Lawyer for LAPD officer killed during training exercise by other cops says dead cop was investigating a gang rape by four cops at least one of whom was there when he was beaten to death.
I'm not in a leftwing bubble because it makes me feel good and safe or whatever, it's because I've heard all the arguments on the other side my entire life including in popular media every single day and they all suck ass and hearing them further also sucks ass.
When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band...
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In a medium bowl, mix together butter, white sugar, and brown sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease cookie sheet,
President Biden on expanding the Supreme Court: "If we start the process of trying to expand the court, we’re going to politicize it — maybe forever — in a way that is not healthy, that you can’t get back.”
I gotta be honest with you guys it’s really funny how much Trump has a vendetta against windmills the single most famous thing a crazy guy can want to fight in crazy guy lore besides a whale.
Him? Oh that's just the School Bus Stop Machine Gun Man. No we can't make him leave because of James Madison. He's pretty harmless aside from holding a machine gun.
I like how the experts on TV say if you think you have coronavirus call your doctor ok lol let me just get my doctor on the phone the thing you can do.
Weird that cops seem willing to lie about little pointless things like coffee cup names makes you wonder what else,... ah better not to think about it.
I asked a bunch of people how it felt watching their family members be stolen from them by Fox News over the years and it doesn't feel great it turns out.
These youngsters in my mentions telling me that children were too scared to come out as trans in the 90s don’t understand that we talked about everything and anything back then, before cancel culture and self censorship for fear of wrongthink.
94 years old still going to the gas station for a cup of mud and a pack of heaters. One of the greats of his generation. Famously kind of a prick. Doesn't get more aspirational than this.
Man is shot in parking lot in PA. Random bystander starts performing CPR on the victim until third guy comes up and tells him to get off and pushes him violently to the ground. He hits his head and dies. Was a plains clothes cop that killed him.
People in disparate states telling each other to shut the fuck up and deal with their turn on the climate catastrophe wheel of pain not exactly a harbinger of good things to come down the line.
"Sorry we're running it anyway" is what you say to a politician or otherwise powerful person, or, at the very least, an adult who's done wrong, when they ask you to kill a story about them. Not a child going through it who you want to use for propaganda.
Upon interviewing Emily Yoffe myself I was told that I had no say in whether or not the article was published. I asked if my consent was required to publish the article and the reporter told me, “that’s not how these things work.”
Shout out to my old landlord who wanted to get like $500 more a month for the place we lived in for 12 years so we moved out April 1 and it has sat empty since. That’s the market baby.
It’s been said already but can’t be said enough that these same troopers sat outside an elementary school pissing themselves and menacing parents while one guy with a gun massacred little kids. Real tough now though.
ut austin, where texas state troopers are barring students from accessing the other side of the campus. please look at this, i have never seen anything like this
Smoking is a gross deadly habit. Wouldn't recommend it at all. I nonetheless do it and it rules. That said it is honestly shocking that the anti-smoking campaigns of 20+ years ago actually worked in the US. Don't think they would if it started now. Real under the wire shit there.
Tried to figure out the Gamestop thing and am way too dumb to get it but I just saw one guy with “technologist and entrepreneur” in his bio say it was a criminal scam so now I know it’s cool as hell.
Thinking about the recent round of “The Strokes were rich kids” talk and yes that’s the best case scenario for rich kids! Every rich kid should best case scenario become The Strokes instead of doing phones business.
We are witnessing a mass psychosis in the media and academia we haven’t seen since the early 2000s based now, like then, on the idea that Muslims lives are worthless. It’s a horror. We should all be horrified.
This shit is wild. I've never seen a group look so hard the other way while 10ks of innocents are being chucked into the meat grinder, or else say they have it coming, while being so bitch made about someone saying they shouldn't do it. It's fucked and we should all be aghast.
People like Bernie's personality as an offshoot of his policies. If he was the exact same guy and didn't have those beliefs none of us would care about him all that much. Hope this helps anyone out there who needs it at this time.
I'm sure this has been written about but the degree to which the emergence of a couple different types of ways to drink coffee has dominated conservatives' performance of grievance since I was young is remarkable.
The amount of shit we give police the authority to pull us over for while driving is insane. Short of someone driving extremely dangerously or clearly being impaired everything else should not be any of their fucking business.
Yea I’m dumb, and no politician heroes, but
@EdMarkey
saying maybe it’s time your country did something for you is, besides being a brutal burn, the exact perfect message for this moment and so obvious I can’t believe no one has said it before now.
“My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy,” Ben Gvir says.
