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‘RAPED AT KNIFEPOINT’ Woman ‘forced ex-boyfriend to have to have sex with her while holding machete to his face – then urinated on his bed’

A WOMAN held a machete to her ex-boyfriend’s face and forced him to have sex with her before urinating on his bed, police said.

Samantha Ray Mears allegedly ordered her former lover to remove his clothes and “lie down” before attacking him at his Great Falls home.

Mears, 19, has been charged with aggravated burglary and assault with a weapon — as well as several misdemeanours, according to the Great Falls Tribune.

The teenager, of Montana, reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house on Friday while he was away.

When he returned, she confronted him with the large knife, demanded that he take off all his clothes and ordered him to lie on his bed, the New York Post reports.

Fearing his ex’s actions, the victim complied.

When he tried to get her to stop, Mears refused and bit him on the arm, according to KFBB.

After she’d finished, she sat naked on the bed, brandishing the weapon.

At that point, the victim was able to take several photos of her, which he turned over to the police as evidence.

When an argument ensued, an enraged Mears ripped a piece of trim from the victim’s wall and deliberately urinated in his bed, according to KFBB.

Do the math on the bolded parts of the story…


 

Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA

Men are punching random women on the streets of New York City. As usual with these kinds of diffuse and chaotic stories, there’s much that is unknown, including how often this is happening, how many people are involved, or whether it’s at all coordinated. But what we do know is already alarming. CNN reports that dozens of women have discussed being victims on social media, and formally interviewed six of them. NBC News reports there have been at least 3 arrests. CBS News reports that NYPD released images last week of a fourth man wanted for allegedly punching a woman in Union Square. Even reality TV star Bethany Frankel says she’s been victimized.

Women report being assaulted by men of different races and ages. Still, across the different stories, a couple of similarities pop out: The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked. Some were on their phones or reading on tablets. Others were speaking to friends or daydreaming. Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.

The alleged victims are mostly young and pretty, and most of them say they were minding their own business when they were attacked.

Whatever the scale of this problem eventually turns out to be, it’s not surprising that these stories have gone viral and captured the public’s imagination. While it rarely turns to violence, most women who spend much time walking around in public have experience with men who berate them for paying attention to something other than the man who is now, often out of nowhere, spewing invectives. In our modern era, that often manifests with men who are infuriated at women for looking at their phones. But I’m old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.

Whatever the excuse the angry man concocts, the impetus is always the same: The eyes of a woman are directed at someone or something that is not him, and he is indignant over it. So he will make sure she has no choice but to look at him, either by getting in her face or — in these alarming New York cases — punching her. If he cannot capture her adoring gaze, well, he will make her stare at him in fear.

These stories resonate, as well, because the nation is having a moment of increasingly unhinged male fury at women for daring to have lives that are centered around something other than catering to a man’s every whim. Unleashed by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement, there’s an upswell of loud male entitlement shouting at us from every corner.

Mandy Marcotte real found her damp fever dream when she landed at Salon; the self-crippled neurotics shuffled to her with wide-open arms and a “no hugging” policy. The broken and damned have a home at Salon, the Internet’s open-air asylum.


“theft, violence, and sexual laxity”


 

Nostalgia is the sweetest poison but I still on occasion wrap this song around myself like a comfy blanket.

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SugarFree

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177 Comments

  1. Common Tater

    Sounds like a keeper.

      • Brochettaward

        Should have been a politician who raped little boys. Would have gotten 13 months tops.

      • R.J.

        She should have loudly announced she was a vegan who voted for Hillary. Would have just got probation.

  2. Not Adahn

    I thought that story sounded familiar. Machete rapes are pretty uncommon.

    Nicola Stow
    Published: 10:53, 27 Jun 2018Updated: 14:33, 27 Jun 2018

    She’s 22 now.

    • Sean

      I thought that photo looked familiar.

    • Common Tater

      I’ve seen that pic before.

      • SDF-7

        Haunting your nightmares, one might think.

