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Notorious M.A.B. apparently still has the cops hot on his trail at the age of 200.

http://ift.tt/1nWazSU “. . . Frum is also the guy who gave George W. Bush the phrase ‘axis of evil,’ in which those famous rivals, Saddam’s Iraq and the mullahs’ Iran, were supposedly secretly aligned. (That’s what an ‘axis’ is, you know. An alliance.) So the man is no stranger to dubious conspiracy tales. But he consistently describes that sort of thinking as though it’s something those other people do, not a phenomenon you can see among establishment figures like Frum as well as fringy folks like Alex Jones. Let this episode be a reminder that paranoia can flourish at the top as well as the bottom of the social pecking order.”

is living for 2 1/2 weeks in the Charles Commons on N. Charles St. It’s kind of freaking me out.

Fish fish fish fish fish, fish fish.

Creeping rusty meat .Truly the heart and soul of all death metal.

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Federal law-enforcement stings and gun control efforts would be wrong even if they weren’t massively structurally racist. But damn, federal law-enforcement stings and gun control efforts are massively structurally racist. #AbolishTheATF “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has more than quadrupled its use of those stings during the past decade, quietly making them a central part of its attempts to combat gun crime. The operations are designed to produce long prison sentences for suspects enticed by the promise of pocketing as much as $100,000 for robbing a drug stash house that does not actually exist. “At least 91% of the people agents have locked up using those stings were racial or ethnic minorities, USA TODAY found after reviewing court files and prison records from across the United States. Nearly all were either black or Hispanic. That rate is far higher than among people arrested for big-city violent crimes, or for other federal robbery, drug and gun offenses. “The ATF operations raise particular concerns because they seek to enlist suspected criminals in new crimes rather than merely solving old ones, giving agents and their underworld informants unusually wide latitude to select who will be targeted. In some cases, informants said they identified targets for the stings after simply meeting them on the street. ‘There’s something very wrong going on here,’ said University of Chicago law professor Alison Siegler, part of a team of lawyers challenging the ATF’s tactics in an Illinois federal court. ‘The government is creating these crimes and then choosing who it’s going to target.'”

CTY. Ceriously.

Baltimore.