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The weird thing about "capitalism has never been tried" libertarians is that capitalism as a term was invented to describe post-industrial economies as they exist. It isn't some theoretical society dreamed up by the old liberal thinkers, that we then failed to live up to.
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A dad watched on his Ring camera as one of his sons held the other at knifepoint. He called 911 and told them exactly which son was which. Police showed up and shot the hostage five times.
Then the DA's office cleared the officers by citing Newton's first law of motion.
The 12-page memo is public, and honestly it's worse than the video.
The hostage was Maverick Lyon, a 21-year-old lacrosse player home from college for winter break. His older brother Dakota had relapsed on drugs, grabbed a kitchen knife, and convinced himself Maverick was plotting against him with their dad. Dad was at work, saw it all on the camera, and told dispatch Dakota was the shirtless one in pajama pants.
When the first cop got to the back door, he looked through the window and saw a shirtless guy and a guy in a grey shirt, which is exactly what the dad had described.
He yelled "step out here" at nobody in particular. About 12 seconds later Maverick, the guy in grey, opened the door and came out fast. He was still holding a second knife Dakota had made him pick up, and he dropped it as his foot crossed the doorway. The DA's own slow-motion review says the knife was already out of his hand when the first shot went off. The memo even admits he came out because the cop told him to.
The first officer fired twice while falling backward. The second fired as Maverick was hitting the ground, again while he was lying on his side facing away, and then three more times. Seven shots in about three seconds. When it was over, Dakota was standing in the doorway, still holding his knife.
So how do you clear that?
The memo says the clothing description might have been out of date, since people can change clothes in the five or six minutes it took police to get there. For the last four shots at a guy already on the ground, it says the officer's body had committed before his brain could catch up, and it literally compares him to an object in motion staying in motion.
Maverick spent four weeks in the hospital and lost his senior season. Dakota pleaded guilty and got 77 months. And according to the lawsuit the family just filed, they'd asked the county to take Dakota into custody the day before.
Here's the part that should bother everyone. Oregon law says before a cop uses deadly force, he has to consider de-escalating and give a warning if he has a reasonable chance to. The DA decided three seconds wasn't a reasonable chance, so none of that applied, and the case never went to a grand jury. By that logic, the faster a cop shoots, the more legal it gets.
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It makes me so sad, it took another child to liberate her from sexual slavery. That 40 year old man had roommates who told authorities that they didn’t notice anything bc she was introduced to them as “his gf”. I refuse to believe that you can look at her and not see a child.
FOR 17 MONTHS, A TEENAGE GIRL WAS MISSING. NOW WE KNOW WHAT SHE ENDURED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
She was held captive in an Oregon home, repeatedly assaulted, cut off from the outside world, and forced to remove her own braces with PLIERS so she would be harder to identify.
She was just 15 years old when she disappeared.
Kylie Arellano vanished from her home in Garden City, Utah, on May 29, 2025. For nearly a year and a half, her family and investigators searched for answers.
Now 17, Kylie has been found alive.
Federal investigators allege that Adam Hunter Harmel (39) met Kylie online, offered her money to travel to Oregon, and drove to Utah to pick her up.
Once in Oregon, Harmel allegedly threw her phone into a river, prevented her from leaving, and subjected her to repeated physical and sexual assaults.
But after 17 months, Kylie found a way to reach someone.
She reportedly contacted another child through an online gaming platform. That child told a parent, who contacted the FBI. Agents eventually listened in on a video call as Kylie described what had happened to her.
On November 1, 2026, authorities rescued Kylie from a home in Huntington, Oregon.
Harmel was arrested and is now facing federal charges.
Think about that. A teenager held captive for 17 months managed to find a way to get help through an online game.
And because another child spoke up, and a parent took it seriously, Kylie is finally free.
We know how investigators say she ended up in Oregon. What is difficult to comprehend is how she could be held there for 17 months without anyone discovering what was happening.
But today, the most important thing is that Kylie survived.
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I hate this new close up tik tok parasocial kind of politics clearly meant to make you feel *closer* and more *personal* with these freaks. So insidious.
AOC: A note for Gen Z. If you want to understand millennial cringe, what you all call millennial cringe, this earnestness, imagine all the seats we flipped last night. That feeling, plus, on top of it, electing the first Black president ever. And on top of that, you did it the first time you ever voted. That hits generationally. You’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.
And because you did it the first time you ever voted, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we can change the world. Why not? We did it the first time. Let’s just do it again.’
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I kind of hate these types of headlines they spend more time sensationalizing the aspect they considered wondrously absurd and in doing trivialize the horror of what encountered and the appropriate outrage needed against it. That poor girl was taken since she was 15.
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>name a bill after a guy ICE murdered
>it further enshrines ICE in legalese by giving them a veil of 'oversight' instead of abolishing it
i would climb out of my grave and eat Schumer myself