Fuck this fucking disgusting country man. I can't believe we invented a somehow more evil concentrated potent dose of America.
If the left is capable of destroying Biden’s chances by abstaining from voting, as they’ve been saying we do forever, he has almost a full year to make concessions to that all powerful voting bloc. The pie in the sky demand at the moment is to stop abetting a mass slaughter.
You can view the upcoming election in terms of strategic bargaining--junior partners in the coalition!--or you can simply regard the murderous actions of Biden administration as too far beyond the pale to in any way countenance
The genius of SNL is it turns every powerful public figure into a lovable character who they parody by making them seem cooler than they are, the essence of parody.
Blusky is the only one that gives you the posts by the people you follow in order with nothing else inserted. That’s pretty much all I want out of this shit.
Now if you'll follow me into the next room, this is where I keep my framed copy of Mohamed Atta's pilot license and Tamerlan Tsarnaev's boxing gloves. Which are bad by the way.
My last Deadspin thought is it was one of the only places to recognize that sports are so good but everything about them -- the cursed jingoism, red-assed coaches who think they're troops, corruption, fealty to authority, capitalism excesses, etc -- were shit.
College admission season update - From a friend:
“Niece got 1450 SAT, 4.2 GPA, competitive athlete. She didn’t even get into her safety schools. Going to junior college this year and is very depressed. The POC kids in her class, C students at best, are all headed to Berkeley,…
The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad art
So I made a list of 15
Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻
Mr. Trump had to abracadabra all American Jews into a new primary nationality against their will so the insane Amway billionaire trying to make kindergarten illegal could arrest college activists for being rude to a SodaStream
Cops killed more people in '22 than any year since we've counted. 1 in 47 adults in the country are under correctional supervision. We have 20% of the world's prisoners with 5% of the people. If shoplifting and fare jumping are a problem it's not because we don't punish enough.
Watched No Country For Old Men last night for first time in years. What a masterpiece. Couldn't help think it would be cool though to use AI to show Chigurh bursting in at the end of Ed Tom's speech for a shootout. Also to show Llewelyn's final shootout. Maybe he wins this time?
A weird thing is if you usually vote Democrat and are thinking about not doing so one time the party will fucking despise you and curse you out, but if you never voted Democrat before they are always courting your vote.
I talk shit about sports talk radio but if you don’t listen to it for 2-5 hours a day for twenty years you’ll never understand the American electorate.
Should be a 24/7 channel that just plays old Letterman and Conans. A scant few thousand people would watch it. Would lose money every day. Not my problem.
One of the things that most makes me feel like I'm living in the CIA LSD dungeon is the idea -- from actual rich people! -- that if you have student loans you are automatically part of some kind of privileged class.
According to the long exhibited practice and values of media reporting on crime it is incumbent upon them to report the allegations of this sworn officer of the court the same way they do allegations by cops when they are a party to a death. He has no more bias than they do.
Defund, abolish, reform, whatever you want to call the solution, the fact is there is a class of state employee in this country that is allowed to rape and mame and kill with impunity and they regularly do all of the above.
#BREAKING
: 9 current & former Boston Police Officers have been arrested & charged w/ committing over $200,000 in overtime fraud at BPD evidence warehouse. Defendants will make initial appearances via videoconference this afternoon
I've heard reports of children as young as four wrapping a towel around their neck and identifying as Superman. A colleague relayed a story about her daughter identifying as a cafe worker and serving tea out of toy cups; there was no tea, it was imaginary
Deploying aid *against the wishes* of the supposed ally army we are also giving the bombs to is so fucking insane it's breaking my brain. It's not only evil on its face it makes Biden look so weak. Spraying a flame thrower and a fire extinguisher on the same house.
“Sympathize with Trump voters”
Ok how about we give them health care and a much increased living wage and get police to stop brutalizing them and...
“Not like that.”
I'm not a historian or particularly smart in any way, but I am pretty sure whenever a fascist takes over there's always large group of weenies saying buh buh you can't do that it's not legal and then the state violence goes brrrrrrr
Said this a few weeks ago, but you all are acting insane. Blood drunk. You will understand this sooner or later. I don't know what the number of bodies will be that will snap you out of it, but there will be a number for many of you, and you will quietly reverse course.
Sad and/or delighted to say Dana Carvey did confirm today on his podcast he was indeed wearing the turtle suit when they did a prayer for 9/11 on the set of Master of Disguise.
I’m one of the Bernie Bros who was pretty much ok with Warren and would get behind her until her Suicide Squad of Clinton dead-enders fucked up her campaign real bad. Hope she gets rid of them asap