pecunium.bsky.social
I write things (sporadically https://www.patreon.com/Pecunium) I make things (yarn, woven goods, minor woodworking). I take photographs (and teach photography).
I'm moderately polymathic (though maths are not my thing)
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And the roots can run hundreds of feet before they pop up again; so you need your neighbors to join you in the fight.
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So you end up going out there and ripping up and cutting down over and over again, because the only other solution is to clear out the entire top 6" of topsoil, and birds will bring more every year. It's like rooting out bias (racism, Anti-LGBTQ, ethnic prejudice) in our society.
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Those rounds are supposed to be ricochet'd off something, never fired directly. He lifted and pointed his weapon directly.
That video is absolute evidence that it's not "crossfire" but one-sided, very intentional mis-use of less-lethal rounds, and finally (1/2)
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guarantee that not a single liberal commentator would be okay with "less lethal" munitions if it was the protestors using them against the cops instead of the other way around
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Some counties are small (e.g. the City and County of San Francisco, which has weird overlaps, and jurisdictional issues because counties in Calif. Counties have powerful governmental functions, which reside in the Board of Supervisors).
Upshot it... it's complicated mess, because federation.
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In the US all land is in a County (though Louisiana calls them parishes, it's functionally a county).
So all cities are located in a county.
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Depending on the state there may be parallel jurisidictions (e.g. LASD, and LAPD, or [where I live now] Hudson Cty Sheriff and Jersey City Police.
New York is Strange because it used to be five cities, and they merged, so LOTS of parallelism,and don't ask about the counties.
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A city (by and large) is an incorporated entity, which provides municipal services to it's residents, and has a government.
A county is a geographic region; which has a different organisation (varies by state) and has a Sheriff. What else it has is quite variable.
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Also useful info:
LAPD (police) polices the city of LA. LASD (sheriffs) polices the county, and many of the cities. Some of those cities have their own police force, some contract LASD.
CHP (CHiPs) is the state police, and they also patrol highways.
Erik Estrada for engagement:
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Greater LA area quick reference
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They don't seem to be pushing in response to anything. They're just pushing at random
Typical police riot
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Respirators. It's gonna get spicy
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The sun is setting
Except for the occasional enormous, ear-rending flash bang it's eerily quiet
Everything is holding its breath
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The Waymo has burned to a crisp, right next to large street art drawn by protestors reading in colored words,
"LA SAYS NO TO FASCISM"
The bright colors are notable, since fascist ideology and policing is associated with dark colors like blue and black--even the details are a form of resistance.
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Closeups of the barricade and the cops.
Look closely at the image with the cops--all those white things on the ground represent less lethal ammo rounds that have been fired into the crowd of peaceful protestors, according to the ABC7 commentators
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No cop cars were being set on violence until cops spent hours shooting and brutally maiming protestors all of today, as well as pummeling them with blunt force violence with batons and chemical weapons with tear gas.
This is the community of LA defending itself from police repression.
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Wow. The cop car was engulfed in flames--its taking minutes of extinguishing to put it out, but the car is likely already destroyed beyond repair.
Who knows how much extinguisher ammo they have left. The cops are trapped under this bridge, more or less.
This happened because of POLICE VIOLENCE.
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Most bizarre police/protest incident in memory. LAPD officer stops @filmthepolicela.bsky.social around other press, performs what has to be unconstitutional search, STEALS HIS DRINKS, and runs away. What did I just watch?!? Video also shows likely PC 409.7 violations. www.youtube.com/live/zWRHsuM...
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The @ktla.com journalist hit on Friday is Ken Koller, who was filming in downtown LA. In good spirits: "Well this is a first. Waiting to be seen at the urgent care, 'how did you get hurt?' Points to tv in the waiting room showing Ch5, 'like that' as they show me getting hit by the flash bang on tv."
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Photographer @jwhendricks.bsky.social shot by LASD near Compton on Sat.: "I was in the street maybe a hundred or so feet from the skirmish line, didn’t seem like they were firing at the moment. Then it felt like a high-speed rock hit my leg. I was wearing a vest that said in gigantic letters PRESS."
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LAPD unlawfully issuing orders to press today ("MEDIA GO!"). California Penal Code 409.7 explicitly exempts journalists from dispersal orders. LAPD knows this and command staff has been trained on it.
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Just connected LAX
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An entire generation of people raised on memes and Fox News who are just completely unable to separate propaganda from reality. If there is a crisis, it’s epistemological. Fascists will try to bend reality to their ideology, but this always fails in the long run with tons of damage along the way.
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Also it's weird to see my childhood home, and my babysitter's house have no yards behind any more, it's all concrete.
And my middle school is now a Casino Parking lot.
But my HS still has the olympic diving pool, and the lap pool, and the church school is still there.
Andy's is long gone.
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My family is Irish.
Food is love.
My wife's family is Jewish.
There is so much cooking.
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Right now I'm at the part of it all where I'm sorting out what I have left to work with, and it turns out? Quite a bit more than I'd feared. Everything just takes a lot more time and effort.
And the damn cats aren't as helpful as they'd claim to be.
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The stats back this up. What is the count of how many people the NG has killed?
I think we have to go back to Kent State (Jackson State was just police, I think).
So, 4? Over sixty years? We don't have to do any math to know police/sheriffs kill so many more every week.