    • Common Tater

      “Great Falls police noted Mears seemed to be suffering from some sort of mental illness. She said the man had kidnapped her and gave her a machete to protect herself, according to police.

      In April, Mears was charged with felony strangulation of a partner after another argument escalated at the victim’s home. In that case, according to court documents, Mears had grabbed his hair and hit him in the face. The man was able to get the Mears off him, “but was hesitant about physically protecting himself, as he thought he would get into legal trouble if he did.”

      The argument, however, continued, and the man told police Mears began strangling him by pressing her thumbs on his windpipe.

      Court documents indicate the pair had been in a relationship for approximately seven years.”

      https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/crime/2018/06/26/great-falls-woman-machete-domestic-violence-samantha-mears/734603002/

      • Suthenboy

        ‘Seemed’ huh? I am no psychiatrist but I am gonna go out on a limb here….

  3. Common Tater

    “But I’m old enough to remember when I would get yelled at for reading books in public.”

    doubt

    • SugarFree

      Histrionic personality disorder is Mandy’s jam.

      • Common Tater

        Based on the word salad she posted on Pandagon, she also has some co-morbid schizo disorder. I assume her Salon articles are edited so she sounds less like she is living out of a shopping cart.

      • SugarFree

        Mandy’s Linked-In profile pic. This is the image she chose for represent her as a professional.

      • Common Tater

        GAAAAAAAHHHH!!

      • Compelled Speechless

        Salon might want to start running a “crazy eyes’ filter on all self-submitted mug shots.

      • Bobarian LMD

        This is what a Master’s in Journalisms from THE Columbia University gets you.

      • Suthenboy

        She got a master’s in journalism? Jeebus, no wonder she barks at the moon.

      • Bobarian LMD

        She had a melt down when Froot Sooshi broke the Rolling Stone rape hoax; one of her first inclinations was to whip out her credentials to try to shame Robbie into his place.

      • Common Tater

        “Anna Merlan > Robby Soave
        12/01/14 4:25pm

        Hi Robby! Thanks for stopping by! One small correction: I don’t think you’ve ever “reported” a goddamn thing in your life. (And because I know you’re going to do this, either here or in my Twitter mentions, which you and your friends are currently stink-clouding up with your Feelings, I have a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia and I write investigative stories. Have done for years, both at Jezebel and before I got here. Thanks for asking!)

        Instead, I think, as I made clear above, that you’re piggy-backing on the work of other people who are calling Erdely’s story into question without a single shred of evidence. You don’t get brownie points for saying *IF* the story is true *THEN* UVA should have called the cops. That’s what any decent human being would suggest.

        But by all means, do some journalism! Follow up on those leads! Let’s see it! Can’t wait!”

      • Common Tater

        Mandy got fired from the Edwards campaign after she had a meltdown over Duke Lacrosse hoax.

      • Suthenboy

        I remember well. That was the girl that was violently raped by a gang of cowboy hat/boot wearing demons then skinned alive with shards of broken glass, right?

        “Looks like comments were deleted or paywalled.”
        Re: discussion of journalistic mendacity from morning links. Yes, they know exactly what they are doing. They are shameless fucking liars and propagandists fully on board with the effort to stamp out The Enlightenment.

      • Bobarian LMD

        AM vs AM… Hmm. I was confused.

        They’re both interchangeable psychos, though.

      • Aloysious

        Barf.

    • SDF-7

      “Then I helped my father bundle up his mechanical wood chopper before having to go save him from a castle and some wolves. My ex-boyfriend is a real beast!”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Teased as a kid for reading a book at recess I could see. Nerd. Yelled at for walking down the sidewalk while reading a book I could see. It’s a sidewalk, not a sideread. Minding her own business reading a book as an adult, I doubt.

    • Tonio

      Context matters. On a park bench or bus it’s fine. At least probably on the bus depending on the other passengers. When you’re walking, running, or operating a vehicle, not so much. While pedestrians, cyclists, etc primarily endanger themselves they also risk causing injury or death to others by their self-absorbed negligence.

