Devin

Matthew 22:36-40: 36 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

Psh it’s not technical!

I mean, Jesus taught both of these things. It’s literally his first and second commandments.

‘Political Prisoner’ Leqaa Kordia Has Been Hospitalized, DHS Says. After Calling 16 Hospitals, Her Lawyers Say They Can't Find Her. The Columbia University protester had a fever when lawmakers tried to visit her last month — and her health is declining fast.

When Texas lawmakers tried to visit 33-year-old “political prisoner” Leqaa Kordia at an ICE facility, she’d already lost 50 pounds and was running a high fever.

By Friday, she was hospitalized. But her family still has not been able to locate her.
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This is the *sixth* year of Trump, why is the media still treating this like an experiment?

ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection.

GOD: Say less.

I have never heard a Bad Bunny song on purpose, and I have no idea what anybody was saying, but man that looked like a lot of fun

In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God and the word was

Bawitdaba, da-bang, da-bang, diggy-diggy-diggy Said the boogie, said up drop the boogie

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

The theme I see is “when they do it over there it’s fine, but when they do it where WE live, it’s not fine”.

I imagine most Wapo staff live in either Maryland or Virginia.

Third, journalists, non-profits, social media influencers, and everyday people need to be VERY discerning and careful about not amplifying unsubstantiated rumors about ICE or other law enforcement at or near the polls, because false rumors (even if well-meaning) WILL suppress the vote.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Unless my legislative branch violates the separation of powers, I’m gonna let MAGA win!

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney.

Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

Nah. It’s just a word that was never meant to escape online hacker spaces and be spoken aloud

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

This comment just makes me feel old!

I'd say they designate different levels of risk

Can confirm it's quite blurry here right now

"We're All in the Epstein Files (feat. Ross Douthat)," a podcast from February 4, 2025 hosted by Josh Barro.

"We're All Fascists Now," an opinion piece by Bari Weiss, March 7, 2018.

"We Are All Domestic Terrorists," a banner above the stage at the 2022 CPAC conference.

"JD Vance admits he is willing to 'create stories' to get media attention. Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants." The Guardian, September 15, 2024. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/jd-vance-lies-haitian-immigrants

It's not disagreement about what's happening, it's disagreement over whether what's happening is bad.

Epstein's other business was socially connecting powerful people to each other. He had international reach. Given all the emails and his black book, rich and powerful people found that service exceedingly valuable.

So... who took all that over after he died?

Appropriate for Chicago, really

Using Gendo Ikari as a persona checks out though

It’s some CS Lewis shit, actually.

And then there’s Tokyo

Obviously this guy misread the chart... but most actual adult work is analogous to the left arrow. I haven't had an exam at work in years.

Not even remotely appropriate for a law enforcement officer. Maybe for a terrorist.

Wait, what’s nasty about them? They look like hiking shoes