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same energy as when my abuelo gave up trying to learn any of my/my primas’ boo’s names and called them all jaime.
for the record, no one in the family had ever dated a jaime.

Coca-Cola paid $3 billion dollars for this ad

have fun! - from an old fart who saw them in the 90s

sluggo, smiling with his arms spread wide: Wow! Dis sun feels great! Nancy, frowning: I don't like the sun!

Ernie Bushmiller predicted social media decades before the Internet existed

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

What Ken Paxton is doing here is deranged -- suing organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants (especially immigrant children) -- and also we should see it as the test case for what the GOP wants to do.

this is so cool

every police department in the u.s.: “give us weapons of war, your entire municipal budget and qualified immunity!”

Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.

NEW: A judge in Washington has ruled that police images taken by Flock’s AI license plate-scanning cameras are public records that can be requested as part of normal public records requests.

The decision highlights the sheer volume of the technology-fueled surveillance state in the US.

large 20-foot tall concrete lined sewer tunnel. in the distance three people stand with head lamps on their hard hats, looking toward the camera as they stand in ankle-deep water.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

This is not the first time we've seen federal agents direct chemical agents indiscriminately at members of the public in Chicago. Not at people attacking them or even protestors, just people going on with their day.
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Either my closed captioning translator is off, or Trent Reznor wrote the German national anthem.

chow chow dog seated in the grass, arching her neck awkwardly to stay focused on a fly directly above her head

there was a fly.

literally crying watching mona perform 🥹🥹

my spouse keeps a tin of emergency googly eyes in the car, highly recommend

amazing, congrats!!

"Prompted their weapons to become visible" is some Olympic level copspeak.

1000000000000000%

This is absolutely insane

this article is spot on. gave me flashbacks to when i worked in a similar facility in texas. i left when an influx of teen boys left the shelter extremely violent, fistfights every night, one kid hospitalized. i was shoved while holding a baby. i didn’t last a year.

As Minneapolis Votes, Some Struggle to Keep Police Violence in the Spotlight - Bolts Five years after George Floyd, the mayor and his allies on city council claim credit for vast improvements, but critics keep pressing the case for more discipline and police alternatives.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council.

@pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license

Flock Safety audit logs obtained and analyzed by EFF reveal that law enforcement agencies across the US have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide ALPR network. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
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these guys are always convinced they are Very Special Boys.

Re: the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System "Mobile Field Force."

These are cops from departments in the suburbs (ex: Oak Brook, Lake Forest, etc). When they're not at protests as part of this team, they're working regular beats. We don't see them in Chicago because CPD has no need for them.

Last night, the National Guard chased children who were out enjoying Halloween in Navy Yard.

There is no valid reason for armed soldiers to terrorize children like this. End Trump’s occupation of DC. National Guard out NOW.

I can’t emphasize what a massive deal this is.

The Fourth Amendment will cease to exist if this stands

42 million Americans who rely on SNAP benefits will not receive assistance in November. Right-wing media are using the opportunity to attack the program and its recipients while others are using SNAP recipients as a cudgel against Democrats.

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“ACPC uncovered that the Atlanta Police Foundation had not raised the money they needed to raise in order to build the facility, and so the Atlanta City Council was actually about to vote to give them [dbl the $] the city had originally told the public that they were going to give to this project.”