The lukewarm response to the Harry Potter reboot on HBO is yet one more sign of *taps Magic 8 Ball* the excesses of Xi Jinping Thought

welp

panel with bezos and zuck in trumpian orange face, holding up bags of money for trump, bezos is saying "I'm slowly strangling the life out of that stupid newspaper I own"

When I showed this panel to the extremely mainstream audience for the Berryman Award ceremony, there were audible gasps from the side of the room with the Washington Post table.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

I kinda have to rank failing to get into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts as a better fascist origin story than failing to become a cast member of an utterly forgotten MTV reality series.

Irrevocably and permanently damaging the civil rights of dozens of ICE guys by playing the Butthole Surfers' 1988 album "Hairway To Steven" from a boombox outside the Hilton Garden Inn in suburban Minneapolis where they're all staying. JD Vance does a tweet about it that starts "Wow. Really?"

Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:

- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE

every last one of these guys believes insane things about what might constitute misconduct but every last one of them has to have some threshold at which they will plead out their client or they will lose their license.

a screenshot of google maps of what appears to be a giant snake in the ocean

a not insignificant number of people on Threads seem to believe the snow storm was The Government's attempt to refreeze the Leviathan, the world-eating serpent, which was getting loose (to eat the world, I assume)

Minneapolis, MN -

Minneapolis PD SWAT is here and some city workers clearing things out of the street in front of what I guess can best be described as the “The Battle of The Home2Suites”

the thing about a guy who professionally defends cops accused of misconduct is that they by definition accept the concept that a cop might commit misconduct as part of their job

this guy is a part-time cop defense attorney who offered legal advice to Jonathan Ross and his statement is so scathing I somehow kind of think he means it anyway?

it is telling that he left the race _after_ speaking with Renee Good's murderer

John Roberts struck down the ACA’s Medicaid expansion as a 10A violation because the law was, as he called it, a “gun to the head” of the states who did not want to help their residents.

Now Trump’s putting *literal* guns to the heads of Minnesota’s residents to force their gov’t to betray them.

Chart of front month silver futures prices for past five years

I really can’t exaggerate how completely weird this move in silver is. Markets just don’t go parabolic for months at a time. Speaks to the fundamental cause of this move in silver: momentum and nobody with a balance sheet to take the other side of the move.

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

And this Rubio anecdote—straight from Rubio himself!

This exchange in Ben Terris’s story on Trump’s health, his view on mortality and legacy, and his Cabinet’s contest to say the most over-the-top thing about his physical prowess. nymag.com/intelligence...

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor:

"Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

Jason Roth @LucidJay Replying to @Hipstercrite Once Andre 3000 was on my ferry ride to Alcatraz and I said hi. My 6 y.o. autistic son came over and started talking his ear off about German Shepherds, his obsession at the time. Andre talked to him about dogs for like 20 mins. We exchanged numbers. 4 years later I got this text iMessage Aug 30, 2017, 9:38 PM Hi Jason. I was searching for a name and yours popped up. I remember our cool encounter on the boat. Ha . How's the kid ? I'm living in nyc now . So if you're ever here please reach out.

This came up in my old posts today. Don’t know why, but it feels good to know that Andre 3000 specifically is this kind of guy.