mjt

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Somewhat retired, but not exactly retiring.
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Have accidentally posted from @mjt@agilealliance.social for months if not years. Ooops. This account on mastodon.online is my sole current account.

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2026-11-01 16:25:56 UTC

“[…]Alaska uses ranked-choice voting, which means that any Alaskan who wants to vote for the Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan but who is somehow confused about which Dan Sullivan he is on the ballot despite the fact that only one Dan Sullivan on the ballot is identified with the words ‘Republican’ or ‘incumbent’ can simply rank the two Dan Sullivans as first and second choices in either order and that vote will ultimately be counted for the Republican incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan.”

2026-10-25 13:32:22 UTC

His audition for Minister of Information is going well.
“In an X post Wednesday, The Bulwark’s Will Saletan aptly summed up Carr’s pathology: ‘Stephen Miller might look the part, but Brendan Carr is actually Trump’s most dedicated authoritarian apparatchik. In a fascist regime, he would do anything the boss ordered.’”
#USpol
https://link.ms.now/click/48084349.360109/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubXMubm93L29waW5pb24vdHJ1bXAtcG9sbHMtbWlkdGVybXMtY2Vuc29yc2hpcC1mY2MtYnJlbmRhbi1jYXJyP2NpZD1lbWxfbWRhXzIwMjYxMDI1JnVzZXJfZW1haWw9OTlmZjIxNjY2YjQ0ZjdiNDc5OTFlOGUyOGIyNGU4N2RjYjRmMjhmMDdhNmQ2ZmVkNzRhOGFlMmQ3NmJjMmZhYQ/68ab6903fdbe81ec100e3628C12f419f1

2026-10-19 05:53:17 UTC

“There are more gun deaths in the US on a single day than there are in the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Japan in a year combined. Our weekly total is roughly equal to the annual total of gun deaths of France, Canada, or Germany.”
~Garrett Graff

2026-10-14 04:47:29 UTC

“Pro-voting groups are asking a Texas court to force state officials to fix its online voter registration process after a backlog of nearly 600,000 applications was revealed just before the midterm elections.”
Oh, come on now. Processing voter registrations is *hard*.”
#USpol #Dictatorship #USpolitics
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-backlog-of-voter-registrations-needs-immediate-fix-voting-groups-say-in-lawsuit/ https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/texas-backlog-of-voter-registrations-needs-immediate-fix-voting-groups-say-in-lawsuit/?_hsmi=444004654 (1/2)

2026-10-14 04:40:24 UTC

It’s kinda like TFG’s “electrocuted by a sinking electric boat, or eaten by sharks” dilemma: is it better to be eliminated because you’re “lower-value human capital,” or killed by AI as redundantly irritating
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/437/420/264/183/623/original/1e72a62dc89b14d1.jpeg

2026-10-14 04:21:48 UTC

“This afternoon, the President of the United States posted two videos of lions and tigers attacking humans.”
Knowing that this creature, plainly pure id at this point, has a private army beholden to only him. He has the ability to imprison many of us, or kill most of us.
And we continue mindlessly along, waiting.
#USpol #Dictatorship

2026-10-12 18:36:17 UTC

Timothy Snyder is a serious scholar, steeped in knowledge of how fascists take over societies. Listen. Understand. Act. Don’t wait until it gets worse.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DePQHj0BEGs/?mdxt=MXF2YWljMG9hZTQ5cw==
#USpol #Dictatorship #USpolitics

2026-10-12 18:31:26 UTC

These goons are, under cover of “justice,” raiding the homes of elected US Representatives. They’ll raid your house next. If you sound or look a certain way, you’re already being asked for your papers. This is not normal. This is not “protecting America.” This is against the Constitution and the law.
#USpol #Dictatorship #USpolitics (1/2)

2026-10-12 18:27:09 UTC

All of youse in DC. who are (for now) relatively safe from blowback, please ask EVERY DAY why there are federalized National Guard troops on the streets for EVERY remaining day of TFG’s current term. Ask EVERY DAY why they’re standing in front of ballot drop boxes. Ask EVERY DAY (if you’re safe) every Guard member if they know why they are there instead of with their families and regular jobs.
#USpol #Dictatorship #USpolitics #GovernmentGoonsquads (1/2)

