Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Well played.

The cynical words of an old law professor seem again apt, sadly:

“Domestic law is a matter of law.

“Foreign laws are a matter of expert evidence.

“International law is a matter of fiction.”

I must emphasise this is not my view, but a view often expressed in legal circles, usually off the record.

Trump has started an illegal war with Iran. The US Congress has a responsibility to impeach him and remove him from office.

Democrats need to get up to speed on crypto and understand it as nothing less than a threat to the rule of law, and nation states themselves. There is no 'political compromise' to be had here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/genius-act-stablecoin-crypto.html

NOAA Lost a Vital Storm Tracker Just in Time for Hurricane Season https://twp.ai/E68zjP

I’m begging people to also see that poverty is not a crime, but choosing not to house people should be

/2 I stood there with half an eyebrow and was sullen. Why, I demanded to God, is there not some kind of pop-up screen where I get asked if I really want to shave off my eyebrow Y/N? Why is there no guardrail? But Guardrails are ineffective against human indifference, incompetence, or evil.

In 2016 MN Police killed a Black man named Philando Castile despite him calmly disclosing he had a legal & registered firearm.

Yesterday MN Police released a white woman named Jenny Boelter despite her car full of cash, firearms, & passports hours after her husband mass murdered people & was on the run from police.

This injustice is what systemic white supremacy enables.

Trump admin reverses, tells ICE Gestapo to continue raiding farms, hotels, eateries, etc. even if those businesses are destroyed

This has the fingerprints of Nazi Stephen Miller all over it.

Trump phone is either one of the most blatant examples of vaporware in tech history or outright fraud.

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/687492/trump-mobile-phone-t1

Ok so let me get the order of events straight.

- Terrorist dressed up in police gear breaks in to a senator's house, shoots him and his wife
- Flees the scene
- Goes to a separate elected representative's house
- Cops arrive on the scene before he can break in
- Surround the house
- He starts shooting at cops
- Cops fire back
- Somehow all miss him
- They somehow let him barge into the house
- He murders a sitting congresswoman and her husband
- And THEN the cops allow him to escape again??
- Are we fucking kidding??

This is either complete ineptitude or the police were actual accomplices in the murder and attempted murder of two different Democratic Congresspeople.

Meta's promise "that it’s adding ads to WhatsApp with privacy in mind does not make me trust this new feature,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @FastCompany. “Ads that are targeted based on your personal data are a privacy nightmare, no matter what app they’re on.” https://www.fastcompany.com/91353012/meta-is-bringing-ads-to-whatsapp-privacy-experts-are-sounding-the-alarm

Just had to back out of a women's event at KPBS tomorrow because it required registering my car with Offstreet (for parking), whose ToS require that you agree to Google’s TOS (its systems use Google products). I’ll be damned if I’m going to register my car with Google.

Seriously, KPBS people…you are sleeping with the enemy here.

(and don’t get me started at how I first read “Offstreet” as related to “Offred”)

After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/uc-san-francisco-fired-me-for-speaking-out-against-genocide-but-as-a-physician-i-could-not-remain-silent/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

Someone shared this gem recently but I can't find it nor recall who anymore(feel free to mention so i can edit)

Very strong!

I think they’re trying to say the boat sank.

I criticize US policing a fair bit, but I will say, the Minnesota police official who connected the dots after the first shooting and sent officers to proactively check on other elected officials in the area likely saved quite a few lives. They sadly arrived too late to stop the murders of the Hortmans, but arrived in time to ID the fleeing suspect and stop him from moving on to the next targets on his list.

I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal risk

https://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337

@Gladso @jhavok @pluralistic strong agree.

- There are no Democrats publicly agitating about how the NLRB lacks quorum because the Trump administration illegally dismissed two board members
- There are no Democrats staging sit-ins to draw attention ICE from selling immigrants to El Salvadoran slave camps
- Hell, there aren’t even any elected Democrats making noise about the fact that the Trump administration is selling humans to El Salvadoran slave camps in the first place!

Democrats appear more concerned with their fundraising than they are with human rights or labor rights violations.