Mark Anthony Frassetto

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

I suspect the photo of the soldiers is AI, but if it's real I think it's fine to make fun of soldiers engaged in the illegal and unconstitutional occupation of an American city.

Today is the 109th anniversary of one wild day in football

I just don't understand at all what the UK is doing, both the current government and the opposition.

Your whole economy was based on being open (finance and education) and you are blowing both of those sectors up to placate some fucking losers protesting immigrants.

Charles mostly tried to do it with some pretense of legality though, right? ship money etc.

A bunch of dudes with punisher tattoos and hot topic tie dye T-shirts suddenly showing up to the Indivisible retiree protests on highway overpasses.

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

I just don't think -- "health care premiums will go up if you reelect republicans who just extended those subsidies" is a very strong message.

They need to either actually get the permanent subsidies or fail to get them in a very high profile way that puts all the blame for premiums on Republicans

This is unambiguously a scam by pharmaceutical companies to force people to buy more expensive inhalers.

This is the same scam they used when they forced people to stop using generic CFC inhalers and made them use brand name inhalers instead. Prices went up hundreds of dollars.

Dems should simply never reopen the government. We can't fund these people, we just can't.

This is the current map, which they've kept roughly the same to maintain the racial and economic line between the richer and whiter west county and the less wealthy and more diverse east county.

The weird carveout in Blue is the third most diverse neighborhood int he country.

Montgomery County Maryland added a new high school so they had to redraw boundaries and surprise surprise after initially releasing maps that diversified the rich west county high schools released new maps today that maintain the segregationist lines.

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

A trip to Kennedy space center

I am a pretty big fan of space exploration, but I don't know that I'd take vacation for this either

Record player

A record player is also a very funny prize in 2025

In 2001, the U.S. promotion was halted after fraud was uncovered. A subcontracting company, Simon Marketing (then a subsidiary of Cyrk), which had been hired by McDonald's to organize and promote the game, failed to recognize a flaw in its procedures. Simon's chief of security Jerome P. Jacobson ("Uncle Jerry"), a former police officer, stole the most valuable game pieces.[23][24] Jacobson justified his long-running multimillion-dollar crime as his reaction to Simon executives having rerun randomized draws to ensure that high-level prizes went to areas in the United States rather than Canada, although he did not take the stolen pieces to Canada.[24] He began stealing winning game pieces after a supplier mistakenly provided him a sheet of the anti-tamper seals needed to securely conduct the legitimate transfer of winning pieces. Jacobson first offered the game pieces to friends and family but eventually began selling them to Gennaro "Jerry" Colombo of the Colombo crime family, whom he had met by chance at the Atlanta airport.[25] Colombo would then recruit people to act as contest winners in exchange for half of the winnings.[23][24] In 1995, Colombo appeared in a nationally televised McDonald's commercial promoting his (fraudulent) win of a Dodge Viper.[26] In 1995, St. Jude Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, received an anonymous letter with a Dallas, Texas, postmark that contained a $1 million winning game piece. Although game rules prohibited the transfer of prizes, McDonald's awarded the $1 million as a donation to the hospital, making the final $50,000 annuity payment in 2014.[27][28] Investigations later revealed that Jacobson had admitted to sending the winning piece to the hospital.[29] In June 1996, Colombo's father-in-law William "Buddy" Fisher came forward as a winner with a stolen $1 million Monopoly piece.[30] After Colombo died in a 1998 traffic accident, Jacobson found new accomplices to help him sell the stolen game pieces.[25]

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I do love that the original McDonalds Monopoly got taken over by the mob in the 1990s

It's not even that nice of an RV!

This is such a bad grand prize for McDonalds Monopoly! It's not even a nice RV.

It was a million dollars in 2004 when I worked there.

This isn't all of them --Denied: Ford (g)(1); Sam (g)(1); Alvarez (g)(1); Judd (g)(1); Crowder (How Bruen impacts state evidentiary rules in prosecution for unlicensed public carry); Whitehead (g)(1); Thomas (g)(1); Smith and Clark (g)(3);QUIROZ (felony indictment)

Check against the Duke 2nd thoughts post

denial of what?

Today the Supreme Court released the orders list from its long conference. After granting Wolford, a challenge to Hawai'i's opt-in public carry law, the Court denied many Second Amendment cases today including several challenges to the felon possession ban.

www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

There was a whole first administration so it seems pretty reasonable to have thought it will be like the (bad) 2016-2020 but a bit worse, rather than he will actively try to establish martial law to make himself dictator for life.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state’s military troops.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason. Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

"[A]gents engulfed my car in tear gas, smashed my driver-side window, and pepper-sprayed my face.... I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. No explanation. No charges. No apology. One day, I was just told, 'you’re free to go.'" #KavanaughStop

Agree there is nothing wrong with a 70 page article (although most could probably be 50 pages) but it shouldn't be as hard as it is to place a 30 pager either.

Bad graphic design

Fox filling a third of the screen with the score and pretty obviously gambling focused stats is pretty annoying.

Right, I think here it's pretty closely tied to judicial functioning too. An insurrection was when the courts couldn't manage stuff.

If true*

He's saying individual judges were delegated executive functions that aren't part of the judicial power. Which of true seems like an atomic bomb to the unitary executive concept.

Just to develop the tax / nonprofit angle a bit more, the last sentence (allowing donors to claw back donations) would violate every 501(c)(3) organization's governing documents, and make them ineligible for deductible contributions. State orgs a little more complicated but likely same result.