2026-10-12 18:21:00 UTC

Don’t let the fuckers steal your vote. I know I’m speaking fromn privilege here because I live in a state that’s not going to try that (at least on the western side of the state), but please, we need *all* legal votes, and don’t let someone else tell you what’s legal. You know whether you’re registered and allowed to vote. Please don’t let the bastards win.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLS8oQxN/
#USpol #Dictatorship

2026-10-11 11:06:33 UTC

Greenland: natural resource-rich, useful for security, proximate to US.
Alaska: natural resource-rich, useful for security, proximate to Russia. And it used to belong to Russia, which is taking back its “rightful” historic territory.
Donbas: industrial heartland of Ukraine, useful…well, you get the idea.
TFG will be cool with surrendering it to pal Putin like he wants Zelenskyy to do in Ukraine, I’m sure.
#USpol #RussianInvasionOfUkraine

2026-10-11 09:28:08 UTC

“‘Zelensky could have settled this war many times. Many, many times. And he chooses not to.’ [He] blamed Zelensky for the high cost of diesel because Ukrainian forces have targeted Russian oil refineries, although since Russian oil was sanctioned, the actual chokepoint for diesel prices is the Strait of Hormuz, closed becauae of…the war….”
When Putin invaded and takes back Alaska, TFG will likely “settle” and let Russia have it. Same reasoning TFG wants Greenland.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-10-2026-saturday?r=14j7ia

2026-10-10 13:36:40 UTC

A way to fight or even stop authoritarianism: non-violent, large-scale protest. Beats guns and bombs, sometimes.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/my-head-talks-at-the-ecb?r=14j7ia
#USpol #USpolitics

2026-10-10 12:57:44 UTC

Just about every day, there are mass shootings in the US and, increasingly, around the world. A dude gets a gun, shoots a bunch of people, then shoot themselves dead. Widespread thoughts and prayers are generated, then it happens again. It happened yesterday, it’ll probably happen today, and it’ll likely happen tomorrow. And next week.
#USpol #Guns (1/2)

2026-10-10 02:06:53 UTC

“‘I got into this case to defend the law the [Wisconsin] Legislature wrote,’ Dickhead and State Rep. Calvin Callahan said in a press release. ‘If you mail your absentee ballot back to your clerk, you do not get another vote at the polls. … One person, one ballot. That is a foundation of our election system, and it should not be rewritten in the middle of an election through a court action.’”
#USpol #USpolitics (1/2)

2026-10-10 01:48:45 UTC

Further proof, as if we needed it, that TFG and his goons don’t give a single crap about the law, Congress, or voters. What’s your over/under on whether Nazi Stephen gets him to declare martial law before the elections just like the best banana republics do (and apologies to those republics; I should have said tinpot-dictator regimes)?
#USpol
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/414/096/072/965/055/original/7021c4ea7b03e8a2.png

2026-10-09 16:20:49 UTC

Public executions were once a public spectacle, but then that stopped. And there was a reason for stopping, more than one reason.
https://apnews.com/article/fort-hood-livestream-history-public-execution-e9b41d2c6425aa75e25e65dddc91ab7b
#USpol #USpolitics

2026-10-09 02:52:11 UTC

I don’t for a second think my little voice can make a difference in any particular world event, but I hope and wish and even pray that thousands and millions of voices across the country and world can stop the horror announced by the apparently sub-human Hegseth tonight. Please, even if you’ve never spoken publicly about anything, please add your voice to what could be a chorus of repulsion, rejection, and condemnation of the horrific act he intends to carry out.
#USPolitics #USpol (1/2)

2026-10-09 02:42:02 UTC

“Our nation was founded to perpetuate democratic principles. These principles are that each man is to be treated on his worth as a man without regard to the land from which his forefathers came and without regard to the creed which he professes. If the United States proves false to these principles of civil and religious liberty, it will have inflicted the greatest blow on the system of free popular government that has ever been inflicted.”
#USpol (1/2)

2026-10-04 21:29:08 UTC

“In 1997, a group of gynecologic surgeons published a paper in the journal Gynecologic Oncology with a title that gets straight to it — “Is Adam worth more than Eve?” Dr. Barbara A. Goff, now chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Washington Medicine, and colleagues found that doctors are paid around 44 percent more for performing male-specific procedures than analogous female-specific ones.”
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/504071/medical-billing-womens-health-outcomes

