CJ Ciaramella

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the great unwritten Charles Portis novel

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

missed opportunity for the Anti-Deadpool Act

I covered this story at Law Dork over the weekend and am very glad to see that Gov. Ivey stopped this execution from taking place. www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-so...

Three panel comic. Panel 1: three witches stand around a cauldron while one of them stirs. Panel 2: one of the witches adds a scoop of pre workout into the pot. Panel 3: the three witches are getting absolutely shredded in the gym.

Text saying "You've read your last free article."

Jacked action hero with goon in headlock, in raspy yet firm voice:

I've written about medical neglect and torture in jails and prisons for a while now, and I don't think there's an issue that cuts as quick to the viciousness and hypocrisy festering in this country.

A jail death shocked an Alabama town. The sheriff remains in power. The jail death of a man who suffered from mental illness drew criminal charges against Alabama guards. The sheriff says he’s done nothing wrong.

Last year, I learned the horrific story of Tony Mitchell, who froze to death in a bare concrete jail cell in Alabama.

The sheriff overseeing the jail still has his job. But half of his jailers have been charged in Mitchell's death.

This is that story:

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

“Of the 279 people accused by officials on X of attacking federal officers in the past year, 181 were U.S. citizens, the Journal found. Close to half of those Americans were never charged with assault. None have been convicted at trial.”

One apple per day can keep a lot of people away if you aim really well

Currently sitting in an airplane, assuming this is great news for Charles, as is tradition.

Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

me, supposed to get my toddler to daycare on time in the morning

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

The rub is, if you raise your kids right, the conversation is minimal. Boomers sent their kids to kids to Sunday school every weekend t learn the Beatitudes and were surprised at the results.

If people need hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy because their children became aware of the existence of gay people, that's a failure of parenting.

[Sally Struthers voice] Not without your support. For only 25 cents a day you can sponsor a libertarian journalist.

getting public records, calling people up and asking them questions ... you know, they should make this a real job and have someone do it in every town.

A Minnesota Police Chief Said ICE Was Harassing Residents. Here Are Some of Their Stories. Residents of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say in interviews with Reason that encounters with ICE left them afraid and angry.

Latest: Remember when the police chief of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota held a press conference about how ICE was racially profiling residents?

I FOIA'd the police department for complaints and incident reports and interviewed two people who say they were harassed by ICE reason.com/2026/03/03/a...

'Constitutional trainwreck': Florida lawmakers seek surveillance crackdown The legislation, which has come under fierce criticism from civil-rights and free speech advocates, represents another expansion of Florida’s security apparatus under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

NEW: A package of bills advancing through the Florida Legislature would empower the governor and Cabinet to designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations” based on secret evidence.

floridatrib.org/2026/03/03/c...

Picked this up from my library a bit ago, and it's one of those books where you finish a chapter and then have to put it down and go take a walk. Just gut punch after gut punch.

I don't know if its officially part of the sub-genre, but I submit Cocaine Country Dancing by Paul Cauthen, which really nails its intended vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RlK...

"Is Goofy The Buddha" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate

the student asked the great zen master, "does Goofy have Buddha nature?"

The master replied, "gawrsh."

I like it when the kid gets banished (presumably to a hell dimension) for losing

If I go postal one day, just know it was always the leaf blowers.

Look at me, I'm an antisocial dipshit who owns a vacation house in Florida. I pay landscapers to blow leaves out of my yard once a week because I can't tell the difference between money and toilet paper.