Jon Carlston

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[Owen @Owennfa]

THE LABOR DEPARTMENT JUST DROPPED NEW WAGE DATA AND IT'S BRUTAL.

Corporate profits up 47% since 2020.

Worker wages up 12% in the same period.

Meanwhile groceries up 35%, rent up 40%, utilities up 28%.

Your paycheck grew 12%. Your bills grew 35%.

The math is simple: you're getting poorer every year even when you get a raise.

You can't budget your way out of this. The system is designed so your income can never catch up to your expenses.

That's not an accident. That's policy.

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

It’s officially “put it in reverse terry” season 😂😂

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

Without a doubt, our best trail camera capture yet: the first documented observation of a cougar with kittens in Minnesota in modern history. Turn up the volume to hear all the vocalizations.

The footage, which was captured on March 25, shows a cougar with 3 large kittens while they feed on a deer they killed just south of Voyageurs National Park.

We captured this surreal footage because we started a study to understand the survival and mortality patterns of deer in our area this winter. As part of that work, we GPS-collared several deer in the area in January. 

In late March, we received a mortality signal from a GPS-collared deer and found the carcass buried under a pile of leaves on a hillside—a tell tale sign of feline predation. 

We suspected it was likely a bobcat but thought, just possibly, it could be a cougar. So we put up two trail cameras on the cached deer carcass and 4 hours later, two cougar kittens returned to the kill.

The entire family showed up that evening and spent hours in front of our cameras. In total, we captured 7.3 hr (435 minutes) of video footage of these animals. We will share more footage soon!

Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage.

And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Vegans: "Drinking cow's milk is unnatural!"

Great point.

So instead of pulling on some teats for thirty seconds, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative.

Step one: grow almonds in California, a drought-afflicted state currently depleting an aquifer that took twenty thousand years to fill.

Step two: ship them to a processing facility.

Step three: soak them in water. California water, specifically, because almonds need 15 gallons per ounce and California is already rationing.

Step four: pulverise them into a slurry.

Step five: filter the slurry through fine mesh, discarding most of the actual almond in the process. That was the bit with the nutrition in it. Gone now.

Step six: add more water, because the resulting liquid isn't watery enough.

Step seven: add sweeteners, because it tastes of nothing.

Step eight: add emulsifiers, because it separates in six minutes otherwise.

Step nine: add synthetic vitamins, because all the natural ones left in step five.

Step ten: add seed oils, because we apparently learned nothing.

Step eleven: homogenise, degas, pasteurise, and sterilise the mixture until it resembles no food that has ever existed in nature.

Step twelve: put it in a carton with a picture of a field on it.

The cow: stands in a field. Makes milk. Has done this for ten thousand years. No factory. No steps. No aquifer.

Unnatural, though. Very unnatural.

[PAR | ScrawtV @IslandParadise @ScrawtV]

Do not buy these shits yet. Let them suffer until they go back to their actual prices

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

Ron Weasley yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy 🤣

[Henry VIII @SussexHenryVIII]

Elections have consequences -- for 50 years our leadership understood the risk of attacking Iran. Then you morons elected Trump; they fired all the serious guys, put in place General Deez Nutz and here we are.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

You can only imagine the reaction from the GOP and Fox if this was a FBI director under Obama or Biden. What is he doing there? At taxpayer expense??

[Silly Little Guy @Czar_Of_Silly]

Hey bro wants some Doritos?

>me ripping a line off a toilet seat

“Are you fucking crazy there’s seed oils in those “

[NHL @NHL]

Celebrini cinema 😮‍💨

Czechia vs. Canada is LIVE at the #MilanoCortina2026 #WinterOlympics on @peacock, @USANetwork, @cbcsports, & @cbcgem!

(🎨: @nba_paint)

[Shan @shan_savvy]

when the nhl is not allowed to post olympic clips so they have to draw it out for us pls 😭😭😭

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This is absolutely insane.

That brown strip in the middle of the shot?

A 30-foot wide, 100-foot long copy of the U.S. Constitution stretched across the ground.

Peaceful protest. First Amendment. Literally standing on the document they’re trying to erase.

H/t: Hotlou

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

If you're being real quiet about Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good, but were really loud about Charlie Kirk — I see you. We all see you.

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

It’s actually very simple. The president is trying to apprehend dangerous criminals and all the dangerous criminals live in states that didn’t vote for the president and also they didn’t do anything and also they’re your neighbors and also you’re next if you keep asking questions

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

🚨BREAKING

It looks like ICE just shot and killed someone else in Minneapolis.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨BREAKING: ANOTHER PERSON SHOT IN MINNEAPOLIS

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Every American - Republican and Democrat - should be outraged by this assault on freedom and privacy.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says. https://t.co/r3uyyj3LWL

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you.

In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID.

The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: “Why am I being pulled over?”

They never answer… because they don’t have a legal reason to stop him.

Even so, the man begins to retrieve his ID anyway.

An agent then orders him to turn off the vehicle. The driver says, “No problem, sir, I’ll get out.”

The agent refuses, then immediately changes commands again: “I need to see your ID.”

Suddenly, an agent on the passenger side pounds on the window. Then he strikes it with a hard object, clearly threatening to break it.

At the same time, the driver-side agent again demands the ID.

This is not confusion. This is intentional command overload… a tactic used to manufacture “noncompliance” so force can be justified.

ICE’s own training materials explicitly state:

“Noncompliance or refusal to cooperate with officer commands, without fighting back, does NOT violate 18 U.S.C. § 111.”

In plain English: not immediately obeying commands is NOT a crime.

And here’s the key legal issue:

Unless agents have:
• a valid arrest warrant, or
• probable cause that a specific crime has been committed

they cannot:
• use force
• break windows
• issue violent threats
• detain or arrest someone

Probable cause means specific, articulable facts that would make a reasonable officer believe a crime occurred… not vibes, not attitude, not silence, not filming, not asking questions.

Back in the video, the passenger-side agent escalates further, shouting:
“First time I ask you to roll your window down, you do it.”

The driver responds:
“Are you in danger, sir? Are you escalating this?”

The agent replies:
“I don’t know. Hands up.”

Despite the driver repeatedly attempting to comply and hand over ID, agents continue shouting conflicting commands.

At one point, the agent orders the driver to “talk to the original agent”… which is exactly what the driver was doing before the window-smashing threat.

Then the man asks, “Are you feeling unsafe or uneasy?”

The agent responds, “I don’t know, man.” while standing on the passenger side of the car, smirking.

The driver finally says what anyone would say surrounded by armed men:
“How many guns do I have around me? I need you to calm down. I’m asking him to stop banging on my car. Is that too much?”

He even offers… again… to step out of the vehicle.

This is not law enforcement. This is intimidation fishing for an excuse.

No probable cause.
No warrant.
No lawful basis for force.

And yet, the escalation came entirely from the agents.

This video proves something chilling: you can comply, stay calm, ask lawful questions… and still be threatened with violence.

So, the question isn’t “Why didn’t he just comply?”

The question is how many people have already been assaulted under this exact playbook… and how many more will be, before this stops?