Clive Thompson

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Last month, 22-year-old Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Before the officers could handcuff her, Maria Estrada Juarez asked if she could hug her daughter one last time.

It does have extremely retro vibes!

Yeah those gears make that seem likely!

I was on IRC before I was on the web. Bringing ATproto to IRC is amazing.

A grammatically and syntactically correct appraisal

This is our bizarro world

With this war on Iran costing $1B per day, we are now at 4$B, an amount that would fund 3,200 five year NIH biomedical research grants.

😂

Nailed it

lol yes

as daft as this entire concept was, I admire the absolutely berserk amount of unnecessary quality in these components

You know it

Precisely!

Definitely a kitchen thing!

A kitchen thing that got tens and millions of dollars in VC funding and sold almost none of them lol

That’s a good guess though!

A lot of folks have guessed that, but no! It’s a good guess though, the machinery does look like it

I’ve been trying to find one on eBay to buy, disassemble, and mount these gorgeously over-engineered pieces on my wall as a piece of art

That would make a bad ass can opener! But no

Good guess! Not quite

Most electric pencil sharpeners didn’t have the tens of millions of dollars in VC funding that went towards this Edsel 😂

CORRECT 🎉🎉

Yeah it kind of does have that look! But, yeah, no

No, but dammit it would look great if this were one

Nope, though that’s a great guess!

😅

😅

I didn’t do this disassembly, but I gather it was super fun to disassemble

It does look like that!

No, but I super dig that guess

lol good catch, I should’ve blacked that out

We got a winner!!