ANTIFA DISCOVERS FIGHT CLUB: “Minneapolis Spring, a leftist X account, posted a picture of the flyer on Wednesday claiming residents ‘have no excuses’ and ‘will get away with it,’ referring to injuring or inconveniencing federal law enforcement.” This is troubling because the resistance has demonstrated sloppiness in positively identifying ICE agents, a situation complicated by a concerted effort to flood their databases with disinformation. The flyer stops short of suggesting actual food poisoning but that’s obviously implied.
FBI STYMIED BY APPLE’S LOCKDOWN MODE AFTER SEIZING JOURNO’S IPHONE: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has so far been unable to access data from a Washington Post reporter’s iPhone because it was protected by Apple’s Lockdown Mode when agents seized the device from the reporter’s home, the US government said in a court filing.
THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO SEE THESE VIDEOS: “Family of black teen [Antonio Mays Jr] killed in Seattle’s CHAZ asks court to unseal police body-cam videos after $31.5 million verdict… The jury found the city negligent for failing to respond effectively. They also found that first responders did not enter the protest zone, leaving bystanders to try to transport the wounded teen themselves.” I had to really dig to find out who shot the teen, and they are described as “civilian guards who were acting as CHOP security.” Then there is this: “Mays was shot inside a stolen Jeep Cherokee that had been reported driving at high speeds through the streets around the CHOP camp. The teen died as camp security and medic volunteers worked to save him while Seattle Police and Seattle Fire refused to enter the protest area…No suspects in the June 29th, 2020 killing have been publicly identified. SPD says the investigation of the Mays Jr. killing remains an open case.” Sounds like a complete shitshow with a number of bad (in varying degrees), incompetent, and cowardly actors.
ALL YOUR CHILDREN ARE BELONG TO THE STATE: “The idea that parents have a constitutional right to harm children is disturbing enough…” You thought they were talking about surgical mutilation and chemical castration, didn’t you? Nope, nothing about that. The New Republic has the vapors about belt spankings and being sent to bed without dinner. “It is not about freedom from government overreach in any consistent or principled sense.” There’s the tell, people. Because, this is entirely about freedom from government overreach.
TRUMP ADMIN TO FIRE UP TO 50,000 ADDITIONAL FEDERAL WORKERS: And there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth in some quarters, and rejoicing in others. We all know some random federal judge will try to put the kabosh on this before getting overruled by the Court of Appeals.
THIS IS WHAT A GOOD ALLY LOOKS LIKE: Unfortunately, universal jurisdiction is bullshit.
FROM THE TOP ROPE WITH THE FOLDING CHAIR: Ars Technica lights up the longstanding problems with the SLS rocket which is supposed to launch the Artemis missions to return humans to the Moon. Funny how nobody at NASA acknowledged this until Jared Isaacman was made Director. The space press also somehow didn’t notice this until just now, preferring to serve as boosters for Boeing, Northrup Grumman, and Lockheed Martin. Sorry for two links to the same site, but sometimes it just do be like that.
I’m not going to be around until early evening, so the thirty-minute rule is suspended for this post. You kids play nice with each other and nobody let the squirrels out.
Who’s that Firster? Whose that sexy Firster!
So… you’re really asking what entity owns your whole Firster persona? I’ve got a guess…
“You will get away with it”
Proof that so many people can’t be trusted to do the right thing in absence of a law.
These mfs would be committing murder if they thought they could “get away with it.”
They’re immoral people.
Used to be that a lot of those kinds of people used to think God was looking over their shoulder. That ship has, unfortunately, sailed.
Or if not God — at least an expectation of a hickory shampoo….
The only thing I’ll say is that if you really believe you are fighting a legitimate fascist outfit, the things described are kind of the least you can do. I’m setting aside the validity of their complaints for a moment and just taking it all at face value. What they are doing is justified.
I’ve said the same thing about right wing causes I don’t fully agree with, as well. Like abortion. If you really believe it’s murder and tens of millions of babies have been slaughtered, how can you really argue that it’s a problem that calls for calm, measured, and peaceful responses?
The second amendment, and many here, recognize that in theory at least there ARE times where violence against government is wholly justified. When the laws are corrupt and tyrannical, resisting them becomes a virtue.
The line is different for many, but the only thing I’ll say which is slightly admirable about the left is the fact that they are more willing to combat injustices by any means necessary. There’s a lot of caveats to what I just said. I view them as highly propagandized individuals to stat with.
