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[Better Scotusblog @BetterScotus]

Saving this one
Entering or trying to enter the US contrary to US immigration law is a crime, alway
https://t.co/mKnnnWzTv7
Note: Civil penalties under this subsection are in addition to, and not in lieu of, any criminal or other civil penalties that may be imposed.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Thomas Massie: “There is zero evidence that Iran was trying to build a nuclear weapon, Netanyahu is warmongering.”

The Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament: “We tried to develop nuclear weapons, but couldn't keep it secret.”

[Alonso 🇪🇸 @alonso_dm]

Todos los hombres son violadores en potencia. Salvo los violadores de verdad, que son buenas personas en potencia.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Sen. Eric Schmitt looks Sen. Mazie Hirono (D) in the EYES and GOES BALLISTIC after she defended fraudsters and r*pists

"YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT WE'RE DEPORTING YOU! 🔥

"No, no, no, it's MY TIME now. BIZARRE is the idea you'd be here in this committee DEFENDING VIOLENT MURDERERS from being deported. That you would be defending violent r*pists from being deported!"

"To the American taxpayer that's been RIPPED OFF by people who came to this country. That's HORRIFIC—"

"That you would defend people who took advantage of the good people of this country, their taxpayer dollars. That is bizarre. A terrorist who kills American citizens!"

"You know what's bizarre is YOUR defense of THAT!"

"So FORGIVE ME if you're 24 million Americans should be, our naturalized citizens should be afraid. That's ridiculous."

"You have nothing but fearmongering here! What I'm saying in this bill is if you do those things to the American people, if you take advantage of taxpayers, you're not recognized."

"If you commit a terrorist act, if you commit wholesale welfare fraud, within 10 years, you're damn right we're deporting you."

"If you're convicted, it's not being accused of anything. If you are convicted in a court of law of these crimes, absolutely we should not only convict you, but we should deport you. Gone."

"And if you think that's some sort of negative assertion towards me, I'll take it. I love it!"

"That's what we should be doing more of in this country, because people are coming here in the ripping off taxpayers."

"And I, for one, don't want to see it anymore."

@Eric_Schmitt 🔥🔥🔥

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

"Per Capita"
(with apologies to Dr. Seuss)

There once were two towns on a plain
One called Bigville, one called Small Lane.

Bigville had people by thousands and more
With crowds in the streets and lines at the store.

Small Lane was tiny, with just a few folk
A diner, a church, and a man with a goat.

One day they compared how much pie they had baked.
"Ten thousand pies!" Bigville cried.
"Only one hundred!" Small Lane replied.

"Clearly we're better!" said Bigville with pride.
"We've got more pie than you have inside!"

But an owl in a hat said, "Wait just a bit.
Before you start bragging, let's look into it."

He counted the people. He counted the pies.
Then he looked at both mayors right in their eyes.

"You can't just compare the big number you see.
You must ask how much there is per capita, you see."

"Per capita" means, in a simple old way:
"For each person."
Not for the town.
Not for the king.
Not for the crowd.
Not the whole thing.

If ten thousand pies feed ten thousand folk,
That's one pie each. That isn't a joke.

Now, if one hundred pies feed fifty folk there
That's two pies each. They have more to spare!

Bigville looked puzzled. Small Lane looked smug.
The owl said, "No fighting! No need to tug!

When raw populations are different in size
The bare numbers can fool even very smart eyes."

A city with crime may have thousands each year
While a village has twenty, and everyone cheers.

But if the big city has millions of souls
And the village has hundreds, the picture may roll
The other direction when measured just right
By crime per person instead of by sight.

The same thing is true for money and wealth
For doctors and schools, and even for health.

Whenever one group is much larger than another
Per capita helps you compare one to the other.

So remember this lesson when numbers get grand:
Don't just count the pies all across this great land.

Ask how much each person gets in the game.
Because when populations aren't quite the same?
The biggest number is often the trap
And per capita helps you read the full map.

[Dubs, Esq. @DFDvbya]

“Touch me and see what happens” negates self defense clause as baiting/taunting

Baiting violence is not protected under Texas law: Texas Penal Code § 9.31

Try again

[Better Scotusblog @BetterScotus]

@5Pillarsuk Those look like mostly peaceful protesters to me, mate

[Film Facts @ElfwickDraws]

*glosses over the fact the police put him in handcuffs because the murderer said he was racist*

[Better Scotusblog @BetterScotus]

@TKratman Well, it's a joke name for Mark Twain / Samual Clemens

[Flopping Aces @FloppingAces]

These arrogant fucking pricks at NIH thought they could just waltz through Detroit customs with 113 vials of mpox they grabbed in Congo and nobody would notice. Told the agents it was “diagnostic equipment.” What a goddamn joke. Styrofoam coolers full of select agent material, no proper paperwork, no chain of custody, and these BSL-4 clowns apparently figured their federal badges made the rules optional.

