I’d be ok with just ruling out that first option

I’m sure RFK’s CDC will get right to the bottom of what happened here and prevent it from happening again /s

This isn’t even the worst thing to come out of Rankin County in the past few years, they’re home of the police department that the media dubbed the goon* squad for their habit of just straight up kidnapping and torturing people. Like, they only got caught because a dumb bastard forgot to unload his gun before doing a mock execution and accidentally shot the tongue off of someone and they couldn’t come up with anyway to make the forensics on that look like anything other than what it was (they did try to argue they were somehow defending themselves for a few days).

*Slang changes fast, okay?

“felt like a kidnapping.”

In related news, these snozzberries feel like like snozzberries

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Economic events that are bad for most people in a state can very easily be opportunities for oligarchs who have the money to invest in the right things. If getting a bigger slice for themselves means a smaller pie overall they’re ok with it.

Was he supposed to raise his hands or throw his weapon away in the split second between when he realized the person in his driveway was a cop and when he got shot? I don’t think he had time to do both.

He needs a t-shirt that says “If you see me running, try to keep up!”

You’re the only program that loads quickly enough on my pile of junk machine to write down my impulsive ADHD ideas before I forget them so I can forget to read them later

tl;dr this guy did a horrible thing, but based on the number of brain injuries you can read about him suffering over the course of his lifetime I really doubt he was legally competent, and either way I think the death penalty is dumb and does as much to retraumatize victims as offer closure

Either way, please wear a helmet when riding motorcycles and yell at your lawmakers to make sure neonatal units have the best possible resources to maybe prevent people like Wendell Grissom from going so far off the rails

Naked Kennedy Center Staffer for president!

67,000 white South Africans have expressed interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status

Have they? Because I see a news story about an unofficial private business organization that was founded in Atlanta in 2020 handing a list of purported names to the South African embassy. They very easily could have made all these names up as a publicity stunt hoping it would land some of their members new business from racist Anericans.

Constituent Kristin Fellows, 62, asked the Democrats how they are pushing back against Musk and President Donald Trump.

“We know that you are against these current awful happenings going on in the world, but it is simply not enough for you to repeatedly tell us that you are,” Fellows said, according to the Associated Press, and the question was met with a round of applause from the audience.

“My job is to be more than just an activist. It is to answer the call when there’s an immigration raid and we need to figure out where our people are,” Slotkin said. “All of those things require me to be more than just an AOC.”

Slotkin ought to know where “our people” are since she voted for legislation requiring any immigrant who’s baselessly charged with petty nonsense like shoplifting to be detained (archived).

But calling her a tourist in the headline is a clear misrepresentation

Sure thing, and if you stay over at a friend’s house and make the bed in the morning it’s their legal obligation to report you for not obtaining a proper license for your housecleaning business first /s

Not that they owe my country any favors or anything, but given their own history I would have hoped this German government agency could do something a little stronger than “this is not a travel warning, just reminding all you plebs to listen to border guards if you don’t want to be tortured”

Also just gathering troops in a blue state’s territory for [redacted], nothing to see here.

It shows the marine band capitulating to the will of this shitty evil scumbag president, and it shows kids having to make do with an improvised group of individuals who will not have the same ability to preserve their program as a government backed effort.

It’s resistance, which we desperately need and which we desperately need to be getting into news cycles, but it’s no kind of triumph, and confusing it for one will only make it harder to fix the damage this shitty evil scumbag has done.

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That would actually be more honest than what he’s doing - he’s violating court orders and ignoring the constitution while claiming he’s not, so now all the pundits will say “Is America in a constitutional crisis? It’s hard to say…” when it very much is not.

The fact that he was too scared to call out Trump by name in this “rebuke” suggests against that happening with Roberts