Overheard a guy say he was “from a small mountain town” that “rapidly gentrified in the last 10 years”
Later in the conversation it was revealed he was referring to Boulder, Colorado.
@JMShumway You say you hate the police but who are you going to call when you need to wield the state monopoly on violence to intentionally traumatize a 9 year old girl?
A general strike was called in France today.
And well over a million people are in the streets at over 200 protests across the country.
Teachers, transport workers, garbage collectors, and gas and electric workers and more are all on strike today.
We don’t care who her father is. We don’t care about the backlash from miserable bigots.
We will keep saying her name and telling her story. #JusticeForEden
This should be a bigger story everywhere.
The CIA toppled former Prime Minister Imran Khan because he opposed the U.S. drone campaign operating inside Pakistan.
And today, the army attacked his home and moved to arrest him to prevent his participation in the upcoming elections.
Today, the largest city in the world's largest economy announced that it's not feasible to build a rail connection to one of its airports. I honestly don't know what to do with that information.