aquifolius

this graphic is everything. this is why people overestimate the prevalence of violent crime and terrorism and support punitive police measures.

they are quite literally distorting reality in order to keep you scared of the wrong things.

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

One of the things I have been skewering local conservatives with is that their own protests were significantly smaller, and yet they'd like to treat the No Kings Protests (my own issues with them aside) as these tiny, aberrant gatherings.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
trib.al/9Sxu9IN

Hesgeth saying "no fats, no fems" to a bunch of generals like his Grindr profile doesn't already list that.

Rest well, my queen.

🥳

is this not just kidnapping?

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

If the Democratic plan for the next election doesn't involve an overhaul of the Supreme court so that laws like this don't stay on the books, there's going to be very little point.

The video of Candace Owens and Charlie Kirk just goes to show that when you don’t let theater kids pursue what they’re born to do it backfires spectacularly

only the Sieve of Eratosthenes

especially if it's maths

most times you've got an "al" the best bet is Arabic, in my experience

if he didn't, he'd fabricate one soon enough

I refuse to feel bad for someone who has repeatedly told me that being killed while shielding my students from gun violence was less important than preserving the 2nd Amendment as he interprets it.

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Alright fellow nerds, I'm perfectly willing to make it (and have started) but someone please tell me there's a parody version of "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" but it's about Brian De Palma's "Carrie" already in existence.

That's what happens when you design a program to make art, =P

Yep a good-faith critique of learning loss would lead to proposals for a massive, New Deal-scale investment in public education. The people pushing the narrative are doing precisely the opposite.

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel

"We cannot do everything, but we must do what we can."

"My friend Victor like saved me though, because he laid on top of me. But he got hit."

10-year-old describes witnessing Minneapolis shooting.

J.D. Vance Heckled With ‘Couch F*cker’ Chants During D.C.... JD Vance was confronted by angry hecklers at Union Statio...

“‘Oh look, it's couch-fucker,’ one person shouted in a video shared on social media. Another added, ‘You gonna fuck a couch, buddy?’ As the heckling escalated, chants of ‘Go fuck a couch, JD Vance!’ and ‘pussy boy’ filled the busy train station.” www.complex.com/life/a/marke...

It’s funny how your “coalition politics” somehow dosnst include

“Tell dude not to be a transphobe”

That’s probably an easier lift

With regards to marriage equality, remember:

They have already overturned Roe.

They're coming for Obergefell.

They're coming for Lawrence v. TX.

They're coming for contraception.

They're coming for no-fault divorce.

The only thing that will stop them is if we come for them.

"Don't dream it, be it"

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Been trying to figure out how to sum up my LARP experience in 300 words or less. Shadows over Campus was expensive, but for me, worth it. I was leery about returning to LARP, and the Nordic and blockbuster approach reminded me of all the things I love about fully enacting a character for a weekend.

That white Marine who fatally strangled a homeless black man on the subway got invited to Trump’s suite at a football game and got a job at a vc firm.

They’ve definitely told us what it is.

There were so many ways in which the adults in that film could briefly inconvenience themselves to support two children, the oldest of reads as middle schooler at oldest.