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450mi from LI to Buffalo is my benchmark
I'm jealous. My pitas never puff. :(
Here's the complaint filed late last night. One of the named plaintiffs is as young as 10. Judge Sooknanan already entered a TRO to bar the removal of named plaintiffs, and a new TRO just hit the docket for the larger putative class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.
The list of things Unions have done For labor would stretch miles. A longer thing we'd like to see - The complete Epstein files. #happylaborday
This week’s Sunday @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
Minutiae. Labyrinth. Leviathan.
Who would be the funniest journalist to break the news
Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
Post a random picture or everything else will go bad in September
"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
I'm the woman walking directly to the Fried Pickle booth even though it's still breakfast time.
And then there was the tortie cat Who no one dared rebuke And always ran to the best rug When it was time to puke.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
A clinician friend of mine was pitched an AI service that would make an avatar & use some session recordings to create a bot version of him. The idea was his clients could talk to his bot on off-hours, with the fee split between him & the service. Except if the bot screwed up, my friend was liable.
What's the over/under odds
what has she done that would make them think she would exert any effort in that direction?
The month before a shooter opened fire on children gathered in a Minnesota church this week, the Trump administration cut funding in the state for efforts to identify potential mass shooters and head off their violence. https://cnn.it/4lS986O
On Shut The Fuck Up Friday, I'm sharing a bit more nuanced guidance. Yes, you should shut the fuck up when a cop talks to you. But how? Like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5jb...
"Her patient had signs of what could be a cancer or could be an unusual infection — diagnoses that would require completely different treatment. Ordinarily, she would confirm an infection after sending a sample to the CDC for testing ...the CDC no longer has the capacity to do that"
how furrowed is her brow?
ear protectors
This is magnificent and I laughed like a hyena.
@melissay1.bsky.social
this has been my thought at times as well.
Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years: -gender does not cause them -SSRIs, no -mental illness, no -internet/gaming, no Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo: suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
Ever notice how apocalyptic thinking has gone mainstream? There's real psychology behind this. Plot twist: The loudest collapse advocates usually plan to survive what they're trying to create. It's accelerationism for thee, but not for me. bit.ly/3HuTiB6
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
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I don't know any details abt the MN shooter. But I know whatever traits get revealed, they will be (statistically) misused in ways that inescapably malign entire groups, often vulnerable groups. It happens every time. It's called "selecting on the dependent variable," and it's a REALLY big deal.
(mf doom voice) he threw a sandwich cheese and salami, feds couldn't indict folded like origami, afraid of subway both the chain and the train, mayo salt and pepper shake your thang, grand jury shut em down twice, coca cola on the side no ice
"Meanwhile, democrats keep insisting on following rules that fascists completely ignore. They file lawsuits. They write editorials. They vote on resolutions. And fascists just laugh and keep consolidating power." medium.com/@carmitage/i...
this happens to day laborers all the time in Long Island.
A top NYPD official in charge of transportation is under investigation for an alleged hit and run of a parked car — and then trying to cover it up. “He’s in a lot of trouble,” a senior NYPD source said. “It’s a serious case.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/27/n...
yesssssssssssssssssssss
Quick question, is it bad when the dictator gets to decide who is a Jew? I’m not familiar with history, how does that usually work out for us?
Good morning #BillsMafia 👇
this post is gold
Right? I just looked at her, thinking how the women's movement had gone back about 50 years.
I love the old man on the Cracker Barrel logo. He chuckled when he heard about the man who threw a sub at an agent, and said he'd like to buy that man a beer. #crossingthememes
So that was memorable, and gave me insight into what a jury of my peers would look like, but I would like to actually serve one day.
Closest I got was I sat in a courthouse in Nassau County all day but never picked. It was the day Gov Spitzer resigned & while watching it on jury room TV, I heard a woman yell "Oh for crissakes" behind me. I turned & she said if Mrs. Spitzer had "put out," the gov wouldn't have had to resign.
Grand juries are on a roll lately
It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!
WOW. Got the reference immediately. Extremely well done.
President Trump issues executive order criminalizing the burning of the Cracker Barrel flag.
my son is texting photos from the supreme court gift shop
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
I guess I'm not liberal enough on LinkedIn, their algorithm fed me an ad to apply for a job with ICE.
So at what point do health insurance companies, realizing their bottom lines will take a hit if they have to pay more for illnesses than for the vaccines that prevent them, start pushing back against the administration's anti-vax moves?
Welcome to the Mafia, Cat!
