Next time anyone says that not all cops are bad, show this video of the cops in American Fort, Utah. There's not one good and honest cop on that police force, if it can even be called a police force at all! youtu.be/EuAhIBpanhQ?is=2kYH…

Hold up! Does this mean that those most concerned with climate change, are cleaning the air, and thus causing the increase in temperatures themselves? ecoticias.com/en/cleaner-air…

When you post ads like this, then disable the comments section, fuck off. Just kindly fuck off.

The difference I see is "optics". The other presidents didn't send people into the streets dressed similar to Mexican Cartel members to arrest people aggressively. If they managed to deport so many more people than Trump WITHOUT the need for these aggressive tactics, why does Trump employ these optically-horrible tactics himself? Reading this post, I would deduce that these tactics are implemented simply as intimidation, not as a necessity.

While I can respect what Ms. Holt is saying here, it needs to be said that nobody at LGBTQ parades is speaking out and stopping the T and the Q from taking part. The "We don't want you here, but we also won't say anything" passive-aggressive mentality is strong in the LGB group.

X could implement origin-detection filters combined with keyword analysis to flag content that appears to be foreign-coordinated influence on domestic affairs, and pass that information to the rest of us. Rather than outright restricting accounts, the platform could apply transparency labels or algorithmic dampening, empowering users to make informed decisions about the content they engage with.

Faith stands quiet in the desert. A little sanctuary between earth and sky. ⛪✨ #DesertChurch #SouthwestLandscape #GoldenHourMagic #DesertVibes #americanwest instagram.com/p/DYtPVbDFOs0/…

Remember Traxx, from Kmart? As the child of an immigrant family in the 80s, every one of my clothes and shoes had holes in them and were torn, because each and every one was a hand me down from cousins whose parents immigrated here before us. I walked four miles each way from Echo Park, where we lived then, to King Jr. High School in Hollywood. In the afternoons, while walking home along Sunset Bl., prostitutes would give me $1 to buy a Big Mac at McDonalds. They liked me because I was raised to say "Hello" to everyone, including prostitutes. I didn't attend my own Homecoming nor Prom because my parents couldn't afford the tickets, nor the tux rental, and a limo was out of the question. My first date was in our living room, with my mother making us hotdogs, because we couldn't afford to eat in restaurants. Except she wanted to be fancy and put sour cream instead of mustard on them because sour cream was a luxury in our house, while mustard was cheap. Not surprisingly, there was no second date. (Christina S. from Bell High School, I really liked you 😅) We couldn't afford OnTV or SelecTV, the two primary cable channels, so I watched dozens of movies without sound, by turning the dial to channel 52 or 54, and then fidgeting with the dial until the scrambled picture straightened out a bit and you could make out the video somewhat. That's how I first watched Return of the Jedi. But back to Traxx from Kmart: My friend Jack's mom kicked me out of her house not so kindly once. These cheap shoes cost $8, imitated the Adidas brand by using four instead of three diagonal lines, and Asics by turning the bend in their design upward instead of down. The fake brands were sold in American stores, Kmart! They had the nasty habit of decomposing in about a month, and smelling strongly of vinegar mixed with sweat... which is why Jack's mom kicked me out. Aaah, the 80s. How I miss it!

As another Gen X'r myself, I call "bullshit". Firstly, when this guy was 23, the median income was here in L.A., where the OP claims to have lived, was $17,700 and the minimum wage was $2.90. Today it's $16.90, and the median income is $87,000-$89,000. In my area it's $99,900. Those are enormous differences between the 1980s and today. While it's true that housing costs, particularly rentals, have risen sharply in many desirable areas, citing West Hollywood as a representative example is misleading. West Hollywood has long been a premium location due to its central position in Hollywood's nightlife, entertainment, and cultural scene, akin to using Brentwood or Manhattan to illustrate national housing trends. It is not a typical benchmark. Similarly, claims that everyday items like burgers now cost $20 feel exaggerated. A standard fast-food meal, including fries and a drink, generally runs between $16–$18 at major chains. At In-N-Out, for instance, a Double-Double, cheeseburger, two orders of fries, and a drink total around $18 even after recent nationwide price pressures. This is not gourmet dining; it's mainstream consumption. The world has indeed changed profoundly since the 1980s, but not always in the one-sided way younger generations often portray. Incomes have grown substantially, technology and lifestyle options have expanded dramatically, and economic opportunities have shifted. The real challenges, particularly housing affordability in high-demand coastal cities, deserve serious discussion, but they are better served by accurate, representative comparisons rather than selective anecdotes.

What kids? What dads? What bullshit?

X should implement a transparent geographic origin disclosure system for all accounts on the platform, paired with a robust reporting mechanism specifically designed to flag content that is predatory, opportunistic, or propagandist in nature. The platform is increasingly saturated with foreign-operated accounts whose activity patterns suggest a singular purpose: manufacturing outrage and deepening societal divisions within countries they have no genuine stake in. This is not incidental. It is a deliberate and well-documented tactic used to destabilize democratic discourse from the outside in. Freedom of speech is a principle worth defending, but it was never intended as a shield for coordinated foreign interference in another nation's social fabric. Accounts that exist solely to inflame, deceive, and agitate are not participants in good-faith dialogue. They are adversarial actors exploiting an open platform to serve nefarious ends. Allowing such accounts to operate unchecked is not neutrality; it is complicity. X has both the technological capability and the civic responsibility to identify, flag, and remove accounts engaged in this kind of manipulation before the damage they cause becomes irreversible.

The Internet has now quite literally become The National Enquirer.

A woman without a tattoo is now a unicorn. A national treasure. If you find one and she doesn't require an admission fee, propose.

DUST TO DUST: Photographing a Catholic Relic in the Wasteland. youtu.be/3BcB3C7AEwY?si=y0XW…

I’ve found that debating theology with Christians is usually pointless. Not because they’re right, clearly they’re not, but because they always fall back on miracles, divine intervention, and other biblical marvels whenever reason gets inconvenient. Once someone’s operating in a worldview where literally anything is possible as long as 'the Bible says so,' you’re no longer having a rational discussion. You’re just arguing against a fairy tale with infinite get-out-of-logic-free cards, and that's just a waste of everyone's time.

This, to me, screams that at some point, recently, Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson had a conversation about Megyn getting on the Qatar payroll too, and she accepted. There is absolutely no chance that Megyn looked at that interview and thought to herself, "Wow, Tucker's doing so excellent, I need to comment on it!" without her being on the same payroll as Tucker. Team player!

I saw announcements earlier today, here on X, that Erika was going to attend the event tonight. The posts said nothing more than that. Just that she was going to be there. The FBI should look into whoever made the posts, why exactly they were made, and if Erika was actually the intended target, not Trump. @FBI @FBIDirectorKash

This is insane. I commented on a couple of posts regarding the Noah's Ark site in Turkey, and now my entire feed is filled with posts on religion. It's all Jesus this God that, Church this... the way the algorithm works here is batshit. Fix this slop @elonmusk

I have trouble understanding why so many people come to X (and social media in general) with the main goal of shitting on everyone else’s posts, comments, and opinions. It’s like the default setting is just to contradict everything and everyone. Does life really feel that empty that the best use of your time is dumping your negativity on the rest of us? Asking for a friend.

Setting theology aside, the math simply doesn't work. If Jesus was buried before sundown Friday and resurrected Sunday morning, that's one full day and two nights — not three of each. The "three days and three nights" framing doesn't survive basic arithmetic, and it's widely considered a later editorial addition. When I raised this with a pastor, his response wasn't an explanation — it was "How dare you question the gospel?" Which, of course, is not an answer.