This is years after COVID. After all the hearings, all the promises, all the “we’ve learned our lesson” bullshit.

And the best the agency can do when two of their own get caught allegedly smuggling pathogen vials is issue some limp statement about activating protocols and doing an audit? Fuck that. That’s not accountability. That’s ass-covering.

Rocky Mountain Laboratories is supposed to be one of the most secure high-containment facilities in the country. Instead we’ve got scientists allegedly playing fast and loose with live material from an active outbreak, lying to customs, and the institution that employed them responds like this was a minor paperwork fuck-up.

The same people who spent years demanding the public shut up and trust the experts were apparently running their own little import operation without following basic federal transport laws.

This isn’t a system that reformed. It’s a system that got caught. And the second they did, the response was the usual bureaucratic circle-jerk instead of actual consequences.

If this is what “oversight” looks like in 2026, then the whole goddamn enterprise is rotten to the core and needs to be burned down and rebuilt from scratch.

No more internal reviews. No more “protocols.” Real fucking accountability or shut it down.
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[Skscartoon @skscartoon]

How "right wing extremism" works in the US:

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Hawaii state officials stole around $12M from you. The money was supposed to be used to prosecute fraudsters, but they didn’t indict a single person in 4 years. The Trump Administration will not sit back and do nothing when states waste your tax-dollars. Other states should take note. More coming soon.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

I understand why the British have difficulty comprehending how we Americans refuse to submit to and obey our alleged betters. We’re Americans and we don’t have betters, even among other Americans.
We’re not subjugating journalists. We’re treating them with the respect they have earned, and if that amount is low, that’s a reflection of their behavior.
In America, those who hold important institutions in society answer to us, not vice versa, and if they fail, they will be appropriately chastised.

[Ric - Restore Britain 🫡 @iSuckPebbles]

The man who was dragged from the wall & almost murdered after being battered by police shields the booted multiple times in the back of the head is being held captive in a small cell

They nearly killed him & now they've kidnapped him

Hes a veteran with severe PTSD

Release him!

[Shillitz @shillitz]

Remember when the guy removed some of the desecration from the Churchill statue? The police immediately went after him rather than protecting Churchills statue! Of course there is two tier policing! This notion from the left that it doesn't exist defies logic!

[Muckraker @realmuckraker]

Henry Nowak was stabbed 5 times, then handcuffed and left to die because someone accused him of being racist.

We asked UK police what kind of speech could get you arrested.

They told us saying something offensive was enough.

Henry Nowak died because of police like this.

[Better Scotusblog @BetterScotus]

@FrenchResponse "EU countries don’t need anyone’s permission to apply their own laws"

You do if you want us to defend you

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Canadian who voted illegally in 9 US elections will go to prison https://t.co/F2Di0o8gjX

[Sarah A. Hoyt @SarahAHoyt]

I call this the Marxist dumbing. What happens is that Marxists in their long crawl mostly hire/bring in people on ideological principles. (They have to, otherwise the long crawl through institutions doesn't work.)
The problem is that hiring for ANY reason but competency degrades competency. And hiring for compliance with a nonsensical/envy-based philosophy is worse because more and more it selects for dumb people resentful of the world at large. (Sometimes conniving and "clever fool" people, but dumb nonetheless.) Also, crazy cakes.
The Marxist crawl through the institutions has managed to create, in four generations, people dumber than the monarchies of Europe managed by marrying their close blood relatives for centuries.
At least the mad European kings figured out where the crown went in three tries out of ten.

[Goosey @Goosey30111568]

Henry Nowak was murdered in December.
The force in question has had 6 months in which to investigate the failures by their own officers.

THEY HAVENT EVEN STARTED.

This tells me that they were hoping the time-lag would allow it all to just blow over.

It's a travesty.

[The British Patriot @TheBritLad]

🚨BREAKING: The “taking the knee” trend has exploded across Britain.

Thousands are kneeling for Henry Nowak specifically to the track:

Michael Jackson “They Don’t Really Care About Us.”

The left are in a complete meltdown.