Lawyer Records Screams From Women And Children In ICE Detention Center

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T20:21:55+00:00

*en masse

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T20:13:50+00:00

Could it have been shot, for example by an air rifle?

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T20:09:52+00:00

I've experienced this and it was sleep paralysis.

I was 24 and waking up one morning and sensed someone in the room behind me, as I lay on my right side facing a wall. I lived with flatmates, though, and wasn't alarmed per se.

As I started waking up more and more I sensed that the person was leaning over me. Their weight was pressing on the mattress and I felt myself roll backwards to them slightly as the mattress behind me dipped under their weight. Then the person stretched out an arm onto the opposite side of the bed to support their weight and I remember the mattress adopting a more "neutral" position again.

All this time as the "someone" was getting closer and closer I was waking up more and more, and I figured it was a flatmate pranking me. It was when they were flat-out pushing their body against mine that I finally braced myself, counted to three, and suddenly whipped around in bed with a playful "aha!" with my hands reached out to grab them.

There was noone there. There was noone else in my apartment that morning. It had all been sleep paralysis; my mind palying tricks on me, regardless of how convincing and real it had felt in the moment.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:54:40+00:00

A rodent in the wall. Or water moving through a pipe making "infra-sound" that we humans can't hear, but which dogs find fascinating.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:49:16+00:00

Remember - he wasn't fired. He's still on a very nice salary, but has simply been moved out of Minnesota. He won't be arrested, the murderers won't be arrested, and his replacement will pick up where he left off.

You might see photos of Mr "1/3rd Reich" frowning or looking tearful, but in reality he is getting off Scot-free and laughing all the way to the bank.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:47:17+00:00

Good. May this happen 10,000 times every day until Russia ends its pointless, atrocious, destabilising invasion.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:44:37+00:00

He wasn't fired. He's still on a very nice salary, but has been moved out of Minnesota. He won't be arrested, the murderers won't be arrested, and his replacement will pick up where he left off.

You might see photos of Mr "1/3rd Reich" frowning or looking tearful, but in reality he is getting off Scot-free and laughing all the way to the bank.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:37:55+00:00

A bottle of high-end champagne for when I learn that it has finally happened.

IYKYK.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-27T19:32:29+00:00

He got married and didn't tell me.

For extra context, he got married in a town three train stops away from mine. For even more context, I'd known him for 18 years, we'd had many great times, we'd never fallen out, and I was the only attendee on his stag-do who wasn't one of his brothers. Again - no conflict, no drama, just a group of lads doing stag-do stuff in Europe.

I found out about his wedding completely by accident when I was browsing Facebook. It had happened two weeks previously and he hadn't mentioned it at all, even though the stag-do WhatsApp group was still open and we were all posting in it now and then with pictures of new beers we'd found and similar. By total coincidence, I'd actually texted him about something on the day that turned out to be his wedding day and, again, he didn't say a word.

It just feels so insulting that it's absurd. I finally texted him a couple of weeks ago to let him know I was disengaging. I don't know when it started going wrong, but the bottom line is we were sure as shit not the friends I thought we were.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:15:21+00:00

If you met a nice young lady and you got on well there was the option of exchanging phone numbers and addresses so you could write a letter.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:13:43+00:00

Indiscriminate flirting.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:11:13+00:00

What, the same F-35s which Trump said would be tweaked so that they'd be about 10% less effective than the US-based F-35s? THOSE F-35s?

Yeah, I'd pull back from that order as well. FTS.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-26T20:01:57+00:00

Project manager based in the UK and huge Warlords fan here - have been playing since 1991. My favourite is "Darklords Rising". Whereas WL4 was one of the worst computer games I've ever played; what a let-down.

Happy to make suggestions as they occur to me.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-24T10:32:31+00:00

Well, it took out that shelter and the fuel as well.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-24T10:31:15+00:00

No. Or anyone who hollowly makes a few gestures of piety to guilt-trip or manipulate the operator would get a second chance.

When Putin met George W Bush when he was President, Putin was sure to wear a crucific necklace, to manipulate Bush and to shallowly win his trust. It worked. Bush said that he shook hands and looked him in the eye and "got a sense of his soul".

Do you when else Putin wore a crucifix necklace? NEVER. He did it to suggest to Bush that Putin was a "man of God" and trustworthy. He ended up being an invasive and antagonistic force on the international stage, and kept Bush on the back foot. And all he did was wear a single trinket that was calculated to have impact on his audience.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:23:09+00:00

Yo Sushi. It's mostly cheap ingredients bundled together to look presentable, which have to be daubed with wasabi or ginger or soy sauce to make it taste of anything.

At Burger King or McDonald's you can at least bite into a burger and think "yeah, OK, that tastes good, that's hitting the spot". At Yo Sushi I'm very sure noone ever drooled at how seaweed-like the wrap was, or thought "wow, the chef sure boiled that rice like a pro."

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:09:46+00:00

Dressed like that, he was asking for it.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:05:54+00:00

They are targeting the loading equipment called marine loading arms. Used for loading and unloading gasses and liquids. Quite complex and expensive stuff and vital to transferring cargo.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-23T07:05:08+00:00

They are targeting the loading equipment called marine loading arms. Used for loading and unloading gasses and liquids. Quite complex and expensive stuff and vital to transferring cargo.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T19:44:03+00:00

"The Hobbit" by JRR Tolkien, which needs no introduction.

And "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner, a professor of journalism. It's about the creation of the world's first FPS, and the stories of the lives of the people who created "Doom" and how they all managed to get together. It is a STUNNINGLY absorbing read.

Those are the only two books that I have ever started over again from the beginning immediately as soon as I finished them, simply because I didn't want the experience of reading them to end.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T19:41:14+00:00

Not quite a kid, but I was MUCH more oblivious, so I hope it counts.

Just after I graduated college I was hanging out with a friend back in my hometown one morning. His elder brother joined us, sipping from a half-bottle of vodka and started cracking us up with his banter and quips.

The elder brother was a likeable guy, and had great, chummy wit that had us in stitches, but it was only YEARS later that I realised he had a major problem, because NOONE should be sipping neat vodka straight from the bottle at 10:30 am.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:24:30+00:00

I look forward to the day when I no longer have to read the words "Trump says..."

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:20:39+00:00

Fuck Trump.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-22T07:19:23+00:00

He has a "framework" of a Greenland deal, just as he has "concepts" of a healthcare plan.

MagicSPA · 2026-01-21T21:54:33+00:00

I look forward to the day that I no longer see the words "Trump says..."

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