2026-09-30 03:12:22 UTC

“[A]fter being triggered by ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Kristen Welker's rather mundane midterms analysis, Trump said he had “reported’ her to the FCC ‘for rebuke or punishment.’ When later asked about the Welker situation, [Brendan] Carr, [FCC chair] said that he believed Trump was "over the target" and that he is ‘looking at a lot of actions’ to take in response to the complaint.”
#USpol #OvertonWindow
https://www.status.news/p/comcast-nbc-stations-spinoff-fcc-brendan-carr https://www.status.news/p/comcast-nbc-stations-spinoff-fcc-brendan-carr?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=comcast-s-carr-calculation&_bhlid=89a1037e52ea79de44e6f0656038f26e9bf8dc89

2026-09-29 14:23:21 UTC

“A functioning democracy cannot be just a matter of statute. It requires good faith and some measure of virtue from its officeholders. No law can substitute for character in leaders.”
#USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/09/problem-with-trumps-taxpayer-funded-ads/688817/?gift=8Bjnhn4JmMNPkQMAZLWnycTl7a_TRywc8JJliPLSal0

2026-09-28 05:25:05 UTC

“Work identity vs. workplace identity is one of the most important differentiations humans have to grapple with in their short time on this planet.”
The brilliant John Cutler on companies and you, the employee, and how to survive a lifetime of work with your identity intact.
https://substack.com/@cutlefish/note/c-347310086?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2026-09-16 04:11:03 UTC

USians, I ask you: do we live in a great country or what?
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/278/760/129/052/388/original/9b00f983fa35916b.jpeg

2026-09-07 05:11:58 UTC

“The widespread, bipartisan backlash to Flock and data centers has many of our tech overlords wondering why people are so animated and angry about what they’ve dubbed a ‘revolutionary technology.’”
#USpol #USgovernment #EndOfTimes
https://open.substack.com/pub/dialecticsofdecline/p/the-revolution-will-not-be-digitized?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=app (1/4)

2026-09-04 05:09:43 UTC

The president is a criminal. The speaker of the House is a criminal. Most of the Supreme Court don’t give a crap about the law or Constitution, only power.
#USpol #Criminals #AllIsLost

2026-09-04 05:07:23 UTC

Rule of law in the United States at the federal level has ceased to exist, because the very branch that enforces the law repeatedly and purposely disregards it.
It won’t make any difference who “wins” the November elections, because the law doesn’t matter to the clowns and criminals who run the federal government, and the courts are disregarded with gusto.
#USpol #RuleOfLaw #Criminals
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2026?r=14j7ia (1/2)

2026-09-04 00:39:28 UTC

“Nearly a third of a[n H-1B] work-petition fee is earmarked for immigration courts. Another billion-plus is earmarked for ICE. Specialty-occupation employers are being converted into a revenue stream for removal infrastructure. That is not adjudication pricing. That is a labor tax designed to fund the cage.”
#USpol #ICE #Immigration #H1B
https://substack.com/@eyesonice/note/p-214089259?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2026-08-30 20:01:55 UTC

“[TFG] has abused his office to enrich himself and his family in ways that are completely unprecedented—not only in the United States but also in the history of almost any peer democracy. Only Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s notoriously lawless former prime minister, was in any way comparable, and Berlusconi was sentenced to prison.”
We can only hope. Sadly, I don’t believe this crap ends with TFG’s moving on.
#USpol
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/reclaim-wealth-trump-corruption/688435/

2026-08-28 00:41:16 UTC

Next he’ll try to rename the country. And the capital. Washington’s had the honor long enough.
#USpol #NotWell #Dictator #Ass

2026-08-25 21:46:31 UTC

Dolly Parton was one of the few topics the US could agree on. She was, and shall remain, a treasure for old and young, country and pop, and a philanthropist of the first order. One of her orgs has delivered a books regularly to any child who requests them. She’s given out 300 million books so far, and aimed to hit a billion.
#USpol #Dolly #DollyParton #RIPDollyParton

2026-08-21 20:04:06 UTC

“It's interesting that Visio claims to have made about 15 Million selling the TVs in the SFC-Visio case, and 300 Million in advertising through them. This confirms my surmise about TV prices being artificially low because YOU are the product, not the TV.” ~Bruce Perens, internet pioneer and open source advocate
#YouAreTheProduct #Television #WatchingTheWatchers (1/2)

