CJ Ciaramella

The town this story focuses on, Woodburn, Oregon, is just south of where I grew up. Nice little town where people are just trying to make a living. I used to buy tortas from the food trucks on the side of the road when I was driving through. Reading this makes me want to [redacted]

"I'm willing to take a not guilty. I'm willing to take a no true bill."

What she means is she's willing to bring legally deficient cases that harass innocent defendants, waste her line prosecutors' time, and makes her office look like jerkoffs in front of judges and juries.

ICE sent Maryland detainees to Arizona before congressional oversight visit For months, the overcrowded, bleak conditions on the sixth floor of the George H. Fallon Federal Building have drawn attention from Maryland lawmakers, a federal judge and the state’s top prosecutor.

NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty.

What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out.

Story for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

If you wanna be a degenerate, that's your business, but you should have to drag a kid to the dog track, like my uncle and dad did with me.

The federal government isn't supposed to detain immigrant children for longer than 20 days.

But when a Russian asylum seeker with 5-year-old twins asked why they'd been held for longer, an ICE officer falsely claimed the 20-day rule had been voided.

Says who? he asked.

"Trump," ICE responded.

instant PTSD for anyone who does recognize it though

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

We took the train from Paris to Avignon, and it was pretty easy.

Went to Paris and Provence last year, and Provence was 💯

I showed Claude the raw data from my running watch and asked it to critique my training. It told me all the stuff I already knew I was doing wrong, which was extremely rude and unhelpful.

oh no

Fuck yes. As someone who once got a Wine port of Skyrim running on a deprecated Macbook (windowed, at lowest res), this is beautiful.

He was arrested over bogus drug tests. Now he's suing. Greenwood County Sheriff's deputies were convinced Bryan Getchius' prescription pills were fentanyl based on notoriously unreliable field tests.

ICYMI: Last month I wrote about a guy who got arrested based on notoriously unreliable roadside drug tests that flagged his prescription IBS pills as fentanyl.

This week he filed a civil rights lawsuit against the sheriff's office reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

In an ideal world every room and every office would be lit like early season X-Files episodes.

you could argue that, in a sense en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fl...

This is also how France convinced it itself for six decades that it needed to build a trans-Saharan railway, even though all its expeditions got massacred or died of thirst.

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute.

Damages awarded: $42 million.

www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

what if I told you dried pinto beans weren't the stupidest things cops have confused with illegal drugs reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

I gotta know more here. Did the cops witness a hand-to-hand bean deal and get confused? Did they test the beans or just eyeball them? How many officers did it take to incorrectly identify dried beans?

bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown

"FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"

Everyone who gets involved in the conservative movement eventually has to be honest with themselves about what it is, and they either make their peace with it, leave, or get thrown out.

Mulder pulling guard

He was arrested over a bogus drug tests. Now he's suing. Greenwood County Sheriff's deputies were convinced Bryan Getchius' prescription pills were fentanyl based on notoriously unreliable field tests.

Latest: The guy from my recent feature who was wrongly arrested after roadside drug tests flagged his prescription IBS medication as fentanyl has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the South Carolina sheriff's office involved reason.com/2026/03/11/h...

A video game where each run is Gordon Lightfoot going back in time trying to save the Edmund Fitzgerald from the evil gales of November

The Boom in Autism Therapy Is Medicaid’s Fastest-Growing Jackpot Some companies have found lucrative opportunities to capitalize on a growing need, extracting payments as high as $800 an hour.

It was in reference to this, which I haven't read or have an opinion on www.wsj.com/health/healt...

I read the phrase "private equity-backed autism centers" today, and every day I'm more convinced that we're living in David Foster Wallace's dystopia.

🇮🇹🤌🏼

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.