word. yeah it sucks that winds of winter will probably never come out but asoiaf fans are not entitled to it either. it's profoundly disrespectful and morbid to try to gameplan grrm's death. like damn, he's a human being. he doesn't owe you shit

The Land Is Inhospitable & Laurel Hell were very respectful of your ears - I would describe them as "painterly" - it's almost ironic that Nothing's About to Happen to Me has an aged painting as its cover art - Where's My Phone is fantastic but it is NOT painterly - I feel so alive rn

i haven't heard it called "depraved indifference" - same as "depraved heart"? one of the few things I remember from bar prep lol

mr. newsom my DMs are open if you need ideas on how to be an actual politician instead of a wet noodle. I'll even do it for free if you agree to stop sacrificing trans people at the altar of fascism!

he could even couch it by saying something like "terrorism is more than just al-qaeda - it's a scary word, but I think it's the right word for this situation, because what else can you call it when people - including U.S. citizens - are getting killed on the streets for speaking their minds?"

here's what newsom would've said if he had even the tiniest bit of spine:

"well, it sounds harsh, but the reality is that ICE agents are part of a machine that's using fear as a weapon. and the definition of terrorism is using fear and violence to get what you want. so yes - it's terrorism"

there is literally a multi-episode arc in TNG about respecting people who look and act in ways that we don't understand (i.e. the android Data); if stephen miller watched that arc it would probably make him very upset, assuming he has the basic literacy skills to understand it

just look at DS9 - it's filled with explicitly revolutionary politics - the occupation of Bajor is transparently analogous to real occupations/invasions like Palestine, Bosnia, Tibet, etc

yes, star trek has always been very progressive for its time; Lt. Uhura is a major example of that; I mean, it's about a future where humanity has abolished money, solved scarcity, & unified as a species into the united federation of planets...

anyway that's enough legal mumbo jumbo for the day lol. bottom line, all of this sucks & our immigration system is so broken & full of ambiguity that it took barely a year for fascists to completely take it over; other forms of law enforcement are taking them much longer to corrupt

by (1) reforming immigration (still operating under a 1952 statute) (2) allowing section 1983 lawsuits against federal officers (a vacuum created by the slow erosion of the bivens doctrine) and (3) reaffirming & clarifying 4th amendment protections in immigration enforcement

the sad reality here is that SCOTUS has spent the last half century or so carving out exception after exception for anything relating to the border - & the admin is exploiting those gray areas to their limits - only congress can permanently fix this situation

a big wrinkle here is that many of the "warrants" used in immigration enforcement are signed by article I (i.e. executive branch) judges rather than article III (i.e. judicial branch) judges - those warrants don't allow cops to enter someone's home, like a judicial warrant does

right, even a criminal immigration offense like unlawful reentry would almost never lead to probable cause on the scene - how would you know? skin color isn't probable cause, not even under kavanaugh's racist expansion of terry stops, which "only" require reasonable suspicion -

maybe prefaced with something like "for the next [x] questions, assume that the alleged crime was not committed close in time to the arrest/search" it would give more useful answers

if the question in totality was "should warrants be required for arrests?" then I wouldn't know how to answer - does that mean for *all* arrests all the time, even when a crime happens right in front of the cop? for arrests that *do* actually require a warrant under current law? it's just too vague

law enforcement can make an arrest w/o a warrant if they have probable cause to believe a crime has been committed or is being committed - but probable cause is more than a hunch, & certainly more than a cop's feelings being hurt - I do not really like the framing of this question, tbh...

haha absolutely, they're my favorite models 🖤

i love the edge of a roll!! here are some cool ones I've gotten. last one is like a poor woman's rothko painting haha