…but…sure…the guy who’s prime minister…who…isn’t in those things…should get jettisoned…because…mandelson is/was the exact sort of things-to-hide asshole that would read as on-side to the criminal in chief…arguably you’ve got to the point of arguing that he ought to go for something you think is more astute than he’s been about lots of other stuff…&…maybe when you’re disappointed in a PM any excuse will do…but…how does nobody look at that & feel like needing a new prime minister & getting solidly played seem…pretty similar?
“I look at PICTURES. They’re worth a thousand words dontcha know. So while you’re reading one word at a time I’m reading a thousand words at a time. Checkmate, reader.”
"I already know all the letters, so there's nothing left for books to offer."
…ok…maybe I do get it…I bet it makes sense if you’re too smart…to…read
"The Massachusetts Department of Correction… formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences."Healey's office has also not responded to my calls about this (and why would they) BUT maybe if a lot more of us call and keep calling, they'll get the drift. 617-725-4005
It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
Megyn Kelly just shouting “FOOTBALL IS OURS” at Piers Morgan about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl show is the perfect example of this moment in time. Put it in a time capsule and send it out into space.
…the not-secret-secret-not-police jack-in-a-boot lot are on their way to being in the top 10 best funded armed force in the world…while
JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us…
…I mean…*something* is ironic…but…she need to keep that word out of her mouth the way scott horton need to be crediting my boy bill if he gonna post them napkin ‘toons…because otherwise one day there won’t be one of these…& some months, years or possibly decades later there won’t be one of them…& I won’t be quite sure what to do with myself anymore…&…like…nobody wants that
This is true, but having taught at some elite schools, I can say that some kids believe that checking all the boxes and getting into a good school entitles them to anything they want. When they find out that nature and society limit them, they become fake-populists and wanna burn "the system"
…sigh…ok…nobody wants that who has a brain it looks like ever actually worked a day in their life
BTW, any time DHS or media claim federal agents cannot be investigated or criminally charged by state or local agencies for use of force violations, that is not true. Even CBP & Border Patrol require it according to policy: p. 26. cbpgov.info/sites/defaul…
ICE is stopping people, damaging property, beating the shit out of them, then realizing the victim is either documented/citizen & leaving them on the street. These are use of force crimes under the color of law & our local & state prosecutors MUST START FILING CHARGES!youtube.com/shorts/n9u0z…
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”www.reuters.com/investigatio…
That would explain why Tulsi Gabbard "investigating" voting machines in Puerto Rico & present at FBI raid in Fulton County even though DNI prohibited by law from participating in domestic law enforcement operations
…the fuckup they call the speaker spoke on the “on its face” part that seemed fraudulent to him…where you can look like your guy won if you don’t keep counting…because it somehow can’t be true that when you do count all the votes cast rather than somehow imagine elections are a race to be the first person to have looked like they have more to point to before they just say they won & if they didn’t that’s got to be a fraud…how else could you explain that all the people you told not to mail theirs mean those aren’t yours but fraud…just…how do you get to be speaker & then shill for it being vital that nobody ever even look at the instructions for how any of this fucking works?
"The NIGHTMARE scenario has long gone something like this: If [big leap of logic] occurs, & [second leap of logic], then [third big leap of logic], they could order [huge leap of logic], which would logically lead to [leap of logic the size of Jupiter]."
…how does this work? …no, really…I wanna know…are we seriously saying that they sunk some data-center from hell under the spot there used to be an east-wing & down there is a palantir dashboard that can predict how to keep enough results from ever getting tallied to claim you haven’t lost both houses…or even just the senate…so that you can claim you have to usurp the whole kit & caboodle & run through a sequence of steps any one of which is “so that’s a coup, is what you’re saying”…what…you gonna cluster bomb long beach or some shit…really…I wanna understand…because the one part that seems entirely plausible is that they would consider eliminating confidence in the fundamental process from which the whole democratic principle of enfranchisement ensues…in line with their interests…so…the point doesn’t have to be that the play makes sense or has a realistic prospect of success or not being obviously a travesty about six-ways-from-sunday
This document alleges the FBI erased survivors reports, used them and alleges survivor attorneys were part of the cover up. If true, that isn’t negligence. It’s bigger than that. Reports don’t disappear by accident.Victims don’t erase themselves.Release the complete Epstein files.