What I said below also holds true in reality. Many of these people are only willing to take those steps because they’ve never really suffered consequences for it. In the ’60’s, protesting the treatment of blacks and even breaking the law to change the situation took balls precisely because the dominant power structures many of those protesters lived in were opposed to them. It’s been the exact opposite for most of the leftist doing this shit for the entirety of their lives.
I don’t know how many would respond if faced with real consequences for their behavior. Some portion of them would continue to do what they do, though. And there seems to be more of those people willing to put their money where their mouths are than conservative/right leaning individuals.
I’m not sure what line exists for conservatives where the meely mouthed bullshit about government infringements and abuses meets that whole point where Jefferson said the tree of liberty needs to be refreshed every few generations.
Yea, I’m saying a lot of right wing conservatives are more interested in cosplaying as patriots just like we often mock and accuse pampered little leftists of.
I think the difference is the conservatives (especially after January 6th and the Trucker protests) are aware that they will not be treated with kid gloves, and to make that step means committing everything to the fight. If that line gets crossed, things will get really ugly, really fast.
There’s a little of that with the enviroterrorists of the 90’s. It took years, but the FBI got a good chunk of them, often long after they stopped their antics.
They sort of fit in between the violent revolutionaries of the 60’s/70’s and the snowflake protesters of today.
The commie revolution bullshit has to come to an end. I suspect after the mid-terms they will.
Go after the money. Prosecute the shit out of the financiers and the street thugs.
I bet after the Soros boys are sent to the same cells and same conditions as the Jan6 insurrectionists everyone involved will pretend they didn’ know nuthin’ about any of it.
Also, the ICE guys are saying the ‘protestors’ are all the same faces every time and are able to fluff up their numbers to look like there are a lot more of them than they are. As usual a small number of fanatic agitators make it look like a huge grassroots movement. They are not.
Delete Jira tickets? I didn’t know ICE was stuck using the same annoying-ass Agile framework we’re stuck with. Or that private citizens were submitting Jiras… surprising.
That last deportation was stuck in Peer Review for a week.
Yeah — but that was a github issue, TOK. Immigration reform seems stuck as an Epic without clear Acceptance Criteria and a Definition of Done in Jira Align, though.
Wait….you can just delete them?!?!
My day just got a lot easier!
Also getting away with it.
Ha! Was hoping it would be that one…. nice choice.
Such a good song. Thanks.
They all think they’re Tyler Durden, when they really are Robert Paulson.
My wife was a barista for several years.
Decaf is their secret weapon.
Renee Good got away with it.
Assuming the flier is real, it really just tells me that these people (rightfully) recognize they are above the law as long as they are doing the bidding of the Dems who run the state.
For a very long time we’ve seen leftists pretend to be brave fighters for the cause. From the protests where they pretend to speak truth to power structures that applaud their efforts and agree with them to the mostly peaceful summer of love to this shit. The second they are faced with the slightest consequences of any kind for their buffoonery, they cry the usual ‘ism’s and act horrified/shocked. I think the shock is real because they are people who used to suffering no consequences of any kind for their behavior from childhood to whatever hood they are currently in.
“You’ll probably get away with it but the more you do things like this the higher the likelihood you’ll be caught and face federal charges” lacks pinache.
I agree, but I’d also add that they are convinced they are literally fighting Hitler. When you’re fighting something that fundamentally evil, nothing is off the table.
I’m not convinced that most of them are convinced. A lot of that is performative.
See what I said above in my long winded rant on that very subject.
A corollary to Lewis’ Law of Tyranny? People will commit the vilest acts if they believe it is for a good cause.
@ Stinky – I didn’t believe they believed it either till I got into an argument with a good friend over the protests 2 weeks ago. They really do believe it. They have been completely brainwashed.
I think the number who genuinely believe it is real and continuing to grow with the things ICE is doing. The empty rhetoric of the first term of Trump now has weight behind it to many of them.
RoaT — I don’t think any student of history could dispute that corollary. All this has happened before and will happen again indeed.
We are watching a case study, in real time, on the use of propaganda to drive mass hysteria.
Our three-letter agencies spent decades perfecting this sort of thing. They are MAKING people crazy on purpose.
I avoid talking politics with my parents, but when we do, you can hear the absolute panic in their voices. Same with some of our left-leaning friends; they are so angry and 100% convinced they are right and there is no “other side” to any story, even when there is clear proof to the opposite.
