a man in safety gear vacuums grit and gravel out of gaps in a red brick paver installation. standard paver maintenance. the sky is bright blue with puffy clouds behind him above a brick building.

pervious pavers reduce runoff by allowing stormwater to infiltrate between the bricks into layers of gravel underground.

but over time, the gaps get clogged by compaction, grit, and weeds, diminishing their proper function.

Ambassadors are cleaning the installation and leveling new gravel.

A lot of times claims aren’t wrong on their face but they are deployed selectively in a dishonest way.

That’s damn right

‘Everyone knows that you get your way by giving someone else what they want and hoping they respond in kind’

And on a more systemic level, it's huge. These Regent and board of governors seats can be contested in many key places. A lot of good can be done on a lot of levels - and a lot of bad or indifferent governance can be flushed away.

Michael B Jordan couldn't make the Fantastic Four work. Michael B Jordan. Think about that. And they keep trying

The "private prisons" line many people use is well-intended but misleading. For-profit prisons incarcerate less than 10% of the prison population. The problem isn't for-profit prisons... it's the American institution of prison altogether.

Joe Biden threw unprecedented amounts of money at police. More than TWICE what Obama gave them in the wake of the GFC.

Every major police union endorsed Donald Trump.

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Quite an experience to be eating rice and beans in your small rented apartment when another email from your employer arrives advising you to avoid Unions

This is going to be great.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

People be posting all kind of things on the internet. “You can find good pizza almost anywhere.” No you can’t. That’s not true.

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

I feel like building stronger movements that actively support the things is also essential.

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This would be a perfect excuse for Mamdani to provide leadership and issue a demand to NYC hospitals that have withdrawn from gender care for youths.

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

all the articles calling the murder of cerina fairfax a "complicated divorce" and "ongoing domestic dispute" are quoting directly from the police presser without citing those phrases as coming from that source. journalism dies when you let the cops tell you what happened and stop there.

A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.

I promise I'm not trying to revive this discussion. Just wanted to highlight how this aligns with my "whose trust?" question. Nobody seems to care about the ways my trust in higher ed has been eroded.

Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.

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I watched Cold Storage, which I had heard zero about but it was a blast.

If you’re around Portland come hang out with us on Thursday to talk about the evolution of policing and how progressive politics sometimes acts as a cover for law enforcement violence, and how we can erode police power in every neighborhood. But like optimistic and happy, not depressed

This insight clarifies so many things

whose trust does this restore

Be sure to check out Mayor Bowser's other Kid Zones as well.

Research shows curfews don't work. Anyone who says otherwise is ignoring the data and spinning the illusion of safety for other people who also ignore the data.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

What this suggests is that perhaps what they actually want is to eradicate people rather than to be "free" from *speech policing* and affirmative action and whatever else they decided "woke" meant.