2026-08-21 20:04:06 UTC

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And this is why you should *never* connect your TV to Ethernet or WiFi. If you need connection, use an Apple TV box, but not a “streaming stick” since they do the same thing as the TVs. Sure, Apple TV probably tracks some too, but nowhere near the giant sucking sound modern TVs make.
#YouAreTheProduct #Television #WatchingTheWatchers (2/2)

2026-08-21 05:39:58 UTC

“[North Carolina [state election board member and Democrat] Jeff Carmon … said some GOP county plans had ‘racial undertones.’
‘Can we identify a single voter who is better served by having fewer opportunities to cast a ballot?’ Carmon asked.”
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/north-carolina-election-board-denies-voting-site-at-nations-largest-hbcu-for-second-time/
#USpol #ElectionRigging #Rascism #Discrimination

2026-08-20 04:37:30 UTC

https://lessig.medium.com/if-not-now-when-9e7b2c8fa5f7
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/117/125/981/731/428/765/original/cce9c33f2d295291.png

2026-08-17 14:06:49 UTC

“‘There are two ideas of government,’ William Jennings Bryan said. ‘There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class which rests upon them.’”
https://substack.com/@hrichardson/note/p-211514659?r=14j7ia&utm_source=notes-share-action
#USpol #TrickleDown

2026-08-17 04:47:49 UTC

A journalist was twice assaulted by ICE, and is now approaching 300 Days in criminally neglectful detention, without appropriate medical care for ICE-caused gunshot wound. There are worms in the drinking water and roaches in the cells.
Think it can’t or won’t happen to you? Think again. ICE is the US secret police, and will come for many of us, eventually.
https://theintercept.com/2026/08/16/ricardo-parias-ice-detention-journalist-los-angeles/
#USpol #ICE #AmericanGulags #shame

2026-08-16 09:00:42 UTC

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“A force stretched that way does not fail loudly at first. It fails quietly, in the galley and the shower and the laundry, on ships operating at the far end of the longest supply lines the Navy has.”
#USpol #USnavy #logistics (3/3)

2026-08-16 09:00:41 UTC

“It is tempting to read what happened aboard the Lincoln as a story about one ship or one deployment. The more useful reading is that it was a symptom surfacing at the end of the supply chain.”
#USpol #USnavy #logistics (1/3)

2026-08-16 09:00:41 UTC

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“For fifteen years the United States kept its Combat Logistics Force at a roughly constant size while cutting its most capable replenishment ships, aging out its oilers, and delaying their replacements — all while asking the fleet to sustain longer deployments in more distant and more contested waters.”
#USpol #USnavy #logistics (2/3)

2026-08-15 19:02:17 UTC

“In 2023, only one outlet, the Financial Times, covered when William O’Reilly, a White Cambridge professor, was found guilty of plagiarism. All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White Cambridge professor found guilty of plagiarism.”
https://substack.com/@ibramxkendi?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=light
#WTF

2026-08-12 01:33:03 UTC

“Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers may soon be outfitted with gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks intended to gain compliance from combative individuals.”
Tell me again how voting is going to help us regain our democracy.
#USpol #PoliceState #Paramilitary
https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_com_jonny_supermona_shareextension

2026-08-10 21:50:53 UTC

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“A counterfeit works only until someone examines it, and Judge Williams already has. The Senate spent its summer examining it, then confirmed the man who signed it. Confirmation can elevate the official; it cannot ratify the paper…”
“That is not immunity. That is stationery.”
#USpol #USpolitics #fraud #law
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/trump-immunity-deal-todd-blanche-fraud.html (2/2)

2026-08-10 21:50:53 UTC

“The administration did not defy the tax laws. It counterfeited them. The [purported “get out of tax audits free] document has the typography of law and none of its machinery: no adverseness, no authority, no statutory vehicle, no second signature…”
#USpol #USpolitics #fraud #law
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/08/trump-immunity-deal-todd-blanche-fraud.html (1/2)

