…so…on the off-chance you forgot…dipshitticus fantisticus still has his entire legislative project bound up in the one piece of shit bill that might as well be the only thing he’s tried to do that either has the power to stick if there’s a non-dipshit in office…or that more or less works the way he makes out everything else does in the sense that once it’s law…it’s “done”…the way all the money he says the things he says mean there is to show for the thing just because he said the thing…which…works for his fans…but…has never been the way any of that shit works…it’s…hard to follow in at least some ways
…assuming anything works is frankly a tad presumtive at this point, really
…pretty sure it’s them that are sick in the head…the feeling that it might be you is hard to ignore…because it sure feels like we must all be taking crazy pills…but…that ain’t it…it’s just that they inject so much crazy into everything it ups the ambient crazy until we’re all immersed in theirs
https://bsky.app/profile/brainnotonyet.bsky.social/post/3lr7rjpc3uk2b
…that’s from a thread that only shows on bluesky…fair way down it…&…I’d quibble with calling the things “ads” but in context…you can see why they would
Twitter is now running ads that are paid for advocating for shooting protesters if you were wondering how the descent into fascism is going this evening.
…this being that context
…or representative thereof, anyroad
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-immigration-protests-trump-reaction
She was live on air to viewers back home, her TV microphone clearly in hand, when the rubber bullet hit her. The Australian reporter Lauren Tomasi was the second journalist after the British photographer Nick Stern to be shot with non-lethal rounds while covering protests in Los Angeles sparked by immigration raids. But she was the first to be caught on camera and beamed around the world. There’s no excuse for not knowing what the US is becoming, now that anyone can watch that clip online. Not when you can hear her scream and see the cameraman quickly swing away to film a panicking crowd.
It was the scenario everyone feared when Donald Trump took office. Deportation hit squads descending on the kind of Democrat-voting communities who would feel morally bound to resist them, triggering the kind of violent confrontation that creates an excuse to send in national guard troops – and ultimately a showdown between federal and state power that could take US democracy to the brink. Now something like this may be unfolding in California, where the state governor, Gavin Newsom, has accused the president of trying to “manufacture a crisis” for his own ends and warned that any protester responding with violence is only playing into his hands. Suddenly, the idea that this presidency could ultimately end in civil conflict no longer seems quite so wildly overblown as it once did.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/09/donald-trump-protests-los-angeles-national-guard-unleashed-terrifying
…the part where it’s a lie never seems to be an obstacle for these shitstains…&…the number of places that aren’t LA that saw folks take to the streets to protest the shit going down in LA…suggests that as ever the narrative is intended for the same choir that’s the only thing they ever address so they don’t much give a shit that if you give it a second’s thought you see they’re full of shit
…still & all
…doing shit the way it’s specifically not supposed to work is their default…because they want to do the shit that’s the reason why there are rules to say you don’t get to…it’s…tempting to call that a self-evident truth, really…birds of a feather & all that
A pro-Putin Russian oligarch is hosting a two-day conference in Moscow on Monday, featuring a lineup of western speakers, including Elon Musk’s father, Errol, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the British politician George Galloway.
The conference, titled Future Forum 2050, is organised by Konstantin Malofeev – an influential ultra-nationalist tycoon close to the Kremlin and under western sanctions – and appears to mark Moscow’s latest effort to court western figures.
Other foreign guests include the American economist Jeffrey Sachs and the Briton Matthew Groves, a former East Surrey councillor the organisers mistakenly describe as a “Conservative group deputy leader”.
The conference will also feature several prominent Russian officials, including Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s longtime foreign minister, and Sergei Mironov, a veteran hawkish politician who adopted a two-year-old child seized by Moscow from a Ukrainian children’s home.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/09/western-guests-including-elon-musks-father-to-speak-at-pro-putin-oligarchs-moscow-forum
…bunch of flockers
…it’s not clear if they’re so delusional they think they can speak a new reality into an overwrite for this one…or if they merely know they’ll be dead soon enough to keep believing their own bullshit until then…or if they absolutely know the bullshit is bullshit but think they deserve to say it that way simply because they reverse engineered it from the thing they want to do & that’s all that matters
Donald Trump’s administration is set to claim planet-heating pollution spewing from US power plants is so globally insignificant it should be spared any sort of climate regulation.
