It’s tokens all the way down
You’re being manipulated again by the same marketing people and same fake account factories using the same playbook they used before.The last time they did this they told you to stop using fiat money…
Vote Today and Saturday for Langley City Mayor & Council
This Langley City local election matters. We need to keep investing in our community and prepare for SkyTrain's arrival. The Langley City First team is the only team with seasoned elected…
GREED, GROWTH AND CORRUPTION:
A unique fossil site in Oxfordshire approved for industrial development, and a Green Belt park in Enfield saved, for now, by the High Court. Two small stories that show exactly what the pursuit of…
Farage believes Andrew Tate is “an important voice”
Now we know that the execrable Andrew Tate is wanted by British police for allegedly making indecent images of a child, rape, stranging women during sex, and possession of extreme pornography…
How Much More?
Photo: © Stan B. Do we have to see and hear? Witness and endure? 30,573 lies in his first term alone- a record he's easily surpassed midway thro
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in Berkeley (and a myth punctured)
Between 1949 and 1950, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the future President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. During this period, he lived at 1800 Allston Way with several…
Question 3 is for the rich: a review of the evidence and funding for all-party primaries in Massachusetts
Question 3 on the Massachusetts ballot this year would institute all-party primaries (also known as “nonpartisan primaries”, “top-two primaries” or “jungle…
It Doesn't Follow
On 8 September 26, I wrote a piece here on this site about political body doubles and documented that no one had seen Trump in public in months. This is a follow up to that, though it doesn't feel…
Casey Newton And John Gruber Slink Back To Elon Musk’s Right-Wing Propaganda Machine
Tech journalism mainstays are feebly rationalizing their return to a broken, billionaire-run right-wing propaganda website.
Boredom Isn’t the Problem With This Election. We Are
I have to admit that I am a political junkie. I am really looking forward to the seventh of November and spending the entire evening glued to a TV or computer screen, following election results. My…
Jerry Seinfeld Ruined Seinfeld, but Whatever.
I loved Seinfeld for decades. Jerry Seinfeld's remarks about Palestine, the KKK and the Gaza genocide have made it impossible for me to enjoy it anymore.
[NL] Opvolger van de Wiv 2017: meer ruimte voor de geheime diensten, minder voor toezicht
On August 28, the government of The Netherlands presented a proposal for a new law governing the Dutch intelligence and security services AIVD and MIVD. This proposal was subject of an internet…
In the Intense Politics Around Public Education, Where Is the Left?
Education reporter Jennifer Berkshire has gone looking for education policy in the platforms and press releases of office holders and political candidates from the left and found ... almost…
What Happens When Fascists Realize They Might Lose?
The attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, the desperation of an unpopular fascist administration, and the long fight ahead.
Russian domestic propagandists crow about Trump’s betrayals of Ukraine, Europe; call for Elon Musk to help them bomb Ukraine
Russian domestic propagandists were in full preening mode following Shitstain’s betrayal of the west and his call for Zelenskyy’s removal in favour of someone who will surrender to…
Tough Puzzles at the Community Privacy Residency
"As soon as you're caught in the room, cryptography won't help you." Most cryptographers are trained on that separation of concerns. If you're locked in a room, someone can coerce you into handing…
“Are you a democrat or a republican?”
Where do I fit in all this? A note on form I don’t usually split my essays into sections. I prefer one continuous piece, where each paragraph has to earn the next. This one breaks that rule,…
Iowa's Supreme Court Justice: Iowa Time Machine October 13, 1890
Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On October 13, 1890, Samuel Freeman Miller, Iowa’s first appointee to the United States Supreme Court, passed away. One of only two Iowans to ever serve on America’s highest…
What’s Up with 4-3-5?
A few weeks ago, I launched my new book – Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census. To my sheer delight, many friends have stepped up…
What's Up with 4-3-5?
A few weeks ago, I launched my new book - Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census. To my sheer delight, many friends have stepped up to…
A statement on our project's collaboration with maybe fascists, and on how we really don't want to end that collaboration, as awkward as it may be (for us too)
Recently, there have been concerns about our project collaborating with, apparently, fascists, and/or people who give money to fascists, and/or people who say things that could be considered fascist…
Today's the Day!
Ten years ago, I started asking questions about the census. Little did I know that I entered a Hotel California-esque vortex. Each question led to another question as I started to discover just how…
Briefing Notes, LADO's And AI systems - Cyngor Gwynedd Council...
Concerns with the 'briefing note', circulated to members of cyngor Gwynedd's Governance and Audit committee by the monitoring officer, were raised at the Education and Economy Scrutiny Committee…
Lisa Bigony Appointed Deputy Clerk of the Appellate Division
Chief Justice Rabner announced that Lisa D. Bigony has been named Appellate Division Deputy Clerk for Case Processing, effective today. In that role, according to a press release, she will be…
Taking a stand is too costly, say people who have nothing to lose
2026 has been a year of capitulation dressed as principle. My timeline has been littered with an inordinate number of people abandoning apparently principled positions for the path of least...
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Stuart Green, Jihadi Cognitive Warfare
For reasons unknown, Stuart Green’s groundbreaking work on Jihadi Cognitive Warfare (MA Thesis for the Joint Military Intelligence College, 2008) is not available online. I post it here with…
Timeline of Ukraine Invasion: War In The Black Sea
**Regularly UPDATED**   Reflecting on the Russo-Ukraine War, I am putting together a timeline of the most relevant…
For the New Fascists, X Marks the Spot
With Musk no longer front and center, friendly, cheerful X is where the action is for everyone who isn't a crazy political doomsayer.
Who's Paying for Your Ballot
The country is 3 weeks away from the mid-terms, and Massachusetts is no different. Under MA law a little red book with all the state ballot questions with both for and against points of view has to…
new web game: "Up The Vote" as a numbers game
Up The Vote is a free short "clicker" / idle / incremental game about increasing young voter enrollment in Aotearoa New Zealand for the upcoming 2026 election. It takes about 0-10 minutes to play on…
Finding Patterns in the Noise
This is my first post on Substack. It follows 18 years of The Cockatoo Chronicles where I’ve tried to draw coherence from the disparate threads we all observe. Pattern recognition someone once called…
Trump’s Russian Diesel Deal
In 2022, in response to Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine, President Biden placed sanctions on Russian oil, prohibiting its sale in the U.S. In February of this year, President Trump began…
No state has a right to exist — least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel (Jonathan Cook, 10.12.26)
  No state has a ‘right’ to exist — least of all an apartheid, genocidal state like Israel After the Greens passed […] The post No state has a right to exist — least of all an…
ISRAEL, CRANEFLIES, ITALIAN SAUSAGE
I’m a lil icked out by these proposals to ban “some” pro-Palestine protests. Seems a bit blatantly pro-Israel to me. And although allegiances aren't chosen based on how satisfying one feels the words…
Does Voting Democratic Improve ‘Organizing Conditions’?
Six years ago, I covered several of the arguments some leftists use to justify their decision to vote Democratic. In that series, I looked at arguments for the conclusion that we should vote…
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