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Soooo… We PAID for this B.S. We paid for the arrest, check the number of uniformed tax-payer funded officers. We paid for the prosecution, we paid for the court, we paid for the jury, we paid and paid AFTER the famously sandwich-indicting Grand Jury wouldn’t touch this case.

Somehow it feels like the DA should be relieved of their duties.

Wasn’t there a case of police officers badly beating someone and then claiming his blood stains on their uniforms were destruction of police property or some such?

It’s going to get significantly worse for him, too. Mamdani’s win in New York City was surprisingly decisive, opening up a whole new opposition party that might actually be popular; the job numbers look downright frightening right now; the billionaire tax cuts are splitting stock returns from the real economy even more; and the man has developed a knack for living in denial. Great Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago? Maybe a little bit on the nose, when you decide the people have to pick between food and healthcare.

I sense that “child neglect” and “federal weapons” chargess mean there was at least one gun fast and loose and loaded in the house. That sounds like a powder keg waiting to explode in any case.

Let alone open source!

Very stable genius!

Ricotta and dark chocolate for a dessert pizza

I agree with the sentiment, but the Washington Post has not been “liberal media” since Bezos bought it. I used to have a sub, in 2017, and don’t recognize the place any longer.

But why did he make such a big deal out of the fact HE was going to release the Epstein files?

[The child who died] had been left out of the sight of staff when another young person at the facility had tried to drink cleaning supplies, which required urgent attention.

After reading this, I am pretty sure this facility is the last place on Earth I would send my troubled teenager to.

Wasn’t there some documentary of a different troubled teen facility in Utah… Never mind, I entered “utah troubled teen facility” into the search bar and down comes an ocean of bad news.

“Jobs are booming” and “inflation is falling,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.

Kids, this is what you sound like when you take the devil’s grass.

Awkward. That’s his younger brother.

By a wide margin the many different projects for an open source phone OS. From GrapheneOS to PostmarketOS, from Ubuntu Mobile to Plasma Mobile.

I am sick and tired of corporations telling me how I can use my phone. I am sick and tired of corporations deciding what apps I can install, from where, and what data they are allowed to collect. I am done with enshittification and the gradual disappearing of all useful information, either behind a paywall, or replaced by monetized content.

The last straw was when Google Maps decided to replace the “gas station on the route” feature that sent you to the cheapest gas station to some other logic it didn’t disclose, but that stinks of affiliate preference.

She was a good Speaker of the House during her tenure, and she terrified the Republican caucus. Many thanks to her for that!

Maybe she stayed a little too long. She, and RBG, and Biden and so many more old-school Democrats that just couldn’t let go when they should have. So many people will be remembered not for the things they accomplished, but for enabling the chaos that came after them because they were not willing to let go of power.

Tolkien was onto something with the rings of power. Humans can’t let go of it.

What she really meant was, “By winning in 2024, the Republicans are actually losing from now on.”

Totally would be! Except the power of the National Cabal of Coffee Drinkers is the most powerful lobby in the country and you don’t want to end up in their crosshairs.

Y’all complain about Musk and about the quality issues of the hardware. I am more worried about the software and the willingness of the company to paywall basic functionality. I will never buy a car that can be bricked by the manufacturer remotely because I am not willing to pay a subscription.

That’s what I was speculating. Clearly, SCOTUS can see that the tariffs are hurting America and especially Americans, so this is a backdoor way of taking the ball from Trump for his own good.

That, or they are sick of having to pay more for their morning coffee because Trump wants a better deal for his buddy Bolsonaro.

It’s a weird article. It starts with the scientific data, summarized: NPI (Narcissistic Personality Index) scores have been increasing dramatically in the past 20 years. That is particularly true for younger people, who both have higher absolute scores and a higher increase. (That’s the data, but the article doesn’t mention it in detail.)

Then it goes on a series of wild speculations about why the scores are increasing, which is the stuff you mention. There is no data backing that up, but somehow the scientists themselves (who should know better) are quoted as providing part of the “explanations.” I think the technical term for those is WGPOYA, Wild Guesses Pulled Out of Your Ass.

I see what you did there!