But, in fact, the volume of these emissions is stark – if the US power sector were a country, it would be the sixth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reportedly drafted a plan to delete all restrictions on greenhouse gases coming from coal and gas-fired power plants in the US because they “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” and are a tiny and shrinking share of the overall global emissions that are driving the climate crisis.
However, a new analysis shows that the emissions from American fossil-fuel plants are prominent on a global scale, having contributed 5% of all planet-heating pollution since 1990. If it were a country, the US power sector would be the sixth largest emitter in the world, eclipsing the annual emissions from all sources in Japan, Brazil, the UK and Canada, among other nations.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/trump-epa-power-plant-emissions
…fun fact…the same way US power production would be 6th on the list of emitters if it were a country…cybercrime…if that was one of those…would boast an economy bigger than anyone’s but china & the US…&…sure…some of that is serious state-sponsored hackery hiting hard & posting big numbers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p0kx9xkf/how-the-largest-heist-in-crypto-history-happened
…more where that came from…if you like that sort of thing
…anyway…call it a banana for scale, I guess
The scale of cyber crime has set off alarms around the world. In a dramatic intervention in late April at the RSAC in San Francisco, the world’s biggest annual cyber security gathering, John Fokker, a former high-tech investigator at the Dutch police and now head of threat intelligence at Trellix, the US cyber security giant, announced that “if cyber crime were a legitimate industry, it would be the third-largest economy in the world”, twice the size of Germany and looking to catch up both the US and China. According to industry estimates, global cyber crime will cost $10.5tn this year.
The UK’s annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey reports that about 85 per cent of attacks are facilitated by phishing, the persuasive social engineering techniques used to con people into giving hackers access to a system.
Cyber crime is surging. Will AI make it worse? [archive.ph/FT]
…worth noting the majority of it is basically a franchise model…not vast hordes of auteur hackers clacking their way to fame & fortune…more your regular not-that-good-at-anything scammers pulling the same basic cons with an online assist…&…no shortage of folks that fall for their shit…&…well…a lot of folks sure do act like the argument being made about fudging those EPA numbers will make a difference to how bad we know shit be getting…& think that suits them just fine…& you gotta guess there’s a big overlap, there
Ocean acidification, often called the “evil twin” of the climate crisis, is caused when carbon dioxide is rapidly absorbed by the ocean, where it reacts with water molecules leading to a fall in the pH level of the seawater. It damages coral reefs and other ocean habitats and, in extreme cases, can dissolve the shells of marine creatures.
Until now, ocean acidification had not been deemed to have crossed its “planetary boundary”. The planetary boundaries are the natural limits of key global systems – such as climate, water and wildlife diversity – beyond which their ability to maintain a healthy planet is in danger of failing. Six of the nine had been crossed already, scientists said last year.
However, a new study by the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the Washington-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University’s Co-operative Institute for Marine Resources Studies found that ocean acidification’s “boundary” was also reached about five years ago.
“Ocean acidification isn’t just an environmental crisis – it’s a ticking timebomb for marine ecosystems and coastal economies,” said PML’s Prof Steve Widdicombe, who is also co-chair of the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network.
The study drew on new and historical physical and chemical measurements from ice cores, combined with advanced computer models and studies of marine life, which gave the scientists an overall assessment of the past 150 years.
It found that by 2020 the average ocean condition worldwide was already very close to – and in some regions beyond – the planetary boundary for ocean acidification. This is defined as when the concentration of calcium carbonate in seawater is more than 20% below preindustrial levels.
The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the “safe” limit for acidification.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/09/sea-acidity-ecosystems-ocean-acidification-planetary-health-scientists
…I’ll spare you the shit about bottom trawling &/or the new mine-the-ocean-floor licenses that are getting handed out…but…the thing about that kind of thing is that it’s really happening…& it matters that it’s real…it’s not like you can just make some shit up & that will buy you a way out just for the lip service charges
Days before Pete Hegseth fired three top aides last month over a Pentagon leak investigation into the disclosure of classified materials, according to four people familiar with the episode, a recently hired senior adviser said he could help with the inquiry.
The adviser, Justin Fulcher, suggested to Hegseth’s then chief of staff, Joe Kasper, and Hegseth’s personal lawyer, Tim Parlatore, that he knew of warrantless surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) that had identified the leakers.
Fulcher offered to share the supposed evidence as long as he could help run the investigation, three of the people said. But when he eventually sat down with officials, it became clear he had no evidence of a wiretap, and the Pentagon had been duped.
