Judge Elizabeth Beckley of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania was meant to marry a couple. Instead she called ICE to have the groom arrested.
Oh, and it turns out the groom was in the country legally. http://www.newsweek.com/judge-calls-ice-arrest-couples-their-wedding-days-895116
> we got a report of an illegal, rather than fact checking we'll arrest them anyway
anyone else seeing ICEing as the new SWATing
i was watching this thing on SBS about Trump's first 100 days (ie was before VS Arashi and i was getting comfy to watch that while having my tea) and they were showing this focus group being asked about ICE's work since Trump got elected. one woman said that ICE is doing great work since Trump got in because now they can stop illegal aliens stealing their jobs.
that reminded me of a skit from Will Anderson during one of the Melborune Comedy Festivals saying how if you are loosing your job to an illegal immigrant that means they are more skilled at the job that you are, so it's you're fault you lost the job
it's funny how you'll have some people come out against this using the tired old line of "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" when.....
"He was going to have to work to kill me." Waffle House shooting survivor hailed a hero after wrestling assault rife off 'nude' gunman during attack in Nashville. http://bit.ly/2Hjk674 https://t.co/bacNt3ynIC
A Persian Gulf War veteran, who was deported to Mexico in 2006, was buried with military honors on Friday beside his younger brother, another fallen Marine. https://www.stripes.com/news/us/this-deported-marine-veteran-came-home-the-only-way-he-could-in-a-casket-1.523217
@KevinvanderVelden Yeah, even in the most charitable reading where Trump doesn't know the context, he obviously surrounds himself with people who knowingly use the phrase for him to have picked it up, sooo 🤔
When he served as Trump’s national-security adviser, H. R. McMaster realized that, during briefings, the President “wasn’t absorbing a fucking thing he said,” a friend reported. http://nyer.cm/Fhq9YLr
Was unaware of the Cotton-Kushner connection: "Cotton had gone to Harvard, and when he was a teaching assistant in a government class, one of his students was Jared Kushner. After Flynn resigned, Cotton reached out to his former pupil..." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/mcmaster-and-commander
I mean, conservatism is bigger than just the party technically speaking but from a practical standpoint the American right is pretty well represented by the party so
It depends on is the standard political or partisan
but like practically speaking those things are virtually the same on the right
@jaime_lamond @muhmentions @TwitterSupport I don’t see anything in Twitter’s rules about harassment and hatred that says “twitter users only.” This was posted on Twitter & is spreading because of it. If “he had it coming” is enough to justify it, that justifies quite a bit more hate speech than you realize.
Looking back on it with my newly cynical perspective even early on a lot of the interactions of Dilbert with other people come off as really mansplain-y and Alice was a total trope
but we had Catbert which numbed the senses a bit
dont trust cats
@TimStone didnt really show up in full force in the non-Saturday comics until after the 2016 election
big surprise, people have bad opinions and feel more comfortable evangelizing them because we have a Cheeto for a president, news at 11
The idea that you can't like a thing made by a shitty person is just wrong
An argument can be made that supporting such a person is immoral , since they may use their financial success to harm certain groups, but that's a different thing all together.
Redux of defense arguments in #CosbyTrial:
- Constand swindled Cosby
- It was consensual affair
- Cosby wasn’t even in Philadelphia in Jan. 2004
- The alleged assault is outside statute of limitations
- The pills Cosby gave Constand couldn't have knocked her out
Well that gets progressively more absurd. "Look it was consensual, but I wasn't even there, and even if I was and I did it you can't pin it on me, plus the pills I definitely didn't give her because of the above would surely not have knocked her out"
JUST IN: New York governor introduces measure to ban plastic bags http://hill.cm/Gk6WGNx
Roanoke police are trying to starve a 60-year old woman occupying land that she owns to force her to surrender it to an energy company, who will profit from it. http://wset.com/news/local/roanoke-county-tree-sitter-cut-off-from-supplies
It's okay, she'll have to stop a moment to hold Erick Erickson's beer
This menu is why I could never be President: http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/384422-first-lady-releases-menu-details-for-macrons-state-visit I'd serve fried chicken and mashed potatoes with sweet potato pie for dessert. None of this unpronounceable froo-froo garbage.
