@TimStone also love how it's "first meeting between the two in their current roles"

so uhh, how come it's legal for foreign spies to attempt murder, when anyone else would face legal issues for that?

@Chippies because spies have code names which aren't their real names. if you get your real name associated with your code name your not a spy

and that generally happens when you get caught. not a good spy if you get caught

(Abolish ICE, etc, but seriously)

looks at Twitter

Oh, the House GOP goon squad is out in full force

that's not new

Putin said that like last year

@Memor-X I think this is about Putin telling that Trump directly

dailywire.com/news/29625/…

Gee whiz, who would have guessed

@GnomeSlice going to Starbucks and telling them my name is "we support your right to call the police on people for no real reason" to own the libs

god I was on starbucks today

the baristas wer elike

just so...

For values of "real reason" meaning:

"hi I'll get teavana of <name i forgot>"

"you had it before?" "no" "okay. you'll love it." "'kay" "what's your name" "just write a" "writes "just aaaa..""

that's okay-ish so far, but when I went to pick it up the other barista was like, "what do you think that it is? pistachio? something sweet? nah." but in an insulting tone

too much needless, annoying interaction.

Also that barista followed me to my seat later and was like "it's amazing isn't it, you just want to drink more as you drink" and...

I hate talking with people.

adjusts fake glasses LOOKS LIKE OPEC IS AT IT AGAIN

Now that I'm typing it like this it feels sort of like First World Problems but, eh, annoying. They also joked about the name thing and tried to guess my name and I guess all names being male names didn't help with my mood.

and this is why i'd rather make instant coffee myself than get it from a barista

Our Starbucks has a drive-thru 😅

None of the starbucks in turkey have drive-thrus

we also have very very very rare female employees in starbucks

also teavanas are... meh.

iirc advertising was like "COFFEE AND TEA!!" but it tastes much more like tea

teavana is just a brand of tea

so it probably is just tea

@Unionhawk I am really not sure how that was your takeaway. Also who said anything about 'libs'

Look man, you're the one posting Daily Wire not me

Oh is that another one that's bad for some reason

far right outlet defends police, decision to call the police in this case. news at 11

@Unionhawk that doesn't sound that far

I'm not going to argue whether or not Ben Shapiro and by extension his media outlet is far right, that would be a waste of my time and yours

My real takeaway from the whole case is that the increasing privatization of all space is Bad

meanwhile, WE GOT A CALLOUT IN NYT? :O

nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/…

> Across the country, socialists are focusing on hyperlocal issues. In Cincinnati, activists helped save the wing of a public library from privatization. In Austin, they pushed to pass what has been called the first mandatory paid sick leave requirement in the South.

yoooooo

We should have a bigger feature in Jacobin at some point maybe next issue

@GnomeSlice They were in the store for under two minutes before the manager called the cops, and the company said it was wrong based on their own understanding of the situation, yet Matt Walsh wants to come along and say "Okay but what if we blamed them instead?" 🤔

> “We are behind you all the way,” President Trump said. “And we want to thank you.” The President called on Congressional Democrats to support the Task Force by closing loopholes that allow drugs and human traffickers to spill into the United States. “We need border protection; we need the wall,” he said.

lol buddy our opioids aren't coming from Mexico

> Charges Sought in Eric Garner's Death, but Justice Officials Have Doubts

> top Justice Department officials have expressed strong reservations about whether to move forward with a case they say may not be winnable

Okay but they tried to charge the inauguration protesters so I'm actually not buying a word of that 🤔

kotaku.com/…

This is awful

And people think we have it bad in North America

@Memor-X Good thumbnail game.

@Unionhawk grats

@Unionhawk CONGRATULATIONS

houston 911 operator jailed after hanging up on thousands of calls because the operator didn’t feel like talking

> “This is Officer Moten. I’m driving on 45 South right now and right now I am at — ” he said before Williams cut him off. “Ain’t nobody got time for this. For real,” she said, and then the line went dead.

While I am extreme same, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 🤔

I'm still not sure how society doesn't just collapse tbh

Can you imagine being that cop though? Once the phone clicked off do you just stop the car in the middle of the road and try to figure out what the hell just happened? Because I feel like I would

@TimStone it was a security guard not a cop though

That's Mr. Officer Security Guard to you, sir

from the article, most called back

It does seem like some flags should have ideally been raised sooner, not sure exactly what changes could be made that wouldn't have detrimental impact on well meaning operators though

A pattern of an operator frequently ending the call on their end after a short period seems suspicious at first brush, but I guess they also need to get off the line to be able to respond to any new calls ASAP so possibly not in reality

@StrixVaria Want to star this but that's probably stretching the rules beyond their breaking point.

Thanks for posting.

Stretching the rules?

Oh.

Someone should probably make sure he considers everyone people though

@TimStone cringey but fair point

did anyone mention the DNC lawsuit yet?

DNC sues trump campaign, russia, and "not even a wiki"leaks over hacked emails during 2016 campaign

focusing on the real issues

(tl;dr if this is gonna be like Watergate we're gonna commit to the bit)

its a weird thing to sue over imo

@GodEmperorDune The Onion: DNC Files Lawsuit Alleging Nation Should Never, Ever Stop Focusing On 2016 Election

@Unionhawk hue

@GodEmperorDune *~.Discovery.~*

I mean if it survives a motion to dismiss

In part why they didn't include Trump, most likely

Avicii dead at 28

Yep

Family isn't saying why. He had a bunch of health problems

@GnomeSlice ah shit :(

lmao

@GnomeSlice Oh damn :/

> In a series of startlingly candid conversations, U.S. President Donald Trump told former FBI director James Comey that he had serious concerns about the judgment of a top adviser, asked about the possibility of jailing journalists and described a boast from Vladimir Putin about Russian prostitutes, according to Comey's notes of the talks.

I like his tweet basically saying "Everyone look at this leaked information that totally vindicates me. Also it's classified and shouldn't have been leaked"

@TimStone what

Look he made a single ruling that said if we're gonna punish immigrants we have to be specific about it being allowed and so now he's a SJW

@TimStone hue

neil "stay with your truck in deadly circumstances if you want to keep your job" gorsuch

@TimStone I was promised a judge who ruled that truckers must remain in life threatening situations if their employer says so or else face rightful termination what to heck

North Korean leader suspends nuclear and missile tests, shuts down test site