

First they came for…


First they came for…


Beautiful gesture from the basque people and team. Must have felt incredible in person.


Yeah, who wants to fly after last month’s chaos?


8 people out of 70,000 = 0.000114
Well clearly THIS is who we should report on! /s
The rest went home safe and sound and got tapas at the local restaurants and bars. The streets are already clean for tomorrow.


The whole wu tang slang comes from their neighborhood in NY. Shaolin is their name for staten island.


I wish more folks would pay attention to what is happening in Ecuador. The vast majority of the population don’t deserve any of this.
And of course the real driver of all this is people up in the global north (UK/EU/USA/etc) treating cocaine as a party drug that has only grown in popularity despite all the health and addiction concerns.
Meanwhile the very real and tragic consequences are that global narco gangs have more money and power than local governments. Ecuador used to be a nice place to live just a few years ago. Now you can’t go out in the streets at night.


It’s a GREAT festival. Super fun. Every neighborhood you can just walk around and there are little stages of groups or solo musicians performing. Free and just kind of everywhere. Good vibes. Very pedestrian friendly.


Noooooooooooooooooo! Aw man.


War on Women is a group I really like from Baltimore. feminist punk metal. https://waronwomen.bandcamp.com/track/white-lies
Both Stephen Miller and Jeffrey Clark have been saying that. They’re two of trumps top aides. Is something the have publicly stated they want the admin to do. First they said it for the southern border but they’ve also said protests like BLM should be enough to trigger the insurrection act.


Remember the last acting agent before this guy (sp four days ago) was Melanie Krause.
She stepped down rather than allow Americans private IRS filing data to be given to ICE. Scott bessett and Kristi noem signed that agreement without her knowing. She found out because it was on Fox News that the data had been given over. Again not clear that it was at all legal to do so.
Three days with this mini-mooch interim guy had at least one goal: (1) make the IRS remove Harvard’s statuses. He did that on day 1 of 3.
But possibly (2) could be just long enough to have approved other stuff that the serious acting admins wouldn’t do. Such as: additional data exfiltration by doge, more layoffs, or other sweeping decisions for political purposes…
What it is is the data they funneled from the NLRB and social security and others. See the hackathon at SSA last weekend of palantir being “evaluated” as a possible third party vendor. No contract signed. They just took the data. The NLRB whistleblower story is terrifying. They literally deleted the logs after doge visited.
Not sure if you’re putting a joke on a joke but these are the Three Stooges.
The constitution has plenty of checks for this and it starts with Congress (Article I).
Republicans can grow a spine and stop this today. They could have voted to impeach him twice. They don’t have to fund this! They choose to. This is the obeying in advance thing.
Three representatives in the house absolutely can pull a John McCain and 👎the slim margin and hold this up. From Rand Paul to Susan Collin’s and everyone in between they can find reasons to hold their vote and bring this action down. Just say hey they lied about social security or they lied about the tariffs and go from there.


Hey gamers: try bazzite Linux and you won’t ever have to worry about this. Try bringing one old machine over as a test and you’ll see for yourself.
I got it running in an afternoon recently. It reads all your windows docs off an external backup. The desktop version really can be a daily driver. The update script is a single click. Genuinely worth considering if you want at least some of your computer usage to not be recorded 24/7.


The US is paying El Salvador money to hold these people. Acting like there is nothing either can do is about as boldface a lie as there is. They can literally do anything they want and have control of both sides of any contracts.
This is them saying “what are you going to do about it?” And what should happen is people need to keep the pressure on so Congress sides with the courts asap (and this guys’ Senator is flying there next week to see him personally).
People have? The doge team have us Marshalls that let them in and push the staffers out of the way. It’s happened at the IRS, USAID, and others.
Here’s an agency which doge had no right to close still getting pushed out after blockading the office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/06/doge-us-marshals-usadf/
To be fair, before you were born Tulsa had a lot more black people in prominent neighborhoods. The white people literally massacred them and ran them out of town so you could live in your “Hispanics nonexistent/ blacks rare” white community.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_massacre