In more tactical use of status… In the full video, he points out DURING HIS ARREST that the good treatment (no violence, etc) he is getting during his arrest is likely because he is a white man.
turns out bananas might actually cost $10
The prolonged public torturing of a single man because the state cannot admit to its errors is not something that occurs in a free country
Piano Man on the Moon
Muskrat Love Child
Welcome to the Jungle Love
But...but *you're* the mayor right now
literally every time I talk to friends
well she did not consider pedophilia inappropriate so what does this even mean
Trump unpromptedly shows reporters a photo of Putin and himself, who he says may be a guest at next year's World Cup in the US: "I'm going to sign this for him... I thought it was a nice picture of him." Putin bombed an American non-military factory in Ukraine yesterday.
Players can only play the number of quarters as their GPA. So a GPA of 3.75, you play all but six minutes of one quarter. 1.8 GPA, you're in for a quarter and 12 minutes of another quarter.
that describes my news consumption quite accurately.
The Metro Police and federal agents were caught by a group of women in Washington D.C. breaking into their car and searching through it. When the women asked what they were doing, without a warrant, the officers walk around without an explanation. Those officers got aggressive with the women. 🤬
Burn in Hell James Dobson, you complete fascist child abusing misogynist homophobic scumbag. Here's a quick 4,000 word obit that really lays out the truth about him. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/08/jame...
Nancy Mace voted No on Biden’s infrastructure bill. Nancy Mace is a liar & a phony. She also voted no on FEMA funding. Good luck during hurricane season.
You know what never gets old? People in inflatable t-rex suits visiting t-rex skeletons in museums
I was never offered a bribe as a municipal reporter, but the chief of police cursed me out and hung up on me so I guess I was doing a good job.
The question has been "how can we tell these masked government thugs from people pretending to be masked government thugs?" and the answer isn't just "we can't" but that not being able to tell is the point. Republicans want to encourage & activate independent vigilante kidnapping & brutality squads.
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Right? What made them think, "OK, this seems reasonable," and sign them in the first place?
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This read like the opening section of a feature about a murder/suicide killer. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
NEW: How a Lafufu in a shot glass tells a stark story about the dangers of this moment. It's a serious story about the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission — not to mention Trump, SCOTUS, RFK Jr., and more. Tonight, at Law Dork —>
Showing the endangered leader of an invaded country my hats
Gold-colored tackiness spreading like kudzu
Hopefully they're in protective custody. In jail, the general population would edam alive.
Someone get this man into the most expensive, best-fitting, sharpest suit possible to pointedly over-comply with this ridiculous request and to also outshine his host.
The @apnews.com story on the past 24 hours feels like malpractice to me. I don't understand how this credulous presentation works, journalistically. Half of these opening four paragraphs is just taking the Trump administration's absurd presentation as fact.
A man understandably refused to hand over his ID or get out of the car for a bunch of masked thugs who refused to identify themselves. And when he drove away, they opened fire on him. This isn’t how you do any sort of enforcement when your goal is to uphold the law. This is gangsterism.
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oh no I forgot those too... I remember thinking it would be hard for 15 but now I'm like 15 isn't nearly enough.
I was in COLLEGE and had to hang the poster of him from this film on my wall, I was crushing so hard.
OH CRAP I forgot The Producers and To Be or Not To Be
oh I have to find a place like this near me
"Power-hungry data centers have been popping up all over, to serve the boom in artificial intelligence. The Energy Department projects data centers and other commercial customers will use more electricity than households for the first time ever next year."
#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe Jaws The Godfather The Untouchables Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves The Shawshank Redemption The Game Star Treks II-IV A League of Their Own Barbie The Wife It's a Wonderful Life The Mortal Storm Grease Ok, mostly boring American popular films but a couple odd ones in there.
Right? Luckily, the scammer didn't realize BIL was unlikely to list me as his emergency contact, like the scammer claimed. (I'm in a different state, other blood family members in his state, etc.) The thought "Huh, I'm flattered I'm his EC but that's unexpected" activated my skepticism.
Yup. I got a call saying they were the police and my BIL was in an accident. Took a minute for the rational side of my brain to click in.
Hope the local animal control arrests someone for animal cruelty
“…for years, the NYC Parks Department has routinely avoided planting trees outside of NYPD precincts due to cops illegally parking their vehicles on the sidewalk.”
Experimental philosophy
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
"What I've noticed is that when justice and order come into conflict, most human beings tend to prefer order. ... And it is very, very, very tempting—tempting, because it does restore order, and only the abused party has to pay ... at least at first."
The body language here. And no typical Trump power-imposing handshake.
Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal details of Trump-Putin summit www.npr.org/2025/08/16/n...