Doin' research. Found this passage in the Cato Journal from 2017.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

It's picture day at school.

help I was accidentally Too Interesting in an interview

Agent Smith smiling vibes

Knowles is one who, after hearing me describe my assault at a recent Senate hearing on political violence, said that he supported Trump's pardons of insurrectionists.

NEW: Here's a full statement from a lawyer for the Capitol Police officer who The Blaze falsely linked to the pipe bombs discovered outside the RNC and DNC on Jan. 6. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Happy Veteran's Day, chums

Last week my dentist informed me that I grind my teeth at night.

Me walking into a Starbucks and seeing the caffeine distribution operation going on.

ACAB and Defund The Police -- the two most destructive messaging efforts from sloganeers who don't actually want to fix a fucking thing and will, at every opportunity, alienate the entire electorate from actual police reform for the sheer pleasure of their own self-regarding purities. Eat a dick.

all the firefighters down at the station sleep together in a giant pillow fort built in 1900 and every generation of fire fighters adds onto the pillow fort and it just keeps growing and growing

I enjoy John Oliver but hoo boy it doesn't encourage me to trust the show whenever he talks about something I actually have professional knowledge in, like the latest episode on police pursuits.

This is brilliant

When I go to the grocery I usually buy dinner based on what's about to expire because it's on sale

How I look at the restaurant when we finish the meal, someone asks the table if we're getting dessert and everyone looks at me

Happy Halloween

Another pop culture ad for ICE

*snort*

Q: When will the government be reopened? MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I suffer from anterograde amnesia and *checks hand tattoo* I understand my name is Michael Johnson.

After describing myself being attacked in great detail, Senator Welch asked the witnesses if they supported Trumps pardons for insurrectionists. All Republican witnesses raised their hands. This was a hearing ostensibly on how political violence is bad.

“Our military is not trained in law enforcement. There are absolutely zero situations where our National Guard should be on the streets of America as a status quo measure, absent some acute short-term crisis.“ Great read and he quotes @semperwry.bsky.social well: open.substack.com/pub/ofthebra...

This is important.

A bit of me toward the end of this important piece by Chiara Eisner. www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Was just informed by Financial Crimes that at least one person is using my name when running phone based scams, telling people they have a warrant and they gotta send money to clear it up or something. If you get this, it isn't me! That's weird and not how that works. Report it.

Alternately, sometimes going through the motions can be about self-preservation and keeping the peace rather than medical care. First on scene for a shooting, man shot in the head. Not conscious not breathing. Neighborhood came out to yell at me, say I would have gotten there faster 1/

In many occupations they're are things you give up that might not be immediately obvious or immediately understood to be of potential value. In policing, its anonymity.

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I will be speaking as a witness at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution's hearing focused on politically motivated violence. The hearing is titled Politically Violent Attacks: A Threat to Our Constitutional Order. It is scheduled for 10/28 at 230pm ET.

"I knew I was in the right place when I saw a guy in a military vest with an American flag draped across his back emerge from a tent and wander to the craft-services area, where a man was prepping a giant bowl of carrots." www.vulture.com/article/soci...

This is a lot funnier if you pronounce it "Beyoncé".

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

Fun fact: Per the US Copyright Office, AI Generated Images are not copyright protectable. Adding "© Name" after one doesn't do anything. There has to be "sufficient" human involvement other than writing a prompt for it to be eligible, and this ain't it.

Had to do a double-take; if you read quickly it looks like she's saying only 1.4% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. But it's 40%. Almost half of SNAP goes to feeding children.

I know appropriating all kinds of cool iconography from various ancient cultures isn't the worst thing the Nazis did but I'm still regularly put out by it.

I think when Mike Johnson isn't in front of a camera he just sits in a small, empty, windowless room and disassociates, waiting for the biblical apocalypse.

Trying to wait and see what's gonna happen with these tariffs before making any big financial decisions but ohh my gooodddd aaaaaaaaaaa

Illness beard is coming in nicely.

I'm genuinely surprised they don't eliminate that extremely low standard.