelines.

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

Kash Patel’s FBI puts two pounds of methamphetamine in the incinerator at an animal shelter, sending 14 people to the hospital, and exposing some 75 cats and dogs to the narcotic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

taking passports, famously a characteristic of free countries

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

But we have to cut food stamps for poor families.

Left: yesterday Right: today

How many people gonna die because some women laughed at these guys‘ dicks

i will never not be amused by how the conservative world is governed by the kind of “affirmative action” they say happens in mainstream institutions. totally unqualified dipshits are handed the keys to institutions because they say the right thing and have the right look.