David Metzler

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

We will steal you money from the bank unless you explicitly opt out of the money stealing option fine print on page 7. That's legal right?

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

Can we at least get our $50k back? I mean it sounds like we were promised more criminal activity and didn’t get our money’s worth.

Every screenplay for the next decade -- comedy, drama, horror, whatever genre -- will have as its villain a cowardly CEO named Bob Wyger, or Cobb Iger, or Rob Tiger, who leads an evil corporation called Dibney or Disley or something.

Nexstar — which helped get the ball rolling to suspend Jimmy Kimmel — did so to curry favor with Trump to allow a merger & expansion so it reaches nearly half of Americans.

Nexstar should be broken up. It’s proven yet again that corporate media consolidation is anti-democracy & anti-American.

Right Turn on Red: It’s Time to Reconsider - Toole Design Toole Design's Bill Schultheiss and Mariel Colman unpack why it's time to move away from a blanket approach to right turn on red (RTOR).

"In DC a pilot (banning right turn on red) at 74 intersections led to a 92% reduction in failure-to-yield incidents and a 97% drop in vehicle conflicts"

Why cities like DC, Raleigh, Ann Arbor, Cambridge & Seattle are rethinking right turn on red @schlthss.bsky.social tooledesign.com/insights/202...

Lose a billion $ project here, a billion $ there. No biggie.

Hundreds Arrested in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Site in Georgia South Korea said it had expressed concerns to the U.S. about the raid and that it was trying to secure the release of its citizens.

The U.S. carried out its largest single-site immigration raid ever, detaining nearly 500 foreigners at a Hyundai Motor battery plant in Georgia and injecting fresh risk to overseas firms eyeing American investment to satisfy President Trump’s trade demands.

Why do businesses keep cuddling with their abuser?

Update: He was sentenced to six to 12 months in jail, all suspended, and will serve 2 years on probation.

Great time for the U.S. to raid a battery plant construction site in Georgia and arrest 450 people, including executives of the company building the plant!

Ah, yes. I remember when Michelle Obama ravaged the NIH and CDC, killed off vital vaccine research and denied inoculations to millions for reasons of pure BS.

I remember this because I have Pundit Memory™️, an exciting new product that makes you able to both-sides and whatabout anything!

Portland Backs off Plan to Remove Bike Lane Protection After Public Outcry The city planned to remove a series of concrete planters that prevent cars from entering bike lanes despite their popularity with pedestrians and safety advocates.

Portland Backs off Plan to Remove Bike Lane Protection After Public Outcry

www.planetizen.com/news/2025/08...

Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪

1 student dies after being struck by car at Campbell Hall A high school student at Campbell Hall died after a car accident at the parking lot of the Studio City private school, an official said Wednesday.

An older teen in a electric SUV killed another teen in LA, too. The other kids hit might have life-altering injuries. We don't need SUVs in the cities. We don't need EVs with such aggressive acceleration.
www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/j...

Want to incent drivers like me from killing 40k people per year? Give me lower taxes for every person I don’t kill. Wow, this works on every problem I apply it to and I can keep my low expectations of gov’t!

Melania Trump will address immigration controversy, Donald Trump says | CNN Politics Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference “over the next couple of weeks” to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.

Nine years ago today:

“Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference ‘over the next couple of weeks’ to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.”

Still waiting.

Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

With IRS commissioner Billy Long saying the Direct File program is "gone," revisit our 2019 story about how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free:

I ❤️ LA…but these games are gonna 💔

Hi, former Foreign Service Officer here

The Secretary of State might be interested to learn that visa requirements and terms are generally reciprocal. We do it to them, they do it to us.

The survival rate depends on vehicle age, size, gender. A woman my age has less than a 10% chance of survival if hit by a vehicle going 40 mph. It's even lower if the vehicle is taller or heavier than a sedan

Stopping duplexes but still allowing ADUs shows that this is just to appease NIMBYs and has nothing to do with fire safety.

Shame on Gov Newsom. He claims to be and has been celebrated as being pro-housing. But as on so many other issues, he does whatever he thinks will get him attention & praise.

If it’s too dangerous to build a duplex on a 10k sq ft lot in the Pallisades, it’s too dangerous to build a SFH with an ADU. But this has nothing to do with safety does it?

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Kinetic energy scales with velocity squared.
Not only does 38 mph give you less time and distance to react to avoid a collision, making collisions more likely; but 38 mph is 60% more kinetic energy than 30 mph.
No one wants to be a killer driver. But speed and physics don't care.

Sounds like he’s building a presidential resume!