ICE officers tackle and detain San Francisco protesters
ICE detains S.F. protesters in another violent confrontation, allegedly shooting pepperballs at others
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/ice-tackles-detains-protesters/
I don't know, but every flight that flies is tracked by ATS. Donald Trump's plane flew to Epstein's island at least 37 times, tracked on radar. You're welcome. All flights anywhere are saved for ten years or more. Retired pilot, Canadian Airlines First Officer Tom Crosby
The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900
nurses so far this year, the first time the agency
has seen net losses in years.
At several facilities, more than a third of the
positions for doctors are unfilled.
HOW CAN ANY MILITARY VETERANS SUPPORT TRUMP?
In preparation to ditch my Facebook account, I requested data logs for the ~15 years I've used the site. Result: a file of less than 1MB. And the ridiculously bogus file had events with dates like January 01, 1970 -- decades before Mark Zuckerberg was even born. (As noted in comments, that date is a Unix thing, but FB doesn't explain...)
A scumbag company in any decade...
The folks standing up to ICE are gonna need legal support. This happened today in LA:
https://www.calonews.com/communities/los-angeles/u-s-citizen-detained-in-san-pedro-by-masked-federal-agents-during-an-observation-patrol/article_b70b7de3-356e-4800-9014-53a89ce0e96d.html
Donate to Union del Barrio here, if you have the means and are inclined 🙏
https://uniondelbarrio.org/main/support-our-work-my-making-a-donation/
This is true.
Putin and Trump agreed to meet in Alaska because Trump doesn't know it's part of the United States and Putin is going to try to buy it back.
9 August 1934 | A French Jewish boy, Henri Kotlina, was born in Nancy.
In November 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
Here in Mississippi the state’s public broadcasting network, MPB, plans to eliminate PBS and NPR programming. https://mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/how-mississippi-public-broadcasting-is-navigating-budget-cuts/
Governor of Georgia commenting on “deranged criminals” shooting up places in his state twice this week. You know what they had in common buddy? Guns.
Astronaut James Lovell, famed Apollo 13 commander, dies at 97
Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/astronaut-james-lovell-famed-apollo-13-commander-dies-at-97/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
#Wikipedia is one of the most important and underrated digital platforms around - every other one should take notes on this. https://www.theverge.com/report/756810/wikipedia-ai-slop-policies-community-speedy-deletion
#Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A small human (4?) is waiting for a cheese toastie to be made while roaring what can only be an ancient summoning spell.
It goes: "Melted CHEEEESE! Melted CHEEESE. CHEEESE! In. My. TUMMMYYY! CHEESE!"
A toastie appears.
Her work here is done.
A couple (70s?) are inspecting bread rolls at a bakery truck.
As they're talking, one slides her freezing hand under her partner's jumper, pressing it into the small of his back.
He yelps and gives her a scowl: "You're lucky I love ya."
She grins.
A small human (3?) is helping Dad buy vegetables.
He brandishes a toy Batmobile and says with absolute gravity: "Dad. My Batmobile can help. It can't fly but it does other things."
Dad is impressed and accepts his offer.
(It turns out Batmobiles know a thing or two about choosing carrots.)
A family walk by a cheese stall with some stinky cheese on sale.
Dad wrinkles his nose and says: "Whoa. Pongs a bit here, doesn't it?"
Young Human (8?) says with absolute authority: "Oh, I know that smell! Someone's eaten an avocado and they DEFINITELY farted."
Mum bursts out laughing.
A young human (10?) has just seen his French teacher in the wild. (Oh no!) Now she's greeting him in French. And now she's talking to Mum! And they're now laughing! What is happening here?! Teachers aren't meant to live outside school! How did she escape?! Is this even allowed?!
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"What do we know about the Covid-19 virus 5 years on?"
"The growing body of research suggesting that for several months after a Covid infection, people become more vulnerable to other infections and there can be lingering effects on the heart, cardiovascular system and the brain."
Anti vaxx rhetoric is dangerous.
Not only does it promote the spread of contagious and preventable disease, but it radicalizes people.
The disinformation campaigns prey on people’s fears of death and disability. They turn that fear into anger.
Today a man opened fire at Emory University in Atlanta.
It appears he was targeting the CDC because he believed the COVID vaccines made him sick.
This is what propaganda does. And it’s only getting worse.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/active-shooter-emory-university
The convicted felon president invites an international war criminal wanted by The Hague, to take a summer vacation in Alaska.
If someone had told me this 10 years ago, I would not have thought the US could ever sink this deep.
Happy 7th wedding anniversary to me and @sabcatsilver!
In 2018, we got married in Auckland, New Zealand. Two weeks after that we moved to San Francisco to start our new lives.