@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-02 12:28:47
Two things are worth noticing right now:
1. The military brass *did not* respond well to Trump and Hegseth.
2. The deployment to #Portland keeps getting delayed.
The military will never say "no" to the president (unless he's literally ordering them to open fire on unarmed civilians or something equally obviously illegal). But there are ways to not comply that don't necessarily involve refusal. Brass showing that they aren't aligned with Trump may weaken his billionaire backers, who might be realizing now that weak dictators who can't lead their militaries tend to get toppled... and their oligarch-backers tend to end up against walls.
If folks being ordered to send troops to #PDX don't want to comply, delaying until the there's an initial response from the lawsuit would be basically impossible to detect. The deployment to LA went far too fast, running into logistical challenges like troops sleeping on the floor. The delays we've already seen could indicate either a more careful approach or quiet resistance.
Trump will continue to escalate at every chance he gets. I would be surprised if PDX didn't give him a fight. I doubt the troops will become more interested in serving a guy who's stabbed them in the back and wasted their time at every opportunity.
It is still possible troops just won't deploy. Trump will make something up about how just the threat of an intervention was enough to make things safe or something like that. If we see that, it's 100% the military telling him to kick rocks because he's not competent enough to know when to back down.
Honestly, I think Trump wants revenge for the resistance PDX put up at the end of his last term. Any backing down from that is absolutely a big loss for him.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-12-01 12:42:27
Jurors aren't paid: they get travel (not much, by definition they're local) and subsistence (again, not much β a pub lunch per day each, at most). Selecting jurors is just a lottery system, so very easily automated. Deal with jurors being objected to, or pleading excuses, can be dealt with by the automated system in advance.
No-shows on the day can be dealt with by inviting a percentage of extra jurors.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-12-29 23:44:28
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#photo #photography
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-26 22:45:57
Philadelphia Eagles' rout of Giants showcases daunting reality for rest of NFC https://www.nfl.com/news/philadelphia-eagles-rout-of-giants-showcases-daunting-reality-for-rest-of-nfc
@pre@boing.world2025-12-01 18:42:40
So the temporary placeholder name "Your Party" is made permanent.
None of the options on the shortlist were good. Most of them just as grammatically inconvenient as the dumb placeholder name.
The people who decide on the short-list, who can be a member, whose votes counts and what the options are, have quite a lot of power.
Zara Sultana boycotted day one over who sets the rules and who can be involved. If Your Party have a governing body with power to override conference they end up like the Labour party and just are easily taken over and usurped by a cabal of thatcherite neoliberal capitalists.
They did allow the dual membership system and a wider governance, so Zara won on who gets to be a member and who gets to be in charge. Which is probably good.
Coz as the terrible name shows, if you put the idiots in charge you'll get idiocy not good collective decision making.
For now the membership appear to have won, and I hear are they are all very excited and fierce and canny and not likely to let the old guard just set up another dictatorship from the top.
They currently have half the membership count of the greens, less than a quarter that claimed by Reform. Lets hope they can get some attention towards something other than how billionaires think the country should be run and focus on the people.
Here's hoping they can inflate that number by draining the Labour party and Reform members who just want change really rather than actually liking anything said by Farage.
#yourParty #ukpol
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social2025-10-25 01:37:38
β94 @ Sueβs in Limehouse w/ Annie. Sheβs gone now, but she was a true Eastender, born & died. As a little girl during the Blitz, she (along w/ loads of other kids) had been put on a train out of London. The train would make rural stops & local folks could come take a child or 2 home to work on their farms. From her train, she was the last child chosen. She didnβt share that freely or easily, but she told me. I think about that little girl alone on that platform more often than you miβ¦
@scott@carfree.city2025-12-15 07:34:09
This survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-12-11 08:42:24
#ThrowbackThursday Platinum printing session at the now defunkt Oregon College of Art and Craft. The pictures are from an unforgettable winter hike in the Eagle Creek valley, just a few days prior (and 6 months before a wild fire consumed the entire valley)...
(Also see my prev. message for my new darkroom setup :)
@mlippert@vmst.io2025-10-15 15:06:33
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Good word, a little tricky, my guesses really paid off in that I came up with the next guess pretty easily.
Hmm, I just guessed the 1st word I thought of for guess 5, just as well, I do see why so many went with the other word.
@scott@carfree.city2025-10-23 22:43:51
The Lurie/Mandelman RV ban is still set to go into effect and tow people's homes on Nov. 1, the same day SNAP expires and at the same time federal agents are in the Bay to terrorize immigrants.
Send a letter to the mayor and BOS asking them to extend the towing deadline:
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