…but…like…november is also a lot of warehoused people away from today
This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition.
Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
ICE is likely paying a premium to get the deal through quickly. E.g., in Hamburg, PA, the warehouse was purchased in 2024 for $57.5 million and sold to ICE for $87 million.The real profit will come with the private prison companies and contractors hired to refurbish and staff these facilities.
I’ve seen a lot of questions on these lines, and the quick answer is that once the federal government purchases the property (including the land the warehouse sits on), local governments cannot regulate them or tax them. They are now federal properties and so the Supremacy Clause applies.
…I…haven’t seen a lot of questions that put it this way…but…what are the per capita margins seems like a good one…&…who pockets those?
Drug offenses account for the incarceration of about 1 in 5 people in U.S. prisons.[7] Violent offenses account for over 3 in 5 people (62%) in state prisons.[7] Property offenses account for the incarceration of about 1 in 7 people (14%) in state prisons.[7]
The United States maintains a higher incarceration rate than most developed countries.[8] According to the World Prison Brief on May 7, 2023, the United States has the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000. Expenses related to prison, parole, and probation operations have an annual estimated cost of around $81 billion. Court costs, bail bond fees, and prison phone fees amounted to another $38 billion in costs annually.[9]
Since reaching its peak level of imprisonment in 2009, the U.S. has averaged a rate of decarceration of 2.3% per year.[7][10] This figure includes the anomalous 14.1% drop in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There is significant variation among state prison population declines. Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York have reduced their prison populations by over 50% since reaching their peak levels.[11] Twenty-five states have reduced their prison populations by 25% since reaching their peaks.[11] The federal prison population downsized 27% relative to its peak in 2011.[12] There was a 2% decrease in the number of persons sentenced to more than 1 year under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 2022 to 2023.[13]
…I mean…there’s different kinds of profit…they didn’t get to deport the ozturk student-lass…they haven’t managed to sling out the liam everyone knows if he’s wearing the hat…or abrego garcia…but…they probably still list all those in the win column…but…the nominative determinism thing is unhelpful…don’t have a “calvin ball” trying to play procedural fuckery games…& don’t…you know
ICE just secretly bought a mega warehouse in Surprise, AZ to turn into a detention center, and they shut out local leaders from having a say.That’s wrong — our community deserves better.www.azfamily.com/2026/02/06/a…
…do the surprise Surprise, AZ thing…someone might not have had coffee & shit is hard enough to understand anything about to begin with when it’s so unrelentingly fucking senseless?
…they trying to buy up enough warehousing to stack more bodies than ICE’s own stats say they arrested in ’25
🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US.Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records.Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse…
…but…that agency didn’t to my recollection seem to need either that or the roving goonsquads to pull off pulling in upwards of 150,000 people in ’23…so…these warehouses…those are profit centers that pull double duty as blacksites & concentration camps…for…domestic…persons & purposes…just…straightforwardly
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
…in that there’s no way to describe that which doesn’t clearly describe a thing which is those specific things
This is the thing to me, that you can tell that this shit is fake. No one has built a self-sustaining bio-dome that's lasted for more than a year without everyone going insane, and SpaceX isn't even *trying* to do this.
…unless you lie about something really, really obviously & just expect enough people not to notice…because…fuck you, reality…however you read that?
"self growing cities" my dude there is NO FOOD ON THE MOON, you will have to continuously send supplies to the moon forever! That would be worse than sending supplies to literally any other spot on earth!