2026-08-10 05:39:18 UTC

“On Tuesday, it will be one year since President Donald Trump called up the National Guard to be deployed in Washington, D.C., ‘to address the epidemic of crime in our Nation’s capital.’
“It was a lie then, it’s a lie now, but here we are. And here they are. And here they are to remain through 2029, if Trump has his way.”
#USpol #Occupied #dictator
https://www.lawdork.com/p/one-year-in-trump-dc-troop-deployment https://www.lawdork.com/p/one-year-in-trump-dc-troop-deployment?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd2f4a85-fa25-4404-a6cb-5d4b52bb4630_1806x1284.png&open=false

2026-08-06 04:55:03 UTC

The dicks in charge have already decided the question Timothy Snyder poses. The question is, are We The People going to let them?
https://substack.com/@snyder/note/c-308945201?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2026-07-30 02:51:53 UTC

I’m at the beach here in Seattle’s hot days, watching all the white people trying to make their skin brown.
ICE isn’t visibly present. Yet.
#USpol #racism #ice

2026-07-28 07:31:56 UTC

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“‘Smithsonian museums did not change what they teach about slavery between 2017 and today,’ [US Rep. Joe] Morelle writes; instead, ‘the President changed his position on whether they should be allowed to teach it.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=14j7ia
#USpol #Smithsonian (2/2)

2026-07-28 07:31:55 UTC

“[I]n February 2017, a month after his first inauguration, Trump praised the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and its founding director, Dr. Lonnie Bunch, for sharing ‘the great struggle for freedom and equality that prevailed against the sins of slavery and the injustice of discrimination.’”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-27-2026?r=14j7ia
#USpol #Smithsonian (1/2)

2026-07-20 18:49:16 UTC

US cops eject and threaten to arrest scientists at a diabetes convention for passing out copies of an editorial criticizing…TFG, the prez, for cutting research funding. This after the multi decade sentence in a federal case for a guy who wasn’t even at the demonstration in question…for moving boxes of zines from one place to another. Terrorists, all of them! Shoot on sight for speaking out.
https://substack.com/@rawstory/note/c-280755050?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
#USpol #EndOfTheUS #Corruption

2026-07-18 19:35:03 UTC

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“Right-wing officials have undermined the world trade system that underpins American prosperity, empowered economic monopolists by slashing regulations and public lands, decimated reproductive rights and healthcare, cut social safety programs like the SNA and Medicaid, slashed medical and scientific research, and dismantled the post–World War II rules-based international order that has maintained global stability for 75 years.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-17-2026
#USpol #DictatorshipOfTheRich (2/2)

2026-07-18 19:35:02 UTC

“Trump [and] the far right…are destroying the modern American state.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-17-2026
#USpol #DictatorshipOfTheRich (1/2)

2026-07-13 06:30:05 UTC

“Lindsey Graham once said of then-senator Joe Biden of Delaware: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”
On May 3, 2016, Senator Lindsey Graham posted on social media: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.”
(Quotes via Heather Richardson Cox, our most valuable historian)
#HRC #USpol #LindseyGraham #JoeBiden #TFG #Trump

2026-07-13 06:17:05 UTC

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Over 3000 people so far in the US have cases of cyclospora infection. MAHA.
#USpol #cyclospora (2/2)

2026-07-13 06:17:05 UTC

White House spox Kush Desai: “The health and safety of the American people is the Administration’s utmost priority. USDA, HHS, FDA, and the CDC will continue to cooperate and maintain the highest vigilance to safeguard our food supply against pathogens.”
That’s why as of July 1, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer tracks infections caused by cyclospora and five other common causes of foodborne illnesses.
#USpol #cyclospora (1/2)

2026-07-10 23:53:31 UTC

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“Paint,” wrote the New York Daily Mirror, “is cheaper than blood.”

2026-07-10 23:52:10 UTC

This might be my favorite news feature of the year to date. Ever wonder about the white line on the *right* side of the road? I sure did, until I was pulled over for crossing it and was told what it was called.
https://www.wsj.com/business/white-line-road-invention-america-250-8ce6bb89?st=iPPZkm
#traffic #roads #inventors

2026-07-10 04:35:31 UTC

“[White House] communications director Steven Cheung responded to [Carol] Leonnig’s report on X, calling her a “liar,” “fraud,” and “not a real journalist.” Notably, Cheung did not point to anything factually incorrect in the report.”
~ Jon Passantino, Status exec editor
That’s okay. Steven Cheung isn’t a real comms director, is a liar, and probably isn’t an actual person, but a comic insult dog who isn’t funny.
https://www.ms.now/news/officials-say-trump-switched-out-new-air-force-one-over-security-concerns
#USpolitics

