AirBeagle
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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶 Native New Mexican. Nashville. He/him. 26 years happily married to hubby Author/Teacher/Journo/Cashier/911 Dispatch. Retired. Student of German history (1815-1945) for 45 years AirBeagle since 1999 [Pic: ENMMCH, Roswell, NM, Dec. 1963]
🔥 Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “America can do glorious things, but to love 🇺🇸 isn’t just to dress up in some colors and pretend everything’s fine. To love 🇺🇸 is to will 🇺🇸 to do the hard work of being better… we can’t control the past 250 years, what we CAN do is build the next 250.”
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
Northern MI is a gem!! What a beautiful pic. This is my slice of heaven~Huron river. It provides incredible peace in these discouraging & uncertain times. 💙
In other news - Rollin Horton and the council passed eminent domain in NASHVILLE late last night, taking another step towards blocking the data center project planned for the property next to the zoo. (From @nonewdatacenters )
Countdown to the tantrum and inevitable fake threat to leave the city.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
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All of this, from the amazing housing automation to the nuclear holocaust, was the future I was promised when I was a kid. That today, Aug. 5, 2026, doesn’t look like this, but is instead a different horrific reality, is … comforting? Appalling?
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Composer Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (born #OTD in 1892) gave the proceeds from private concerts to the artists' resistance and refused to register with the Kultuurkamer imposed on Dutch intellectuals and artists by the Nazis. www.forbiddenmusicre...
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I can't recommend @liberalcurrents.com's Reconstruction Papers highly enough. Do I agree with every single thing in them? No, but that's the point: Convene smart, loyal thinkers to imagine out-loud and in community where we go next. It's the only option for fixing our democracy
Never, ever argue with a Canadian ... you're "taking a knife to a gun fight." ===========
John Oliver might be the closest thing to openly anti police and anti carceral on such a large, official platform in our country
Police Surveillance Technology: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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#OtD 3 Aug 1929 19-year-old communist Yetta Stromberg was arrested with six others for having a red flag in California, one of 24 states which banned socialist/anarchist flags. She took her case to the Supreme Court and won, overturning the ban stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1015...
New from 404 Media: Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he became disillusioned. I spoke to Paz about how he first joined Flock, what he was lied to about, and why he had to get out www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...
Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he started to get disillusioned.
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The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.
The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will. Vermin Supreme
