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How Trump Officials
—Noem, Miller, Patel
—Portrayed Pretti As Violent
Despite Conflicting Evidence
In trying to defend the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday,
Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to portray him as a violent domestic terrorist
—even an “assassin”
—running counter to emerging video evidence and first-person accounts of the deadly encounter.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed after Pretti’s death he had
“vio…

How Trump Officials—Noem, Miller, Patel—Portrayed Pretti As Violent Despite Conflicting Evidence
Video footage of Pretti’s killing refutes claims from officials that the protester was attacking law enforcement or “brandishing” his gun.

'We Deeply Regret These Errors': DOJ Walks Back Key Evidence In Defense of Trump's Portland Deployment (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-corrects-evidence-trump-portland-deployment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p87#a251028p87

I was just thinking about how the fact that #Musk named his AI "Grok" is evidence that he "reads sci-fi" in the same way he "plays video games." Like, he claims to do it but when it comes time to show the evidence it's clear he does not actually "grok" it.
Like... To grok something is to have a layer deeper than simply knowledge, but mathematically encoding statistical relationships between words is pretty obviously not even understanding much less qualifying as "groking" it. In the book, the ability to grok something is also the ability to annihilate that thing with a thought. Just pretending that an LLM actually *was* something that could become AGI (which it's not), this name would imply the AI would have the power to annihilate reality. That's bad. That's a bad name for an AI.
And why would a greedy fascist name something of his after something an anarchist communist space Jesus taught to the hippie cult he started? There are so many layers of facepalm to this. It's some kind of php-esque fractal of incompetence.
Like, there's no reason to talk about this but my brain does this to me sometimes and now it's your problem.

Trump admin must restore school mental health funding: Judge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-evidence-the-department-considered-any-relevant-data-judge-rubbishes-trump-admin-argument-that-it-can-do-what-it-wants-over-canceling-grants/

The woman who survived
five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall,
-- only to be criminally charged and then cleared,
now wants a judge’s permission to share records that
show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”
#Marimar #Martinez

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the entire country in the dark."

Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-asks-judge-release-evidence
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p133#a260126p133

20 GeV halo-like excess of the Galactic diffuse emission and implications for #DarkMatter annihilation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07209 -> After nearly 100 years, scientists may have detected dark matter: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/press/z0508_00433.html -> Study claims to provide first direct evidence of dark matter: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/study-claims-to-provide-first-direct-evidence-of-dark-matter

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

So the USA is killing 14 more people, without evidence, arrest or trial. In plain sight, not hiding but proud of it. This is not the country that helped to liberate Europe from Nazi rule or the land of the free anymore...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0ex94eeljeo

US kills 14 in strikes on four alleged drug boats
Mexico's navy is searching for the sole survivor of the latest attack on boats the US says were carrying drugs in both the Pacific and Caribbean.

How bystander video and newsroom analysis undercut the White House narrative on Alex Pretti (Tom Jones/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/video-evidence-alex-pretti-white-house-messaging/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p68#a260127p68