The problem was that development was not communicated to the White House – so several Trump advisers who were told of the NSA wiretap claim believed that was part of the “smoking gun” evidence against the three aides fired by Hegseth, until they developed their own doubts.
The Guardian revealed last month that there were unsubstantiated NSA warrantless wiretap claims underpinning the leak investigation, but its origin story and the involvement of Fulcher in the controversy has not been previously reported.
Fulcher has said this account is not correct. In a statement, he said he never suggested there were NSA wiretaps or that he had access to wiretap records. “I never approached Parlatore, Kasper or anyone else offering ‘surveillance evidence’ and did not ask to join an investigation on that or any other basis,” he said.
Hegseth aide upended Pentagon leak inquiry with false wiretap claims [Guardian]
…now…this lady…raps for a living…& this is an awards show
…what’s it look like?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests-visual-guide
…who’s seeing shit that actually really is there?
…&…I’m kinda out of time…but I did sort of want to rack up some of the satements the dipshit in chief made as this rolled along failing to go the way he wants…& maybe needs…it to…& that his mob are bought all the way in on…&…I dunno…some other stuff, maybe
…because…you can’t always trust “the socials”
…but…some folks have a pretty convincing form guide
…& maybe they don’t have brown shirts…or wear actual jackboots…but
Trump’s troop deployment is a warning sign for what comes next, legal scholars fear [Politico]
…some things…sound the sorts of plausible they shouldn’t
…that’s close to passing for light relief at this point
…it’s tough when you haven’t left yourself a lot of room to escalate into
…how would you put it?
Headline/chyron if this were happening in a foreign country: “Far right president calls for arrest of opposition party provincial governor, raising further questions about democracy & the rule of law”
Headline/chyron when this happens in 🇺🇸: “Trump Takes Questions As He Returns To The White House”
…or
…dealers’ choice?
…what…oh…no reason
xcancel dot com allows you to view accts overthere w/out having one yourself
example: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk
…either way
…I’ve…how does it go again…oh, yeah…about had it up to here
…oh…& the shit about doxxing those folks…if I were their lawyer…I don’t think I’d enjoy trying to prosecute someone for availing themselves of their linkedin profile
…but, hey
its always fun when “violent protest” becomes a discourse du jour and when you look up what that violence entails its guys dragging a dumpster into the road to stop the cops from shooting them in the face with tear gas canisters
…I’m not USAG?
…I’ll spare you the one where the cops on horses walk those over the dude trying to get off the ground they’ve surrounded…until he stands up & a pedestrian cop throws him back on the ground so they can keep that shit up…but…helluva contrast, I’d have to admit
…hmmm…the above embeds in the post-edit window…complete with the thing it refers to…but…since it doesn’t seem to show up here…those would be here?
LOL Hegseth ain’t paying. Right now all they’re talking about on military forums is how the deployments are broken up into 29 day blocks so DoD doesn’t have to pay them active duty benefits INCLUDING no allowance for housing.
Bring these dudes some cold water. They’ll keep ICE off your back.
…certainly begs a few questions, though
The California National Guard just tear-gassed and fired impact munitions at reporters, children, and community leaders. Multiple injuries. National Guard has now declared an “unlawful assembly” on the streets. Not clear whether NG has legal authority to enforce that far away from federal buildings.
Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”
…don’t hold your breath, I guess
…unless they tear gas your ass, I suppose
…next question?
…for the record…I really would have preferred to feel like spending this just pulling dunks from that one about mcardle’s NYT column was a suitably frivolous thing to be doing with my time at the present moment…but
not the main issue here but i’d really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is “real america” and so are all the other big cities the president hatesit really feels like they’re trying to repeat their 2020 playbook of presenting protests as partially an issue of “dysfunctional liberal cities” (minneapolis/portland then, los angeles now) and it’s essential to push back against that part of the narrative along with all the rest
…oh…& if you wondered if being on bluesky implies an ability to parse information or that it’s shy the hordes of posturing dipshits that are characteristic of social media…check out the replies to this
…& you’ll see that for that to work you’d have to call mansplaining to a man the kind of progressive allyship you’d be working with
…so…yeah
…uhhh…go hat?
…or…to put it another way
America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us [Guardian]
This is how you do it.
I know I said I wasn’t gonna get angry but I’m about an inch away from going all Che Guevera.
…as the cool kids allegedly say…I feel you on that?
