Glenn Greenwald has the sadz about Qanon Shaman's sentence

Meet Jesse Theodore Kline, the disgraced ex-cop and who showed up to the Rittenhouse trial

with a loaded rifle today.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1461205076450504706

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1461206504137060355

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ferguson-officer-fired-after-arrest-in-maplewood-for-stalking-assault-police-say/article_459e7c17-ef1f-5f53-b926-4b6e29922aaf.html

F**k Chris Christie and the media for giving him the time of day

I didn't know why Oklahoma had a panhandle. Now I do.

Has anyone paid out of pocket for medical care that was actually cheaper without insurance?

I don't have optometry insurance and needed new glasses. My eyes are such that I need a regular pair and a pair when I'm using my computer. The total price was a shocker but when I added up what would have deducted from my paycheck for a year and the total cost I paid, I wound up saving $600.

Has anyone had this happen?

Betty Bowers responds to Ted Cruz's childish tweet

CNN relentless attacks against Kamala Harris...wtf?

Inside the frustrating and dysfunctional start to Kamala Harris' vice presidency

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1459990121391001602

https://twitter.com/Hobie_SHRED/status/1460020314532823041

They're getting ratioed hard...

A 1859 NYT editorial scolding abolitionists as unreasonable and doing harm to the cause...

... of opposing slavery!!!

Why are thieves stealing Tide laundry detergent in Connecticut?

OXFORD — The video opens with what appears to be a normal scene outside a grocery store: Two people loading up the trunk of an SUV with items from their shopping cart.

The footage continued as the pair quickly threw item after item into the car, parked in the fire lane at the store’s entrance. One of the carts and the back of the SUV was nearly filled with large bottles of Tide laundry detergent. The person shooting the video then turned to reveal a minivan also parked in the fire lane with two other people filling its trunk with what appears to be paper towels and even more bottles of Tide.

The video was capturing what police have described as a brazen daytime shoplifting incident.

“I honestly thought it was a joke,” Wayne Pesch, president of the Connecticut Food Association, a group that represents grocers in the state, said about the video.

:snip:

While several Connecticut police departments said they haven’t seen large-scale thefts of laundry detergent, Tide-brand detergent, in particular, has emerged as a favorite among thieves in recent years, according to the Associated Press.

That’s for a number of reasons — it’s a commodity everyone needs, it’s a popular well-known brand, it doesn’t spoil and the big bottles retail for around $20.

Pesch noted thieves could probably offload the stolen detergent for around $10 a bottle.

The theft in Oxford points to a larger issue of theft for food retailers, Pesch said, who he said operate on thin margins. Some retailers have announced store closures, citing shoplifting and “organized retail crime.”

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Why-are-thieves-stealing-Tide-laundry-detergent-16616218.php

from 2016: The New York Times' first article about Hitler's rise is absolutely stunning

I'm posting this in response to the recent NY Times coverage of the election in Virginia where a Republican activist was presented as a "concerned parent" and the most recent puff piece about Kyle Rittenhouse.

https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/1454998091459928067

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1458469521514184708

As it turns out, the NY Times has been in the normalizing Fascism business for close to a century.

Times correspondent Cyril Brown spends most of the piece documenting the factors behind Hitler's early rise in Bavaria, Germany, including his oratorical skills. For example: "He exerts an uncanny control over audiences, possessing the remarkable ability to not only rouse his hearers to a fighting pitch of fury, but at will turn right around and reduce the same audience to docile coolness."

But the really extraordinary part of the article is the three paragraphs on anti-Semitism. Brown acknowledges Hitler's vicious anti-Semitism as the core of Hitler's appeal — and notes the terrified Jewish community was fleeing from him — but goes on to dismiss it as a play to satiate the rubes (bolding mine):