Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app)

VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

​Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

​Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

​​Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Clout Chasing Will Be the Death of Us All The New Yorker’s Clare Malone recently published a long profile of Jessica Reed Kraus, the QAnon-adjacent mommy blogger who played an instrumental role in Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s successful bid to be...

TODAY: @littlewow.online on MAGA gossip blogger Houseinhabit. “In the new tradition of other disgraced figures … who swerved to the right, she’s found open arms (and wallets) when no one else would have her.” flaminghydra.com/clout-chasin...

The funniest outcome that would drive them crazy is bad bunny inviting lee greenwood for a cameo lol

Call the bluff

New Chicago Prosecutor Empowers Police to File More Charges Without Review In a predominantly Black area of Chicago, police can now directly file gun charges without a prosecutor’s approval. The new program rolls back a process that serves to check misconduct.

Chicago launched a program this year that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them.

Was looking for Brenna Birds name until i realized its not here as a supporting AG because the whole thing is HER brief lol

People voted for her over tom miller and i will never find a bigger case of utter stunt voting against Ds.

Why it costs alot to be poor. You get punished if your attorney succeeds.

Plea bargaining might look different if the state actually had disincentives to charge for quantity and intensity knowing they're merely to negotiate down to real charges. Make em pay for a wide net directed at the indigent.

Nice Nobel Peace Prize you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it... or the whole damn country!

"Oh fucccccck, holy shit, bari's booking james carville! "

Next weeks bold trailblazing

US Sending 200 Troops to Israel Amid Ceasefire Deal in Gaza The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the Gaza ceasefire and establish a “civil-military coordination center.”

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza and establish a “civil-military coordination center,” U.S. officials say.
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Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Ya know, the current ongoing panic over kids being nefariously groomed by graphic novels, i realize, where were those holy rollers when i was being subjected to manhattans gigantic blue wang

You're too late, the damage is done AND i want clones of myself for my wife 😇

Bari is going to bring 90s and 00s political positions to 2025

Cutting edge of last decades rounded iphone corners

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

If joe only figured out who and when *this* way of doing things was telegraphed to its entire base and the electorate in painfully clear language

He's on the case!

EXCLUSIVE: City nixes property tax break for Trump’s NYC apartment New York City has nixed a $48,000 tax break President Trump was set to receive on his Trump Tower condo following inquiries from the Daily News about whether he is still eligible for the savings. O…

Your timely reminder that Donald Trump tried to claim NYC residence to take a $49,000 tax break on his Manhattan condo while he and Melania lived in the White House, only to get it yanked after my colleague and I caught the misrepresentation.

From the Supreme Court opinion granting Trump immunity:

"Investigative & prosecutorial decisionmaking is the special province of the Executive ... allegations that the requested investigations were shams or proposed for an improper purpose do not divest the President of [his] exclusive authority"

"Novel use." What a time to be alive. Every law student and attorney, paralegal, knew pre right now that police powers are state rights and purview, through and through.

Until the illnois doj filing. Unprecedented.

The America we used to live in—the America we want to think we live in—is gone.

We’ll have to build again.

Earlier today, prosecutors dismissed the felony charges against Paul Ivery, the man being arrested in this video.

They spelled no interest loans wrong

Sharks in the water more like

Fani is next.

This guy butt-dialed a constitutional crisis. Amazing.

Journos conflating access to articulated truths with sheer volume

To paraphrase steve bannon, to wit, trump "flooded the zone with" access, so to speak

If only there were a rational, obvious, justice and civil democratic related basis for *why* a prosecutor might want to go to trial to establush guilt prior to the accused becoming the executive in charge of the doj, pardons and court nominations. Alas, nevertheless.

"tried to accelerate" 😬

That, uncensored, is actually the first paragraph of a "lost" book of aristotles poetics at the center of a documentary called "the name of the rose."

People were murdered to suppress its truth. Pictured below, the monks sent to investigate. Elites invented fiction. Its only soviet realism for me.

If you prepay annually, the 4th crisis is free

One of us, temporarily, one of us

Sweet

Brenna Bird wants to kiss whatever ass is available