James 🎃 Harbeck

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Very confused how Texas Army National Guard soldiers would be deploying to Chicago tonight. This was just announced yesterday, right? You would be hard-pressed to deploy an XVIII Airborne Corps alert unit this fast, much less a Guard unit. Either this was in the works weeks ago, or something is off.

YouTube video by Moran Wasser J.S.Bach - Toccata & Fugue BWV 565 - 11 String Guitar

Good night, everyone. Sleep well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cA...

It was a beautiful Sunday in Portland. Farmer’s markets, the Portland Marathon, peaceful protests, and some views of Mt. Hood. This city is vibrant, peaceful, and resilient. We do not need a federal occupation, and we sure as hell don’t want one.

you're telling me that these photos aren't of the same person?

Cop kills kid

"An officer performing his sworn duty was involved in a shooting that resulted in hospitalization"

Ice kills kid

"A swarm of satanic 3rd graders aimed a bazooka at the American flag so ten of us stood around them guns all crossed like the boondock saints and put them down like dogs"

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

Ford says he'll yank Crown Royal from LCBO shelves if Diageo closes Ontario plant | CBC News Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will pull Crown Royal off the shelves of the province's liquor stores should Diageo, the global company that produces the iconic Canadian whisky, go through with its ...

Living in Ontario is just an endless groundhog day with two press cycles:

1. Free the cars
2. Booze

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

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zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition.

It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

Zelda Williams has asked people to stop sending her AI slop videos of her father Robin Williams:

"It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want"

"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting [stuff] out of the lives of human beings .. [and] art and music"

A big friendly-looking cartoon cutout with a sign on it telling people “PUSH BUTTON FOR CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE” and a small sign above the button saying “THE CALL BUTTON HAS ALERTED A SALES ASSOCIATE THEY WILL BE HERE SHORTLY” and, right on the button, a smaller sign saying “OUT OF SERVICE”

Canadian Tire.

I’m in Jimmy’s on McCaul. Jimmy Carter’s chalk likeness greets us from the wall behind the espresso bar.

Summer bonus round office

Karella: some of you have been insufficiently effusive about moonflow
Karella: apparently under the impression that i am too gracious to say anything
Karella: wrong!
Karella: i see everything and i'm a little bitch

And taxes in Canada are comparable to US taxes.

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

An old metal sign with peeling paint, mounted on a wall where bricks meet stone, reading CAUTION FALLING SNOW FROM ROOF. The photo was taken in August 2024, on a day no colder or snowier than it is today (it is very warm today).

One film photo of a sign each day, all month.

6. Leitz Minolta (Leica) CL, Voigtländer 40mm f/1.4, Kodak Gold 200. College Street, Toronto.

We’re only 9 months into this presidency and he’s already sending troops from red states into blue states while clearly stating his motives are political.

If you allow a government to break the law because of an “emergency”, it will create an emergency to break the law.

This is insane. I was at the Portland protest yesterday. We were peaceful. We stayed off ice property. They came out and attacked us with pepper bullets, tear gas, shoving, pepper spraying in eyes. The injustice is horrific. This was a group of all ages, neighbors, portlanders

We are creating piles of money so big that they destroy the human brain and then that brain destroys the world.

In a side lane, on a brick wall, an old sign saying Paul Magder Furs Customer Parking Please DRIVE UP TO HERE. Below it, artful graffiti of a face in profile.

One film photo of a sign each day, all month

5. Rollei 35, Kodak Gold 200. Spadina Avenue

The Proud Boys From Brazil

Breaking: Judge Diane Goodstein’s home was burned by MAGA, who are using mob tactics to run the country into the ground and Americans will be murdered in the process.

Past September Judge Goodstein temporarily blocks S.C. Election Commission from sharing voter data with DOJ.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

I’m wearing swim shorts, a tropical shirt, black leather Rockport loafers, and a ball cap, and holding a Pentax Spotmatic and a New Yorker bag

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