A coworker was trying to convince me to accept that we’re in a post-constitutional era. I told him I agreed and that we have been for 100 years, and that we have all that “living document” BS to thank for it.
That conversation didn’t last long.
The last conversation I had with a coworker that touched on politics was around 2002. Some lefty dude.
I learned my lesson.
Reminds one of the Klan prior to 1960s.
A flyer posted in Minneapolis, Minnesota tells residents they can “fight ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] without any risks.”
Action without consequences. The bedrock America was founded upon. That is what made this nation great.
Sounds like they’re trying to recruit otherwise good people to the cause. Take just a little bite of corruption. Just a little bite. See? Your principles hardly hurt. Here, have another.
The account has also posted videos of anti-ICE protesters stopping random vehicles and running license plates through databases in an attempt to “confirm whether the vehicle is affiliated with abductors” before letting them pass.
“I thought I was being carjacked, officer. I only shot the ones who didn’t run away.”
Ain’t nothing fascist about stopping people and demanding to see their papers.
Attempted kidnapping is a justification of use of lethal force right?
I’m waiting for someone to make that argument. The Resistance aka Antifa are known to have good legal advice (Lawyers Guild) as far as avoiding charges including incitement goes. “Block ICE” instead of “attempt to run them over,” “make food wrong” as opposed to “poison them.” And they are paying attention to what happens to individuals, like the Virginia Nurse, who cross the line and advocate violence.
They know that anything they post on a public website is going to be monitored.
A few people on X have pointed out the irony of these people creating a barrier, stopping everyone, and only allowing those they want in their neighborhood to pass.
So, all of a sudden they believe in borders, walls, and checkpoints.
Time to start carrying a 12 gauge and a case of bean-bag rounds.
I’d heard about bean bag rounds, but never pursued it further. The basic model is a bag of #9 lead shot. Note that some of the related products are only sold to LE/GOV customers.
You are not allowed to use less than deadly force.
Important – anything you fire out of a gun, or even displaying the gun itself without firing it, will be considered by the courts to be deadly force.
As such, you can only do this when you have a reasonable fear of death or serious injury. ‘Reasonable’ is the operative word here, and you can guarantee that an unfriendly court will try to make you out to be either a bloodthirsty fascist or a panicky paranoid. Probably both at the same time.
So before you bring out the steel, make sure that you can convince the jury that *they* would have pulled the trigger in the same situation.
Trump tried a similar move at the end of his first term in office, then calling it Schedule F, and also faced trouble in court.
I thought this reclassification would be slow walked just like Schedule F was.
50K is a good start.
He’s going to restructure it to improve turnover and job rotations — this time it will be Axle F.
That seems to be a theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2gvHjNhQ0&list=RDQx2gvHjNhQ0&start_radio=1
Love the tune. No idea of the movie – never had any interest in it.
Frankly, good. I’m more law and order than some of y’all (don’t know about “a lot” or “most” but I suspect so)… but when it comes to encryption, I don’t see why the Founders would have compelled anyone to decode their private documents if they chose to use their own cypher and kept the code in their heads… so I absolutely don’t see why anyone should be compelled to unlock a combination lock, provide a password / passcode, etc. And forcing biometrics (by putting a suspect’s thumb or face or whatnot in ‘view’) while obviously not mechanically the same is ethically the same, so I’d make that a “do it and all evidence from it or stemming from it is thrown out and you should be up on civil rights abuse charges”.
Too bad I don’t run the Supreme Court, I know…. but sometimes I like to rant to the choir here. Sorry.
I’m glad Apple holds their ground on this.
Get a warrant.
Of course we won’t — that’d be nuts!
[Narrows gaze.]
The New Republic has the vapors about belt spankings and being sent to bed without dinner.
These are obviously irreparable harms, likely to force the children into lifetime patterns of white cishetero patriarchist conformity.
But, remember, it is totes OK to mutilate them and convince them they are in the wrong body!
“You don’t know what you can get away until you try”
/Flip Wilson
In that context, “parental rights” functioned as a euphemism—not merely the right to raise one’s child but the right to control what any child is allowed to know, see, or understand about the world.
Mirror mirror, on the wall…
Every child has a right to the entire Karl Ritter film collection.
I don’t see why the Founders would have compelled anyone to decode their private documents
I think that was covered in Amendment the Fifth. Some ridiculous twaddle about self-incrimination.