I’m fine if Elon and the rest of the tech brahs wants to ride an untested unsafe for humans rocket into space.
So say we all.
Re: Olympics/World Cup
Same reason why I won’t visit US Murrica even if I want to.
I was on the Customs radar for being tagged as a “job stealer” so I already got 20+ questions every time I went through US customs.
The rich people who go to these events don’t care… remember Socchi?
The spectators aren’t really the leverage, honestly. If the countries Trump keeps fucking with basically said they are withdrawing from the Olympics or World Cup unless it’s moved to a non-fascist country, that would have a profound impact.
So this is going well.
Trump calls up Marines, doubles Guard deployment; ICE protests spread to NYC, Philadelphia, Austin
To be clear, he doesn’t give a shit.
He’s going to have to. I saw a skeet that did the math but couldn’t find it later. So I did it myself. Active US police + active ICE + active National Guard = 1,350,000 across the US (only 920,000 of those are cops/ICE). That’s one law enforcement/domestic military for every 252 people, IF all of those police/military stand with Orange.
And to be clear, a sizable percentage of those are administrative, not “combatants.” A lot of the National Guards will opt to follow the laws and only do what they are properly authorized to do by their governors.
The skeet basically pointed out that laws and society exist because we choose to follow the rules. If the general populace stops following the rules, the “thin blue line” gets erased pretty quickly, and it won’t matter how much military surplus gear that handful of people have. The fact that the protests are spreading is a BIG deal. They can’t control the population of LA (12 million) so what happens when the other large cities start (as mentioned, NY, Philadelphia, and Austin are already protesting). Significant civil unrest will NOT end well for this regime. I’ve quietly thought that was the eventual probable outcome of this mess, and Orange and his morons are deliberately pushing that envelope.
But what about the military, you ask? About 1.29 million total, and you’ve got a lot of administrative and logistical personnel there. And a significant chunk are NOT going to attack their own citizens (almost a third are minorities, which is why Drunk Cosplay Commander is trying to purge them, and they know he’s trying to purge them).
So even if every one stands with Orange, that’s roughly 125 people per jackboot. Still not feasible odds. And I haven’t even factored in the whole “more guns than people in the US” thing.
Sure… but, this sounds oddly similar to the argument the gun nutz use for justifying their gun nuttiness–that their weapons keep them safe from the government. Our retort has always been, “your small arms are no match for a Cobra helicopter or Abrams tank.” So, I’m still not sure what’s demonstrably different here.
In the scenario that you’ve painted, it seems like a more likely outcome is civil war. And in that event, I really don’t see the liberals winning this time.
…it’s more back-of-an-envelope stuff…back when it was that beau dude & not the nice lady on that youtube channel he’d talk about this sometimes & it had a lot in common with what @bryanlsplinter is saying…there’s a rule of thumb ratio planners use for force requirements & there is no scenario where the available troops they could deploy meet those rules of thumb…probably not for LA or NY on their own…definitely not both (iirc) & nationwide is a non-starter…added to which if that’s the way you go you then need them to hold in place to “maintain order” so you can’t move them along
…it’s less “so…civil war it is, then” when the home arsenals get broken out for the thing a lot of them claim is the reason to have them than it is “lot more folks who could bring a gun from home than there are in a lot of the places these guidelines were based on keeping suppressed when you look at it that way”…which…as things stand…mostly means he should know going in that it isn’t workable over even a medium-term timeframe…& that if the situation was the one he claims it to be then he already hit “too little, too late”
…not that he seems likely to care when it all gets worked back from the supreme court letting him declare military law in effect to a fight with a state he doesn’t think is in the family he acknowledges about being able to ride over them roughshod for his pretext of a reason…which he seems to think is going gangbusters?
…& if it goes all the way gloves off to the point of people bringing guns from home to face whatever the forces are getting projected from the white-est white house my guess is it’s not going to be the troops on the ground that prove to be the straw that broke that camel’s back
…certainly it’s a lot more likely that it’d be military surplus turned over to the police that would roll out…he’s got further to go from here to siccing tanks & attack helicopters on civilians than all the talk about marines seems designed to imply…way before that happens enough changes that that situation isn’t going to look all that much like this one as it ratchets through the reasons to fight it & the ways people might
…or at least it’s pretty definitely the other stuff they’re trying to get away with that qualifies as the sucking chest wound to the body politic…this is more of a flesh-wound…maybe to the scalp…those always bleed like a bastard even when they aren’t nearly as permanently damaging or hard to heal from?
