@edearl56.bsky.social
Recovering journalist and PR weasel. Author of hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers.
Max -- Head of Security.
20.06.2025 02:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 028-year-old Pedro Luis Salazar-Cuervo, who has no known criminal record, was accused by Texas police of being in a Venezuelan gang because they found a photo of him posing with another man with tattoos, his lawyers say.
From ProPublica partner @texastribune.org:
See, most of the time when people say something is Orwellian, they are full of it. This, on the other hand, is actually Orwellian.
20.06.2025 01:39 β π 739 π 208 π¬ 32 π 4CA Rep. Jimmy Gomez on whom federal agents are targeting for immigration enforcement: "With this administration, if you're brown and you're walking on the street and you're in this country, you're guilty until you prove you're a citizen."
20.06.2025 02:28 β π 234 π 63 π¬ 9 π 3βSchrader dismissed as βcompletely preposterousβ the argument that ICE agents need masks for their protection when βhundreds of thousands of police in the United States go about their daily job of enacting coercive force while having a name plate and a badge number.ββ www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
20.06.2025 02:35 β π 1046 π 234 π¬ 7 π 1Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium.
ICE says it wasnβt them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? Theyβve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
Daisy, queen of the front porch.
04.06.2025 04:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'll be appearing at this event. Come see me and a passel of talented fellow writers. Buy a book or three.
04.06.2025 04:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Read? The Gazpacho Police and Peachtree Dish lady?
03.06.2025 21:32 β π 23530 π 5367 π¬ 1204 π 303Step up your game.
28.05.2025 20:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Breaking news: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is ending his agency's recommendation that healthy pregnant women and healthy children receive the coronavirus vaccine.
27.05.2025 15:58 β π 2853 π 1065 π¬ 710 π 311HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were βcorruptβ and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.
27.05.2025 19:24 β π 5939 π 2267 π¬ 1091 π 489Prime Minister Mark Carney said during an interview with David Cochrane on Tuesday that heβs been having conversations with major European partners about Canada being part of a build-out of their defence industrial base. Carney said he wants to see βsomething concrete thereβ by Canada Day.
27.05.2025 23:13 β π 1306 π 244 π¬ 38 π 11Budweiser Unveils Social Anxiety Bottle With 900% More Label To Pick At
17.05.2025 19:00 β π 24351 π 2273 π¬ 248 π 188In these perilous times, you need a strong dose of hard-boiled crime fiction with a Western flair to steady your nerves and give you hope. www.amazon.com/author/jimne...
17.05.2025 22:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
10.05.2025 14:08 β π 13500 π 5417 π¬ 1217 π 500So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
10.05.2025 15:06 β π 40006 π 11386 π¬ 990 π 488Why risk buying AI dreck when you can get high-grade hard-boiled crime fiction from an analog native? www.amazon.com/author/jimne...
07.05.2025 05:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.
06.05.2025 19:27 β π 16187 π 5476 π¬ 1192 π 1034Go away, Max sez.
07.05.2025 05:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats to the White House correspondents who failed to stand in solidarity with the AP and now get to stand by their new peer, a dipshit podcaster and Putin stooge.
Dont complain, you earned this.