On the morning of the shooting, Littler said Lucy had asked her father, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?” while they were discussing Trump. Kris responded that he had two other daughters living in their home, so it would not upset him very much.

JFC This guy sounds like a real piece of work. The prosecutor apparently bought in to his story that he “invited her” to the bedroom to see his gun and it went off accidentally. Even though she hated the fact that he owns a firearm and they were about to leave for the airport.

Secretary of Defense. Congress has not renamed the department.

Actually, the article states that they delayed handing over any data to give the ACLU time to challenge the subpoena in court, so DHS got the info they were after some other way.

She’s not dead. Just FYI.

There have always been trends, rumors, and dangerous dares, social media didn’t invent that stuff.

Perhaps not, but they certainly enable such things to spread much faster and further than they would otherwise. And since there’s little or no oversight to what people post the harm is never checked. I’ve repeatedly reported posts on various social media platforms that are advocating fraudulent and/or directly harmful information. None of them have ever been removed as a result of those reports. As long as the content keeps audiences engaged, they refuse to act.

I rewatched it a couple years ago for the first time in decades. It holds up surprisingly well for an 80s comedy. The scene where they explain how the futures market works is basically right out of an economics text book. Like, literally. I believe they got an economics professor who wrote one of the most influential text books to consult on those parts of the film.

If you want a fun chaser, watch Coming To America right after. There’s a bit of an easter egg cameo.

Water we going to do?

You can get a spring-loaded automatic center-punch tool for like $5 at any hardware store.

Shawshank Redemption?

There was a lot of speculation that they were daring congress to open a case, which would force the Justice Dept to comply with discovery rules and make all the documents available to their legal team.

I mean… in a sense I kind of agree. Voter apathy largely allows people like Trump to win elections. On the other hand, 64% turnout is among record highs, even for a US presidential election, which traditionally draw the highest voter turnout. There are always people that don’t vote. I don’t assume that they all don’t care or are okay with the results. There are plenty of people who aren’t able to vote for a variety of reasons. Some of them because of economic or health limitations. Some of them due to outright voter suppression activity.

I’m so glad he’s working hard to save us taxpayers money. /s

Not even 2/3rds of the voting population voted. The turnout was 64% of eligible voters. Trump won the popular vote with 49.8% of the votes. That’s about 32% of eligible voters that voted for this.

It’s just kind of annoying that he is probably the most famous trans man,

Never heard of him before today. My reference point is Elliot Page.

It’s a terrible catch-22 for trans people. Either you use the restroom that conforms to your apparent gender and risk being charged with a crime, or you use the restroom that conforms to your birth gender and risk being harassed or assaulted by others. Honestly, these laws are just an attempt to punish trans people for existing in a public space.

In response, Mr. Trump wrote on social media that Mr. Springsteen “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT” and called for a “major investigation” into the artist.

Ah, Trump’s typical response to anyone criticizing him.

It was big news at the time. It has just been overshadowed since.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/5-shots-7-holes-border-patrol-supervisor-appeared/story?id=127249645#%3A~%3Atext=“So+the+'five+shots%2C%2Cpride+in+my+shooting+skills.”

They’re worried because they aren’t trained well enough to know when they’re breaking the law.

I agree that it sucks our federal leadership doesn’t care about the morality of their actions as much as the optics. But sometimes you have to hit them where they’ll feel it to get results. If bad polling is what it takes, then I’m on board.

“Empathy by itself is neutral. Empathy by itself, I believe, is neither good nor bad….But putting yourself in someone’s shoes, feeling what they feel, can also lead you to do three things that I say makes empathy toxic: One, validate lies. Two, affirm sin. And three, support destructive policies.”

The lack of self-awareness is staggering.