silence7

joined 3 days ago
 

TL;DR; there's still one dam, and it has a fish ladder, but it turns out fish can't actually use the fish ladder on it.

 

In addition to the impromptu ones, the No Kings protests on Saturday June 14 have been in the works for weeks.

 

Title comes from the article version of this newsletter which is otherwise identical.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago

It's very efficient at funneling money to contractors.

 

Senator Cotton is basically calling for mass murder of Americans:

The solution now is the same as I said then: an overwhelming show of force to end the riots.

 

Senator Cotton is basically calling for mass murder of Americans:

The solution now is the same as I said then: an overwhelming show of force to end the riots.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

The cruelty and harm is the point of these kinds of policy

 

Some 800 Europeans — including one Austrian, 100 Romanians and 170 Russians — are being considered for the transfers, according to one of the documents. That element of the plan has alarmed some U.S. diplomats, who note that most European countries are American allies that are cooperative in taking back deportees and that there’s no need to send the people to Guantanamo.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Its when the Sharpies give you a bad trip

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

More importantly, its about building public opinion in favor of impeachment in the here and now

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its who the US military was allowed to randomly kill in Vietnam.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mostly, an effort to shift public opinion against the federal attack on citizens, to in turn pressure Trump

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

They were filming be-afraid-of-scary-brown-people propaganda

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They do. Slowly, imperfectly, and some of the time.

It's worth doing in parallel with other efforts.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

They used to. They don't on vehicles made in roughly the last 8-10 years depending on manufacturer.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (7 children)

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Even the big operations break in unexpected ways. Facebook accidentally broke the authentication for their door locks when they took the site down a few years back and had to fly people to a datacenter and break down a door to get to servers and restart things.

[–] silence7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The national guard showed up this morning after being federalized against a governor's wishes for the first time since school desegregation

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