WesternInfidels

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At this point, the greatest insult the president can offer is to fail to threaten a lawsuit, honestly.

I have baked my own bread, and I have finished baking store-bought parbaked bread, but somehow it never occurred to me that I could parbake my own stuff at home. What a great idea.

Your baguettes look tasty!

If CBP and ICE were really on a mission to find non-citizens, they wouldn't have been sent to fucking Minnesota .

Even a die-hard "kick 'em all out" pro-crackdown MAGA shithead should be angry about what is actually happening on the ground.

The articles under the "anti-fake" heading seem to mostly be about illuminating and countering Russian propaganda efforts, Russian disinformation campaigns, Russian media subversion, etc.

"Anti-fake" is a term that has apparently been applied to official legislative efforts to counter propaganda, disinfo, and media subversion around the world. I hadn't heard the term before, but I'm not seeing anything inherently suspect about it, under the circumstances.

Maybe it's just an appropriate response to the times.

Can you expand on this? What does "anti-fake" mean to you, what does it mean to them? Is this something a lot of news outlets have? Is this the only one? I've never heard of this and I'm confused.

Something that jumped out at me: These guys had worked for CBP for ~8 and ~12 years, respectively.

These thugs, who wrestled an uninvolved bystander to the ground, then shot him in the back while he lay there helpless, were not panicky newbs. These were veteran CBP officers.

Is this just what veteran CBP officers are like?

Conservatives' whole deal can be summarized as "picking and choosing who gets to have rights."

You'll call me a curmudgeon for sure, but:

1. "75" is kind of a shit high score, with the scale going to 100 and all.

2. Demonstration of that point: LG is #2 with a score of 74, in spite of the fact that the terrible track record of their big-dollar linear-compressor fridges has made national news.

3. We might also note that the span of scores here is really small; it's just 8 points on a scale of 100. How meaningful is all this?

4. CR's reports like these are based on CR subscriber surveys. So they're about consumer experience and sentiment for things bought brand new and generally things bought recently. I wouldn't expect such a report to say much about lifespan or repair-ability.

I've been a CR subscriber forever. I keep thinking I should cancel, though, because I'm not prosperous enough to live the way their target audience apparently lives.

Oh no not another podcast gosh

If they abduct you and disappear you without a trace, that's not really "arresting" you in the first place. It's just kidnapping. They're claiming an expansion of their power to commit kidnappings.

At the movies with my GF. And, for the first time, her family.

The lights come down. The film is underway. There's a commotion at the other end of our row. GF's sister has retrieved something from her bag. There are whispers. Something crinkly is passed down the row, one person at a time, to the left. Eventually, GF hands me a bundle the size of a football. It's aluminum foil on the outside. Wax paper inside, loosely wrapping up ... something. "What is this?" I ask, panicking.

"Pumpkin roll?" she says. Indignant eye-roll tone. As if she meant to say "Uh, helLO, it's a PUMPkin roll, OBVIOUSLY." She's suddenly realized that I'm some kind of bumpkin what ain't never been to no big-suburb movie theater like this before. Where entire family-size bake-sale pastries are always surreptitiously circulating in the dark.

We've been married 20 years now. When she's mixed-up by some momentary contextual confusion, I am still likely to tease her by 'explaining:' "PUMPkin roll?"

I don't remember if I ate any of it.