Wasn’t SLS first announced as project constellation by W in like ‘06?
IIRC, SLS was just a downsizing of Constellation program to remove some of the stupider variants and focus on basically updating the Ares IV.
I’m sure it has evolved over time, but the fundamental architecture of SLS is 20 years old.
Click the whit chart to see how f….g old all the refurbished sls segments are.
https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-082422a-artemis-i-space-shuttle-hardware.html
It’s following the CAHSR plan.
The “parental rights” framework advanced in this case seeks to invert that logic. It asks courts to treat children not as rights-bearing individuals but as constitutional property interests over which parents exercise near-total control. Under this view, the barrier the state must overcome to stop it is incredibly high: Even actions that most would consider abuse are protected as expressions of parents’ authority and ideological preferences.
How is this also not applicable to the parents of “gender dysphoriacs”?
You don’t suppose it’s because those “gender affirming treatments” might not withstand a court’s scrutiny, do you?
If I “strip spark plugs”, that’s a workmanship issue that I am on the hook for, not the customer. I can pretend I did it accidentally, but it’s still going to cost me both time and money, or in the event of me being a shop employee, the shop is on the hook for it. Also, there is not an easy way to cover up that a spark plug has been stripped. It’s an immediate, obvious failure once it’s done. These people truly are useless and retarded.
+1 Ford 3V head.
Lol, I just bought an ’07 F-150 yesterday and was ordering a part for it and the parts guy says “those were troublesome motors”. I said, not mine, it’s a 2V 4.6, not the more common 3V 5.4 that I refer to as a ‘goldmine’. Spark plugs, timing sets, cams and lifters. There are all sorts of ways to make money on the 5.4 3V.
I’m assuming you have multiple variations of the engine specific extractor and helicoil tools.
2V 5.4 (and 4.6) still blew spark plugs and coil packs, but otherwise not like the 3V. I changed a lot of coil packs in mine over the years but only lost one plug (in the grocery store parking lot, with the missus, just after we finished shopping) in 360,000 miles.
“For decades, our nonpartisan civil service has set us apart from other countries and enabled us to have stability and continuity no matter who is in the White House. The Trump Administration’s move to reclassify federal employees to make it easier to fire them for political reasons will hurt these workers and their families, threaten our national security, and make it harder for Americans to access the services they need,” Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, said in a statement.
“If we want to continue to lead the world, then we must have a federal workforce based on merit, not politics. We will continue to do everything we can to protect these dedicated public servants, many of whom live in Virginia.”
Nonpartisan and apolitical to a fault. They follow the political science.
‘Merit.’ Right. Got it. Fuck off and die, the both of you.
we must have a federal workforce based on merit
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Was the audio-vid guy for Mom’s band and their show at a “Retirement Center.” Thirty folk watched and they were happily percussionists with shakers and clacky-sticks for the final number. Good crowd for their little Irish-ish folk band with hammer dulcimers.
The ‘auditorium’ was adjacent to a pretty nicely stocked bar. Show ended a little after four, and as Mom was chatting with the grateful audience, YEP! At least eight folk were seated, one w what looked like a half-empty Long Island Iced Tea. (Makes sense, frankly.) The nearby library was vacant.
Is anyone else wondering what level of local, state and federal forces would be deployed to search for your missing 84 year old mother if you didn’t happen to be a national tv personality? Give it a week or two and some jabberjaw on “The View” will find a way to criticize Trump, Bondi and/or Patel for not finding Ms. Guthrie within 24 hours.
You can feel the relief they don’t have to talk about fuckin’ Minnesota anymore.
A fuckton of them. After Lindbergh’s baby son was kidnapped they made kidnapping a federal crime.
Yep
there is not an easy way to cover up that a spark plug has been stripped. It’s an immediate, obvious failure once it’s done.
Put some JB Weld on the plug and send it.
I once came upon a cleanup job after a ‘mechanico’ had changed a water pump for someone and the engine was now siezed. He had broken the body of the water pump somehow installing it and tried to fix the crack in the pump body with JB Weld. The engine was seized because it was a Mazda 4 cyl and the previous guy loosened the crank bolt without using the tools to find/hold it a top dead center and it got out of time and was now piston to valve. I think this and the water pump damage was all caused by him not understanding how the serpentine belt tensioner works and he was trying to get the belt on. After removing the valve cover and setting timing correctly, it ran again, but always had a valve tick after that.
