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Gavin Newsom called the National Guard deployment "unlawful." Good! If he believes the unit is still his to command, then he should order them to leave LA and return to their armory. Give the lawful order for them to stand down and dare the California Army National Guard to defy the governor.

There will be banjos

A+ redaction game here by DOJ in complaint against SEIU leader David Huerta. I guess when you're racing to file bullshit, mistakes get made. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... (via @meghanncuniff.bsky.social)

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

DOJ under Trump is dismantling guardrails designed to stop political interference in criminal investigations involving politicians, federal judges and other public figures. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

The Israeli army boarded the Freedom Flotilla and arrested Greta Thunberg and the rest of the Freedom Flotilla's crew

new version NOW WITH BANJO!! The President’s Birthday Parade (sound on)

If your recordings are lacking in birdsong and lawn mowers, consider The Cove for your next project

Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime. This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇

Set up to make a better recording of this song today. Adding a banjo. Yeah, a banjo. You have a problem with that?

Nichols is my proudest earned block. He did not like being told that he’s the reason people don’t trust “experts”

Miller should insist platoons of Guard members sleep in random LA people’s homes this evening, just to see if the Supreme Court would 6-3 or 5-4 its way to overturning the third amendment. Real opportunity for truly original Originalist hijinks.

Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

‼️ Please disseminate widely: the manifesto of the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC is open for digital signature: forms.ifremer.fr/pdg/oosc-man... #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊

I can see the Ballad of the President’s Birthday Parade is going to need another verse

Get ready for summer

BREAKING: ICE raid and community resistance in front of Home Depot in Paramount, California.

My 2028 “maybe fascism not so bad?” list (so far): Gavin Newsome Rahm Emmanuel Who else we got?

Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please." What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

(b)looping zero gravity sounds

(b)looping zero gravity sounds

Yura Yura Teikoku opening for Yo La Tengo

Reposting for karma

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.