…these people are very, very, very fucking dumb…I implore you…do not accept being treated as though you must needs be dumber than them so that they make sense
Imagine thinking the expanding sun would destroy the earth but we'd be okay if we were just on Mars
…note for anyone who never had the pleasure of reading the iain m banks culture novels…or…should the fuckwit somehow ever find this in front of him…a particular paper-wealthy piss poor excuse for a person who claims to have…that screen-name…that’s a banks reference…your VFP would be a Very Fast Picket…& the fun thing about those is that’s the polite name…they used to be a different thing before they got a (D) attached to their classification…in this case for de-militarised (he was a scot…it takes the s)…Rapid Offensive Unit…also…the gravitas thing was a running gag of sorts…experiencing a significant gravitas shortfall was a “real” ship name in those books*…&…if you have actually read enough of those books to follow this one…all this trying to force problems to be out of context so you can have an out of context problem to point at is really making me want a sleeper service to do the fucking thing…anytime now…please & thank you
I also love how it was like five minutes ago Elon was posting about having a sad b/c money can't buy happiness. Really gives the impression one of his underlings came up to him like "Do you wanna go to the moon, honey? What if you had a big ol' glass of chocolate milk and went to the moon, huh?"
…point being…that asshole can’t fucking read…not really…but…whoever braak.bsky.social might be…I know they read…&…like…actually can…just from that screen-name part…like I could tell the random saleskid that knocked on my door the other day was a good kid because when they texted me something about the thing they were out there flogging in the miserable weather to miserable people…their pfp was huey freeman from the boondocks…it’s…like wearing the fucking lilac…IYKYK
Imagine thinking the expanding sun would destroy the earth but we'd be okay if we were just on Mars
…I’m not saying even elon doesn’t understand that when the sun eats the earth we’d need to have moved beyond the solar neighborhood…although…shit…he could be that dumb for a good chunk of any given day, I guess
…the things you think deserve to be held to merit credence…say stuff about all the other stuff you say…& indeed are
The “don’t give the abusive and extremely alcoholic husband a reason to beat you” mentality is only normalized when it comes to One side today, and that’s just a fact
on the one hand, I do believe that un-fucking gender relations in this country is a good goal in the long run. on the other hand, it's not really feasible, let alone reasonable, to do so if there is a not-insignificant portion of men out there doing "women need the feminism beaten out of them"
Chasing rageclicks in the culture war has caused the cheese to slide completely off these people’s crackers.
This is unhinged.
https://adampiggott.substack.com/p/the-woman-problem […yes…I killed the link…because…c’mon]
…here’s the thing…I kinda feel that way about people who sound like that asshole…or…what allegedly passes for an administration in the US at the minute…or people like elon…or tate…or…way the fuck too many people for me to think me getting to say who ought to get their shit slapped straight is a reasonable or sane or productive metric by which to try to hold some sort of civic line…my kingdom for a moistened bint with a lob-able scimitar…apologies to anyone from monty python (not if you’re cleese…that’s a you first scenario)…to…people that call it the m-word…whatever…point is…if your idea of the lilac is a fetid frond of obscure fermented pond-scum RFK jr would do a testimonial to camera for
Walker’s piece shows how powerful groups are working to reshape language around sex + gender. They work across interests and even countries, normalizing increasingly reprehensible language. But contrary to what The Atlantic would have you believe, none of those interests are trans people ourselves.
The term is so rare that out of over 300,000 news entries, it only appeared first in May 7 2024 in a "news" article on evangelical blog World News Group called "Giving evil a pleasant label." This was logged two days before EPPC posted the document on May 9.web.archive.org/web/20250908…
[* – yes…if you were wondering…title/sub-title/excerpt…if you can tell me which book that hat-trick is pulled out of without having to hit up a search field…I will…actually think of a prize…because it’ll make me happier than you might imagine…but…if you fib about having to look it up…I’ll be disappointed enough to be both your parents at the same time when you fucked up…so…feel free not to guess if you don’t want to]
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…I don’t know how the rest of today will go but that last bit might sound harsher than I meant it to?
