We've had our first major close-in (to the city) fire of the year recently near Spokane, WA, the "Upriver Fire" that caused evacuations and burnt over a dozen homes in a surburban-style development. Plenty more to come I think. What's weird is that so many of these seem to be human-caused, which I take to mean deliberate.

Or they don't understand the question.

Shares of SpaceX declined by more than 6% to just under $179 as of Thursday afternoon

Morningstar analysts lowered its fair value estimate for SpaceX to $62 from $63

Plenty of room to fall.

Everyone who has a cell phone has a radio. Several radios. Arrest them all? Are amateur radio licensees such as myself no longer allowed to possess radios? Kind of puts a crimp on the hobby. Even in Soviet Russia there were ham operators - I remember my dad (Advanced license) working them from time to time.

Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .

The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.

Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived "recidivism". According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.

Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.

earmarking $45 billion to detain 100,000 migrants

$450K per migrant. I wonder which MAGA-sponsoring corporations are going to see that payday, and I wonder what % of it they'll be kicking-back to Orange and Elmo? We've got a lot of citizens here. Kidnapping them at government expense will be extremely profitable, even at today's rates.

"Congressman Michael Baumgartner is currently serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents the people of Washington State’s 5th Congressional District." https://baumgartner.house.gov/about

He's a MAGA bootlicker and is unfit for office. What an embarrassment to our nation he is.

Concentration camps.

The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.

By all means, drink up, morons, get the hell out of our gene pool, we've got enough troubles without your Dimwit DNA.

I think that's overly optimistic.

"you'll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year," Cook said.

Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of "hamburger innovation" at Wendy's, raise your hand. Thought so.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, the founder of Veterans On Patrol, told the station he posted a sign warning of other radars being targeted near weather radar. He said he believes the government is modifying the weather, according to the article.

"They can embed their technology and civilian infrastructure in every home and every household utilizing the phones and their network towers to not only control the weather, modify the weather, but they can (target) individuals," Meyer said in the article.

Control the weather. Target individuals. How can anyone get this stupid?

So what's he looking for, some kind of DEI preferences from the SBA?

Don't forget to publicly insult the judges and prosecutors while you're on there. Class act.

Explosives were fascinating when I was, like, 10 years old. Now, as an adult, they're just stupid, but we have an ever-growing population of people who derive their sense of self-worth from producing maximally loud, obnoxious, pathetic spectacles (think street-racers, coal-rollers, rap-blasters to name a few), so there you have it. When you're a nobody and have no attributes that anyone would look up to, well, at least you can force people to pay attention to you and do it on the cheap (important because you're poor). Boom boom pop pop.

Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.

Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he's seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.

We're driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.

Me, no. Corpo Amerika absolutely if it's profitable and low-risk. So which Lemmy "community" is the one where these corps are being ID'd (with all crowdsourced supporting evidence) and named and shamed?

“It’s literally landmark,”

"Literally."

I guess a gravestone is sort of a landmark. Idaho will be needing a lot more of those.

Why is the NYPD helping ICE? Hasn't the mayor banned them from doing so? If not I would hope the future mayor will issue a no-helpy-ice order to them.