Grant Smith

So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

And even worse, it appears the #WHCA chose to appease him by booking a magician as entertainment and abandoning the tradition of a comedian roasting the president. If he's unwilling to accept that tradition, they should not have invited him, in addition to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's list.

"bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide." apnews.com/article/suic...

So they basically told her that if she flew back she'd be thrown in a notorious concentration camp

Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

A photo of Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaking at a rally in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Dec. 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C., overlaid with the headline, "Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online."

"The laws will lead to more data being collected on kids, which predatory companies can then use to target them in more invasive ways," writes @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. interc.pt/4s5Rr7u

US ICE arrested journalist in Nashville without arrest warrant, her lawyers say A reporter working for local news outlet Nashville Noticias was arrested by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Nashville without ​a warrant, an emergency petition filed by her attorneys i...

Rodriguez Flores is from Colombia, has lived in the ​U.S. for five years, and "frequently reports on stories critical of ⁠ICE," her lawyers said in a court filing in the U.S. District Court ​for the Middle District of Tennessee. www.reuters.com/business/med...

Look at my counterterrorism chief, dawg www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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.

For the Student Who Said Grammar Doesn’t Matter When People Are Dying What can kill is unclarity. The misplaced modifier, for instance: Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. Did the wind have no hope? Clearly the writer meant, Having no hope, he wasn’t moved by the wind. But someone no doubt had told the writer about the passive voice, to avoid it at all costs, like passion, and the writer, feeling with a chill how costly life can be when we are passive (the lover’s last knock unanswered at the door), opted for this construction. Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. The difference is between mystery and confusion, between the wind’s stillness and a soul that won’t be opened. And why not? Why can’t the wind hope? I don’t know. I just know it matters. Everything matters. What is erasing what. Who is bombing whom. It took me all day to misunderstand correctly: Forgetting their children, the conquerors destroyed them. —Joseph Fasano

It matters.

“NBC's Kristen Welker asked Mullin what should happen to babies born in the United States whose parents are deported, given that the children are U.S. citizens under current law.

'Well, they should go where their parents are,’ said Mullin, of Oklahoma.”

oh GREAT now i have to completely rewrite my script "Fuck Plane"

We've now got a "I don't have a question, but I have a comment" guy talking about ICE agents facing "extreme violence."

Kristi says she'll "let them know" he said that, and Kristi, no you won't.

Oh my God

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.

Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.

Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.

This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻

really hope people figure out soon that the future we're speeding toward on the internet, where age — and what will often mean identity — verification becomes the accepted global norm, is not just going to affect 15 year olds who want to post on TikTok

Not in our database: Corey Lewandowski.

Lewandowski has a special status as a "volunteer" DHS.

Yet he is also signing off on contracts and policies.

Here's one of 'em!

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. -James Baldwin

Tapping the sign

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Prairieland ICE shooting trial jury gets closer look at 'antifa' materials defendants owned Anti-fascism, anarchy and the abolition of ICE were common themes in literature and paraphernalia investigators found in the defendants' homes and cars.

“Zines are really like this little atomic unit of freedom of the press with simple pamphlets that you just pass around. It begs the question of whether the prosecution believes that we should have a First Amendment in the first place” #ZinesAreNotACrime
—Lydia Koza, wife of defendant Autumn Hill

What was Bill Pulte’s charity really funding with this mystery donation? It gave $65,000 to a nonprofit that records suggest is an LLC linked to Trump's legal defense.

In 2023, Pulte’s charity donated $65,000 to a nonprofit called One World Love LLC for “assistance to underserved people,” according to annual tax filings.

But our investigation found no charities with a matching employer identification number or the name “One World Love” anywhere in the country.

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

The green card appointment meant to secure her American future instead ended it. Federal agents arrested her less than one hour after she arrived in the Sacramento immigration field office. By the next morning, she was in Mexico.

Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Iranians mourn children, teachers killed in school strike Iran buries children killed in missile strike on girls’ school

At least 175 people, many of them children, were killed in an airstrike Saturday on a girls' elementary school in Iran www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Sifting through newspapers from May 1861 all afternoon it's mind boggling how much time has been devoted in the 20th and 21st century to arguing that the Civil War was a war over slavery given how many newspapers in 1861 are saying with their full chest that it was a war over slavery.

I’ll add, lawmakers engaged in a moral panic about kids and social media want to destroy all of this and destroy open source software generally all so they can enact a mass AI surveillance state and censorship systems. And big ppl on the left continue not to mount a challenge to this!