Jesse Crooks

I don’t know if it would fix me, but it would replenish my collection of black Hanes pocket tees.

Your tax dollars at work.

Having suffered the pain of a tooth infection I can unequivocally say that this man died in absolute agony. The type of nerve pain that will have you screaming and wondering quite rightly if you’ve gone insane

This man was tortured through neglect, and everyone involved is an irredeemable monster

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

What’s their 16mm setup? Do they have one in the booth or do they have portables they set up in the auditorium?

‘Amora,’ ‘Anorak’ and the Fine Art of Getting Movie Titles Wrong

My alltime favorite was the lady who tried to order tickets for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by requesting “three dogs for Miss Pet Pee.”

Our highest failure rate was for Synecdoche, New York. Lots of “Schenectady,” lots of SIN-uh-dōsh, lots of blank stares from folks too confused to attempt it.

Backlit filmstrip magnified under a loupe showing a white woman reclining on a red leather chair holding a color reference card. The whole image is fading towards pink.

Spotted a new-to-me leader lady today which is like catching a new pokemon for me 👀👀

David Ellison Unveils Sweeping Vision for Warner Bros: “This Is About Reinventing the Business” HBO Max and Paramount+ will be merged when the deal closes, the mogul told Wall Street early Monday morning.

yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)

Flea as seen through a microscope, one of the many wonderful images from Micrographia (1665), the groundbreaking work of microscopy by English polymath Robert Hooke, who died #onthisday in 1703. Featured in our essay “Scurvy and the Terra Incognita”: publicdomainreview.org/essay/s... #otd

It started wholesome, but ended in bitter rivalry.

Cool name for a security company… unless you have any knowledge about the Praetorian guard assassinating and scheming against the emperors they were supposed to protect. 😂

Men will start a war in the Middle East instead of going to Hell.

Seems bad!

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Not many people know that Alex Acosta started his career as the Eraserhead baby.

With some steroid injections in my knees and back I’d have a fighting chance!

A lot of problems in this country could be solved simply by enforcing anti-monopoly laws

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

Still very bad for the industry, but maybe a little less very bad.

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Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

There is actually a problem with the system… copy the link and paste it into a browser and it works.

What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

Good link:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

And most of them were slave-owning shitbags.

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: An @npr.org investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

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Sewickley father detained by ICE as 6-year-old daughter begins cancer treatment His arrest came just two days before his 6-year-old daughter, Maria, began treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

ICE abducted a father of a six-year-old who is undergoing cancer treatment in a suburb outside Pittsburgh on Sunday and took him to a detention center in West Virginia.

The cruelty is boundless.

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

NEW: If Attorney General Pam Bondi’s team wins this case, thousands of immigrant moms and dads could be exposed to deportation for minor involvement in the juvenile court system, a new realm for President Trump’s deportation regime.