2026-07-05 06:24:41 UTC

Every picture tells a story.
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/this-fourth-of-july-photo-is-americas
#USpol #4thofJuly #FourthOfJuly

2026-07-05 06:22:45 UTC

“Black people are always being asked to make room for the humanity of enslavers while enslavers made no room for ours. We are always being told to admire the architecture of a house built on bones.” …
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/dear-barack-obama-how-can-you-admire
#USpol #4thofJuly #FourthOfJuly (1/2)

2026-07-05 06:22:45 UTC

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“We are told to appreciate the Constitution, the republic, the offices, the speeches, the ‘vision,’ the ‘genius,’ the ‘framework,’ the ‘experiment.’ Meanwhile, the history of Black suffering keeps getting treated like a footnote under somebody else’s so-called greatness.“
https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/dear-barack-obama-how-can-you-admire
#USpol #4thofJuly #FourthOfJuly (2/2)

2026-07-01 21:04:13 UTC

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“Bundesen complained: ‘Who but a man would wear four layers of starched clothes around his neck and then tie a wool rag under his chin, just to make sure he choked to death? Shorts and a soft shirt would be sensible dress for men in a heat wave.’”
https://apple.news/AFECSug0uS3ayFAlnQtuA3A (2/2)

2026-07-01 21:04:12 UTC

“[During the heat wave of 1934,] Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Chicago Board of Health, said in a newspaper interview that the public should wear just enough clothes to satisfy the police. He said that women were pretty ‘sensible’ with their clothing choices, but the men were ‘very silly.’” …
https://apple.news/AFECSug0uS3ayFAlnQtuA3A (1/2)

2026-06-27 22:59:44 UTC

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2026-06-27 07:05:31 UTC

“A Brennan Center survey released in early June showed that 92% of Americans worry about corruption in government. That number includes 90% of Republicans, 93% of Democrats, and 93% of Independents. Seventy-nine percent of those polled want a constitutional amendment to restore limits on money in elections. Sixty-six percent of Americans think the government has a responsibility to make sure all Americans have health care versus 33% who say it does not.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-26-2026?r=14j7ia
#USpol

2026-06-23 04:16:15 UTC

"The United States has eye-watering rooftop solar costs compared with those in the rest of the world. A standard 7-kilowatt rooftop solar system that costs $28,000 to install in the United States would cost roughly $4,000 in Australia or $10,000 in Germany, according to the research and advocacy group Permit Power."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/solar-panels-balcony-backyard-plugin.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-06-19 05:28:01 UTC

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu, defense officials said…The outbreak at the base in San Antonio raced through an Air Force Basic Military Training wing, where new recruits sleep on bunk beds in open bays and share meals at large communal tables.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/flu-outbreak-air-force-base.html
#USpol

2026-06-19 05:19:37 UTC

Imagine: Ukraine would be at peace right now if we’d taken even some of the money we squandered on the pointless Iran bombing and just given it to Ukraine.
https://substack.com/@phillipspobrien/note/c-278367004?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

2026-06-17 18:40:55 UTC

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“These extraordinary powers have been put to widespread use by Trump and his aides, such as Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and OMB director Russell Vought…with no congressional authority, no judicial review, and no statutory mechanism for Congress to terminate their powers, once activated, as they have been since Trump took office.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/the-secret-doomsday-book-that-enables?r=14j7ia
#USpol (2/2)

2026-06-17 18:40:55 UTC

PEAD: Presidential Emergency Action Documents enable “Trump…to suspend fundamental constitutional rights, detain civilians, seize property, impose martial law, and censor communications…”
https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/the-secret-doomsday-book-that-enables?r=14j7ia
#USpol (1/2)

2026-06-10 08:09:05 UTC

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@nprofile…f9wr A different time well not see again.

