To the notion of compliance: too many people saying ‘if she only complied’ as justification. Failure to comply doesn’t interfere with police work. Failure to comply IS police work. Otherwise just put signs up. It’s people not complying that we must handle smartly. With thought
The question if a police shooting is justifiable is just 1 question to ask. 1st: this wasn’t justifiable. But for me the real question is was it inevitable. As police, we must do everything we can to avoid deadly force. Many times the suspect makes it inevitable. Not in this case
Only GeoGeeks at Petco Park for The #EsriUC2025 closing party
David Pope in Canberra Times
Rear Window !!
North By Northwest is a close second
US Senators from every one of these states—AR, TX, KY, MO, OK, MS, TN—(1) approved Trump/Musk/Doge cuts to NOAA and FEMA, and (2) said Calif would need to change its internal policies before getting federal help for LA fire disaster.
Every one of these US Senators happens to be MAGA/GOP.
Funny how "erasing history" only applies to tearing down Confederate monuments, emphasizing the role of enslavement in the development of the U.S., & renaming military bases named after Confederates, but not to acknowledging historical Black, Brown, queer, and trans folks
Democrats controlled the House in 2022, but they didn’t censure Bobo and MTG.
My husband ran a successful business and used our local rural post office daily. My elderly neighbor’s meds come through the rural post office.
The post office is one of the only places left open in my rural community. Losing it could quite literally kill my town and my neighbors.
Helpful graphic:
In today’s hellscape news, the Trump administration is planning to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The VA is already short-staffed and wait times are abhorrent.
Veterans will die because of this move.
americans who currently consider canada to be an ally/friendly country: 82%
canadians who currently consider america to be an ally/friendly country: 33%
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THREAD: Since stepping back into the Oval Office Trump's been purposefully flooding the zone w/ a constant stream of outrage porn to distract. Here's the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week:
It bears repeating.
“Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.” theatln.tc/OBWzC38t
We just watched Trump & Vance do Putin’s bidding in the Oval Office & it was horrific. Not even two months into this administration & it’s a disaster for the free world.
The goal is to terrorize federal workers into quitting. That’s it. Constant changes. Canceling work from home then closing offices. Laying off probationary employees. It’s designed to break the government. Then privatize it for profit. It’s not efficiency. It’s collapse. Only peasants will suffer.
“I realized a lifelong dream to work for the premier environmental protection organization in the world. An organization that mission was to protect the people like me, who used to play on the slag mounds behind Buckeye Steel. Standing amongst the best, I felt an immense pride in my achievements.”
House GOP wants $4 TRILLION dollar debt ceiling increase.
You marks really thought the world’s richest man and the guy with the golden toilet seats were really going to “fight the elites” for you?
Nah, they just want their tax breaks.
no one wants to gut regulations more than a guy under scrutiny for violating so many of them across his many businesses
We are here today to shine a light on the crime that is unfolding before our eyes and support our tremendous civil servants at U.S. AID.
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Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right?
They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.
The word for this is "coup."
#GISchat - get your data before it's gone! (if it isn't already)
The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.
More than 10,000 buildings are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the LA fires. Maps showing building damage from the Palisades and Eaton fires
Map showing the perimeters of the fires in LA and evacuation orders and warnings currently in place
NEW: Maps showing estimated building damage from LA fires and latest fire perimeters and evacuation areas, huge thanks to Jamon Van Den Hoek and Corey Scher for the data.
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Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...