…like…looking shit up is cool…&…iain had great names for those things…so…that particular looking shit up is even my idea of a good time…I’d be inclined to recommend it…it’s quicker than reading the books & gets you a feel for why the place those came from might be a place that you could stand to invite yourself for a spell measured in pages that keep your eye off the clock
…I’m just saying I’m busy enough that having to come up with a prize that isn’t a no-prize like stan lee invented by mistake in an attempt to say there were no losers that read marvel books…I mean…2000AD said an extra-terrestrial thrill-seeker named tharg was their editor & offered galactic groats in lieu of bart’s elephant…but…iirc…cut some postal orders in pounds sterling that found their way back in a self-addressed-envelope enclosed…as was the style at the time…in the one the entry or submission had been sent in to them in by some lucky reader…there’s…ways…if you put your mind to it…I just only want to go to that kind of effort if someone can…freestyle the right answer?
…in fairness…if anyone asked me what order to read all of those books in a not-insignificant part of me would feel like if I really liked them I’d tell them to save that one for last because if I had to pick a favorite it might be that one & maybe it’s not fair to the others if you read those after it because they won’t quite hit that high…which…other than being wildly subjective…is also more believable as a thing you might notice with some than others…in that some are just more fun to read than others…& some are…oblique enough that someone I know who’d read most of them missed the bits that located one outlier into the whole Culture context when that came out…it’s…pretty much a game-of-thrones-y story you could be confused to have found on a shelf in the sci fi section
…but…aside from maybe the short stories…like…the state of the art, I think the collection is…to sort of get your eye in…arguably the particular one I picked my hat-trick for today from tells you everything you need to know about what the Culture is & why he wrote it to be that way…also…I could probably bang on about it about as long as I could the man who was thursday
…technically…those are all clues, I suppose…which you’re welcome to…but you’re maybe even more welcome not to bother guessing…or even necessarily be interested in the answer…homework is not a thing I get to set people who voluntarily put up with me running off at the keyboard…let alone if they pull off doing that gracefully?
…so…I know @brightersideoflife niftly decoded the word-adjacent vomit in that thing about “clavicular”…but…I listened to that podcast & I wasn’t even a stranger to most of the terminology…or at least things I wish I’d never wound up learning some people are familiar with were familiar enough that the ones I hadn’t heard I could guess enough from the context to “get”…&…I still didn’t really “get” some of the ones I thought I knew…so…clavicular is a looks-maxxer…though I believe they themselves don’t say that takes a hyphen
…he…uhh…is a proponent of a “technique”…in which you purposefully…uhh…hit yourself in the face with a hammer…so that you can develop a more chad-shaped face
…that…is not libel…or slander…that…is a thing…that he did…& recommends…to people who pay attention to him because they’d like for as many people to pay attention to them as pay attention to him…& they think that’s how all of that…not in the sense that it does because apparently this is an actual causal chain of effect for a whole-ass sphere of affect…so in that sense it “works”…but…like…they think it *works* works like it does what they think for the reasons they think & that’s why if you have the secret decoder ring for the hidden matrix…they…rule?
Sounds about right, but to be fair, he was apparently quite stupid before the beatings.
Moving beyond this particular asshole, in general, every time I hear “oh, I don’t need/want to read” I assume that person has literacy issues, which generally stem from conditions like dyslexia.
He, like Trump, desperately wants to be loved/popular. Desperately. So the second he starts getting pushback, he bolts. Trump, on the other hand, just digs in and starts screaming “LOVE ME” and doesn’t grasp why that doesn’t work
…I don’t know how the rest of today will go but that last bit might sound harsher than I meant it to?
