Kevin Ford

A tweet by Elon Musk in which he wrote the word “Texas” over an AI-generated image of himself wearing clothing and a hat meant to evoke cowboy culture, which, much like Texas itself, was created by Spanish colonists.

¿Quién quiere decírselo?

I mean… who can be certain what Jesus ever thought? 🤷‍♂️

(Sorry. Copy editor humor.)

I appreciate that the internet has made everyone into an amateur investigative journalist. But actual investigative work requires aggressively checking, double-checking, and trying to poke holes in your own work — not just rushing to publish because you want to believe it's true.

Eleanor Beardsley’s take was that they were just happy he didn’t insist that the U.S. “needs” Greenland. That’s where the bar rests these days.

Too Middle Eastern.

The Syrians brought Ma'ccarona Be Jebneh to Italy in the 9th century.

a cartoon of homer simpson standing in a grassy area Alt: A cartoon of Homer Simpson disappearing into a shrubbery.

Murphy: "Tell me the values that stitch together white identity."

Carl: "Church... foodways... music..."

Murphy: "And those are being erased?"

Carl: "Well, look at the Super Bowl halftime show. It wasn't in English!"

The ghost of Ponce de León:

Or suburbs. It’s mostly desert.

A sentence in the CBS News story about the recent airspace closure over El Paso that refers to the Defense Department as the War Department, an unserious appellation used by unserious people who are apparently unaware that only Congress can authorize such a name change and it hasn’t.

Jennifer…

“They said it couldn’t be done.”

Who said this? When and where was it said?

Happy Birthday from New Jersey, USA, Ben! 🎂

So he admits that he watched it.

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.

A photo of actor Sterling Hayden portraying the character of General Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove”. Hayden is chomping a cigar while uttering the phrase “Total Commitment.”

When reached for comment, a Department of Defense official told Business Insider, "There is no Department of War directive requiring service members to see this film, though the film is fantastic."

"This" is a fantastic opportunity for Pritzker to paraphrase his fellow Chicagoan Roger Ebert's retort to a similar remark from Vincent Gallo.

Picture of a German shepherd, a Great Dane, and a pair of blue-and-green swim fins.

That's a solid lineup right there.

Why Knoxville author Reed Massengill's 'Portrait of a Racist' remains relevant The new edition of "Portrait of a Racist" includes an afterword that recounts Reed Massengill’s participation in Byron De La Beckwith's third trial.

So does this mean the murderer's own nephew will need to retitle his book? /

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that stage of society when school children share the bond of having endured the camps together

People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Print copy of the Christian Science Monitor newspaper.

You might be on to something there.

Presidents Park, Columbus Day, 2029:

(Whoever is President):
“Today, in celebration of Italian heritage month, it is my great honor and privilege to unveil this statue, a lasting tribute to that great Italian American…

(removes drape with a flourish…)

…Antonio S. Fauci!” 🇮🇹🇺🇸

(crowd applauds)

Shirley reportedly built his channel with shock and prank videos in the late teens, while he was still a high school student. After graduating in 2020, Shirley, a Mormon, took a hiatus during 2021 and 2022 while he completed a religiously ordained mission.

A masterpiece of a graf right here:

Some of us have read “A Moveable Feast” and got the joke.

"The point of the Fourth Amendment, which often is not grasped by zealous officers, is not that it denies law enforcement the support of the usual inferences which reasonable men draw from evidence. Its protection consists in requiring that those inferences be drawn by a neutral and detached magistrate instead of being judged by the officer engaged in the often competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime. Any assumption that evidence sufficient to support a magistrate’s disinterested determination to issue a search warrant will justify the officers in making a search without a warrant would reduce the Amendment to a nullity and leave the people’s homes secure only in the discretion of police officers. Crime, even in the privacy of one’s own quarters, is, of course, of grave concern to society, and the law allows such crime to be reached on proper showing. The right of officers to thrust themselves into a home is also a grave concern, not only to the individual but to a society which chooses to dwell in reasonable security and freedom from surveillance. When the right of privacy must reasonably yield to the right of search is, as a rule, to be decided by a judicial officer, not by a policeman or Government enforcement agent.’’ Johnson v. United States, 333 U. S. 10.

So... Johnson isn't familiar with Johnson? 🤔

Given the constant refusal of these “officers” to ever provide any identification themselves, “presumed” might actually be appropriate in this case

He was probably just trying to end the back-and-forth.

A fair question, though given the correct spelling, grammar, and syntax, it’s unlikely Epstein wrote it.

The agents appear dismissive of his constitutional concerns.

"I'm not getting into the legality of everything," one agent responds tersely.

Northern District of Georgia:

www.gand.uscourts.gov/MJdir/CMS

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