Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:Β
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
@jbird2.bsky.social
Via Chicago. He/him/his. I talk to people for a living
Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:Β
"In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.
Oh god do I feel this one
10.02.2026 23:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is. Turns out any competent organization needs people who can write and think and learn and occasionally point out βhey this is stupid bullshitβ- another filthy liberal arts educated person
10.02.2026 19:39 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0honestly mob bookies handled this more responsibly
10.02.2026 15:19 β π 471 π 65 π¬ 14 π 3History will look back on the last ~20 years as the era where Americans went out of their way to make shit suck more for no reason
10.02.2026 15:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0post a banger thats not in english
09.02.2026 21:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Could someone who speaks Spanish please call us immediately, it's important
09.02.2026 03:33 β π 258 π 13 π¬ 4 π 0Screenshot of a recent Instagram post from the account of child model Lincoln Fox showing a photo of a five-year-old in a brown shirt and blue pants with the caption, "I booked a cool gig! Can't wait to share it with you guys."
A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...
09.02.2026 02:46 β π 3655 π 935 π¬ 22 π 138Bad Bunnyβs Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity. And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding. www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
09.02.2026 03:02 β π 1649 π 294 π¬ 17 π 30When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
07.02.2026 23:41 β π 7425 π 2341 π¬ 129 π 109wait wait wait ...
TUMBLR.
THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.
Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*
I will always maintain the world is beautiful if you know how to look
07.02.2026 04:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Not enough booing for these 2 IMO
06.02.2026 21:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.
I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
The future rules lol
05.02.2026 17:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Bulls blowing it all up at least 1, maybe 2 years after they should've for a couple bags of basketballs is so on brand. Ecstatic that I can just focus my energy on baseball now
05.02.2026 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βIβm a heel, so I canβt really endorse the crowd, butβ¦ you hear βemβ
05.02.2026 03:10 β π 1569 π 137 π¬ 8 π 3AEW Crowd with a βfuck iceβ chant for Brody King ruled
05.02.2026 03:03 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The last ~week on this website seems to confirm what Iβve always kinda-sorta figured was the case: social media, and context/algorithm free social media, ainβt worth it.
And Iβm just some pud! If I had an actual following I would push social media as far away as possible from my orbit
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
04.02.2026 19:41 β π 12919 π 3427 π¬ 240 π 241journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact
04.02.2026 17:20 β π 3307 π 618 π¬ 54 π 43This summer is gonna be long, hot, and long-term destructive to everything here looking at the forecast models IMO
04.02.2026 15:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0β.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..β
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...
Out of all the absolute bonkers things the Trib has allowed to appear under their logo, this post is among the most bonkers
03.02.2026 22:36 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If a guy isnβt buying me beer with his newfound riches I do not want to hear gambling stories
03.02.2026 21:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
03.02.2026 20:46 β π 11467 π 3360 π¬ 306 π 882Gonna miss this dude all things considered, but excited to see what this team will look like next season and possibly spend money for his jersey that should be 80% off right now lol
03.02.2026 20:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0(Itβs a mistake to post again in this thread but here goes lol)
This is largely the point I was trying to get at in my Peter quoted post. Not my best post! I left some words out but figured my larger point would land. It didnβt. Thatβs on me.
Seeing the thread spiral today has been v fascinating
i do think that if you find yourself spending more than a few minutes a day obsessing over what another person who's largely politically aligned with you said or did on a social media website, you gotta go touch some grass (and i am talking about a lot of people here, including myself sometimes)
03.02.2026 19:04 β π 458 π 57 π¬ 20 π 7ICE hasn't stopped brutalizing people or shredding the Constitution, it's just that corporate media turned the camera as the call for action got too loud and the Democrats stepped in and made sure the issue got changed.
If you sit for a second, you'll recognize that's what happened with BLM, too.