Eric Ritter

Seeing how the Seahawks are about to be sold, one of the things I am reminded about is that NFL owners will give millions of dollars to Trump as President and do promotional events for him but never let him buy a team in the NFL because they thought he’d be terrible for the league

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses.
I could write a novel about this email.
prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

But if you forge men in fire the fleshy parts are incinerated. Ashes and bone fragments don’t defend an empire.

When Marc Maron interviewed him years ago he had mostly dropped the character and was directing independent films.

Or one person who speaks Spanish

Yes, Santa Clara (where the Super Bowl is) actually is quite clean and crime-free. Some might go so far as to call it “sterile.”

Or Humbert Humbert. See this is the benefit of an Ivy League school. Even the engineering profs are well read.

"I have the perfect editress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde."

Is this a Yale professor in 2011 or T. Herman Zweibel from The Onion?

I knew it!

Reminder: TPUSA is meant to appeal to high schoolers and college students.

Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.

10/10 ICE protest sign

“How to zap a man…” and Bella Abzug in one issue. It was a time of intellectual and social fermentation.

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

The StarTribune live blog is paywall free:
- The man shot by federal agents this morning has died
- Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building.
- ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said.

www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Protester sprayed with chemical irritant while agents pinned him to the ground Protesters gathered on Blaisdell Avenue in south Minneapolis between 28th and 29th streets after federal agents detained two teenagers, according to witnesses. Protesters were shouting and tensions escalated before agents began detaining observers like the man seen below, who was pinned to the ground when a federal agent sprayed a chemical irritant directly into his face.

Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.

What about this falls under ICE’s jurisdiction? Surely they can’t just round up anyone protesting ICE’s mission on the grounds it impedes their investigation? Or maybe they can, I don’t know. I thought there was an injunction.

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

Meanwhile the oil companies don’t want the oil. What are they supposed to do with it? Add it to their collection of oil reserves they leave undrilled because Economics?

I remember thinking “why would they open Jurassic Park again? All those people died!” Or “why would they have another summer camp at Crystal Lake after Jason killed all those people for seven consecutive movies?” but it’s gotten to the point with things where it’s like yeah they’d do that for money

Bring back cars with radiator grills filled with bugs.

I just googled the Venture Frogs and apparently they were seriously legit.

In the ‘90s, I worked at a startup that pitched to a VC firm called Venture Frogs. They made their money inventing Advertising on the Internet (tm). Their VC firm was also a “sushi” restaurant.

anymore

In the absence of a mass audience, targeting evangelicals as a niche might make business sense. None of my Godless friends watches network tv any more.

This is a triumph a low-effort journalism. 1) “Here’s a pic of Sabrina Carpenter smoking,” for clicks. 2) Reporting requires you get some quotes from antismoking activists. They return your calls immediately, because it’s their job. They line you up with other sources. *This story writes itself.*