Justin

I can't believe I never considered the obvious advantage to Amazon of selling a "find out who stole your Amazon packages" device.

Oh, interesting — good note! I'll probably just plan to rely on roadside assistance for that scenario. Not sure my emergency kit can handle yet more gear. 😆 Thanks for the addition though!

I spent too long without a jump kit in my car. Not dumb jumper cables, which require cars on both ends; a paperback-sized battery with built-in cables for jumping small/mid-sized cars. Great for emergencies and helping strangers!

Unfortunately, the price has doubled: www.amazon.com/dp/B08V88B82M/

Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?

Stay for the stories about Baby Zohran

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

I mean, if Musk announced his plan to begin ranching frogs since the average frog weighs 50% more than a cow, you'd think that someone at the FT might pause before putting "frogs, which on average weigh 50% more than cows" in a news story.

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This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

I think it’s supercool of the authoritarian panopticon doorbell company to name themselves after the demon video that kills you in 7 days; almost as cool as the authoritarian panopticon precrime software company to name themselves after the evil demon orb that puts its users in thrall to Sauron.

Elon alone could use his wealth and position to secure adequate food, water, and electricity for everyone on earth. He chooses moonbase tourbus instead.

I'll campaign for the Democrat who promises to seize these and give them away to, I dunno, domestic solar manufacturers or Somalian daycares or something.

She also would have explained that she was staying at a hotel because she had been receiving death threats as a result of top officials in the government denouncing her in the media, and because she was trying to be in a location where she could facilitate her self-surrender at the federal court several blocks away. As previously explained, the government through United States Attorney Daniel Rosen himself refused to allow Ms. Levy Armstrong to self-surrender at the courthouse but instead insisted on arresting her at the hotel where one of the arresting agents video recorded her arrest on his cell phone. Despite the agent promising that the video would not be on Twiiter, a photo of her being arrested was placed on DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's Twitter Feed, and then digitally altered to portray Ms. Levy Armstrong in a false and derogatory light and published on the White House Twitter feed.

Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.

The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.

This is the first Super Bowl in memory where I have heard a variation of this joke possibly dozens of times, including in my home.

That’s not to diminish yours but to observe that the cultural power dynamic seems to have significantly shifted!

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

I literally groaned.

if I can use this clogged toilet to make you a meal in 5 seconds, and you are going to use an entire kitchen and take all day on making a meal by hand, whose meal do you think people will want to eat, checkmate luddite

(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones)

WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere.

SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?

A tweet from @ futurevictim_ that reads "the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard"

Never Forget

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The aesthetic of 90s P&S film is simply stitched into my bones as the aesthetic of memory itself.

Bad Bunny at the halftime show demonstrates not controversy, but the fact that this country is now a pluralistic modern nation containing vast cultural diversity, achieved through heroic effort against a flank of confederate-sympathizing bigots who are the most coddled little babies of all time.

You can be one of the most popular figures on the cultural landscape and it won't matter; if white racists don't like you, you're controversial and polarizing. White racists are meanwhile never framed as divisive or polarizing, no, they're always "concerned" or "anxious."

The degree to which legacy media starts with the premise that white racists and badly-socialized men are the default heroes of the American story is extraordinary. bsky.app/profile/jens...

“millennials are the only generation after leaded gas and before the social media proliferation”

guys: we were also the only generation to have WISHBONE and BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY. let’s think about THAT.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

An under-appreciated piece of this story is that one of the more liberal members of Congress met with clergy to discuss ICE/DHS, and she found herself to the *right* of several faith leaders whose support for abolishing ICE was so intense that they got into a genuine spat with her over it.

Granted…

The federal clearance of Renee Good’s murderer—ordered either at the behest of Trump or by “working toward the Führer”—sends an unmistakable message to ICE et al, that they can murder anybody in service of Trump, and they will never be held accountable. That’s why Dems must loudly say otherwise.

The orders, they said, came from senior officials, including Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, several of whom worried that pursuing a civil rights investigation — by using a warrant obtained on that basis — would contradict President Trump's claim that Ms. Good "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over the ICE Officer" who fired at her as she drove her vehicle.

The investigation into the murder of Renee Good was terminated because the findings might undermine Trump’s declaration that she had driven over an ICE officer.

If you’re tracking signs of fascism, “no research that might have findings counter to Dear Leader’s claims” is a big one.

Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”

This is a great observation. I hadn't been able to put my finger on this line but, yes, this is it. There are for sure prominent Dems who are to the left of Spanberger who have zero fight in them, and I'll take one Spanberger over ten of them.