JK Rowling's team invited Jeffery Epstein to the deathly hallows play and to a Harry potter dinner. www.justice.gov/epstein/file... www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

i started working at waffle house when i was 16. there were a number of regular customers awaiting my 18th birthday. i was worried about what i was going to tell them when it finally came around. i remember one complaining that i “went and got fat” after putting on 20-30 lbs my freshman year at uni.

according to wikipedia, that’s what the natives called it, but still, lol

conservatives are near-historically known as the voters most likely to show up for midterms, off-year state/local elections, and especially special elections. that's changing. now their coalition has a large chunk of people who only show up when trump is on the ballot. they're not paying attention.

when you think you can’t possibly lose in tarrant county

the people in the epstein files who were saying the files should be released while knowing the whole time theyd been begging to go to the island just thought their name would be redacted, thats all

holy shit ghislaine maxwell was the first karma farmer?? i'm dying www.reddit.com/user/maxwell...

There were some fairly terrible defences of Chomsky during the last tranche of Epstein docs – “he’s not simping to Epstein like the others” was a genuine line of argument. Hopefully we can put those behind us now?

A man was arrested after he arrived at a federal jail in Brooklyn impersonating an F.B.I. agent while carrying a steel blade that resembled a pizza cutter and saying he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, according to a criminal complaint and people familiar with the incident.

Every law enforcement agency in America knows how to manage the car after an arrest at a traffic stop. The Trump DHS leaves them open on the road like that to terrorize the rest of us. A nationwide policy.

a word

Current status of the fundraisers for those killed by ICE: Renee Good: $1,499,580 Alex Pretti: $1,289,249 Keith Porter, Jr. $302,423 Parady La: $45,848 Heber Sanchez Dominguez: $47,991 Luis Beltrán Yanez Cruz: $18,640 Victor Manuel Diaz: $2,538 Geraldo Lunas: $2,260 Luis Gustavo Núñez: $1,935

The altnps account is the 13th most followed account on Bluesky and has more followers than every single news outlet other than the NYT, NPR and Meidas Touch on here. They actively spread misinformation and exploit gullible old people for cash. Accounts this unethical do not deserve to exist.

Seeing a lot of "too little, too late" comments and, if it's too late to repent, what would you have this guy and others do? If there is no room for grace and forgiveness in our movement for those who have seen the light and changed, then how do we win? How do we build? Grace is how we win.

Rob is my best friend’s father in law and I know him well. He’s an absolutely incredible person and knowing him now, his past seems impossible. He is one of the most kind hearted, loving people I have ever met. He’s also brave AF to admit his past deeds and march alongside people he has harmed.

If you’re feeling helpless amidst the ongoing horrors being perpetrated by ICE… engage in mutual aid. Donate to someone in need. Give to a community library or food bank. You could also help Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been held by ICE for a year. His story is often forgotten:

feeling left out of the fuck ice subreddits discourse; we just had our biggest dragon ball news day in ages yesterday and even r/Ningen (the only sub where it would be allowed) hasn't weighed in

A completely insane take. Also, guess what gun ICE issues to it's officers? That's right, the same Sig P320 Pretti was carrying.

We still don't know the names of the ICE agents who killed Gonzàlez behind the wheel of his car outside Chicago in September. They were unmasked in this BWC footage from Franklin Park police. If you have any information at all about these men—please text us on Signal at unraveled.66

Stop trying to make Rahm Emanuel happen. It’s not going to happen.

“I was confused as to why the victim was on his side, because that is not standard practice when a victim has been shot. Checking for a pulse and administering CPR is standard practice. Instead of doing either of those things, the ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds.”

putting this on the record now: we're dropping the "the". japanese doesn't have articles and conveniently the japanese word for "galactic" also starts with g when romanized so it's DBSGP or DBS:GP if you want to get technical about it

The latest ICE murder victim was, by all accounts, a good person. Caring and brave and kind. A profound loss. But the worst person in Minnesota doesn't deserve to be killed by his government either. You don't have to earn the right not to be murdered by the state. That's what makes it a right.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

CNN must be on some other internet i don't know about

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

That Five-Year-Old Was No Angel

BTW, how are our African and Caribbean cousins in the UK and Europe doing? Having a great time? Being treated well? I have smoke for xenophobic, militaristic, and complicit Black Americans. We are as myopic as any other group here. But in this moment, everyone in the West must examine themselves.

Our ancestors were dragged here in chains on ships that were mostly not American. Our enslavement began when the United States was a British colony. We have contended with our enslavers here for centuries, but UK/Europe was the imperial core. The world did not begin in 1945.

Just like many Black Americans, I'm one-quarter "British Isles" without a single post-1865 white ancestor. Black Americans are bidialectal English and AAVE speakers. What our ancestral tongues were, we will never know. The British Empire did that, and the United States is her rogue daughter.

Why, you going to treat my American Roma ass the way you treat local Roma?

This is fine. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

i just want to know why he is still calling himself a senator when he's not a (state) senator anymore. dude tried to primary thad cochran and lost. i remember because it was a rare opportunity to connect politically with my republican relatives who supported cochran.

i have found that it's always sports

is that jiren

this is something i've been forced to think about a lot the last decade or two. it's a process. for me it started when i started debating with american conservatives on theoryland (wot forum) and i realized that the entire conservative meritocratic philosophy rested on the premise that... (cont.)

You guys know how the owners of Anime Matsuri also own a bar called The Anime Bar outside of Houston? Seems they run that bar much like they run their conventions, because after a patron talked to the cops about how a friend's drink may have been drugged, an employee banned her from returning.

so much of modern evangelical christianity is making doctrinal excuses for why they don't actually have to do the things that jesus said they had to do. they think the occasional charitable donation (usually to missionaries) and tithing (which covers prison chaplains) fulfills this requirement.

just incredible to have somebody with this political view quoting Matthew 25, the chapter where Jesus says none shall enter Paradise except those who feed the hungry, welcome the foreigner, took care of those in prison etc

bio-broly

1. was the orange crush a danny devito twin or was it the afterbirth (apologies for posting the rapist but i need to know) 2. what was the implied birth canal because when i was a kid i thought it was the urethra because that is the reproductive organ but as an adult i'm not sure

They are raising prices again. They don't pay artists. They stole Wrapped from a Black intern and didn't even credit her. Their CEO invests millions in defense contractors. Tons of AI slop. Payola schemes. Why are you still using Spotify?

When law-and-order types point out that only a small percentage of people killed by police each year were unarmed, keep in mind that Renee Good will be classified as "armed."

The Constitution allows the creation of State Defense Forces that are not subject to federalization. Minnesota's SDF has been inactive for decades. It's well past time for Blue states to start activating non-federalizable SDFs

Calling out the Minnesota National Guard would be consenting to their being ordered to active duty. It would remove the one and only impediment to Trump and Hegseth being in charge of the Minnesota National Guard

"Why isn't Walz calling out the Minnesota National Guard?!" Well, under 10 U.S.C. 12301, members of the National Guard can be ordered to active duty and placed under federal control - but only if the Governor (or other relevant state official) consents to their being ordered to active duty