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Great overview of a crazy situation in Chicago. A cop shot and killed his partner, deemed accidental. He had a serious rexord during his probation period, no action. His partner had been digging into guns that had gone missing and found at crime scenes. Now he assaults an off duty cop, no arrest?

YouTube video by The Intercept ICE Agents Are Wearing Construction Worker Disguises For Surveillance #politics #trump

Some ICE agents are now cosplaying as construction workers and won't identify themselves when confronted.

Read more: interc.pt/4omENQa

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When OLED TVs debuted the manufacturers knew they were susceptible to screen burn-in but only if the user has the same image on screen for like 12 hours at a time. Then a lot of older buyers burned the cable news logos into their screens because it's on the entire time they're awake.

If meta are allowing their chatbot to sext with children, are stripe going to stop processing their payments?

Update: Valve have confirmed to RPS that this withdrawal of support for Steam transactions by one of PayPal's acquiring banks "is regarding content on Steam, related to what we've previously commented on surrounding Mastercard". "In this case, one of PayPal's acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions, which cut off PayPal on Steam for a number of currencies," a Valve spokesperson added.

Big. Valve just stated “one of PayPal’s acquiring banks decided to stop processing any Steam transactions” due to content “related to what we’ve previously commented on surrounding Mastercard”

Time to start calling paypros’ banks

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Rowling petitioning for mandatory haplodidic gamete testing at every TfL toilet

I wish they'd just say "sorry, it's none of my business", and go join a choir, or talk a walk, paint a wall, bake a cake, or volunteer to litter-pick, or sort at a recycling centre.

Transphobes used to say things like 'if you have a vagina, you're a woman, end of discussion' and now they say things like 'if your gametes are diagonally haplodidic and they fall between 0.4 and 0.9 on the Strasburger Faultline, you're a woman, and I really can't be any clearer than that'

some context here is that 14th and W is a spot where a very gentrified area crosses over with still largely black neighborhoods, and that if I was, say, a filthy little racist of a doge guy that might be one of the places i was mad about.

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car.

BIG crowd of people shouting at police.

"Fuck you!"

"What is wrong with you!"

"You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

This is exactly one block from the sandwich throwing incident. The neighborhood is being collectively punished for it.

“i didn’t clock any minneapolis transsexuals in the bathroom for 50 years & i still haven’t but i’m worried i might & i might feel weird about it if they seem mannish & therefore we shouldn’t fight bathroom bans because fighting them might cost you my vote even in the face of fascism” is wild stuff.

Proof they stole training data from me personally

The vast majority of unhoused people are working. Most are priced out of their homes. Many are fleeing domestic violence. And the people in power see this and get scared and demand they be arrested and /or brutalized.

The Subway Is Not Scary Fear of the subway is a mark of low moral character.

The right wing & centrist paranoid freak out over perceived crime and homelessness and assumed criminality of unhoused people is racist, classist and stupid. Reminds me of Barbaro's stupid freakout seeing 1 unhoused person. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social nailed it www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

It’s now cool to be a giant pussy

People are being very obvious about using the phrase "feeling unsafe" in place of "being super racist" lately

kinda fucked we can't get Black & White 1 and 2 remasters or even just have someone selling a working version of them again

to this day they remain pretty unique and it would be cool to let a modern audience enjoy them

emotional NIMBYS

I'm sorry but we're going to have to do something about the people who think they should never experience a bad feeling ever in their lives. Enough.

There's plenty of room, she just needs to get over herself. Her comfort does not take precedent over trans people's rights and dignity.

Imagine this same conversation back when white people were made "uncomfortable" during desegregation. Like listen to yourself.

Is there room for us in the party?

is there room for me in the DFL? a trans woman who just wants to pee in the women's restroom without being harassed and assaulted?

Is there room for my neighbor in the Democratic Party? Someone who has been a Democrat for over 50 years and has never shared a toilet with someone whose sexual preference was different from hers? It seems people would eject her from the party if she feels uncomfortable.

Is there room for my neighbor in the Democratic Party? Someone who has been a Democrat for over 50 years and has never shared a lunch counter with someone whose race was different from hers? It seems people would eject her from the party if she feels uncomfortable.

could you please ask "your neighbor", who is definitely not you, who told her that she should be protected from ever feeling uncomfortable, even when her comfort does measurable harm to other people? thank you I look forward to hearing back from you. I mean her

CBP is deporting cruise ship crew over child pornography allegations without evidence Advocacy groups say more than 100 cruise ship crew members have been deported in recent months, and they're not being shown the evidence against them.

Latest: CBP has been targeting cruise ship crews for deportation and revoking their work visas based on allegations of viewing or posting child pornography.

But detainees aren't shown the evidence against them or given any due process before they're summarily deported reason.com/2025/08/13/c...

also a significant chunk of what conservatives mean when they say "crime" is poor and/or non-white people existing outside, which confuses the issue a lot

Will never forget when Anderson Cooper, an heir to the Vanderbilt family fortune, spent an entire segment on his show expressing sneering incredulity at the notion that interns deserve to be paid.