…like…looking shit up is cool…&…iain had great names for those things…so…that particular looking shit up is even my idea of a good time…I’d be inclined to recommend it…it’s quicker than reading the books & gets you a feel for why the place those came from might be a place that you could stand to invite yourself for a spell measured in pages that keep your eye off the clock
…I’m just saying I’m busy enough that having to come up with a prize that isn’t a no-prize like stan lee invented by mistake in an attempt to say there were no losers that read marvel books…I mean…2000AD said an extra-terrestrial thrill-seeker named tharg was their editor & offered galactic groats in lieu of bart’s elephant…but…iirc…cut some postal orders in pounds sterling that found their way back in a self-addressed-envelope enclosed…as was the style at the time…in the one the entry or submission had been sent in to them in by some lucky reader…there’s…ways…if you put your mind to it…I just only want to go to that kind of effort if someone can…freestyle the right answer?
Not a clue.
…in fairness…if anyone asked me what order to read all of those books in a not-insignificant part of me would feel like if I really liked them I’d tell them to save that one for last because if I had to pick a favorite it might be that one & maybe it’s not fair to the others if you read those after it because they won’t quite hit that high…which…other than being wildly subjective…is also more believable as a thing you might notice with some than others…in that some are just more fun to read than others…& some are…oblique enough that someone I know who’d read most of them missed the bits that located one outlier into the whole Culture context when that came out…it’s…pretty much a game-of-thrones-y story you could be confused to have found on a shelf in the sci fi section
…but…aside from maybe the short stories…like…the state of the art, I think the collection is…to sort of get your eye in…arguably the particular one I picked my hat-trick for today from tells you everything you need to know about what the Culture is & why he wrote it to be that way…also…I could probably bang on about it about as long as I could the man who was thursday
…technically…those are all clues, I suppose…which you’re welcome to…but you’re maybe even more welcome not to bother guessing…or even necessarily be interested in the answer…homework is not a thing I get to set people who voluntarily put up with me running off at the keyboard…let alone if they pull off doing that gracefully?
I DON’T NEED TO READ CAUSE I’M FUCKING BRILLIANT LIKE HUMAN PUNCHING BAG ANDY TATERS! YOU CAN BE DISAPPOINTED ALL YOU WANT MOM/DAD!
Dude’s been knocked out several times. I’m not shocked he’s talking bullshit after the neurological damage he’s had (probably severe CTE)
…so…I know @brightersideoflife niftly decoded the word-adjacent vomit in that thing about “clavicular”…but…I listened to that podcast & I wasn’t even a stranger to most of the terminology…or at least things I wish I’d never wound up learning some people are familiar with were familiar enough that the ones I hadn’t heard I could guess enough from the context to “get”…&…I still didn’t really “get” some of the ones I thought I knew…so…clavicular is a looks-maxxer…though I believe they themselves don’t say that takes a hyphen
…he…uhh…is a proponent of a “technique”…in which you purposefully…uhh…hit yourself in the face with a hammer…so that you can develop a more chad-shaped face
…that…is not libel…or slander…that…is a thing…that he did…& recommends…to people who pay attention to him because they’d like for as many people to pay attention to them as pay attention to him…& they think that’s how all of that…not in the sense that it does because apparently this is an actual causal chain of effect for a whole-ass sphere of affect…so in that sense it “works”…but…like…they think it *works* works like it does what they think for the reasons they think & that’s why if you have the secret decoder ring for the hidden matrix…they…rule?
Sounds about right, but to be fair, he was apparently quite stupid before the beatings.
Moving beyond this particular asshole, in general, every time I hear “oh, I don’t need/want to read” I assume that person has literacy issues, which generally stem from conditions like dyslexia.
Rugby would like to have word, M(eghan) K(elly) Ultra Racist.
Also since pro footbawl is 75% black and hispanic… uh, watchyou talking about?
Or you just talking mostly about the owners?
…she’s talking about who owns the stat for the spike in DV incidents on superbowl sunday…with…weird pride for a…not-a-guy…cheerleader, I guess
According to Musk’s ex number 1. Emol likes to run away when things go sideways for him.
He, like Trump, desperately wants to be loved/popular. Desperately. So the second he starts getting pushback, he bolts. Trump, on the other hand, just digs in and starts screaming “LOVE ME” and doesn’t grasp why that doesn’t work