it is impossible for mayors or cops to learn positive lessons about protest response because they all have two immovable beliefs: 1. it is evil and childish to hold police officers accountable for violent acts 2. cops must be present at all times during protests

Steve Rogers at the 1 Hour 50 minute mark, after Dr. Doom has been defeated:

once again we are all tapping the sign

"Apple argued that an indie storefront that users could install via Epic was a problem because it hosted porny games, calling games on Itch.io 'offensive and sexualized.'"

I do think a huge aspect of their rage is the knowledge that they are losing the war of ideas

THIS GOES SO HARD. The rad folks at BRLSQ have done it again.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

The most shocking thing here is that there apparently used to be an AP ligature

If you are capable of watching and you want to that’s fine, if you want to avoid any footage at all costs that’s also fine. Do what you need to do to protect your own peace, and don’t have any opinion on what that means for anyone else

This is, in fact, what they think The ideology being pressed here is that a certain group of people has the right to cleanse the world of everything and everyone they find annoying through lethal violence

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

developing such a fondness for a really specific type of minneapolis guy

/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.

He does this every Friday.

this is the other likely possibility, because he’s still mad she accepted it at all rather than refusing it and saying “this must go to donald trump immediately” every possible outcome here is maximally juvenile and stupid

people will say “he will not literally post on truth social that this lady runs venezuela now after she gives him the physical nobel peace prize” and I am here to tell you that is absolutely in play and is in fact a likely outcome

At some scale there's a flip: for ME, if I sell 1000 copies at 10 bucks each, that's worse than if I sell 500 at 20 bucks each. Neither number is enough to cascade into big bucks, but the 20 buck people are better customers. The worst reviews you ever get are the day you do your deepest discount

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

People are going to want more assertiveness and I respect that but I think the reason Walz and Frey are skeptical of pitting state and local cops against CBP/ICE is because most state and local cops sympathize with Donald Trump over their own elected leaders & communities.

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if people were constantly as horrified as they should be none of us could function, probably.

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

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BREAKING: Indivisible and a broad coalition of groups across the country are calling for a coordinated ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday to demand accountability, honor the life lost, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s actions.

all in the last 3 minutes

Governor I was not familiar with your game

that’s actually huge!

If the pope touches the antipope do they explode

LG has a new home assistant robot named "Cloid". Cloid.

One of my goals in the remaining years of my career as a columnist is to be around when soulless sacks like this beg forgiveness and cry crocodile tears seeking redemption. I want to be there to tell them: No. Sit in your space on the wrong side of history and live with the cruel choices you made.

No one who treated "wear a mask when you enter this store" as horrific tyranny actually believe in deference to state authority. It's Schmittian friend-enemy politics all the way down. "We" should be able to do whatever we feel like without consequence. "They" should be harassed, repressed, killed.

Once I had a big fight with a young reporter who insisted the details of a shooting differed from my reporting which was based on videos of the incident. I illustrated how his reporting could not be true & he yelled back I’M A REAL REPORTER WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES anyway that was wes lowery

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Picard finally sitting down at the poker table is such a great and understated way to end the series.

Counterpoint...

Abolish, investigate, prosecute In the meantime all these people should be terrified to show their faces in public should people learn where they work

None of this is new. It's not new. It's just happening to white people in broad daylight is all. It's only new if you don't think of black people as people. If you don't think of South Americans as people. If you don't think of indigenous people as people. It's not new. It's just you now, too.

full rights for all immigrants is an existential imperative if our democracy is going to ever exist again.

Yes, but they know the lie also carries an admission of weakness, because it means they still fear the consequences of telling the truth.

important message to all bluesky users

As @lukeoneil47.bsky.social once wrote for Esquire about Michael Brown, "If You Are "Waiting for the Facts" from the Police, You Will Be Waiting for the Rest of Your Life."

Any one of us could be shot or kidnapped because an ICE agent doesn’t like the look of us. Are you prepared to be murdered in cold blood while “news” sources repeat the claim you were “weaponizing your vehicle” trying to leave your driveway? They want you to accept that. They want to make it normal

You're not ready for the name of the energy transition specialist at Heat Pump Association UK

This keyboard is actually an entire computer. Just plug it into a monitor and you’re set.

oh i had this realization once

If you have the space, means and collection: a northern Texas warehouse full of proto-Redbox VHS vending machines from the mid-1980s is being evicted. The machines are free and whatever isn't taken will imminently be scrapped. www.facebook.com/commerce/lis...

You can’t make a good Star Wars by Loving Star Wars(tm) the most in the same way that you can’t 1) write the greatest song of all time by playing only covers 2) land a baddie solely through simping or 3) open a box with the crowbar inside that box