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dontinnovate.bsky.social
Reluctant Radical. Sometimes Professor, sometimes entrepreneur, always a dad, avoiding Covid like the plague (it is), passionate about learning. Did some things in SaaS pre-acronym. Want to bend that arc.
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Marc Andresssen was a key player in creating DOGE, which has killed thousands of people with its elimination of USAID alone, So I am skeptical about his altruistic intentions.

See? If I simply *accurately describe* their behavior, I sound like an insane person. Anyway, here's the story www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...

And of course the California National Guard isn't answering emails and it's media affairs phone goes to a full voice mailbox.

Always a good time for a reminder to U.S. troops: Your obligation is to the Constitution, not the commander-in-chief

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of protesters marching peacefully in LA to protest ongoing ICE raid operations and Trump’s federalization of the National Guard Reporter: “What we’re looking at right now is a quiet, organized group and demonstrators marching peacefully to their destination.”

This should be understood as piracy— Israeli occupation army soldiers intercepted a humanitarian convoy which was in international waters en route to Palestinian lands.

We won! The hotel has asked #ICE to leave! #Pasadena #protest #RachelMadow

Pasadena, CA: The AC Hotel has asked ICE to leave. Hosting ICE agents at your hotel is bad for business.

California SB 98, passed in 2021, specifically allows journalists to remain in areas closed by law enforcement during public events. The law officers from assaulting, interfering with, or obstructing journalists. Nor can journalists be cited for failure to disperse. @knightcolumbia.org

there is no rioting. nobody is looting. Nobody is burning random stuff down. This is just americans rising up to protect their neighbors from the ICE brownshirts.

protect your eyes, protect your head. "less lethal" munitions are lethal when fired directly at a human being and cops love to use them this way. pepperballs will take your eye out, a tear gas canister can fracture your skull. cops will kill you on purpose and by accident, all with impunity.

I'll never forget that Linda Tirado lost an eye and is dying from TBI-induced dementia caused by a cop shooting her in the face by a rubber bullet at the George Floyd protests.

Seriously Edward R Murrow would have eviscerated Stephen Miller. The truth is he is a horrible human being and the free press including Terry Moran, should be able to articulate this.

"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."

I'll say it over and over again; you can't build the mass deportation machine without first building the police state machine.

I think it’s notable that ICE isn’t conducting raids in red states, but is instead targeting deep blue states with big migrant communities that will fight back. They want violence to justify more violence. This is fascism 101. We should laugh at them and treat them like the cowards they are.

it's absolutely important to couch every statement from this guy in the context that he hired a person based solely on the credential that the guy strangled one of my neighbors to death. no background in software or finance, just murder.

Gavin had 48 hours to think about what he was gonna do about this situation and what he's landed on is "Daddy only hits you because you cry." Inspiring!

A separate protest at Los Angeles City Hall is now taking place. LAPD reporting crowd size of 1500-2000 people. This is a different part of DTLA than the federal detention center. Separate protests.

This story exemplifies the reason people are outraged at ICE. This guy did nothing wrong. He broke not a single law. He was a guard at a base that housed US troops. He came here legally through humanitarian parole. He had an asylum application pending. Yet the Trump admin had ICE grab him anyway.

STAND OFF WITH THE CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD 6/8/2025

Elon Musk perfectly laying out the case against privatization in a single tweet

Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president Voters: Like not voting for his nominees? Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap

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Nothin but the facts

AYMAN: "Should ICE be abolished?" @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social sky.social: "I believe it should."

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

The protests will stop when the kidnappings stop.

SWAT shoot at a woman for filming them.

beyond the thin veneer of concern behind all of these opeds is the much simpler truth that their authors desperately want to describe something that is very obviously their problem (fewer people want to post in the venues they like more) as though it were our problem

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

"In our federal system, the National Gov. possesses only limited powers; the States and the people retain the remainder. The States have broad authority to enact legislation for the public good—what we have often called a 'police power.' The Fed. Gov., by contrast, has no such authority."-SCOTUS '14

The U.S. Constitution and longstanding federal law strictly limit the use of the military to police civilians. Under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, active-duty military forces are prohibited from engaging in domestic law enforcement unless explicitly authorized by Congress or the Constitution.

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

The Israeli defense minister is openly threatening the life of GretaThunberg and other unarmed peace activists on an aid ship. Where the f**k are the world’s leaders? The world’s media?

One of the issues with talking about AI with billionaires is that none of them want to acknowledge that there is a weird cult that is driving certain billionaires to be absolutely bonkers about AI.

Terry Moran didn’t say anything that Stephen Miller’s own uncle didn’t say seven years ago www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjgf6Gbe/

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

Not the biggest point. But what are they even doing here? Where is this? They're battling over a highway? Even from the perspective of aggressive and even brutal crowd control this is not how you do it. The obvious point that basically they're just trying to gin up these confrontations.

"specifically telling press to leave the area" is a phrase that makes my stomach hurt. in an age where every protester has their own camera, it's futile, but they don't want us to see what happens next.

The people who are ICE watching and relaying information are so clutch right now. Grateful to every one.

Los Angeles is a poor choice for propaganda: - So many cameras, film crews, documentarians, - So many influencers and talented media communicators, - So many committed to the diversity of all Angelinos Yet LA being a symbolic city makes simplistic narratives persuasive away from the West Coast

Came to the edge of my building and saw the heart of Los Angeles march by. 💚❤💙💜💛 This right here is what makes my city great. Don't let the dictator or his cronies tell you different. #LosAngeles #NoKings #LittleTokyo #ArtsDistrict

The "once great city" of LA had a murder rate that topped 21/100k 2 years in a row in the 90s. It was 7.0, A THIRD of that in 2023 & murders were down another 14% in 2024. Some invasion! Yearly figures thru '23: www.laalmanac.com/crime/cr01.php '24 announcement: mayor.lacity.gov/news/lapd-re...

Rep. Gomez: LA County alone is 34% foreign born, 34%. So when he says they're going to liberate us, who is he going to liberate us from? Ourselves?

Assault on nonviolent citizens