It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

there is no solid proof he is in the checkout line, only circumstantial evidence. but there is much more circumstantial evidence than i expected

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

as an extremely lapsed Catholic, it feels weird to be into a Pope. just kinda nice to have this guy using his power to talk a bunch of shit right now.

jesus man

Oh if that's the goal then I would have mentioned in the secret bookshelf door/secret book room, too, of course, that's the pièce de résistance.

(Also the secret button inside the bust would either open that door or turn off all my WiFi/block cell service so I had to actually disconnect, not sure.)

...yes. I'm thinking it's also a "floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that need a rolling ladder" situation. Also some sort of interesting window situation, maybe with a telescope nearby?

(Posssibly a bust on a bookshelf with a hidden button inside it, but that depends on the contractor estimate tbh.)

I think part of the derangement of things is the fact that every single member of the secret police knows that there is a decent chance that literally anything they do will be filmed and put on the internet. And if their face is showing, they'll be identified within minutes.

"Before their departure dates came and went, they had made preparations to leave — turning over the keys to their apartments, pulling their children from school, shipping their belongings to Venezuela. And they have sunk deeper into poverty as the weeks and months pass"

Well, I have this concerning urge to go to bed at reasonable times, modern slang is increasingly inscrutable and that *doesn't bother me*, and I've developed a habit of thinking "okay, but if I *DID* have a house with a library in it, I would need a tweed jacket too, right?" only SEMI-ironically.

One of the (incredibly petty) crimes of the stress of the last 5 years or so is it made me blow right through the "little gray in beard" level of gray:color facial hair into the "I should consider a career as an eccentric professor" gray:color phase

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Oh honey what is you doing

no quarter given lmao

One of the things I like about backing smaller projects like this is that I completely forget I did so and then one day BAM vampurr shows up at my friend's door and we both get to solve a mystery together

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

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Easier to get a job now BEFORE your boss loses by 15, I suspect

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Starting to thing Earle-Sears' campaign staff hate her, because hard to imagine why you'd stick her in front of a camera like this

That or she overruled their "please God no anything but that" protests with a "I killed it at the debate and I'm gonna do even better now" delusion

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

The Texas Gravy Seals jokes embarrassed Hegseth.

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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