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Former ICE instructor will testify as whistleblower that agents taught to violate Fourth Amendment The instructor, who is an attorney, plans to tell a forum sponsored by Congressional Democrats that the procedures in entering homes are not taught appropriately.

A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."

(Reuters $1 a week thing is a screaming good deal)

Rueters and the Guardian for me

elderly-scrolls animal crossing players are like “i HATE bill wibbly, he’s a BASTARD and i want him OFF my island, he KILLED my family and BURNT my crops” and then i look up bill wibbly or whatever and he looks like [image of a small friendly creature] Source: elderly-scrolls

this is also what it feels like to use bluesky

I loved my education.

It transformed the way I think about the world!

but I would be lying if I said the diploma wasn't valuable to my career trajectory.

(heck, i met my wife in college, i'd be lying if I said college *social life* didn't fundamentally change who I was as a person, too!)

well, they get a diploma, presumably.

(I think this is illustrative of the different ways people think about why college is valuable!)

I haven't had any trouble at all

(honestly, im half considering getting another one given that they're only $20)

can use a jowo #6 nib with a moonman m2 (*not* the whole unit, just the nib)

one of the only eyedroppers I have, so maybe someone else can give better amswer, but they *are* nice looking and very cheap.

apparently now called "Majohn M2"?

I think this is kind of a big retcon in Alien Earth, where the eggs &c. seem to be very psychic

OP has basically got it. It's a synthesis of all of these things plus race into a single arbitrary scale. Rather like "race" is in the USA.

bluesky, the north american yelling about hockey app

the "AOCification of Zohran Mamdani" is a phrase that's going to live in my brain rent free

what's so hard to understand?!?

the blob TRIED to load, and it FAILED!

"remove follower" would def be nice.

i dunno what everyone else does, but i block a lot of random follows because I'm *pretty sure* they're bots or low quality engagement spam, but I would love to have a tool besides nuclear block to do it with.

Causal inference is my passion.

personally I think the New York Times’ chief legal correspondent should know that the court was not a 6-3 conservative majority during Trump’s first term

depends a lot on the flavor, i think, but:

[magic] gain
[mana] fill
[martial] spirit
[mana] ramp

other "gain" words worth thinking about: feed, growth, tap

can just also name it something flavorful: power, charge, feedback, ripple, dynamo, etc.

I've said this before but I worry people are losing sight of what is actually happening by catastrophizing a new Holocaust which I do not see as likely.

The ongoing harm is mass deportation itself; the terror communities go through during roundups, the families torn apart, and the lives disrupted.

The endgame is mass deportation. The goal of this plan is to rebuild the entire detention system from scratch, turning it into “[Amazon] Prime but for Human Beings,” where ICE has a standardized detention system that moves people from arrest to processing to deportation as “efficiently” as possible.

I somehow ended up with four cats and what I realized too late is that I really want negative four cats - something in my house that lowers my grocery bills, occasionally gives me $800, puts things back on shelves, helps me sleep better, and mends tiny holes in my clothes, furniture, and skin.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

amd you've got to do some journalism-related stuff, you really sometimes want a person who can be a lightning rod, or who knows how these things can go wrong and can protect themselves in appropriate ways, or someone who is already so public that the extra risk isn't overwhelming them.

the very best, and best-intentioned journalists in the world will still take ownership of a story in a way that is fundamentally outside the control of people involved. and for the average person, that risk is very high, and the benefits very iffy.

but when stakes are high,

by the way, this is why it's useful to have stancil (or someone like him) being media-facing.

its a good piece, and a good profile, and stancil has consistently had his eyes wide open about the downsides of media exposure, and even still it can be surprisingly uncomfortable/unpredictable.

it was a good piece, it was a good profile

your mentions are full of rich people? :D

(srsly, tho, the difference between "hey, just checking we're all on board even if candidate sucks" and "hey, just checking we're all on board with the candidate who's cool" could be... quite a few comments!)

explain what you think the difference is