Planning to kill is bad. In 2013, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) knew that their agents would sometimes “…intentionally put themselves into the exit path of the vehicle, thereby exposing themselves to additional risk and creating justification for the use of deadly force” (PDF from CBP web server). Jonathan
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital
He woke up, looking forward to finally fishing. He’s retired, even though he feels like he could keep doing the work, and now, finally, he has the chance to go out on his boat, with a beer and his rod to catch something. Maybe if he catches enough he
It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes. - Theodor Reik, “The Unreachables” 1965 Rhyme Number One: German naval commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was commander of U-852 and was tried, convicted, and executed (along with 2 others deemed responsible) after the war
he is picking up the slack from our school's curricula The President has begun offering a masterclass in expository writing. What with the Department of Education being dissolved before our eyes, President Trump is doing us a favor, really. Here's a transcript from an elementary school
in the absence of action, civilians will fill the void I do want to write something not so serious, maybe even funny, here soon. But today, I think the police have to do a very hard and necessary thing: defend Americans against their federal government. If any other group arrived
when school teachers tried it we acted out even more ice is doing many things, including collectively punishing the people of Chicago, and by extension the American People. This has me writing instead of sleeping. Gassing neighborhoods, often near children, schools and hospitals is collective punishment. Discharging their weapons recklessly
Digital Risks of Faith-Based Content Filters Centralized filtering systems often collect user data to function, raising real privacy and security issues as they are often not properly secured or anonymized. It is a one-stop shop to comprise the security and safety of an entire religious community, and each member of
it is their defining characteristic How many enemies dreamed of destroying the White House. How many soldiers wished they could flatten it. How many generals fantasized about razing the American People’s house. This one man beat them all. Same man brought the confederate flag into the Capitol, same man
No Soldiers in the Streets, No Kings in This Land For all the military violence there has been in the world during my life, my tactic for surviving it has taken me next to no effort: not being there at the time. By largely luck, I have not yet been
autism cure is surprisingly simple A joint study out of Shangri-La Polytechnic Institute and the University of Atlantis-Brigadoon has concluded that no cases of autism persist after patients punch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the face. We do not suggest people punch RFK Jr. without his consent. However, we do
censorship and extrajudicial killing make each other more likely Just as the United States was switching broadcast television signals from analog to digital, I made my network television debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live! playing Thomas Prusik Parkin, who impersonated his dead mother, Irene Prusik, to collect her Social Security benefits,
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What’s in a name? Late Friday, after an Oval Office presentation to the press discussing the new secondary name "Department of War" for the former Department of Defense by the President and Secretary of War for Pete Hegseth, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced further secondary
We know already he can't do good things. Wag the Dog is a movie that was being made as Bill Clinton was doing the things he would later be impeached for. The impeachment timed out as taking place roughly when the movie came out. The movie depicts an
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from the abandoned Nazi fortress in Los Angeles, to today’s Hollywood executives, to the history of the United States and all of Western Civilization When I heard a rumor there was an abandoned Nazi bunker in Los Angeles, I had to find out more. I looked into it, and
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Pursue your career, not your competitions' career. ...the fact is that any market you're in, if you're in a good market, they're gonna be competitors and if you don't have any competitors you need to question your product, like where are
we must accept help for it to help
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