given how much easier flock cameras make the job of being a police officer, i modestly propose that we reduce the salary of every officer proportionally to the number of cameras in their patch
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Fash out now. Burn down the patriarchy. Please use alt text when posting images and screencaps of text. 🙏🏻 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇵🇸🇵🇷
Man destroys Flock cameras in WV WV: He was with all of us at the time so he didn’t do it.
Just great. Measles Exposure Reported at Universal Studios Hollywood mynewsla.com/hollywood/20...
Measles Exposure Reported at Universal Studios Hollywood - MyNewsLA.com
Los Angeles County health officials Wednesday warned that people who visited Universal Studios Hollywood while an infectious person was at the theme park last month may have been exposed to measles. A...
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I remember reading that religion and drugs hit the same neuropath ways. So now whenever I see someone overly religious, I think drug addict.
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Democrats warn Trump admin against promoting last-minute voter purges as ‘quiet period’ begins
The start of this year’s quiet period carries unusual stakes. The federal protection is now in effect, but the Trump administration and Republicans are still working to weaken it.
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Like most insects, the wings of tobacco hawk moths are covered in tiny hairs. But the tobacco hawk moth’s wing hairs do something researchers haven’t documented in any other insect: they help the animal smell. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4fLx1Mk
Over 1,500 sign petition opposing proposed James Island wetland development www.live5news.com/2026/08/05/o...
Over 1,500 sign petition opposing proposed James Island wetland development
Concerns over a proposed Riverland Oaks development on James Island have grown into a full-scale petition.
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The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 9h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
Important to note that anyone arguing that systemic racism was a fact of American life would get drummed out of any current confirmation process.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 14h agoFormer J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting it.
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 14h agoAI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky
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ICE seeking nearly 250 parking spots in downtown Boston, per market research notice - The Boston Globe
The agency issued a notice last month that it sought to identify suitable parking spaces in more than a dozen cities across the country, including Boston.
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Friends are telling me that they are re-occupying Willy St right now. This comes after police forcibly removed the protest encampment earlier today set-up at the intersection where a police officer murdered Corey Ruiz.
Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · yesterdaya banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”
Making Black people feel menaced and unsafe is as critical to the dogma of full-spectrum white safety as being accommodating of all white demands, desires and delusions.
Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterdayFor the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
One soldier's concerns about soldiers’ survival in the drone-dominated combat of the future initially led him to start tinkering with electronics he bought online. Now, he's putting the finishing touches on a drone detector that soldiers can wear like protective gear. Learn more:
US soldier in Germany invents wearable drone detector to protect front-line troops
Army Sgt. Ryan Minton is putting the finishing touches on a drone detector that soldiers can wear like protective gear.
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A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)
What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off
In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.
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this should get so much more attention — two states within 3 weeks have made major moves on rights restoration.
Alex Burness@burness.bsky.social · 2d agoA combined 100,000+ people with past felony convictions have either already gained or will soon gain voting rights in Missouri and Virginia, which both have elections today. More: boltsmag.org/gop-run-miss... boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...
Important to know/remember: States are generally terrible at notifying formerly disenfranchised people of their voting rights. Many have no idea they’re allowed to vote. Many more avoid voting because they’re not sure if they can. I wrote about this in Kentucky but it’s a problem all over.
Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration - Bolts
After the governor restored hundreds of thousands of people’s rights in 2019, a coalition led by formerly incarcerated Kentuckians is working to inform people of their rights.
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This apparently happened underneath (and maybe because of of) a sign she had hung on her house that said: "National Guard Stop Being So Embarrassing."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · yesterday"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
“ICE awarded GEO a 15-year contract for the 1,000-bed facility in February 2025, worth roughly $1 billion over its term and more than $60 million in the first full year of operations, and the building reopened that spring. It is now the largest ICE detention center on the East Coast.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · yesterday“Michael Sol Warren and Arya Sundaram reported that more than 70 people held at Delaney Hall have filed federal suits alleging medical neglect, and that more than 30 of them say they were denied prescribed medication for chronic conditions.”
A storyteller who does something similar to what I do has written a great story on #FireSafety and illustrated it with dolls, although the ones she uses are not depicting children. For the English version, scroll down each caption. (A 🧵 about fire, climate and energy, and how they are related.) 1/4
Carnet de voyage - un campeur mal embouché - Mille et 1 passions
En raison de ceci (extrait du journal Le Devoir d'hier) : Because of this: des panneaux de ce genre sont apparus un peu partout dans le parc national. signs like these have appeared all over the natio...
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@mollytaft.com on the diverse mix of ideologies that make up the data center opposition. It's a pretty wide range of views, intersecting around a deep distrust of Big Tech. The headline says data centers "broke" US politics, I'd say they've created an opening for a long overdue shakeup.
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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