Ethric T. S.

No agency insignia at all on their uniforms, so this is likely not DEA or ATF or FBI or Border Patrol. So probably it’s DHS, most likely ICE.

And yeah, the comment about “liberal” is really telling. These guys are wildly unprofessional.

"You know, my mother-in-law bought lots of parrot-themed art, but she didn't dress up as a parrot and mastermind a crime wave in Darien."

... or she was just that good at keeping up her secret identity

Sometimes, I seize the day like one might seize a car's transmission.

The question is, regardless of the law, will any cop agree to arrest him if he continues to refuse to abide by a court's ruling?

The modern motel lobby -- grey and sharp-edged, spare clean furniture to allude to the image of hospitality, but hard and subtly angled to discourage lingering long. A grand screen playing the same single commercial for the motel chain, looping over and over.

A strange thing about the MAGAts: unlike other authoritarian right-wing movements, there's no call to action in it, no grand plan for the masses to follow. Just a regressive narrative and false re-validation of old privilege. It's bizarre how so much pomp is put into telling "patriots" to do nothing

About a year ago, the Anchorage Museum prominently featured this character in an exhibit about diverse superheroes, Including several developed in local Innuit communities

Attacking civil institutions has become a central pillar of Republican policy, refusing to obey laws they don't like daily practice. We can't litigate our way out of a fascist takeover.

Headline says,"Judge Issues Stern Rebuke to President." The progressives clap. "Oh, that'll show 'em, that'll give what for to his shenanigans." Brother, how can you think that? It just feeds the regime's narrative, gives them another standard to kick over and crow about their strength for doing so.

The second priority of the Democrats is to oppose the Republican agenda, but the first is to suppress the reform wing of their own party.

Okay, so ... while I lived in New York, buildings exploded at least four times, including a previously innocuous french-fry shop. My metric for what rates as a "remarkable event" in a city may be a bit skewed.

It's not that I'm angry, I'm disappointed ... and angry.

I've yet to encounter a fandom of any kind of any subject that, past a certain critical mass, didn't fall to infighting over who got to define what that fandom was.

That's a deliberate choice -- aggressive hold music encourages callers to give up, keeping the queue numbers down, lessening how much the company has to pay a call center to handle their Customer Service contract.

Gotta wonder if so many retail chains have adopted bland minimalist interior decor because they realize customers aren't going to experience the space, they'll still be staring at their phones most of the time.

Close up image at eye-to-eye level, of a young black cat lying on a large cushioned armchair, head between his front paws, glancing towards the camera with the beginning of an annoyed expression

Mr Barkey weighing how much more of this tomfoolery he'll tolerate before giving the camera a well-earned swat

A screenshot of the CNN "Fear & Greed Index" for March 28th, 2025, in the style of an analog dial where the needle has entered the far left portion labeled "Extreme Fear." Under the title is a caption explaining the role of the graphic is to show "What emotion is driving the market now?"

First time I've seen CNN's "Fear-Greed" economic scale, and I find it hilarious -- its so much the opposite of the demure insinuation that used to define the tone of financial reporting.

I've a bad habit of packing for every trip out of town like it's a months-long expedition into uncharted territory, no matter how brief or proximate. Every possibility needs to be anticipated, with backups, until my "overnight" bag is two suitcases and a backpack.

Me, a person who adores diner breakfasts. Also me, a person who regularly sleeps past noon, when diners stop serving breakfast. ☹️

My self-evaluation of my ability to create -- I'm not much of an artist, but I'm a pretty good scavenger.

Seeing an emergency contact phone stand in the middle of heavily trafficked parking lot prompts thoughts about the narratives imposed on spaces by the articlfacts built there -- "this should be here because it's *this* kind of space."

"King Kong" by The Jimmy Castor Bunch -- pretty much been looping on repeat since I heard it for the first time a couple days ago

Should do it the other way around, charge admission to punch that wax figure, just churn out copies by the dozen for the ever massing crowds aching to deliver a wallop to the Orange-One's jaw.

The Perfect is the enemy of the "can we just get this over with and go home already?'

I take a lot of pictures, but rarely remember to share them. Which is odd because many, like this one, involve some bother to set up.

That moment of concerned reflection whenever I see one of those brightly colored Nerf shooters. Yeah, it's a toy ... but it's still a gun built for child-sized hands.

ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention?

www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

Heck, the guy bought one of the primary social media platforms literally to force it to stop saying things he didn't want to hear. Its all just the modern age's version of Henry Ford retreating into the manufactured Americana of Greenfield Village.

If you've ever seen him on video scoff with agitated defensiveness at even mild criticism likes its unhinged blather lobbed from the lunatic fringe -- that's because from, his perspective, that's exactly what it is. Its virtually alien to the version of reality he's layered himself in.