@jackie apis cartels are brigandry

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My god, this is Getty #photojournalist John Abernathy. He wrote on instagram “I was tackled by #ICE agents & surrounded by about 50 #border #police. Just for taking photos. I tossed my camera to another Photographer to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated. #gettyreportage #getty at the #Whipple Federal building in #Minneapolis.”
Photo by Pierre Lavie.

#Trump #law #Constitution #FreePress #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #PoliceBrutality #MafiaState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung

@aprilfollies @Nonilex

It's quite clear he was using the Leica as a weapon (for truth?) and was jolly lucky not to be shot.

These #ice agents need to protect themselves from exposure. Hopefully he got his exposures right.

Great advert for Leica. Even if Americans will now have to pay 10% more for them*

* 25% from June 1st providing Europe stands its ground.

https://deer.social/pr...

today's hero: dude with a trumpet who set up at the farmer's market next to the people with the big signs about how we're all going to hell unless we accept their version of Jesus right this minute

pretty well shut down their random yelling at women

yes I dropped some $ in his tip jar

and made sure the yellers saw

xnfm isn't a cult, xnfm is a bunch of brats endlessly ragebaiting poor exhausted nyxie to try to get her to punish them but all she can do is sigh defeatedly and say "it's still not too late to do no nyx 2026"

If you are a Canadian francophone, there's a survey on French swearing researchers are running! Si vous êtes un Canadien francophone, des chercheurs mènent un sondage sur les jurons en français! https://run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/survey-2024.2.0/?surveyId=97fb5ca8-1eee-41f7-9f7f-8eaa87645a49

@mia @rowb1t closest i ever got to one was across the street where it was pushed into hiding in a tree somewhere while a bunch of crows stole the dead rat it had

there's a weird thing i see sometimes amongst queer leftist ppl (usually white, more well off ones) where like... you have real oppressions, real fears and real politics, but because you're mad all the time this gets applied to... everything? every inconvinence or tiny annoyance ends up being filtered through "my anger is justified" and you end up being like. oh yeah as a leftist i'm so pissed off that i don't have more parking spaces

Factoid time! 'Eleven Plus Two' is an anagram of 'Twelve Plus One', and the answer to both equations is 13!

A Nazi loser was routed on the streets of Minneapolis today.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/01/17/another-day-another-rally-in-minnesota/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQg-G-Ebscg

@goaty

Ants haven't figured out pottery that we know of yet. But they do sculpt clay:

Indian Harvester ants, Pheidole sykesii create levies around their nest entrance so that when it rains the flood waters do not enter, but rather flow around it while they stay dry underground.

They build in response to the water so you can tell which direction the water comes form during the rains based on the height of the walls.

Trump admin says $3 meals are totally doable in America.

A few things:

1 corn tortilla (large) = 100 calories
Cost per tortilla in a pack: $0.28

Subtotals: 100 calories, 28 cents

1 "piece" of broccoli: about 7.5 calories
Price per "piece": about $0.37

Subtotals: 107.5 calories, 65 cents

A "piece" of chicken: about 200 calories for a cheap bit like a leg.

Chicken prices varies wildly by type, so here's the average for raw legs which needs to be prepared— another unmentioned cost for the consumer): about $0.30 per ounce. A chicken leg is like 4 ounces. So $1.20 or so.

Subtotals: 207.5 calories, $1.85

The "one other thing" upon which Rollins simply did not expand could be extrapolated (in good faith) as some piece of fruit. Maybe an apple.

Median price of all apples in USA: $2.25 per pound.

One *entire* apple (red delicious, average 0.6 pounds):
calories avg: 82.5
Price per apple: $0.84

Grand totals per Trump Meal Plan:

Price: About $2.69

Calories per meal: about 394.

Normal number of meals per day (as Trump admin implied is all you need) 3. 3×394 =1,182 calories.

The average SEDENTARY male weighing 175 pounds needs between 2,000 and 2,200 calories a day in order to not literally starve.

Note also that this kind of meal plan simply does not address macro or micronutrients—especially for active adults (laborers, athletes, people with generally high metabolisms or special dietary needs). And THAT is to say nothing of children.

And this meal "plan" does not account for the prices of things like spices, salt, cooking oils or other necessary culinary ingredients.

I am 43 years old. I am an athlete and a laborer. I will begin to cut weight if I eat less than about 3,800 calories a day.

This is a starvation diet and I am positive they basically just ran these "simulations" with cruel, ascetic prompts through some AI or other.

The Trump Administration wants us poor, starving, scared, and desperate.

https://youtube.com/shorts/bwycTVhC66c

What if instead of a millionaire Scrooge McDuck was a doctor and instead of diving into a pool full of coins and bills he dove into a pool full of medical waste