Here's a useful guide to voting on California's proposed wealth tax. The massively corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and (of course) the state's billionaires absolutely hate the idea.

That is a key reason why I'm voting for it, and urging everyone I know in California to do the same.

Federal judges keep ruling that Trump's violent, masked goons are illegally arresting and jailing people, but the regime goes right on doing it.

How close are we to outright fascism? This close.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

The Trump regime is routinely telling US judges to go screw themselves -- ignoring and violating court orders, and flagrantly spitting on people's constitutional rights.

So far, not even one regime apparatchik has been held accountable in any serious way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/world/africa/us-secret-deportation-cameroon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MVA.rP52.v68z1-9CPLv1&smid=nytcore-ios-share

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@jonsnow/116067957751331057

Dump Discord, now.

Democrats calling for "reform" of ICE and DHS are demonstrating their standard weakness. Disband them and rebuild immigration/security agencies that aren't dens of criminals and grifters.

Californians need to know that a "Democrat" running for governor is basically a tool of the worst tech barons. Gil Duran explains. https://www.thenerdreich.com/palantir-for-governor/?ref=the-nerd-reich-newsletter

If you have a Ring (Amazon) camera, you are -- or will become -- a tool of the surveillance state. Is that really what you want to be?

https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=698b47cbe724d10001786209&attribution_type=post

RE: https://mastodon.online/@hkfp/116044784390790179

China's dictators imprison a Hong Kong journalist who dared to challenge the party line.

Hong Kong is just a suburb of Beijing now.

Trump has so thoroughly brought Big Journalism to heel that NBC makes a transparently hollow denial that it covered up the Olympic audience's booing of JD Vance. The denial is a pathetic but telling lie. It tells us a lot about the network's disintegrating integrity.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hid-the-boos-for-jd-vance-wheres-trumps-unfair-editing-lawsuit/

The New York Times has done as much as any Big Journalism organization to badmouth San Francisco in recent years. Now it pretends to discover -- by quoting visitors -- that the image isn't the reality.

No doubt, the doom-loop crap will return soon.

Trump is -- and always has been -- a vile racist. But journalists do -- and always have done -- keep publishing his denials that he is a racist, in the face of the obvious.

Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/02/corprophagia/#that-makes-me-smart

Epstein, Bannon, 4chan, Trump, Russia -- a cauldron of boiling evil.

https://www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how-epstein-broke-the-internet

ICE/CBP are criminal agencies, staffed by violent criminals, and gleefully dispatched against Americans by a vicious president and his apparatchiks. It's far worse than most of us understand.

Garrett Graff has done the homework and lays it out here:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountability-for-ice-and-cbp?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=accountability-for-ice-and-cbp

Read and share it.

@evacide As long as it's not on Substack...

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