Ah, yes. The same Nintendo that employs an entire army of lawyers, dedicated to ruining the lives of countless, everyday fans for even the smallest and most harmless use of their IP says, “Hey. Stop that. Please and thanks.”
They’re the same picture. #news #history #trump #hitler
#theunitedstates is officially a member of the #axispowers 2.0.
#trump #war #BoardOfPeace #WWIII
I'm going to tell you something as a Trump biographer. I mean it seriously. You need to understand that Trump get something close to sexual excitement from describing acts of violence.
If you wonder why his SOTU speeches always include graphic violence, that's why. It's for him.
Not a single atrocity appears on screen in this film about Rudolf Höss and his family. Incredible sound design makes what’s happening, all the more powerful. This is the banality of evil, when it’s clocked out. A beautifully difficult film about your neighbors if things continue as they are.
Y’all just let this man cook. He’s given us 15 years of reason to trust him going all the way back to Absentia.
Federal judges citing Orwell’s 1984 in their decisions is wild.
#literature #books #orwell #news
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Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users | DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.
This was a fascinating Miles O’Brien piece on the Thwaites Glacier, and the scientific research being done there, from yesterday’s PBS NewsHour. #science #ThwaitesGlacier #glacier @milesobrien.com @pbsnews.org @amnanawaz.bsky.social @geoffrbennett.bsky.social
"While he rushes to place his name on monuments before he leaves office, he’s given every indication he’s fine leaving behind a trail of utter and complete destruction. In short, Donald J. Trump is a nihilist."
"While Americans should welcome Trump’s rapidly increasing unpopularity and must do everything they can to constrain him, realism requires a recognition that he's all but certain to do everything possible to cling to power — even if he brings the country down with him." — @davidrlurie.com
SLOTKIN: Do you believe that ICE has the authority to be deployed to polling places?
LYONS: There's no reason for it
S: So if the president says he needs you to go and physically deploy around polling places, you'll say no?
L: There's no reason for us to deploy, but we do investigate voter fraud
Fetterman: "I met with Secretary Noem. I've always treated her with respect. I refuse and never will engage in the kinds of sexist terms like 'ICE Barbie' that the left media will use."
GALLEGO: Why is the agent who shot Renee Good holding a camera phone & weapon?
LYONS: The US attorney was requiring to have video leading up to arrests, so officials have used phones for that
GALLEGO: Maybe you shouldn't be trying to be an influencer and wielding a weapon at the same time
GALLEGO: After Renee Good was killed, the agent called her a "fucking bitch" on camera. Is this how your agents are trained to act?
SCOTT: No sir
GALLEGO: Is that professional?
SCOTT: No sir
GALLEGO: So somebody who probably has never handled a weapon after 42 days is going to be inserted into Minnesota, into a high stress environment?
LYONS: They could. Yes sir
GALLEGO: That explains a lot
BLUMENTHAL: Were you mistaken when you said no US citizen is subject to immigration enforcement?
LYONS: No sir
BLUMENTHAL: Well, who is lying? You or him? The facts contradict what you said
BLUMENTHAL: What is so different about ICE that it regards itself as an exception to the 4th Amendment?
LYONS: We don't
BLUMENTHAL: Why did you keep your memo about the warrant policy secret?
LYONS: I didn't
BLUMENTHAL: We learned about it when whistleblowers came to us
Blumenthal on administrative warrants: "This is not a warrant. It's a permission slip. It's a green light from another ICE agent to go bash down a door, smash into a home, detain and arrest someone without a judge finding probable cause."
this country hates women, children, and families so much
KIM: There's reporting that FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood splatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good's SUV. They received orders to stop supposedly from Kash Patel. Do you think a sufficient investigation is happening?
LYONS: I can't speak to that
Rick Scott: "No one wanted Renee Good or Alex Pretti to die, but ... "
There it is: one of the first times anyone in the Trump admin has admitted that protestors & bystanders are legally permitted to protest & document DHS activity.... Just two days ago, this same crowd spent hours claiming DHS agents have been "under attack" in MSP & beyond...
Hassan to Lyons: "I would hope I get the same treatment that Sen. Wicker got, which is to say the town doesn't want the detention center, so please cancel it. And I would expect that my partisan affiliation shouldn't make any difference to that determination."
HASSAN: You said you don't want to comment on these ongoing investigations because you don't want to bias them. So did Noem and Stephen Miller bias the investigation when they called Pretti a domestic terrorist?
LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments
H: That doesn't make any sense
HASSAN: DHS officers have killed two American citizens in Minnesota this year. What were their names?
LYONS: Renee Good and Alex Pretti
HASSAN: I'm glad to hear you say their names. Because so far this morning, as well as in 3 hours of testimony Tuesday, you failed to say their names a single time
Rand Paul to ICE/CBP officials: "You have to look at what your rules are for drawing weapons, because it appears to be they're not using the same standard as the police"
Sen. Lankford: What about all the people ICE/CBP doesn't murder?
Peters to ICE/CBP officials: "How can you expect any US citizen to follow orders from an unidentified, masked man surrounding them, given we know there are these impersonators out there who according to the FBI are committing a lot of crime?"
under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them
