ICE is full of murdering thugs
Seeing this right after a friend died is a real gut punch. So many folks just don’t know they’re gone. 😔
ICE is full of murdering thugs
This is pure murder. Zero doubt.
These “agents” need to be brought up on murder charges, especially the first one to fire. What a coward. They cannot be trusted to serve the public much less carry a firearm.
Shut this mess down. Disband ICE and put someone in charge of Border Patrol who will conduct themselves with honor and integrity.
These “agents” are going to start being killed if they keep murdering peaceful protesters trying to help their fellow citizens.
Our democracy is lost. How do we take it back?
War.
We are a Disgusting Nation
What a horrible take. On the left we’d been saying the same thing about abortion “Oh give up it’s the law of the land.”
Well, the GOP took a very long view and kept at it to overturn abortion. Some shenanigans from the evil — but brilliant — Mitch McConnell and the GOP was allowed to get three lying Supreme Court judges through. Yes, they’re liars and I believe at least two of them are wholly unqualified. Heh, not to mention how corrupt some are.
Anywho, we need to keep hammering away at guns. Overturn the second amendment and put in super strict gun laws to lower mass murder in the United States.
Oh, and if it’s a matter of mental health then why can these “mentally ill” people get their hands on weapons of war? Nice try, assholes. The weapons are the problem.
Wow, I wrote about this less than a year ago and we’ve done nothing.
Disgusting.
Saturday Morning Coffee
I struggled to get started this morning. Not because I didn’t want to write. There’s just so much going on at Twitter I could fill today’s post with all Twitter news stories. That could still happen. I haven’t decided yet.
Get that cup ready and strap in. To quote the legendary Forrest Gump. ☕️
“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.”
“In the United States, we have midterm elections coming up. Many people aren’t interested in politics, or feel there is nobody worthwhile to vote for. If you’re an American inclined to skip voting in these mid-terms, I’d appreciate it if you read this appeal.”
It seems that every election from now until we can rid the country of Trumpism will be the vote of our lives.
I have no doubt there are folks I interact with every day worried about the future of our great nation. Im terrified and fully expect a Civil War to erupt. That will happen if Republicans take over the House, Senate, and Presidency lead by TFG.
I predict if he returns the eight year Presidental term as defined will be overturned. TFG will become our dictator and the greatest Democracy every know will fade into the dark of a new dystopian America.
So, let me get this straight.
— John Collins (@Logically\_JC) October 29, 2022
You can’t hand out water and snacks to people waiting in line to vote, but you can station yourself armed, in full tactical gear, and intimidate people trying to drop off a ballot?
“Chilling new details continue to emerge about last week’s attack on House Speaker Nancy’s Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, at their San Francisco home as the suspect faces formal charges on Monday.”
We absolutely need to call this what it was: an assassination attempt.
TFG and his MAGA, Q loving, base are out of control and have to be stopped.
Almost all my family are Republicans. We’ve disagreed about a lot throughout the years but I never thought they were cruel. This isn’t my parents’ Republican party. MAGA-Republicans are a bitter, lonely, and violent bunch. When we need compassion they choose cruelty. https://t.co/Njvdd4XUAJ
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) October 29, 2022
“On Thursday evening, all employees received an email stating that they will be informed of their employment status at 9 A.M. PT on Friday. Each email will be sent with the subject line “Your Role at Twitter.” If an employee is keeping their job, they’ll be notified via their work email — if they’re let go, they’ll be notified on a personal address.”
“As Twitter advertisers run for the exits, the world’s richest man has apparently decided to set his $44 billion investment on fire”
Musk is a strange bird and was forced to buy Twitter even after he realized he’d made a terrible mistake. Twitter lawyers wrote a bullet proof deal after Musk declared he didn’t care to have any due diligence on the deal.
Major blunder. Now he’s playing games with peoples lives. Laying off up to half of the Twitter staff.
The teams around making Twitter less of a hellscape are gone. I have one good programmer friend, who joined the company in May of this year, who was let go. He was barely getting started and had already contributed a great deal to improving internal iOS dev process and tools. He’ll be fine and I’m trying to get him to come back to WillowTree, wish me luck. 🤞🏼
“Today we’re announcing the hardest change we have had to make at Stripe to date. We’re reducing the size of our team by around 14% and saying goodbye to many talented Stripes in the process.”
While it’s not fun to go through a layoff compare and contrast how Stipe handled it vs. Twitter’s ham fisted version. It’s night and day different.
Stripe is taking care of those effected. Go read the piece. This is a very compassionate, empathetic, way to do something so devastating.
“Four years ago, Dodge showed up at SEMA with a thousand-horsepower crate engine that you could just buy off the shelf.”
Raw unadulterated power. Don’t get me wrong. I want to save the planet and get rid of all carbon emitting gas guzzlers, but this engine gets my heart pumping.
“The gambling/casino-related ads were so dominating the auctions for these new ad slots that they were even being presented at the bottom of the product pages for apps intended to help people with gambling addiction.”
Apple becoming a home for advertising feels so, so, dirty. They make all this stink about privacy and go about destroying Facebook (whom I could care less about) by using the power of their platform to disallow the tracking necessary for them to survive. Then they say “Hey! Look over here! We do safe ads with a captive audience on a platform with 50% market share in the US.”
Steve is rolling in his grave and Tim Apple is running his hands together like Mr. Burns with a giant smile on his face because shareholder value.
Just stop.
Can you imagine having $48.2 billion cash on hand and YET still thinking "ah yes, those House of Fun Casino ads will grow our bottom line, let's do it" pic.twitter.com/j1k6WT8i2H
— Federico Viticci (@viticci) October 26, 2022
“VISALIA – Quesadilla lovers across the country should be excited as Quesadilla Gorilla begins their journey of spreading peace love and dillas throughout the states one store at a time.”
I had to add this story this morning because I love this little speciality dining experience. It’s simple, it’s just quesadilla’s, but they’re really good.
If you ever have one make sure you get the Liquid Gold sauce for dipping. It’s absolutely delicious. 😃
A Soldiers Take
Mark Hertling is a former soldier.
Interesting thread.
I said it yesterday on @cnn, I'll say it again today.
— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) March 12, 2022
Having worked w/ UKR's army, I expected them to be very good. And they have been better than I expected.
Having seen Russian forces in training & exercises, I expected them to be bad. They are worse than I expected. 1/10
Working from a War Zone
Cult of Mac: ”During the fighting, Petryk is hunkering down with her teenage daughter and husband. The family has been sheltering for days from Russian bombardment, sleeping in an underground parking garage at night and venturing upstairs to their apartment to work during the day.”
Great piece. I can’t imagine trying to work while my city is being bombed.
Living with War
Dave Rogers: ”But people are weird. Many, perhaps most, don’t leave. Maybe they don’t feel they have anywhere to go, maybe they feel defiantly that it’s their city, their home. I don’t know. But even with the Russians just kilometers outside the city, people went to the movies.”
We’re so fortunate we’ve never had to live in a country with war raging all around us.
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