Laurie Brunner

What word does ChatGPT come up with?

NYT (pre-election): Vance is right, Haitians are straining resources in this Ohio town

NYT (post-election): oh, forcing the Haitians to leave is crashing the economy of this Ohio town

"It's not MSNBC anymore, Lemon. It's MS NOW. We bought the name off of a defunct multiple sclerosis awareness organization. It wasn't cheap, but we were able to save some money by selling Brian Williams to a Saudi prince who wanted to expand his harem."

disney tiktok page showing Jamie Lee Curtis with a low cut top

disney really said dump em out jamie

Respectfully, Mamdani & AOC aside, I am neither impressed nor motivated by New York Democrats. Y'all seem painfully corrupted by the corrupt, moneyed oligarchs that control NYC.

You only care about protecting billionaires.

You give me major ick.

I'm never going to get over the fact that the Republican Party uses women and children as a pretext for anything, as they despise women and don't care about children. They want women to die giving birth, and they cut ever program designed to help children.

I don't know, Melissa, I think he has a point. I mean, if I wasn't a lesbian, or if I spent less time reading and more time cooking & doing laundry by hand, I bet I too would be incredibly attracted to alpha males who like to hit women who disagree with them, or who enjoy abandoning their families.

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Nearly 50 men spent hours in a small holding cell asking for water, food and medication. Instead, officers dressed in riot gear sprayed the room with rubber bullets and launched “flash bang” grenades. The men had overflowed a toilet in protest, and the ground was covered in putrid water. Smoke filled the air. Loud “booms” rang in their ears. Some men began to cry. Officers handcuffed them with zip-ties that cut into their wrists. Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article308076975.html#storylink=cpy

“I’ve seen some inmates just sit there and cry. Some cry all day."

The conditions abducted migrants are subjected to at Miami Federal Detention Center are so abhorrent men staged a protest by flooding a toilet.

Authorities responded by assaulting them with rubber bullets and flash-bang grenades.

Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

NEW: We obtained DHS data that shows the US knew only 32 of the 238 Venezuelans deported to a prison in El Salvador in March were convicted of US crimes, only 6 of those violent. Trump called them “savages,” “monsters” and "the worst of the worst.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Yes.

I don’t know how to read this and not come to the conclusion that we are now living in an authoritarian dictatorship, run by a crazed dictator who is not bound by any laws.

A Venn Diagram. In the left circle: "Comparing getting a 'free' plane to the Statue of Liberty". In the right circle: "Talking to my cat". Text in the overlapping center reads "Ooooh, big stretch!"

I disagree.

Two house cats lounging together on a blanket.

Hiccup & Charlie just chilling on a lazy Saturday evening.

This administration is filled with criminally stupid people. The United States is going into decline because the stupid people won.

The Trump Admin Is Going After People Who’ve Defaulted on Federal Student Loans They could seize wages and tax refunds.

For the first time in five years, student loan borrowers whose payments are long overdue could face stiff consequences, and that puts a disproportionate number of women at further financial risk.

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

Please highlight this story.

ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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But, having seen it twice, I can say that much of the dialogue is very mumbled. And since Ryan Coogler thanked Christopher Nolan in the credits, I have to believe he has bought into Nolan's "make it difficult for your audience to understand what your characters are saying" way of movie-making.

I watched "Sinners" for the second time last night--accompanied my nephew as he was seeing it for the first time.

He didn't love it, and that kinda bums me out, as I think it was the best artistic expression of Black American life I have ever seen onscreen.

I think a large part of what is driving my chronic depression is that the justifications/arguments made by all members of the Republican Party/MAGA cult are so easily refuted and debunked...and yet millions of people believe them anyway.

For example: No one is preventing him from driving his car.

@kristinestone.bsky.social Happy to hear you are on Bluesky!

But I heard OPSEC was clean?

I feel the need to repeat that Slotkin got 23,847 fewer votes in Michigan than Kamala Harris did.

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

There has to be a German word for never having heard a song before and yet having heard it hundreds of times before.

It’s a doppelbanger.

I am just a simple girl who doesn’t know much. But, I just finished watching Sinners and I know it is the best movie about the African American experience that has ever been made.

It is a masterpiece that will be studied in film school for decades.

Life will kill you.

This is a FACT.

Can I become HHS Secretary now, please?

So furious that you elite centrists determinedly pushed for this administration.

We’ve never heard it in Spanish, though. That’s how you can tell it’s better this time.

Who is Y&T?