I’m my Cummins M11 truck I found that to change the water pump you had to take the pump apart.
Found that the hard way.
It was throwing codes and the cruise control would quit. There was a hunk of roller bearing stuck the the sensor, where did that come from?
The shop my dad had hired to put a pump in it shoved the waterpump into the hole and to make it fit must have beat in it with a hammer which pushed that bearing out into the gear train. It’s amazing that all it did, ten years later was to take out the cam sensor and leave the rest of it in the oil pan.
200,000 miles later, a new bearing and another waterpump it’s just fine.
My mom bought a car that had a plug JB welded at an auction.
They didn’t find it until 8 months later when it blew off while she was driving.
XY barges into my office at 1 a.m. to announce the launch of a rocket. Artemis? IDK. Required me to remove my headphones, which is annoying. I’m like, I’m working. See the headphones? What do I care about a rocket?
I thought you liked rockets.
I do not give two shits.
You’re always talking about that one, when you were a teenager. Blowing up or something.
Like. Dude. It was the Challenger. It was live on TV. I was in algebra (southeast corner of the building, if you must know, sun streaming in). KABLOOEY. Turned the TV off. Went back to the lecture. Yeah, I’mma remember that. Doesn’t mean I care about rockets.
OH AND THEN CHERNOBYL! Lemme tell you ’bout Pripyat.
*proceeds to dig through thirty years of scanned photos to find that one where the Enterprise was carted around the country on a 747’s back for people to see, and end up giving a guided tour of my life via hard drive*
WHAT IS THAT PICTURE DOING IN THE 1989 FOLDER THAT HAPPENED IN 1978!!!
Sounds nice
Putting dollars back in patients’ hands also allows them to become more informed consumers of health care. Consumers have no knowledge of the true price of care without a hospital system telling them. By funding patients directly, it empowers patients to shop for value with greater knowledge of their personal needs and acceptable tradeoffs.
Guess what. There needs to be somebody on the other end of that conversation to make that work.
Where are they?
Consumers have no knowledge of the true price of care without a hospital system telling them.
The hospital has no clue. We were in with the OB’s financial person the other day and she was able to tell us that we wouldn’t owe her any money for OB care, but that she had no clue how much we’d owe the hospital itself or what any of the not medically necessary tests would cost.
Thankfully, my insurance (Surest) will tell me our cost in their app. It’s not ideal, but it’s better than “I guess I’ll pay whatever shows up in the mail.”
Also have surest and the transparency is not quite there for anything but the simplest things. For any hospital or clinic setting where you can’t choose each and every provider. Or complex/multiple procedures. Or specialized diagnostics where Optum (like Surest, owned by UHC) chooses what location you use and doesn’t list the locations consistently (some after under the former practice name, some under the Optum owned legal entity but doesn’t trade under that name nor do the employees know the legal entity name).
Or the locations listed don’t have the diagnostic on-site either and machine is only located at the higher cost location, and there’s no way to get the lower rate.
Thanks for the heads up Gustave!
We just got this insurance last month so we’re still learning the ropes.
Found it by experience! The same day care clinic ended up with different rates depending on which doc/pa/np walked in the room. Same with diagnostic imaging bait & switch.
This is our second year doing it and chose it again over the high deductible option so not entirely unhappy with it. And aside from all of my griping about the process, they and the hospitals delivered both excellent care for the missus and final out the door out of pocket cost to us was more than reasonable given the length and care, imo.
OT: Saw somebody use the word “tulpa” as an insult. Thought he might have been one of us, then I looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa
In traditions of mysticism and the paranormal inspired by Tibetan Buddhism, a tulpa is a materialized being or thought-form, typically in human shape, that is created through spiritual practice and intense concentration.
Huh. Ya learn something new every day.
X files had at least two episodes referring to Tulpas.
Supernatural had an early episode where a Tulpa was the monster.
Huh, interesting.
“X Files” was something my Mom and older brother watched; I never paid much attention to it at that age because I wanted to watch Nickelodeon instead.
Looks like “Supernatural” came out just about when I became a hermit and cut myself off from pop culture as much as possible.
I’ve never seen “Supernatural” but I’ve seen every X=Files up to season 7 or so about a thousand times each.
I was probably busy with other things when Supernatural was around.
“This is Irish democracy Manifest!”
Is there a succulent Chinese meal on offer?