2026-06-09 06:15:41 UTC

“You might suppose that ‘Republicans tend to vote more promptly than Democrats’ and ‘Government agencies in California operate slowly’ are hypotheses that conservatives, of all people, would have an easy time believing. Instead, they have decided that the [Los Angeles mayoral] election was rigged.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/los-angeles-election-lies/687473/?gift=43T4jsl9IeMANRcg74DmbzQTKCDgwyBNRbf_KtXWWzw
#USpol

2026-06-05 19:42:41 UTC

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“Additionally, a recent study published by the Institute of Transportation Engineers lists that NTOR signage can reduce pedestrian vehicle conflicts by 92% and vehicle- vehicle conflicts by 97% during the red interval at signalized intersections. In Seattle, right turn on red crashes account for 9% of all collisions with people walking at signalized intersections (2016-2020).”
https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDOT/SDOT%20Policy%20-%20No%20turn%20on%20red%20signs%20-%20Final%20-%20signed.pdf
#Seattle #traffic #RTOR #VisionZero (2/2)

2026-06-05 19:42:40 UTC

“In 1975, the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) required all states to permit right turns on red to reduce fuel consumption and estimated a travel time savings of 1–5 seconds for vehicles turning at signals. Studies1,2 following the 1975 EPCA showed that right turn on red crashes with people walking increased by 60 to 70 percent.”
https://seattle.gov/documents/Departments/SDOT/SDOT%20Policy%20-%20No%20turn%20on%20red%20signs%20-%20Final%20-%20signed.pdf
#Seattle #traffic #RTOR #VisionZero (1/2)

2026-06-05 07:25:12 UTC

Signs, signs, everywhere a sign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CvlKCBrPHI&si=UjAn-F2Yd0Yrgy4k

2026-06-04 04:31:49 UTC

Dangerous words, these.
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2026-05-30 00:48:13 UTC

#Resist
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2026-05-26 06:26:41 UTC

“When someone speaks of a place, you have to ask, ‘When?’ Geography is four-dimensional. You can’t know a place — only a place as it was at a time. Where is bound to when. Unless you are in a place right now, you can only speak of it in past-tense.”
Geography is four-dimensional | Derek Sivers https://sive.rs/4d

2026-05-19 02:22:51 UTC

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@nprofile…3qjq @nprofile…5h5g My motto: “It shouldn’t be long before the fun begins.”

2026-05-15 04:44:09 UTC

Brilliant.
#USpol
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8pPjxve/

2026-05-09 07:16:39 UTC

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“‘I think they’re going to push the envelope on denaturalization as they have with many other aspects of immigration enforcement.’”
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/trump-immigrants-citizenship.html (2/2)

2026-05-09 07:16:39 UTC

“Amanda Frost, a professor at University of Virginia Law School who has researched denaturalization, said the cases indicated that the Trump administration viewed denaturalization differently than past administrations. She warned that for Trump officials, it is part of immigration enforcement and thus naturalized citizens can ‘never rest easy.’”
#USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/us/politics/trump-immigrants-citizenship.html (1/2)

2026-05-05 23:28:25 UTC

“The same [Supreme] Court that blocked relief for Black Alabamians because the primary was four months away, and stayed a Texas order because it might disrupt an ongoing primary campaign, had no such concerns when the beneficiaries were Republican politicians rather than minority voters.”
#USpol
https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/-177798662021the-supreme-court-has-taken-off-its-mask?ecid=ACsprvvdHmIvwXW3BK8SrpWJVcjrXmio3j9YeAa3hJOIkOVWK4dVADsqjQL3nx8pfzVeRbhhHsq-&utm_campaign=12114861-Premium%20Membership%20Promo&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--76Argpmu03pq2oEMBGxEc8MIubwJ06oOnIpaJq45FsmH5SU-R50mQs5MbgB04bXrgnqZ4_bfA0NfHU1hrZCUHOt3kJ8qAFOv9b6CHshwveE7p044&_hsmi=417273839&utm_content=417273838&utm_source=hs_email

2026-05-05 16:07:56 UTC

Gotta train the proles.

