Jerque Cousteau

When my moving truck was stolen, making international news- what wasn’t reported was that the 400 Autonomous License Plate Readers (ALPR’s) taxpayers purchased months prior, were not installed for the purposes of recovering stolen vehicles and property of citizens. 🤔

“Later, a defense-tech startup founder pitched a member of the Trump administration…They laughed about startups that refuse to sell weapons — “they’re crazy,” the founder said — and both agreed that Trump is good for business. The business, by the way, is killing.”

“Among the ideas from the brainstorming session: make a killing by sourcing unused land for data centers; maintain flexibility with payment structure…and, if cards are played right, new defense customers would benefit the company’s institutional defense customers too.”

“The firm, which works with a range of blue-chip defense contractors, had decided it needed to win over the new wave of U.S. defense and hardware startups; i.e., the next generation of the military-industrial complex.” sfstandard.com/2025/07/25/all…

“At around 6 p.m., five employees of one of the country’s largest commercial real estate firms sat down on teal velvet couches to my left and began a public strategy huddle on how best to monetize Trump’s America First initiatives.” ⬇️

And to my children I leave 127 open tabs on safari

why is this one of the greatest songs ever

The student protesters were obviously correct on Gaza. The reaction to them was obviously idiotic and depraved. We're probably still a while out from this being banal conventional wisdom, but it's coming.

MSM is insanely framing Columbia’s capitulation and Gaza mass starvation as separate stories. Defenders of Israel smeared student movement protesting Israel’s extermination of Palestinians as antisemitic precisely to protect bipartisan US support for what you’re seeing right now.

You can't wash the blood off your hands.

The Illinois landlord convicted of stabbing a Palestinian boy to death in a hate crime has died in prison. cbsnews.com/chicago/news/p…

Christians are so dense they don’t even know they created their own Antichrist

Kennedy is considering firing all the members of the influential preventive services task force. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force plays an important role in protecting access to low-cost or free cancer screenings and tests for chronic diseases. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…

This is a really good long read by @edzitron Plan your weekend accordingly.

Respect for the dead is meant for those who had positive effects on their community, their families, and the larger world. It's meant to let their souls rest. It is something you earn

fck. fck these pieces of sht. we’ve got to do better

You're literally citing one of the worst and least ethical pushers of the trope, a climate denier who lied about Elon Musk's legal troubles in Brazil. Remember?

This is thew trope the trolls want everyone to believe and that's why they repeat it. More homeless people work full time than not. More tech bros use drugs than homeless people. People who use drugs are not automatically "addicts" nor is drug use connected to violent crime.

This is definitely a better idea than putting homeless people, drug users, and disabled people in camps or mental hospitals because well-off gentrifiers don't want to look at their neighbors.

More trolls attacking the homeless than the disabled in my mentions, but their lack of understanding of why people use drugs shows they hate the disabled too.

I wonder what the drug use among the Y-Combinator venture capitalists looks like. Pretty sure they spend more on drugs than the homeless population of San Francisco.