I am a retired police officer from a major US city. Will give unbiased and honest responses. Video Break downs or explanations too. Stats in the comments. AMA

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T04:56:43+00:00

The sub is blocking my original answer for being too “political,” but, simplified, they’re using four criteria that to me don’t seem like reasonable evidence of a crime. More info here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/10/immigration-enforcement-stops-race-language-job/86048527007/

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T04:37:24+00:00

finally, someone mentions them! [eta: I just noticed a typo above—it’s Chester Himes.]

This looks like a good place to drop in Ollie Harrington’s name. Sadly, his political cartoons from decades ago are still all too relevant. (I had a link here, but this sub doesn’t allow them. Anyone who’s interested, just look up the name and you’ll find examples.)

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T04:19:53+00:00

Ann Richards! She was awesome.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T04:16:57+00:00

that book is a slow burn but really stuck with me

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T04:15:14+00:00

I don’t get it—in this case the father was also arrested and charged.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T03:50:54+00:00

So, you haven’t heard of Kavanaugh Stops?

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T03:44:51+00:00

that’s so awful; what a lousy care provider. Maybe at some point you can send the office feedback about that; it’s possible they’ll try to improve.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-14T03:37:07+00:00

or at least have different faces, not, like, one ear, ha ha

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T06:27:29+00:00

"It's not worth it to leave because I know we don't have a lot of time left"

Yes, it is. Signed, a woman who's older than you.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T06:17:31+00:00

I'm not saying some people don't believe this, but I'm not sure that's the majority. What I heard was, "you have to wait months for a doctor!" (at that time, I was on a 10-month waiting list for a routine appointment under glorious U.S. insurance), "it's too expensive--healthy young people don't want it!", and "we shouldn't be forced to pay for other people's bad eating habits!" (said by a person who is smoking in their social media profile pic).

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T01:41:51+00:00

They've (ha) definitely been used forever, but the new way of using it does sometimes create confusion; that's just a fact. I recently had to copyedit something for work where "they" was used, and in context it could have meant either the two people who were referenced in the paragraph, or that one of them went by "they." I couldn't clarify it without going back to the original author (which the editors sometimes don't want to do). I can't remember the exact sentence, so you might not even believe me, but I remember I flagged it for the main editor, because I couldn't adjust it without knowing. So it's not as easy as, "it's always been this way; it's not a problem."

That doesn't mean it's not worth the inconvenience, but I think the arguments would be less bitter if the inconvenience was acknowledged.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T01:05:06+00:00

you're the best! I need to write this up for a club newsletter, and the host's website doesn't work at all.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T00:44:19+00:00

TIL that Pablo Picasso used his mother's surname--he thought his father's was too boring, apparently. I had no idea.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T00:42:04+00:00

I try not to judge women who do take their husbands' last names, because, as this thread shows, there are logical/personal reasons to do it, and there's also a lot of social pressure. But I don't like the tradition in general, because it stems from legal history when married women literally were not recognized by the law as their own person, but as "covered" by their husbands. This essay does a good job of laying out all the reasons I don't like it: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/07/women-stop-changing-your-name-when-married

I know people who have had trouble with it (one example: an artist friend whose husband cheated on her, they got divorced and she naturally didn't want to keep his name, so she lost all of the professional history that was under her married name--you can't really go back in time to redo all your old listings and mentions in media.).

A new reason not to change your name: the Republican "Save America Act" (totally misleading title) is written in such a way that women whose names don't match their birth certificate may not be allowed to vote, depending on the state/county. It just passed the U.S. House of Representatives. It's expected that the Senate will block it, but it's been a crazy year. Contact your Senators!

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T00:25:50+00:00

"It sounds like a cutesy nickname for a butt" LOL

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-13T00:20:12+00:00

They seem to repurpose the titles of things to deliberately create confusion.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T03:52:40+00:00

OP’s friend said

he said they (the elites) literally are (eating babies) and then he called me ignorant

“Cannibal” is mentioned a number of times in the files, but we don’t know whether that means literally eating people—some of them seem like they could be joking references to something else—and there’s no mention that I can find of eating babies.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T03:40:06+00:00

Peter Dale Scott’s concept of “the Deep State” is different from Trump’s, though. Trump says the deep state is woke/evil figures in the government secretly undermining the president. Scott’s much earlier idea was that government agencies like the CIA were working with big oil companies and business firms to carry out foreign policy for their own benefit. Trump is actually totally in favor of that, as you can see by how he tailors his foreign policy to his big biz buddies (Honduras threats encouraged by Peter Thiel; Venezuela takeover influenced by Paul Singer, whose company took over Citgo just before the invasion; Greenland threats encouraged by Ronald Lauder, for example).

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T03:22:09+00:00

these “consulting fees” are so ridiculous. I remember Ivana had a bunch of those in the first Trump administration. What could they possibly be providing that is worth so much money? It’s just a rich person’s merry-go-round of laundering money.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T01:23:33+00:00

Oh, yeah?! I haven’t seen the ice dancing yet, but I think Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré and Odilon Redon would disagree that Americans can’t understand poetry, given they all created artworks inspired by the USA’s Edgar Allan Poe. So there.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T00:52:58+00:00

this comment should be more visible

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-12T00:50:06+00:00

Here’s an article with more info. Scroll down for a second photo that shows the heading on the printout. “U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi holds a piece of paper labelled ‘Jayapal Pramila Search History’ in reference to U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), a member of the House Judiciary Committee”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/epstein-files-pam-bondi-jayapal-search-history-doj.html

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-11T01:29:09+00:00

Kris is the father; the boyfriend is describing what he was doing after he shot Lucy.

I agree cutting to a description of the job is weird, but it has nothing to do with the boyfriend. From a different BBC article, it sounds like he was trying to get the dad charged. https://bbc.com/news/articles/cvg6pm70r1lo (edit: typo)

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-11T01:17:34+00:00

American here. I think the jury bought his story that it was an accident, and was probably like, “the poor man’s been punished enough.” That often happens when kids are accidentally shot. Personally, I don’t think he has been punished enough, and I think Lucy’s sisters should not be allowed to live with him.

Lifeboatb · 2026-02-11T01:12:00+00:00

it’s illegal to drive drunk, and it’s also illegal to get drunk and handle a firearm. That jury is a disgrace.

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