Chip Smith

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.

If they always suspend students for missing class, sure. If this is greater punishment than the school would normally give for missing class, then it is a problem.

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

How Johnny Mullenax Turned a Tulsa Bluegrass Brunch into a Music Fan Must-Do Johnny Mullenax turned his weekly bluegrass brunch set into a career: He'll play major festivals this year and opened for Turnpike Troubadours.

If you are not yet on board with Johnny Mullenax and the bluegrass brunch he presides over at Tulsa’s Mercury Lounge, @rollingstone.com has some reasons for you to remedy that asap

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f the law is going to claim to be a self-regulating profession, it has to ban the lawyers in DHS who made such a willful misreading of “arriving aliens,” ban all the lawyers who defended and enabled the actions of ICE, and the AUSAs who played along.

On top of what we do to ICE/DHS directly.

“Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Please, come take my hand
Girl, you'll be a woman soon
Soon, you'll need a man”
The guy who sang that turns out to be a creep? Huh

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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what is with these people and dogs?

I’m not defending her

Why do you think Maxwell is a danger to staff or inmates or herself today?

As powerful a visual as one can imagine about how insincere “tough on crime” types are when they claim they put victims first.

They only see victims as useful tools for advancing their desire to engage in punitive social control.

Victims who do not advance that goal don’t count.

I will never forgive Trump's administration for making me side with big pharma.

VS MIAMI (OH) 178 YDS 2 TDs VS TEXAS A&M 157 YDS 2 TDS VS TULSA 304 YDS 5 TDS @ COLORADO 174 YDS 4 TDS @ NEBRASKA 189 YDS 4 TDs VS MISSOURI 154 YDS 2 TDs @ KANSAS STATE 320 YDS 3 TDS VS OKLAHOMA 215 YDS 2 TDs VS KANSAS 312 YDS 5 TDs @ IOWA STATE 293 YDS 4 TDs VS. TEXAS TECH (IN TOKYOI 332 YDS 4 TDS VS. WYOMING (HOLIDAY BOWL) 222 YDS 5 TDS TOTALS 2,850 YDS 42 TDs

thinking about Barry Sanders’ 1988 game log, staring blankly into the middle distance for a long time

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.

Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

I’m a Bixby dad - I was proud of the students at Jenks today!

Many of the schools in Houston Texas walked out this afternoon to protest against ICE.
When one student was asked if he was afraid of being marked absent or suspended his response was ‘if that’s what it takes to protect people and use my first amendment rights, I’m ok with that’.
Be like these kids!

If they win, I bet they don’t hand it over to that jealous asshole.

the stupid 'talent is a gatekeeping mechanism' thread that's going around, three posts reading: tired of having these arguments so i'm gonna lay out the STARK reality of AI for some of you privileged fucks: 1. "talent" is a gatekeeping mechanism that has created a culture of professionalism that is no less of an ivory tower than academia, a moralized proxy for access to time, training, money. 2. being poor means having to make hard choices like: [a] drawing something yourself in a way society would call "bad" (i.e. unprofessional) [b] sacrificing resources you don't have to pay a real artist what they're worth (or learn yourself) [c] not doing it at all, or [d] using AI. “just don’t use AI” is a luxury position. when people moralize choices made under scarcity, they’re pretending the menu is the same for everyone. it fucking isn’t.

no great artists have ever struggled, a famous thing about artists that we all know. everyone prior to three years ago lived lives of luxury.

havenwatch.org

Photo of Paul standing off to the side and smiling next to a big title slide that says NEVER SEND TO KNOW ON WHOM THE BOOT STOMPS; IT STOMPS ON THEE

Photo of Paul in front of the podium now, with the title slide in the background

Screaming about @gowder.io and this keynote title slide

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Exactly. I worry that the use of AI means the author is not doing the intellectual work to fully understand the issue, their position, their position’s weakness, the best counter-arguments the other side might make, etc. If a writing sample used AI, the candidate better explain how it was used.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

All in all, while Le's frustrated asides got the most attention, this hearing is most shocking for how little control there is over ICE. Even an experienced and respected AUSA like Anna Voss can't get them within a mile of compliance.

This is extraordinary

Are these districts court nominees? Because if so, part of their upcoming job will be to deal with witnesses who refuse to answer questions. They might have to order those witnesses to answer or hold those witnesses in contempt. I wish the Senator would ask them how could do that part of the job

I just read your article and largely agree with it. A frustrating (for defense attorneys) reality in sex crime trials seems to be another example. Evidence that in any other context would be too unreliable to be admissible is routinely allowed in these trials.