> The menu will consist of three courses, which will include American dishes with French influences. The main course will be a rack of spring lamb with Carolina gold rice jambalaya.
@TimStone it's extremely surprising that he even has a personal cell phone, I'd assume that it would be far too dangerous to have such a potentially vulnerable listening device close to the president
there is an episode of the bear grylls show where he hiked around alaska with obama and obama had trouble both unlocking the phone and taking a selfie because he literally never uses it
TIL that White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford has been in place since 2005, serving GWB, both Obama terms, and now Trump and I want to EVERYTHING about her cooking experience
It's not a completely restricted area of course, but I'd assume that you'd still do something like ensuring no mobile phones are in the room when you discuss anything classified
@MadScientist reminder that staffers used cell phones as flashlights to illuminate classified documents at mar a lago when kim jong un was doing missile tests and trump was hosting someone
waffle house pulled a starbucks (unrelated to the naked white shooter whose guns were going to be confiscated before the shooting but the dad promised the cops that he wouldn't let the shooter use them)
Watchdog group tells me it has received "flood" of complaints from CIA personnel about Pompeo pushing religion in the workplace, at times discussing the Rapture.
"The people that worked under him at the CIA that came to us...were scared shitless.”
https://tytnetwork.com/2018/04/23/pompeo-discussed-rapture-at-cia/
The website for the military contractor which makes the crowd control equipment that was used by #Newnan police this last weekend makes it pretty explicit that it's meant to be used on peaceful protesters https://buff.ly/2K6Kmzj
@GnomeSlice way too early for that sort of analysis
i predict that it will be blamed on mental illness (if the perp is white), religion (if the perp is not christian), and various terror groups around the world will claim credit even if they had nothing to do with it because its publicity for their fundraising
@Ash you mean people seriously talking about the end of times, when they actually have the power to make that happen? I don't think "fucking terrifying" is strong enough here
@GnomeSlice because the public immediately wants more info before the info is available, so lots of fringe sites make things up and it spreads like wildfire on social media, sometimes even making it onto actual news outlets
@MadScientist there is a certain sect of christianity that goes "rapture happens around the time of the apocalypse, so if we make the apocalypse happen faster then the rapture will happen faster"
the top execs at blackwater (including betsy devos's brother eric prince) are into this
I seriously don't understand evangelical Christians. We don't really have them, Christians are much more moderate in general around here. I have serious trouble convincing myself that someone truly believes that stuff
@MadScientist Ugh, I used to work for a printing company that printed Don Stewart's letters
I have never hated someone as much as I hated that sack of shit when I read his letters specifically aimed at people who didn't have enough money to feed themselves, telling them to send him their money
(unrelated but I was reading the news article below that in that site's scroll and learned "Choking to Overcome Resistance" is a specific thing people can be charged with.)
The tree planting things I've been to usually do plant it at the time of the thing, but the hole is all nicely dug and the tree is all ready to just be plopped in
More Toronto: suspect allegedly researched and chatted online about Isla Vista killings from 2014. Mental illness, not terror, a leading theory for today’s incident, according to three officials.
i predict that it will be blamed on mental illness (if the perp is white), religion (if the perp is not christian), and various terror groups around the world will claim credit even if they had nothing to do with it because its publicity for their fundraising
these people make no sense, if they were actually trying to appeal to the deep south they'd make fun of dishes that didn't come from the deep south
@GodEmperorDune in general with this sort of thing the spin is to claim they were radicalized by Islam unless they were like a protestant priest or something
blaming it on Islam is convenient because it can be a substitute for race while still being applicable to white people if it turns out they weren't arabic
Republicans and Dems both concerned about new allegations of misconduct involving Ronny Jackson, and are investigating them to determine if they’re true and could derail his nomination. Dems met privately tonight, as hearing may now be delayed. Our story: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/politics/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs-nomination/index.html