Took fire to the face. ICE definitely isn’t aiming at ground and firing at people’s heads again.

Since Lindsey Halligan personally indicted Comey she should personally try the case and not hand it off to someone else. She can show us how competent and qualified she is for this job in front of a jury.

No protester has taken any violent action and yet ICE has deployed at least a dozen canisters of tear gas, detonated a flash bang in a man’s face, and now a sniper is shooting us with pepper balls.

They also shot at us with rubber bullets.

If you can't arrest the genocidal maniac, you don't have to listen to him try to justify genocide.

"... putz." (Bob Goulet, "Beetlejuice")

And that’s a wrap on our 2025 tour! Huge thanks to the greatest band and crew in the world, as well as to everyone who came out to see a show! Hope to see y’all again soon!

Fuck Benjamin Netanyahu. All my homies hate Benjamin Netanyahu.

A basic point, but the reason you go after flawed actors like Comey is to habituate people to the abuse of prosecutorial authority, so that when more serious figures are targeted the abuse of authority feels routine.

Let's celebrate his legacy by not fucking it up. A little less genocide would be a nice treat, too.

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves the World Day, everybody. 42 years ago today, Lt. Col. Petrov prevented an accidental nuclear war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

42 years ago today, Stanislav Petrov saved the world. www.bbc.com/news/world-e...

And lifetime appointments for judges.

i have a yard. i just fear the shipping costs.

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Law students, Lindsey Halligan passed the Bar and got admitted. You will be fine.

likely a MTM suit built on a block pattern. the company adjusted it for his big chest by adding to the jacket's front edge, which makes the out-breast pocket look too close to the armhole by comparison. too much empty space on one side of the breast pocket. i also recommend different facial hair.

Charlie K vs the Face-Eating Leopard

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

"the menswear guy isn't fair and balanced." do you even hear yourself? "fork lady is eroding public confidence." "ladder baby is undermining the credibility of the field." "lemon raccoon is acting without transparency or accountability." that's what you sound like.

So this is book two of three, and I really don't recommend reading it first. But I still recommend reading it!

"Vibe cloning" is so funny lmao it's so funny the ghost of Michael Crichton is crying and throwing up

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network. This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

It’s also disappointing that the journalists’ questions are all about cuts and loses, not about the union’s plan for the future of the service, which includes things like postal banking.

The Parasitology trilogy is an odd one for me. I have very firm* opinions about cliffhangers--you get one after book one of a duology, book two of a trilogy, or every ten books in an ongoing series. More than that is rude. (*Not binding for anyone else, I'm not your mom.)

43000 aren’t enough to prove that the Pfizer mRNA vax works and is safe, but 48 is plenty for Bobby Wormbrain’s new obsession!

Senate Dems released a report today about DODGE & its attempt destroy Social Security and this is precisely what they should do. However though I have seen some coverage of this, I doubt the public will really take this in given everything else happening. www.hsgac.senate.gov/media/dems/p...

Do the Cardinals' snow-white outfits have FAKE DIRT as a pattern?

“OK soldiers, spread out.” "Oat?” "What?” "Spread oats?” "Spread out.” "One oat?” "Dammit.” Why USA/Canada joint military exercises don’t work.

Every time I see one of these sort of articles I think “or we could pull the plug on ai”

Why yes, Eddie Izzard we ~do~ have a flag.

Every day, Democrats should be saying that ICE agents who have broken the law will face arrest when Dems are back in power. (I hear your “if” and choose to ignore it.)

Super-grim observation made on Reddit about how the OP learned they'll need to cremate their loved ones instead of burying them in case their presence is needed. This was after a series of comments about having to bring a dead love one into an office to cancel a utility/service. v. wtf/ffs

"Make every call a branded experience." I am going to live in the sea.

It is always the Year of the Fat Bat in our hearts.

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Some news: I will no longer be covering the Carolina Hurricanes after two seasons. Here’s why. hockeyinheels.com/post/7956838...

As pointed out by @galatfemme.bsky.social, Symbiont by Mira Grant aka @seananmcguire.bsky.social is free on US Kindle right now. www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRIR7PS

Neighborhood chalk.

Prixe Fixe dessert place: Parfait Accompli

joey wheedon thinking he was clever and edgy for slipping "mewling quim" into Loki's mouth was a klaxon for those of us with above-average vocabularies.

It was yesterday! But I'm up for celebrating Gritty all month

There is a scene in one of my all-time favorite sci fi series that spotlights this poem, it's "The Mathematics of Magic" series where Harold Shea transports himself to the world of Spencer's Faerie Queene and defeats the Blatant Beast's challenge of reciting a poem it had never heard before

I don’t know what constitutes a power user per se, but as someone on here a lot, I think we maybe need an option for “No, I don’t actually WANT that, but part of me says “MAYBE THEN SOMEONE WILL LEARN!” We’re not all rational actors here. We have very frustrated depths.

when your party tries to muscle a charismatic normie lib run by Lis Smith out of a Senate race in favor of a dead-eyed parody of a Michigan focus group your party has lost its damn mind

now that the dust has settled on the kirk shooting and with the benefit of hindsight and the kimmel thing playing out i sure hope bluesky's leadership is asking itself why their mod team so instinctively behaved exactly the way this fascist administration wanted them to before even having been asked

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

Yeah, this is pretty much it, isn't it?

Happy 7th birthday to Gritty.

This is only partially true. Hes the favorite of the court because unlike some of the other nrx fascist Thinkers hes loves doing drugs with them