Ah, yes, protecting us against the crime of crossing state lines.
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25m agoNew: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
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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Can’t wait for the State Department to announce that no, this is right, Africa is now the 52nd state and this is how we’re renaming the counties.
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
Meanwhile, over at lowercase vinegar syndrome
Chemistry World@chemistryworld.com · last wk.Maite Maguregui Hernando, a researcher in Spain who has developed bio-based gels to clean cultural heritage items independent of this work, says vinegar syndrome is ‘one of the most urgent threats in motion picture film preservation’. @patdwalter.bsky.social www.chemistryworld.com/news/polymer...
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
ND Calif judge issues temporary restraining order against Paramount Skydance / Warner Bros merger to preserve status quo finding likely anticompetitive impact in wide-release theatrical distibution market. Preliminary injunction hearing set August 3. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A government of the grifters, by the grifters, for the grifters.
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran. prospect.org/2026/07/20/k...
They should be required to restage this photo shoot after the match. If Argentina wins, Yamal remains the baby. If Spain wins, they stage it like Messi is an old man in a nursing home getting a sponge bath.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
It's *insane* that a private company like Thomson Reuters can collect and store massive databases of Americans' private data — names, addresses, SSNs, ethnicity, social media posts, and their granular location — and the gov't can just buy it, no warrant needed. The data broker industry needs to end.
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...
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just learned that the reason they gave him sunglasses is because geckos started nesting in his eye sockets
Part of the reason we end up with periodic outbreaks of food-borne illness is because the people who harvest, process, and prepare food are some of the lowest-paid workers with the fewest labor protections and most miserable working conditions in America
Air so hazardous you have to smoke cigarettes through an N95 mask with a hole cut in it
evy kwong@evystadium.bsky.social · 3w agogood morning to hazardous air and fuck u to our terrible politicians who don’t believe in science
the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes
Neither of the World Cup finalists managed to beat Cape Verde in regulation. Hence, Cape Verde is among the top 3 teams in the world. #logic
NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky
5-year-old spent 118 days on her own in federal immigration custody in CT
On any given day there are more than two dozen immigrant children detained without a parent or guardian in programs run by Connecticut nonprofits.
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ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:
