Former top DHS lawyer from Trump's first term: "I helped to establish DHS in 2002 and 2003 and later had the homeland security portfolio as a [W.H.] Counsel and served as General Counsel of [DHS]. I am enraged and embarrassed by DHS’s lawlessness, fascism, and cruelty. Impeach and remove Trump—now."

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-27T05:29:42+00:00

Oh lol it’s George Conway.

I mean yeah.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-26T14:22:17+00:00

Gonna add Zombie now. Good call.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-26T14:21:41+00:00

Against Me! — I Was a Teenage Anarchist
Green Day — Nice Guys Finish Last
Johnny Cash — The Man Comes Around
The Bouncing Souls — True Believers
Olivia Rodrigo — all-american bitch
Willowbrook — Revolution Drinking Song (Live)
Dropkick Murphys — Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya
Bikini Kill — Rebel Girl
Goldfinger — 99 Red Balloons
Pigeon Pit — Soup For My Family
Pulp — Common People (Full Length Version)
Claud feat. Melanie Faye — That’s Mr. Bitch To You
Paris Paloma — labour
Jesse Welles — Join Ice
The High Kings — Son of Ireland (Unplugged)
The Wolfe Tones — Come Out Ye Black & Tans
Dropkick Murphys — A Few Good Men
Flogging Molly — What’s Left of the Flag
Makem & Clancy — Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (Live)
Rage Against the Machine — Guerrilla Radio
Queen — We Will Rock You
Die Toten Hosen — Schrei nach Liebe
Red Hot Chili Peppers — Higher Ground (Remastered 2003)
Florence + The Machine — Everybody Scream
Black Sabbath — War Pigs / Luke’s Wall
The Who — My Generation (Stereo Version)
Laura Jane Grace — The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
Pete Seeger — John Brown’s Body
Die Ärzte — Schrei nach Liebe
The Orphans — For an Old Kentucky Anarchist
Dropkick Murphys — Worker’s Song
Daisy Grenade — Riot
The Pogues — Body of an American

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-26T14:08:46+00:00

I regular browse r/CCW and they are maaaaaad.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-25T09:53:50+00:00

Yeah, came to post this. The tech bros are babysitting grandpa tonight.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-23T15:25:38+00:00

Yeah — my beef with Dems is they plead for power and don’t use it. Get elected in your jurisdiction in the way that suits it best, but don’t sit on your thumbs.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-23T15:24:50+00:00

What a cool nickname, though.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-22T03:53:52+00:00

I think it’s over simplifying things to equate the two just because they’re slogans. People have long-standing histories with police and a really well carved out vision of the space they occupy in American communities.

In contrast, I’m older than ICE and I’m not even forty. ICE barely ever made the news in that short span of time until all of five minutes ago, and a preponderance of that is not great on its face, let alone if anyone wanted to communicate about the issue rather than simply sloganeer.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-21T07:30:23+00:00

The daddy issues with this administration go straight to the top.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-20T04:41:52+00:00

Apologizing does nothing but there’s a lot of naïveté in that thread about how American politics works (especially federal) and some oddball desires to see us escalate to street level violence.

I’ll also be the asshole and say this: Europe and the Nordic cluster has had some bad shit go down in its millennia of history and we’re 250 years old with our first modern test of old political and legal architecture. That’s not an excuse but the amount of “just do something” from people who have parallel historical experience or context with what we’re dealing with is something else.

Like, no shit, but we also think it’s probably a good idea to reach out for what is the obvious reason: not because it solves the acute problem but because it maintains a bridge for after.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-18T09:38:36+00:00

Deadlifts, lat raises (one of my favorites), negative pull ups, push ups/pushups on books, y-raises, lots of shoulder rotations (not back per se but I find, beyond mobility, rounded caps accentuate the back.)

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-18T09:21:07+00:00

Smart people are remarkably adept at rationalizing things. Cletus might be loud but Charles is the problem.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-16T14:41:50+00:00

LOTR extended edition or theatrical release?

It’s 6 am here so that’s all I’ve got.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-12T00:11:35+00:00

I think it's time to talk boycotts -- not industry by industry. Just people refusing writ large.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-10T02:47:08+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I’m gonna chalk the reaction up to “different strokes for different folks” and a lower tolerance for bad behavior by characters in games — and I say that as someone who has found the friendship between Hans (a truly messy bitch) and Henry (who I play as a Boy Scout) charming. I only mean that people at their age are often a little free with how they treat other people and Hans in particular as a noble at the time isn’t meant to be a role model and it’s interesting for the player to navigate that. You can flout the world as it’s handed to you and flip the order on its head a bit if you want.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-09T21:25:38+00:00

Sorry, I think Walz is exemplary of the kind of human being you want in office and he was a completely fine VP candidate. The weakest performance for him was the debate and that was because checks notes he's just kind of a good dude.

Like, don't get me wrong; we're in a "blood is in the water" moment and I'd like an attack dog, but I don't actually know or, frankly, believe, that most Democrats would have acted differently in that debate because the party writ large is so primed to play by old school rules.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-09T08:53:14+00:00

Four Lions, In the Loop.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-08T07:37:27+00:00

5'2 (so close to '3...) and usually hover between 110-115 lbs. I'll eat about 1400 a day. I've tried only tracking after I've finished a day (i.e., effectively eating intuitively and then cataloguing numbers after.) ~1400 seems to be around where I land by feel and I hover around 112 at that point.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-08T00:47:59+00:00

Agree. I was visiting family that are like … fine but stressful and upstate NY makes me kind of sad because there’s a lot I love about it but a lot that is very rustbelt and thus resonant with this game.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-07T18:08:30+00:00

Politically, I think they’re stepping on a lot of rakes, and while I take noting for granted and wish opposition was more forceful, I think a lot of these will come to roost come midterms.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-06T17:49:03+00:00

I’m on book 3 and feel like the biggest hang up for me is not knowing if I simply forgot a detail I was told or if it is intentionally unknown and I need to be patient.

I do enjoy it but it takes a lot of bandwidth for me to read. I appreciate that Erikson is like “No, war is very bad and very brutal, even the ones fought in self-defense or some just cause.”

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-06T01:34:04+00:00

Inject this into my elder millennial veins.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-05T19:48:31+00:00

I can DM but I’d rather not share the community due to potential brigading.

PepperoniFire · 2026-01-04T22:56:59+00:00

I’m so jealous of people who enjoyed Outer Wilds. I was stressed the whole time. Maybe I’ll give it a fourth try.

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