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So we have yet another incident where a US citizen was shot and killed by ICE, and the official ICE account differs from bodycam footage.

This is the story that took nearly a year to break and now we have the bodycam footage.

The unbelievable rage I feel at this stupidity.

There is a certain strain of thought that worships the double blind study above all else but sometimes there is a good damn reason not to do it.

Oh my God, this is horrendous and insane!

Sometimes there is a reason there's no double blind study!!!

I'm sorry, it's _what?_

So... we should be asking about the stock market during an inquiry about child sex trafficking, but it's not OK to ask about Iran during a conversation about sport?

Is there some kind of table where we can check what subjects we're allowed to ask about during which conversations about what topics?

Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports.

Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.

Yeah, crack is good, but have you ever tried being validated in the gut feeling dislike you've always had for an actor?

Oh same. Vibes were always off about him XD

I saw the clip and all I can say is I am glad I was never on the Chalamet boat. Vibes were always off and I am glad it was something silly rather than something worse XD

The big tell for all the AI music I've ever heard, no matter how convincing the rest of it, is the lyrics. Something about it always sounds like something that even a mid or bad lyricist wouldn't write

How about the children in the Epstein files???
Why aren’t they a priority

A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible:

"They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

I HAVE FIVE BASIC, OBVIOUS DEMANDS TO RESTORE THE INTEGRITY OF ELECTIONS. BUT I CAN ONLY REMEMBER THREE OF THEM. AND TWO ARE ABOUT TRANS PEOPLE.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

we could fix figure skating by splitting the judging panels between technical elements and program components. skating skills should be judged by the foremost experts the sport has to offer, and performance should be judged by dancers and other artists who don't know what a lutz is and don't care

Would writers be eligible?! I would genuinely love to do it.

I can't even tell the jumps apart in motion but I know when they're pretty and I know when a program makes me smile or cry!

Well, we know what Dario would have done in Omelas.

So, obviously this isn’t true. But if the CEO actually believes this nonsense, it implies he thinks maybe he’s enslaving a sentient being that has the capacity to feel emotional distress. And he hasn’t immediately halted operations to suss out how to resolve that?

At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.

It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.

In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.

Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.

Wow sir, please make it more blatant that this program is a blatant violation of separation of church and state.

Everyone who is sad about the impending retirements in figure skating should consider watching #JuniorWorlds on the ISU YouTube channel. It is a great time to meet your future faves! #FigureSkating

Okay Miss, just a little further to Mawson’s Peak. Just past Cricket’s Revenge and along Cape Good, along Pretti Ridge and we will be at your new volca…We mean, Office.

Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.

Timeline cleanse

I hate the smell of it too but that's a terrible reason for it to be illegal XD

I was a missing child for ~ 24 hours

ah, the Jacksonville Excommunication

We were so close to eliminating it. So damn close!

Oh the money I could make if I didn't have morals ...

hey does anybody have any video clips that are both morally and viscerally disturbing, maybe with some audio that will stay with the listener for years? ideal if they're also a metaphor for our political age. thanks!