No matter how damning you think this report is going to be, it’s worse. I promise you it is worse.

“Indeed, for purposes of civil liability, the torturer has become like the pirate and slave trader before him: hostis humani generis, an enemy of all mankind." Filártiga v. Peña-Irala, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980)

“Once again, Justice Jackson is exactly right. Once again, the majority offers no response, let alone a remotely satisfactory one.”

Archive.today is one of the only things stopping a full disappearance of all digital historical records. This is an obvious and expected attempt to remove every last impediment to the US government controlling the definition of objective truth, both past and present.

in the highest profile and most consequential case of internet radicalization in history, 4chan style nazis groomed the richest man in the world into one of their own and memed him into genociding 600,000 black people (and counting)

Really love that the sandwich guy was on video whipping a sandwich at a CBP officer and right away was like "damn right I did that shit, I hit that pig with a sandwich" and the Justice Department tried to bigfoot the case and couldn't even get him on a misdemeanor because fuck you

GWOT vet, and same. If you want to worry about something Dort, worry about a lot of fighting age veterans sworn to a constitution your fucking party is currently betraying. Also, btw, most of them hate officers and you are why.

Some people might stop and take stock of their life at that point. Not Steve Bannon though!

first deli to offer a “misdemeanor and cheese” sandwich special will get all of my business

I wouldn’t be surprised. I don’t know that I think Republicans would be savvy enough to turn on him, but do I think the photos exist? Absolutely.

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Funny story. When I was in the Army, which has systems set up for providing feedback and objective measurement systems, somehow I had no problem giving direct feedback to men or them taking it. When I entered the “professional” workplace somehow it became not okay to tell men they were fuckups.

But how can this be, without proper phrenological instruments to measure the depressions atop an applicant’s head? How can an employer possibly tell the proper mirthfulness or combativeness levels? I mean if we’re going to go old timey we may as well go full hog.

I am however prepared to make a case for a change in law that you should be able to throw a sandwich at a cop, when that cop is doing a fascism.

Just received a call from VA - they are scheduling in March right now for specialty, or sending people to Community Care. It’s not that vets don’t want VA care - it is being sabotaged.

Ellis says agents must have identifiers "conspicuously displayed in two separate places."

Ellis is reading the terms into the record. It seems to track her temporary restraining order, barring various uses of force "unless such force is objectively necessary to stop an immediate threat."

She calls for two warnings before using riot control weapons "at a sound level where the targeted individuals can reasonably hear it."

Ellis turns to the testimony of U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino. How he denied using force against a man he tackled and said he didn't see the Rev. David Black hit by pepperballs. "More telling," she says, "defendant Bovino admitted that he lied."

Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Not only was Sandwich Guy acquitted. He was acquitted on a misdemeanor after Jeanine Pirro failed to get an indictment for a felony assault charge out of a grand jury. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.

To recap: they couldn’t get a felony indictment, so they tried for a misdemeanor, which became a four day jury trial: only to result in a not guilty verdict. GLORIOUS.

Just as a heads up everyone, LinkedIn now uses your data to train GenAI unless you turn it off.

Good morning! Day 4 of the Sandwich Guy’s trial. He is finally wearing a suit (the rest of the week’s evidence suggests he seems to prefer pullovers in cooler weather). The jury has a note for the judge.

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

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There was also Republicans who were totally cool giving an amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants and were just like “nah it’s fine they don’t have to go, fences are for losers.” People have no fucking clue how much we have lost.

Did I stay up until 3AM killing Nazis? Would a responsible lawyer without court tomorrow and waiting on material stalled due to government shutdown do *that*? I am exercising my right to remain silent on that matter.

Just dropping this here for no reason.

Guys, I promise I’m not a shill for Bethesda, but this is not a drill: you can have four count them FOUR Nazi-killing games (on the PS4) for the price of one right now. 12$ to both make Nazi killing cool again and show companies we thirst for it.

the united states government acknowledges but does not endorse new york city’s claim on staten island, a strategic ambiguity political scientists refer to as the One New York Policy

No doubt Trump is referring to John Ball and the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381, but it still lacks 300. “When Adam dalf, and Eve span, who was thanne a gentilman? From the beginning all men were created equal by nature, and that servitude had been introduced by the unjust and evil oppression of men”

It occurs to me that I should also perhaps showcase half-ass mending and making over of clothing, because most of the people doing it are really skilled and that can be intimidating to new people who feel like they will never be able to do that. So: I have a skirt that has become nonfunctional. 1/

I would like to also remind people that Latine folks are some of the most brand loyal people out there. My grandmother used to vote Republican loyally every year because of shit Ronald Reagan did forty years ago. (*cough* amnesty) The last ten months have showed us what Republicans think of us.

I have actually never had to give ID for gas or groceries in my life. Has Trump…ever bought either of these items?

Who’s speaking ill of the dead? “I appreciate that the corpse of Dick Cheney, unlike the living Dick Cheney, has not tricked anyone into a bullshit war that killed over a million people and caused the death by combat or suicide of a lot of my friends.”

Get yourself a man who says, “No, baby, don’t listen to SCOTUS oral arguments on your phone, let’s put it on the big TV.”

Georgia Democrats had not won a statewide race that wasn't for a federal office since 2006. They won two races tonight, both against GOP incumbents. The margins? 62% to 38% in both.

Dem message for next year’s midterms

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night. He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

“tom homan is a bitch” is a winning message

I’ll at least consider getting barred in NY as a first step.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

If they don’t kill us all, Republicans have lost Latine votes for a generation. Which is, of course, why they’re trying to do the former.

Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo

Yesssssssssss

If we could harness it, Sliwa’s abject hate for Cuomo could power New York for the next 30 years

that’s absurd, i think it’s entirely believable that bill ackman offered him ten million dollars to drop out and sliwa told him to gargle his balls and everyone should know that