Driftless Thinking

I used a gift link, but the strib site is wonky to say the least.

“Oops all bad apples” Cereal with rotten apple pieces and a riot cop.

It’s just a couple of bad apples. Shouldn’t have impacted the quality of the rest of the barrel.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Ex-Minnesota State Patrol trooper pleads guilty to federal child pornography charge The trooper is seen wearing his uniform in the videos he created, charges said.

Modern policing is rotten right down to the foundations.

Geordi La Forge Nope/Yes meme, but the yes has laser eyes in the visor: NOPE: "Do Not Comply In Advance" - bossy - already a cliche - implies permission to comply later YES: "Fuck You, Make Me" - leads by example - directs yelling at opposition instead of allies - easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

The function of a system is what it does.

Trump: “will no one rid me of this meddlesome senator?”

Chuck Schumer: “I’m worrried that the Millers are going to blame us for the shutdown.”

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

There’s always money in the banana republic stand.

This really makes it sound like a Border Patrol agent tried to kill an anti-ICE activist in Chicago and DHS lied to cover for him

I’m sorry WHAT??

LINK HAS BEEN BANNED?

WTAF @jay.bsky.team

Bring AJ Link back.

Banning Link is racist and petulant. I will never be the smartest person in the room on ATproto, but I know mean-spirited retaliation. This is mean-spirited retaliation

I know we’re resigned after so many years of it but for real, social media giving high-ranking elected government officials the ability to harass individual private citizens by name for an audience of millions as a recreational pastime is actually Caligula shit if you think about it

it’s forever and always fuck the police and abolish ice around here

He also blocked the child tax credit continuation, throwing kids back in to poverty, helping seal the un-electability of Biden/harris because so many families stopped being able to make ends meet. Centrist dems have been popularly ruinous.

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

Thank you for sharing this. I loathe it deeply. This is a stumbling stone in my path, leading me to the dark side.

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“The big news Whom do Americans blame for the government shutdown that has crept into its second day? A flash poll by The Washington Post finds that 47 percent of Americans blame President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress for the partial government shutdown, compared with 30 percent who blame Democrats in Congress. A significant 23 percent said they were not sure. The poll is full of fascinating findings, including that political independents are more than twice as likely to blame Trump and Republicans than Democrats. Meanwhile, Democrats are more likely to blame Republicans (at 87 percent) than Republicans are to blame Democrats (67 percent).”

NEW: A flash poll by The Washington Post finds that 47% of Americans blame Trump and Republicans in Congress for the partial government shutdown, compared with 30 percent who blame Democrats in Congress.

Despite having media on their side Trump losing bigly www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why ACA tax credits for 22 million Americans are at the center of the government shutdown drama With time running out to avert a government shutdown, millions of Americans who get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act could soon face sharply higher premiums.

Next year’s Trump tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires would pay for insurance tax credits for 22 million Americans FOR THREE YEARS. He shut down the government down for wealthy. The middle class pays the price.

That’s why we won’t stop fighting.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/gov...

Olivia Pope, from Scandal, wears a light colored suit and crosses her arms.

Not sure. I think he has a daughter…

First they came for the REDACTED…

Even as a goyim, this just reeks of absolute institutional rot. They were either going to prioritize ethno-nationalism or they were going to resist antisemitism. Can’t do both!

So unexpected that letting people keep their freedom, safety, and not be arbitrarily deported to foreign torture gulags might resonate with voters….

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Papyrus - SNL

Goes double if it's papyrus.

Movie poster for “high flying bird”

Phee is playing the game on top of the game. And she’s gonna win.

“generals gathered in their masses to listen to gigantic asses“ headline is sitting right there, which outlet is going to step up

Sending peace and healing. Anxiety has kicked my ass these last months. But I’m still trying, asking for help, watching the Thunderbolts with unreasonable amounts of “hey, that’s me.”

I think the work you do is neat and I’m super glad I’ve gotten to meet you a little on here. We deserve hope. ❤️‍🩹

Oh, they know they can still do it. They just choose to do so only on the silliest, most banal subjects known to humanity. Or KOSA and online censorship.