much ado about muffin

a second stop has been found on the Appalachian Trail

Mavericks fans in February:

Will, a bunch of people have corrected you here. Seems like you should clarify you were wrong for your 130K followers?

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

i repeat,

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

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it could not be more clear that the primary goals of this administration are to:

1) detain every possible immigrant, in order to
2) deport every possible immigrant, and then
3) prevent all future immigration (except Afrikaners I guess)

There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.

the evil is a big part, but also I think the answer you'd get from them is that keeping someone in detention makes it infinitely easier to deport them when the time comes

it's easy to assume that DHS/ICE wants mass detention because it's profitable for their buddies. crony capitalism, etc

but the motivation of people in power is expulsion. detention is a means to an end. their ideal end state involves GEO and others being irrelevant because everyone's been deported

they act with impunity because they have never been given reason to believe they will be held accountable for anything

and also, crucially, no deeper thought about what "illegal" means or what the systems are that cause and perpetuate such a high number of people to be here illegally, or how those systems should be changed

Trump administration’s shutdown layoffs remain on hold, following court ruling The court's preliminary injunction will block the Trump administration from issuing any more RIF notices and implementing RIF notices that have been issued.

most of the RIFs were already enjoined federalnewsnetwork.com/government-s...

This headline is journalistic malpractice. This isn't Epstein "alleging" that Trump knew. This is Epstein and Maxwell discussing - in 2011, long before Trump had political salience - how the FACT that Trump knew might play out

Both of them took as a given that this was a fact in a private email

I'm almost as tired of cowards as I am of fascists

there is nothing in here about health insurance

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom.

PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom.

DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

these are people who work in politics and public policy

I have talked to several highly politically aware people who thought that CBP was a component of ICE because nearly all messaging exclusively refers to ICE

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them.

There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

Northern California prosecutors used artificial intelligence to write a criminal court filing that contained references to nonexistent legal cases and precedents, Nevada County District Attorney Jesse Wilson said in a statement. The motion included false information known in artificial intelligence circles as "hallucinations," meaning that it was invented by the AI software asked to write the material, Wilson said. It was filed in connection with the case of Kalen Turner, who was accused of five felony and two misdemeanor drug counts, he said.

"The Nevada County District Attorney's Office has, in at least three criminal cases in recent weeks, filed briefing citing to fabricated (legal) authority," wrote lawyers for the nonprofit Civil Rights Corps, which is representing Kjoller along with a Nevada County public defender. In his petition, Kjoller, who was ultimately convicted on the firearms charges, alleges that all three cases included examples of AI use gone wrong. The petition includes examples of six cases cited in a brief filed in connection with Kjoller's bail hearing that his lawyers say appear to be hallucinations.

Now I’m just a simple country lawyer but it seems to me that if you use a predictive text generator to send people to prison you and everyone in your supervisory chain should get disbarred.
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I’m not quoting to dunk but I think we really need to start distinguishing, even in casual conversation, between CBP/USBP (involved in this case and SO many of the other most shocking cases) and ICE ($50k bonus but underrepresented in recent outrages compared to BP).

i am once again asking for a court to hold someone in contempt and throw them in jail. feels like USDA Sec Brooke Rollins would be a great choice here

pork (pulled or tenderloin) with mustard and onions, please

LMAOOOO

This "no obligation to admit" people line continues to be crap. You're under no obligation to admit people to your house either, but you can't murder them in your basement just because you let them in to begin with. Other rights apply. No right to admission, but rights to speech and due process.

“.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: ‘I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.’”

@reuters.com #Chicago
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can tell my brain is broken because I read Eugene V. Debs as a case name on first pass every single time

sandwich guy 100% committed assault, but like, c'mon. couldn't pay me to convict