2026-04-28 15:20:22 UTC

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“They blame the victim, because they wish to victimize. In the end, they are usually themselves the victim, but they refuse to hold the powerful, their real abusers, accountable, because then they would have to face uncomfortable truths about themselves.”
~”Will Resist” in Seattle Times comments on article “WA sues Safeway’s owner Albertsons over allegedly fake BOGO deals,” 27 April 2026
#USpol #USPolitics #MAGA (2/2)

2026-04-28 15:20:22 UTC

“At the essence of the MAGA's culture war is the premise that some are chosen and that others are undeserving. Ironically, most of them have no real idea into which camp they themselves fall. They pander to the rich and powerful so that they can better parrot that privilege and they denigrate the poor and powerless so that they can feel a brief moment of superiority. They allow the disreputable to escape accountability, because they themselves crave unaccountability.” (1/2)

2026-04-27 04:39:49 UTC

“[Soneone speaking for the US DHS] added that ‘ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens’ and is ‘regularly audited and inspected by external agencies.’” ~NYT
Imagine what the conditions in U.S. prisons are like.
#USpol

2026-04-27 04:35:25 UTC

“‘I didn’t think these things existed,’ she said of the immigration facilities she was held in. ‘I thought that when we arrested them, we would treat them properly. It really shocked me.’”
Saith the 85-year-old French citizen and Trump supporter arrested in her nightclothes after her American G.I. husband died.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/us/french-ross-mahe-ice-detention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.pb2U.MNIt1tY_tYzm&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2026-04-22 16:01:18 UTC

Karoline Leavitt:
“And President Trump has proven before: He does not bluff,” she said. “When he makes a promise, he follows through on it, and I’m not sure why, after 10 years of covering this president, the American media still cannot understand when President Trump says he’s going to do something, he’s going to do it.”
She’s a prodigy of untruth. She’s so good at it that it’s almost admirable.
#USpol #POTUS

2026-04-19 23:50:19 UTC

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@nprofile…f9wr A great example of how populist sentiments don’t necessarily comport with truth or reality. Everyone who’s old and crabby and lamenting the “old Seattle” is complaining that all the damn road diets and bicycle lanes are slowing down traffic and creating congestion…even in light of our repeated experience on highway reductions (for repair/resurfacing) show that traffic literally “disappears” after a week. Where does the traffic go? People make other choices.

2026-04-18 07:54:15 UTC

“Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”
~Lewis Mumford
#traffic #autos #highways #transportation

2026-04-16 21:14:04 UTC

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“Aboard were tardigrades (aka water bears or moss piglets) that may have survived the collision. If that were true, they could one day be revived because the micro-creatures have a remarkable ability to enter a ‘tun’ state, a kind of extreme hibernation where they all but shut down and lose most of their water. In 2007, dehydrated tardigrades were revived after being exposed to the hard vacuum of space.”
https://apple.news/ANAzz40BnT56wWnEhoOxoLQ
#space #colonization #tardigrades (2/2)

2026-04-16 21:14:04 UTC

“In April 2019, the privately funded Israeli Beresheet probe, travelling at 500km per hour, hit the moon. Which was annoying for those who sent it, because Beresheet was supposed to land gently on the Mare Serenitatis, a basalt rock plain.” (1/2)

2026-04-14 09:12:33 UTC

Think our brains think logically? Nope.
“‘One of the main things your brain has to do is predict the world,’ said Miller, a faculty member of The Picower Institute for Learning and
Memory and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. ‘It takes several hundred milliseconds to process things and meanwhile the world is moving on. Your brain has to anticipate things.’”
https://neurosciencenews.com/predictive-brain-categorization-action-30508/

2026-04-14 08:52:47 UTC

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. Heather Cox Richardson’s letter today is not to be missed.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-13-2026?r=14j7ia&utm_medium=ios
#USpol

2026-04-13 02:08:46 UTC

“By the time I got there, the cops were stuffing an inflatable penis in the back of their car.”
As one does.
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/03/penis-costume-no-kings-protest-alabama-censorship/
#uspol

2026-04-07 20:05:48 UTC

A credo of rugged individualism does not a unified nation make.
Benjamin Franklin: “We must hang together, or we will surely hang separately.”
Join or die, as the currently misappropriated flag declared.
#USpol

2026-04-07 18:36:26 UTC

People seem worked up about TFG using an obscenity in a post about Iran, yet his entire presidency has been an obscenity.
#USpol

2026-04-07 18:12:37 UTC

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@nprofile…vzzc @nprofile…uatj Such an excellent point. So sorry to have missed it, and thanks for the reminder.
Damn. This stuff seeps into one’s consciousness and is hard to surface, much less eliminate. Must continue trying.

2026-04-07 00:49:09 UTC

Expect more of this in coming months and years.
“Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited | CNN”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-recognition
#USpol #Justice #Injustice #AI