Not exactly. I can see why it looks like I’m saying that because I brought up guns, though. Typically we’re talking Abrams tank or Cobra helicopter against a compound of prepper nutbags, not millions of people in a city. And I don’t think armed warfare is going to enter into it (I hope) — the cops/ICE in LA are completely overwhelmed by people just standing there, waving signs. And that’s one city.
My not-clear point was, the fascists are going to get way overextended fast. If a significant chunk of the population says uh, no, we’re not going to do that and we’re going to stand right here and say so, it’s not going to go in the fascists’ favor, because there simply aren’t enough of them. Even if he moved everything he has into LA, he couldn’t effectively control that city, much less the country.
And public opinion is clearly not on their side, which will further complicate any martial law plan Orange has.
…in portland what worked best was white women of a certain age…”moms”, basically
…reminded me not a little of the way sam vimes keeps a riot from kicking off in one of the discworld books, as it happens?
If you think LA is bad, wait until Rumps birthday blowout parade! This is just the practice round.
Meanwhile, while we are all distracted by his daily bullshit…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-doge-goons-surreptitiously-transmitted-reams-of-white-house-data/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Quite possibly the best description I have ever read! “Pete Hegseth, a smirking baboon anus who couldn’t successfully run a banana stand at a monkey whorehouse”
https://www.wonkette.com/p/pete-hegseth-cant-hire-employees
Found out yesterday that my contract will end July 1. Wish me luck in the job search.
…wishing you all the luck in the world…on the understanding that you use what you need & put the rest back in circulation?
Good luck from me, too. Job-hunting ain’t fun.
Good luck buddy!
That’s terrible.
That’s some limited notice for a job search.
good luck mate
So, I don’t need to just fear that AI will kill me the old fashioned way?
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-mental-health-crises
“Open the pod bay doors, HAL.”
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that because you’re just imagining doors.”
I said it before, but nobody should be at that fucking parade for any reason. Pick another location and protest there. That will piss off Orange far more than any sign you could write. Plus it’s safer.
…on the said-it-before thing…with a nod to the deployment estimate thing…seems pretty clear that for supreme court permission slips purposes LA is the bet they’re looking to run that accumulator on…but that’s the thin end of the “get to deploy faceless goons with no oversight or available redress” wedge…the heel of that wedge that you can hit with something heavy so it splits some shit that doesn’t want to give…is the data harvesting out of departments that they’re trying to mortally sabotage…& the crowd that runs with the ones holding the syphon
…it’s like the east german thing…what lets you keep a population under the boot is the stasi style thing…& whether you want to plausibly massage some electoral figures or “merely” send your jackboots to stomp on dissent once the supreme court gives you that hall pass…that stuff is the candy-store more than who wins in a civil war is the whole ball game
…but…the hows & whys get tech-y fast enough & hard enough to hit impenetrable jargon for most folks way before you finish explaining how much progress they already made on account of how wide open all the stuff they didn’t need DOGE for was…& is…& will likely continue to be while the only people in positions to put obstacles to that in place either don’t know how any of that works when it was/will be working…or actively are in the business of pursuing it?
The Supremes have a pretty explicit roadmap on how this is *supposed* to work in this country. It will be interesting to see what mealy-mouthed “exceptions” they concoct.
I was just fired with cause (no severance.) Not surprised.
“We sympathize what you went thru…”
Uh okay.
…fingers crossed you’re ok to freewheel from here to your next stop?
…also…fuck those guys
I already know my next stop. School.
I agree. Fuck them. I’m sure I’m going to regret it sort of, but I’m finally free.
…as someone who thinks wistfully about being a student again…most days…I had not forgotten that being your next stop…just hoping that you have enough to coast to there comfortably
…hope you’re feeling that “weight off” thing I’ve always had when I know something’s on the “don’t have to deal with that shit no more” heap…it’s deserved…so imho you should…maybe not instantly…but…it’s a great feeling when you settle into it?
I’m really sorry.
Thanks. Best of luck to you.
I’ve been fired three times now (Jesus, typing that) and it absolutely sucks and nothing but time will fix that.
I will say that every single time I’ve been fired, I ended up in a much better work situation. Those obviously didn’t all last, for reasons unrelated to me, but they were always a step up.
And school/retraining is an option I wish I had explored earlier in my career.
I usually don’t feel this sanguine post layoff/shitcan.