#U.S. cities

[futurefatum]

Brandon Biggs Multiple Prophecies for 2025 (Tone: 221)

"Prophetic warnings of terror threats, a new pandemic, and a crypto boom! Will Trump’s next term spark global revival? #Trump #Prophecy"

Posted on January 18th by Infowars @BrandonBiggs247 https://twitter.com/BrandonBiggs247/status/1880388649608716617 ABOUT THIS VIDEO: This video features a conversation with Pastor Brandon Biggs, who is known for making prophetic predictions that have allegedly come true. He discusses warnings of future orchestrated attacks on Trump’s inauguration, iconic U.S. locations, and broader national…

[gwydionmisha]

Trump says Caracas is ‘safer’ than most U.S. cities. Here’s what the numbers show

[saint-ambrosef]

its always funny to me how easily impressed people are by the mildest skill in partner dancing. i'll see a couple doing some fairly basic moves that only take a couple weeks to get down, and people who have never done it before are like :O "that's crazy skill!"

anyways this is a PSA for anyone who has never tried before: partner dancing can actually be really easy and you don't need to learn much before you can dance with any random stranger who also knows that type of dance. go try it! social dancing is so much fun and easier than you think!!

[lonestarbattleship]

USS NEW YORK (BB-34) under construction at the New York Navy Yard.

Photographed sometime between November and December 1913.

Scientific American

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Official U.S PlayStation Magazine #62, Nov 2002 - 'Grand Theft Auto: Vice City' cover.

[lonestarflight]

Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortresses, 2nd Bombardment Group, over New York City, during American Legion Parade.

Photographed by Major G.W. Goddard.

Date: September 21, 1937

NARA: 276537898

source, source, source

Colorized by howdicolour: link

[tropicalcontinental]

Miscellaneous notebook doodles

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Kirby sheet masks I bought recently ⭐️

[gwydionmisha]

US military to send additional 1,500 troops to border

It is illegal for them to detain anyone or help in detention. Some of this is optics, but there is a real slippery slope feel to it. Since SCOTUS abolished rule of law and laws no longer constrain the president, I don't like or trust this.

After all Hegseth has promised to purge any generals with ethics and they confirmed him with Vance breaking the tie. Generals with ethics were what constrained Trump from turning the military loose on peaceful protesters last time he tried to do it.

I was always against raids and the general shittiness of our immigration/CBP militarized system even before I heard the story I'm going to tell here. This has haunted my since the early '90's when a prof told it to me.

So she and her husband are Native Americans, with four tribes between them. The tribes were all Northern plains ones. I can't remember which of them was Lakota, but they were enrolled members of different tribes. As indigenous to the United States as it's possible to be.

So they get jobs teaching down in L.A. and one day, the husband is taking a bus home and the bus gets raided and he has no proof of citizenship on him just normal ID, so they are going to deport him to Mexico even though he speaks no Spanish and his Ancestors have been here since they walked over the land bridge.

She had to rush home and dig through the moving boxes, trying to find all his documentation and she manages to rescue him and bring him home. It was terrifying. They didn't know that they could be deported for looking native to the country in which they and their ancestors had always lived. They started looking for jobs in the North right away.

I've been thinking about it multiple times a day all year. I assumed it would start happening in large amounts as soon as the "mass deportation" sweeps started, that they'd try to deport Native Americans and natural born citizens. Likely even on purpose as they were saying that was what they were going to do since at least the election.

Quakers sue to keep US immigration agents out of houses of worship

[lonestarbattleship]

USS COLORADO (BB-45), Queen of the Seas, tied to a pier in New York Navy Yard, prior to her maiden voyage.

"Uncle Sam's newest addition to the navy is receiving final equipment before her cruise to Europe. COLORADO is the navy's most powerful high seas fighting instrument, the greatest in the world, and is commanded by Capt. Reginald R. Belknap."

Photographed by Kadel & Herbert News on October 25, 1923.

AP Photo: H-15645-S

[bangavumi]

Major U.S. Cities Targeted in ICE Raids Under Trump Administration

Major U.S. Cities Targeted in ICE Raids Under Trump Administration Nationwide Immigration Crackdown Sparks Controversy, Arrests Surge Across Key Metropolitan Areas Major U.S. Cities Targeted in ICE Raids Under Trump Administration U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) conducted its largest single-day operation under the Trump administration, arresting 956 people on Sunday. The Trump…

[goalhofer]

Welcome to Colorado, Jack Drury.

[sofflepoffle]

Dan and Phil are going to be touring this fall while I’m in France but they will not be going to France so I have to ask myself if I’m going to take the train to Germany alone to see them

[arcadian-vampire]

The aurora were brighter tonight!! 🥺💕 We even got to see hints of pink in with the vibrant green!

[tanadrin]

Why isn't "just move out" an acceptable answer to America's bad city planning?

"Just move" is, in general, a terrible answer to any large-scale economic/political problem, because it assumes where you live is totally fungible and moving is relatively low-friction--which ignores the cost of moving, of being separated from your social networks, assumes you are equally employable anywhere in the country, etc., etc.

But in this case--move where? Aside from a handful of cities, mostly in the northeast (which even then have in many cases been affected by similar urban planning issues, if not to the same degree--Robert Moses did tons of damage in NYC), every city in North America underwent a period of rapid expansion when the fiscally-unsustainable transport-neglecting school of urban planning was dominant such that every city in the country has the same issues. Some cities can endure the resulting condition a little better, for now, as a result of particular local circumstances--Nashville was one of the fastest-growing cities in the country for many years, and may still be (IIRC Sun Belt cities have in general had pretty good immigration numbers for the last decade at least)--but that doesn't make their planning policies wise. They could be doing a lot better!

And I know I've been accused of being some European snob who thinks everybody should do things the way they're done over here, but really, I don't think that dense, walkable, well-connected city planning in the US would necessarily result in cities that were carbon copies of European ones. The U.S. is different, has different cultural inclinations, and different geographic constraints--U.S. cities are always going to look different from cities in Europe, for the same reason they look different from cities in East Asia or w/e. But right now U.S. city planning is a major drag on both the economy and local government, and while shooting itself in the foot and somehow staggering on despite the injury is a very American thing to do, I want more for the U.S. and its people!

[cobragardens]

Interactive: How key groups of Americans voted in 2024 | PBS News

"There was a gender gap in 2024's voting preferences: Trump won support from 24 percent of Black men versus 9 percent of Black women, 47 percent of Latino men versus 38 percent of Latino women, and 59 percent of white men versus 53 percent of white women."

So in other words American men hate women even more than American women hate women.

(Trump doubled his support among Black men over 2020, btw. One-quarter of Black men were willing to vote in an openly racist authoritarian over a qualified Black woman, and for half of that group, misogynoir was the only motivation.)

The majority of American white women continue to decline their own human rights and deny them to their fellow women domestically and worldwide. May the women and girls they've killed die in front of them and haunt their sleep.