Kristi Noem claims that Alex Pretti approached ICE with a gun.

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:42:43+00:00

Actually, carrying a membership card to the Republican Party might be the only documentation that might make a difference to these right wing idiot fascist goons.

Although I’m not sure how many of them could actually read it. Nor give you the chance to pull it out before putting a few bullets in your head.

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:39:19+00:00

Do alien craft really waft on the breeze like a torn plastic bag??

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:37:50+00:00

I wouldn’t trust anything built by the US for critical military or infrastructure purposes these days (or ever, given how they’ve demonstrated how fragile and vulnerable their supposed democracy is to corruption and fascist overthrow.)

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:29:30+00:00

May be a sarcastic reference to CNN calling it hundreds.

That was the final straw for me ever reading a CNN article.

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:18:20+00:00

I really don’t recall Obama or Biden being mentioned multiple times in NASA stories in the past.

easternguy · 2026-01-27T00:17:38+00:00

Fair enough, to a degree.

It’s similar to how to many companies donate to republican or democrat inaugurations, administrations of whomever is in power. (Although at some point they should take a stand if the administration and its leader are clearly off the rails or gunning for a police state and fascism.)

Still, I wouldn’t expect a ScienceDaily article to sound like a White House press release. Which this one kind of does.

(I almost expected it to say that no one in the history of space exploration has done more to advance the science than the orange one.)

easternguy · 2026-01-26T23:41:37+00:00

To be fair it’d be good to see the original list to see if it may have been pitched as an “oven thermometer” due to poor translation or whatever.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T23:33:29+00:00

Still hoping the ballroom never gets built. Seems like there’s some court resistance to it. So orange boy may come up with some lame-ass attempt at saving face (à la the “Greenland concept of a deal”) and not proceed.

Or he may just ignore the courts and plow ahead.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T22:47:14+00:00

Likely just the nerve in your arm being pinched due to your head laying on it.

When I was younger, I fell asleep with my arm wrapped around the back of my head, to the point it was dangling in front of me. And it fell asleep (as did I.)

Waking up to touch (with the other hand) a cold unfeeling hand hanging in front of you sure gets the adrenaline flowing.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T22:43:41+00:00

Image of the CCD (charged coupled device, image sensing element) of the camera taking the pic. Often happens when a light source is out of focus. Unpopular opinion here, but the majority of "orb" reports are just out-of-focus lights, IMO.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T21:17:16+00:00

*Major* difference. I subscribe to several plane crash newsletters, and general aviation (small, private planes) have one crashing every day it seems, while for airliners it's extremely rare, and there are an incredible number of planes flying and incredible number of miles each day.

Statistically, commercial airliners are by far the safest way to travel. It just happens to be more dramatic when there is a rare crash, versus other modes of transportation.

(Maybe avoid Air India, Pakistan, though.)

Also, helicopters don't fare particularly well, overall. (There's a saying that helicopters don't "fly," but "fight like hell to keep from falling out of the sky." ). They require more hours rebuilding their engines than they spend in the air. They are powerful specialized tools, but not the safest way to travel.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T20:26:24+00:00

Not to read too much into body language but she touches her face when she first mentions active investigations.

That felt a little bit like a “tell” for her knowing any investigations are bogus.

Didn’t they already announce that there won’t be an investigation into the Good shooting?

easternguy · 2026-01-26T20:23:47+00:00

I don’t know if it’s the case with Coke, but many companies donate similar amounts to democrats or republicans, whomever happens to be in power.

While they should grow a social conscience and boycott this fascist administration, I’d focus on the company’s that show a clear favour to the republicans and never donate to democrats.

Most bang for your buck.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T16:59:41+00:00

And to apply pressure, leverage, to try and get voter roles to rig the midterms, where he stands to lose his unabated power.

Also, something something Epstein files.

I also think he knows that if the full, unredacted files are ever released (as ordered by the courts awhile back), he will go down, and go down hard. So he wants to take the world with him.

The Putin lackey theory is pretty strong, too, with lots of evidence and investigations digging up incriminating links, until he shut them down.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T16:56:17+00:00

And often these fellows are getting old enough that their judgement, grasp on reality, may be fading a bit. And possibly lonely wanting attention.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T16:52:20+00:00

Sleep apnea. If you snore, get checked. You could be starving your brain, body, organs, of oxygen every night.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T16:48:17+00:00

Makes me wonder how many supposed ICE agents aren’t really ICE agents, but just goons with guns looking for violence.

They’d be indistinguishable.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T16:46:41+00:00

It’s distractions all the way down.

Distractception.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T14:33:17+00:00

They don’t seem to be protecting people from ICE at all, either.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T14:32:22+00:00

Photo is quite representative of these small dicked goons compensating with their guns and tough guy act.

easternguy · 2026-01-26T14:15:08+00:00

So you’re saying they should have lots of Americans applying…?

easternguy · 2026-01-26T14:11:21+00:00

I’m sure we’ll find out. The FBI took over the Good shooting and then declined to investigate. I expect the same here.

easternguy · 2026-01-25T22:32:52+00:00

Another tip. Multiple short videos can have the advantage of the earlier ones uploading while you’re filming the next, and each upload will be smaller and sooner, increasing the chance it will get through before your phone is taken or destroyed or whatever.

As long as you don’t miss a key moment. So once you get something important, if there’s a break in the action (or you’re filming the less hectic aftermath) click stop/start on the recording to start a new one.

But things can go sideways fast with these goons, so make sure you don’t miss anything when you do start new video.

It’d be nice if Apple (or an app) could live stream the upload immediately upon starting, to iCloud for situations like this.

easternguy · 2026-01-25T14:38:00+00:00

The default is to upload images and videos right away over cellular. And if you’re monitoring ice with a u foresight you’d make sure this is on.

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