Eric the .5b

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress

The most discredited long-running joke of an anachronistic institution in our legal system has come roaring back as one of our most important safeguards simply because it involves regular citizens getting a chance to say "no, this is bullshit."

Interesting that it makes the otter look distinctly like CGI. But then, CGI effects would be the main source of "furry creature doing unusual things" imagery.

It's not ideal that the U.S. Attorney for DC is an alcoholic TV clown, but considering the present alternatives, it might not be the worst possibility. If I had to pick a fascist pig to run their anti-constitutional sham prosecutions against opposition politicians, I might well choose her.

I think a lot of them assume everyone around them is an anti-Semite, too.

More of a culture police action

We started making inroads on “criticizing Israel isn’t inherently antisemetic” and I guess some idiots came away with “antisemitism isn’t real. got it.”

I feel bad for ivermectin, which genuinely is amazing stuff that won a deserved Nobel Prize but is now forever associated with crank antiscience

Our goal in reporting this wasn't to debunk Jerry Mitchell and Mississippi Today's story, nor to try to discredit the competition (we all make mistakes).

But when I saw commenters posting "Shame on these staffers for removing the brochures"—which none of them did—it was vital to correct the record.

From the otherwise disappointing X-Men/Fantastic Four.

Same. More when I get bursts of automated follows. :(

(And yet for all *that* vetting, I think most of my followers are inactive or whatever...)

Two comic panels. First panel: Cyclops, a skinny-but-square-jawed white guy in a mask and red visor covering everything but his lower face, grins as he says, "Absolute not. You know me, Ms. Frost..." Second Panel: Emma Frost, a blonde white woman with pale lipstick and a hint of a fur stole or something similar visible below her hair, gives an arch and yet dirty smile back as Scott finishes, "...I live to serve."

I think you're safe there:

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

Also, people? Stop following back randos who follow you.

This screenshotted asshole gets about as many likes on his posts as a nobody like me, but he had 30k followers because he'd bulk-followed 32k people.

Another loss for Pirro, whose office has “struggled to secure indictments and convictions, including when a jury acquitted a man who chucked a Subway sandwich ..”

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It's getting right up there with hammer-and-sickle emoji.

I'm sure there are great Canadians on here who put their flag emoji in their handles, but I only run across the ones that seem to be Russian bots and/or are anti-Semites.

Join me in reporting and blocking.

A line from Kant that’s been ricocheting around my head a lot for the past year: “Whoever wills the end wills also the necessary means.” We’re going to get a lot of doe-eyed protestations from folks who “just wanted immigration laws enforced” & couldn’t be bothered to contempate what that entailed.

you guys, there is an entirely reasonable middle ground between “the US sucks and has lost everything forever” and “the US is the greatest and always will be no matter what” and i implore you not to polarize yourself because of people you hate on the internet

I am very happy about this!! bsky.app/profile/riff...

New painting! "Midsummer Procession", 33"x 21", Oil on Linen.

A quick note: if u find yourself face-to-face with a Mattress Firm ad starring my lovable memepooch, know that it was a legit licensing agreement and it's all on the up and up. Thank you!

Reminder that this is a *friendly* question from a GOP Senator — and Lutnick still fumbles it all!

I will never get over how the Trump admin is almost universally the least curious people you could appoint to public life.

This is such a fascinating concept though, imagine if you could go around revoking places' statehood if you hated the music enough. Sorry, territory of tennessee, should've done something about jason aldean. Tell your senators to pack their bags

You are allowed to say, "this performance was not to my personal taste, a thing that sometimes happens in a free society," and move on with your life.

The British built concentration camps during the Boer War. This cruel and deadly method of mass internment was replicated by multiple 20th-century regimes, most horrifically by Germany from 1933 to 1945, but also by the USA from 1942 to 1945.

And 21st-century USA is doing it again.

It is evil.

Swalwell's performance is first time this hearing has come to life. He brought up Lyons' comment that he wants deportation to be like "Amazon Prime, but with human beings" & is asking whether Amazon Prime ever shot a mom in the head, or a nurse in the back. Old/young Dem divide here is so stark

A fair few folks being like "oh they're LYING, they're all RACISTS" and I'm sorry but you're just wrong. Over and over you heard "trump will make it easier for my family from iran/ethiopia/india/venezuela to come here" and "he's just going after they bad guys!" They really believe this stuff

What?

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.