Undercover of the Crepuscular

I was just going to say there’s a lot of “don’t go in the house” energy

ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

But enough about ICE

Not every octogenarian is Trump.

Another good one from that year

Compadre!

Four Tops "Reach Out I'll Be There" on The Ed Sullivan Show YouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show

That's almost impossible but

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This account is an op cicada

He really pulled a “but I have Black grandchildren!” Repeatedly.

If only there had been recent examples of this strategy not working in Asia.

i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing

yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it

Drone strikes in Haiti.
Drone strikes. In Haiti.
By private contractors.
They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention.
The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

Hunt for Gollum? Forget non-canonical. It’s just flat out stupid.

Yes

We are in this mess in great part because Joe Rogan spent all four years of high school ducking classes and smoking weed in the parking lot with the JV wrestlers.

It’s worth pointing out that Jerry Ford wasn’t the manifestation of Satan

Any lawyer still using AI to write briefs - and they are legion - is playing Russian roulette

Sinema and Manchin retired and Fetterman is just one guy

The guy who covered it up later became Defense Secretary

The College Republicans of America have named Kai Schwemmer as the organization's political director. Schwemmer is an avowed and overt supporter of racist antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

At the time that struck me as pathetic woe-is-me stuff, but now I appreciate it

There is a constant fantasy of adding white working class voters to the Democratic coalition without any offsetting consequences. It's a byproduct of thinking of Black voters as fixed objects and not humans with agency.

And no one ever learns.

Man.

The world fucking is on fire.

So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people.

Live whats left of your only life.

If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul.

Fuck the haters.

The citizens of a democracy absolutely 100% do hold moral responsibility for the leaders they put into power because that's how a fucking democracy works.

Great quotes in military history.

@atrupar.com

Rand Paul: "As far as reasons for the war, there have been many different ones floated, but none have been very convincing... we were told their nuclear weapons were obliterated, and now we're told their nuclear weapons are just moments away from being a bomb. I don't think the arguments are valid."

It now appears clear that Jeffrey Epstein did NOT off himself, based on staff talk overheard by inmates, independent bank reports that large deposits of money were made to the guard in charge at the time, and 2 suspiciously nonfunctioning cameras.
(Source: Julie Brown, Miami Herald)

Is this Martin Trigona or another doofus?

They Helped Plan the January 6 Rally. Now Their Events Company Is Raking in Millions in Government Contracts The Trump administration has awarded Event Strategies several contracts—including one that could be worth up to $100 million—with little competition, according to federal filings.

SCOOP:

In 2021, they helped organize Trump's January 6 rally.

In the last year, Event Strategies has raked in federal contracts worth $26M, many of them with no other bidders

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Gravestone with daffodil (Yoksel 🌿 Zok at unsplash)

The Diocese of Oxford has warned against a social media trend in which well-meaning people clean gravestones in churchyards. They say “Many churchyard monuments & gravestones are made from soft stone such as Portland limestone or Bath stone, which can be easily harmed by harsh cleaning techniques.”