Todd Rhodes

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded


BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

Diego Luna has been nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the Critics Choice Awards for his role in ANDOR Season 2 🏆

imagine US political culture if Ford hadn't pardoned Nixon, and instead he went to jail

The “ham sandwich” trope exists because prosecutors know they need to get past the grand jury to get to trial. As a result, they don’t bring any cases to a grand jury that won’t pass. Otherwise it’s a waste of time. Only a dope brings a case to grand jury that won’t pass.

Agreed. It’s just gambling. Like with sports betting or the stock market, there’s always some way someone will work to defraud the game (e.g., insider trading) but if the predictions are well-stated, it’s not much different.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.

If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

“violent fantasy became an obsession, according to former Trump administration officials…“Fucking kill them all,” Trump would say. “An eye for an eye.” Other times he’d snap at his staff: “You just got to kill these people…Other countries do it all the time.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Randy Rainbow’s annual post makes a similar point.

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

Grunt work is, by definition, boring and tedious, but in many fields, that’s how you learn. At the moment, those of us who have done it can tell when AI gets it wrong. If you never do the work, you never learn, and can’t tell when AI is wrong.

The bigger risk is students who never learn how research a topic or write original text and young employees who have no “grunt work” to do to teach them how to do higher level tasks.

Kristi and Kash’s taxpayer-funded travel adventures continue.

An Important Information Film. Please share widely so that more people receive the information.

Tickets: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs

US corporate media has largely decided that their viewers and readers just don't need to see things like this anymore.

Terrific

Native American woman nearly deported after Polk County Jail issues ICE detainer by mistake A Native American woman from Arizona was nearly deported by federal immigration officials after a clerical error at the Polk County Jail. The woman's family had to scramble to prove she was Indigenous...

ICE abducted Leticia Jacobo and tried to deport her, she is Native American. Polk County Sheriff’s Office, which held her for ICE, admitted that it was a ‘clerical error’. Her family fought through layers of bureaucracy to stop her from being disappeared. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Booooo! Those are great.

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

In normal times, it would be a major scandal for the President to direct his AG to criminally investigate his political opponents to deflect from his own involvement in a major scandal — and for the AG to immediately announce she is doing it. The Epstein scandal and cover up just got even bigger.

YouTube video by Major League Soccer Carles Gil and Bruce Arena are not happy playing in the snow

This was a fun one.

youtu.be/HRbPeDELuOk?...

Are there other big boy sports that play outdoors in February?

The March games at Gillette have been horrible. Even if they take off January and a couple weeks off in February, it will be brutal when the Revs are home.

The “This is between the Wizard and I” line in the Wicked commercial is driving me crazy.

#Wicked #grammar

The Senators listed in the bill are: Lindsey Graham, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Josh Hawley, Dan Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, and Cynthia Lummis.

Screenshot of a tweet from Joyce Carol Oates posted on Sunday, November 9th that reads "so curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates--scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. in fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. the poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world."

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Never forget who sold us out:

Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen

Do not cave