79-year-old US citizen claims ICE agents body-slammed him at his business, seeks $50M An elderly Los Angeles business owner has filed a $50 million federal administrative claim alleging he was body-slammed and detained by immigration agents.

tl;dr: terrorists (ICE) with mob support nearly kill a man for no reason. We do not know any of their names. We should.

Hey google...
"How many gun-related deaths were there in the US in 2023?"
46,728
"How many gun-related deaths were there in the UK in 2023?
29

CK wrote his own story and ending.

Back in the 80s, a fellow HS student in Sacto who was proto-alt-right was the angriest person I ever knew with regards to Rush Limbaugh (who started in Sac). Reason? He was far too lefty on some things.

This fits well with the current profile of CK's murderer.

I want to like this platform, but Bluesky somehow does not fulfill the social networking void. I want Livejournal, where I can ramble on for hours and come back a month later to read responses. This is too much early FB, where if there's no response in 10 mins, your post is dead.

A fast-food addicted workmate made the statement that home cooking that's not in a restaurant isn't "cuisine". Cuisine, of course, simply means "kitchen". A restaurant seeks to make a single version of that profitable but still homely. Fast food seeks to streamline it to nothing but profit.

Trump’s War on Women’s Health And what one foundation is doing to combat it

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YouTube video by CNN Stiffed by Tesla: The car company owes small businesses millions in unpaid bills

Once upon a time, my opinion of Musk could have been described as "complicated". Trump has driven countless contracted businesses into bankruptcy as well, and my parents' company was tanked by similar tactics by another similar bad actor.

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on ...

None of this needs to happen. This is people being mean for the principle of it, not for an actual goal. Empathy is the only true goal.

Emmett Till might have lived to be 84 today.

As a gamer since at least the late 70s, I've always been a fan of The Sims since it carried on from Sim City. Today, I considered playing some version again for the first time in more than a decade, and was met with this (truncated list; srsly, this goes on for many pages). Nah, I'm good.

I was doing PBS pledge breaks in the 80s, and I guess in a way I still am. Become a member of your local pbs/npr station.

Apart from more obvious world events of the past year, in 2025 what I have realised: do NOT use a company's repair facility. Even in warranty. They seem to have become disorganised chop shops. Not naming companies, but it's been an epic first half of the year for this.

A reminder that the Nazi party, in 1937, stated that their "positives Christentum", or "Positive Christianity", was not based upon Christ, but the idea that Hitler was the face of that "Christian Nationalist" religion.

We've fought this before. We won.

The executive branch is meant to be the least authoritative branch of government. It executes the orders of the legislative and judicial branches, and that's where its authority ends. The president of the US should be the most humble person in the US, if not the world.

Clotted cream finally achieved. Not quite as crunchy as I might prefer, but tasty

Spending my birthday weekend making cheese, trying my hand at clotted cream, watching old episodes of Eureka and giving the finger to the serial comma.

Opinion | Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.

When we get past this current slump, let’s truly build back better. Fast trains for the masses to see the whole nation.

'I had to carry my baby to bury my baby': Woman says she was denied abortion for fetus without skull A pregnant Louisiana woman says she will have to travel out of state after she was denied an abortion for a fetus with a fatal abnormality.

On Mother's Day, when we celebrate motherhood, let's remember there is a war on women, that women are punished for failure to carry a viable pregnancy to term, and that what many of us would like is years of activism coming to fruition, not reverting a century or two.
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It was a good look for him, and a good look for Corbyn. I love a good suit, but dark suits are a relic that should be left in the past.

Gentle reminder that if your ACLU membership has lapsed, or if you have never had one, now is the time. It is Nazi-punching time.

Americans are already seeing Trump's tariffs kick in. They sent in receipts to prove it There's new tariffs on almost everything that is imported. Some of that increased cost is being eaten by exporters in other countries, but a lot of the higher prices are being picked up by Americans, ...

> Alonso really needed to replace her wheelchair ...she would have to pay 20% tariffs on the chair, which was "certainly workable" though "not great"

> President Trump imposed more tariffs... Alonso was facing a steeper tariff of 145%. Her wheelchair was $6,000, nearly $3,500 for tariffs alone

Texas Attorney General Announces Vote Fraud and ‘Harvesting’ Charges

Not even Ken Paxton is above the law. It is time to return to a time of law and order, where a bloke who pardoned a man who murdered a cop in his name cannot be the leader.

Neil degrees Tyson Explaining the "God of the Gaps".

When the National Fascist Party and later Republican Fascist Party had a griphold on Italy, people still kept making cheese that had been done for countless generations. Rituals keep you sane.

My cheese today is a pepperjack. Ancho, guajillo, chipotle and a little arbol for heat.

BTTF2 established that the 80s were established vintage in 2015, just as the 50s were established vintage in the 80s.

International students stripped of legal status in the US are piling up wins in court Some international students in the U.S. who have had their legal status terminated in recent weeks have found a measure of success in court, with federal judges around the country issuing orders to re...

Trump brain drain. Every immigrant who fights through this Dononsense should get a free ride after we ditch the Don.

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They kinda do that to themselves. The only worse truck I have been asked to advise on is the F150 which likes to shake itself apart at mild speed. US trucks are basically a cul-de-sac.

Whey ricotta is a tricky beast. One night, it comes out effortlessly; the next, it's just milk soup. Advice welcome.