Be aware that in a few states, including Minnesota, the use of a police scanner during a crime, or to evade law enforcement, can be a crime itself. If they arrest you for committing some crime, then having a scanner will get you another charge.

Dog: Ooh! Tootsie rolls!

No. Hanging is honestly too good for them. I want them all relegated to the status of second class citizens and treated the way that they have treated the good, law-abiding immigrants and citizens of this country for the rest of their lives. Let the next generation grow up seeing first hand what happens to fascists and their enablers and maybe our descendants won’t have to live through it all again in 50 or 80 years.

Time to spray all your accessible wires with bitter apple or other repellent. Cute or not, that kitten is going to ruin wiring and maybe even electrocute itself one day if you don’t put a stop to this quick.

Security by obscurity is not really a good strategy. Lemmy is small potatoes, sure. But that just means they can devote a small number of assets to effectively monitor it.

I used to own a boarding kennel. We had several clients over the years who would condition place their plush toys face first in their food dish as if the toy was eating. I have have long supposedthat those dogs were pretending their toy was eating.

The article says, “applicants will be expected to commit five hours per day, five days per week to hands-on feline care.” To me that means if you want to spend more time with them than you can. I imagine you could do as many hours per day and days per week that you want to. You are correct though that having to spend eight hours sleeping without kitty cuddles could be a negative.

According to the article, you’re only required to work with the cats for 5 hours per day. As for food, they provide breakfast as well as housing. Assuming you sleep 8 hours per day, that’s 11 hours per day to yourself. Frankly, I think this would be an amazing way to spend a summer month or two.

Sounds better every time I hear it.

…it’s safe to say that Pam Bondi’s DoJ did not put its best and brightest on this (admittedly gargantuan) undertaking

Actually they did. It’s just that their best and brightest are fairly dim.

If you haven’t seen it, here is a link to Jon Oliver’s piece about Schumer and the Bailey’s and how the imaginary swing voters he bases his policy decisions on are really Republicans.

First, there is no reason I can see to think that ICE will follow the new laws they pass. They are not following the law now. Second, why would cameras make a difference? We have clear video evidence in at least two murders committed by ICE and there has been now action taken to prosecute or even reprimand the murderers.

The only viable option for the democrats in Congress is to use the GOP playbook and extort the administration by shutting the government down until they comply.

Musicals are awesome; Guys and Dolls, Singing in the Rain, Paint Your Wagon (Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin sing!), and of course, Little Shop of Horrors.

Democracy Dies in Darkness

…Bezos: turns off the lights.

If we count years from the birth of Christ, shouldn’t his birthday be January first?

A 2013 email exchange with the British billionaire Richard Branson hinted that he, too, had a familiar relationship with Mr. Epstein. “It was really nice seeing you yesterday,” Mr. Branson wrote, adding: “Any time you’re in the area would love to see you. As long as you bring your harem!” A Branson representative said the two had a business meeting and stressed that the women were adults and had not attended the meeting .

So his reaction is, “They didn’t come to the meeting! I swear! They were just eye candy!” Like the women participating in the meeting is the scandalous part?

That’s pretty nearly dead on.

Google told the BBC the Commission’s decision was “wrong” and it would appeal.

Have they ever actually paid a fine like this? It’s great that the commission set this fine, but I’m willing to bet doughnuts to dollars that the fine is cut to hundreds of millions or less on the appeal.

A Homeland Security representative responded to the demand saying, “Yeah, or what?” before high-fiving his secretary and walking off laughing.

AP shared the details of Castañeda Mondragón’s injuries with Dr. Lindsey C. Thomas, a board-certified forensic pathologist who worked as a medical examiner in Minnesota for more than 30 years. She agreed with the assessment of hospital staff.

“I am pretty sure a person could not get these kinds of extensive injuries from running into a wall,” Thomas said, adding that she would need to see the CT scans to make a more definitive finding.

“I almost think one doesn’t have to be a physician to conclude that a person can’t get skull fractures on both the right and left sides of their head and from front to back by running themselves into a wall,” she said.

So was the ICE agent dumb enough to think this was a believable story or did they just not give a fuck if anyone believed it or not? It could really go either way.

The nurses interviewed by AP said they felt intimidated by ICE’s presence in the critical care unit and had even been told to avoid a certain bathroom to minimize encounters with officers. They said staff members are using an encrypted messaging app to compare notes and share information out of fear that the government might be monitoring their communications.

Welcome to Trump’s AmeriKKKa.