      And don’t even get me started on the females who cannot drive anywhere without a phone in their fricking hands. Are they really incapable of figuring out car mode which has been on every smartphone I’ve ever owned? And what is it with that weird holding the phone horizontal thing they all do?

      I love how Mandy deliberately removes context a real POS, that one.

  4. Ted S.

    Looks like Greta Thunberg dyed her hair dark.

    • Not Adahn

      How dare you!

    • SDF-7

      Or Felicia Having-a-Bad-Day.

  5. Sean

    A WOMAN held a machete to her ex-boyfriend’s face and forced him to have sex with her before urinating on his bed, police said.

    NGL, kinda hot.

    • prolefeed

      That’s something you ought to get some very specific consent to before trying – gonna be someone into that. As revenge, the more common sense approach would be to get the ex charged with statutory rape.

      • Not Adahn

        Knife play is a thing. Size queen is a thing. Therefore machete play MUST be a thing.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Your logic is infallible. Have you considered a career in politics?

      • juris imprudent

        The question is, is it just a phase that all young women of certain communities engage in?

    • SDF-7

      All yours, Sean… all yours.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m glad I wasn’t the only one that had that reaction, Sean.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I started leaving out cookies and milk. “Christmas is coming early this year, Boys!”

      • juris imprudent

        Did she eat a lemon, or does she have a mouse in her mouth?

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Do the math on the bolded parts of the story…

    I was told…

    • juris imprudent

      Childhood sweethearts just aren’t a thing any more.

    • cavalier973

      I’m remembering that scene in Forrest Gump when Jenny was throwing rocks at her dad’s house.

  7. Not Adahn

    Can someone translate the Brit-timekeeping for me? Does “ex of seven years” mean they broke up when she was twelve, or they’ve been together since she was twelve?

    • Ted S.

      They’ll answer that Monday week.

    • SugarFree

      I can only read it as dating for seven years. Otherwise the story would be stranger and then play up that aspect.

      • SDF-7

        From the Common Tater link above:

        Court documents indicate the pair had been in a relationship for approximately seven years.

        Too bad — I was thinking she’d get extra bonus crazy points if the guy was a “We said we were gonna get married on the playground then she moved away and I’d never seen her until she showed up with the machete!” scenario.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        ^that is how I translated it. what nonsense.

    • Not Adahn

      Ok, going back to the source the story was originally(?) reported in:

      Great Falls police noted Mears seemed to be suffering from some sort of mental illness. She said the man had kidnapped her and gave her a machete to protect herself, according to police.

      Note that the GFT says she was 19. The NYP stole the story and also reported her as being 19. The Sun (which ripped it off from the NYP) dropped the age to 17. I wonder if they were just doing “age of consent +1” to make it more scandalous.

      • Fourscore

        1 dog year is all they were together

    • cavalier973

      Also, why was he so frightened of her threat to push him out of the first floor window?

  8. The Late P Brooks

    Now, when you say “temporary”…

    The US government says that next month it can only pay about half of what low-income Americans are eligible for under a popular federal benefits program that is running out of money — a crisis that threatens to plunge millions of households into economic distress within weeks.

    The announcement by the Federal Communications Commission reflects the first concrete impacts of Congress’ failure to extend the Affordable Connectivity Program, a pandemic-era benefit that provides monthly discounts on internet service to more than 23 million US households, including seniors, veterans and schoolchildren.

    ——-

    Many ACP subscribers have told CNN that without help, they could have to choose between paying for internet and putting food on the table.

    Tough choices are tough.

    • SDF-7

      Which should only reinforce:

      + Don’t let the government kill the economy because some quacks push pseudo-quarantine

      + If you do, don’t let them hand out money to everyone — because it is never going to stop, regardless of how the law is written…

      + If we’re really, really lucky… maybe this small bit will die. We can dream.

      Yet Another Reason I really think a hard reset to the FY2019 budget should be mandatory at this point. 2007 would be even better, obviously…. but getting all this “temporary but now baked in” stuff out would at least slow the progression over the cliff a little…. we’re using a damned JATO in the salt flats with it in.

    • Compelled Speechless

      So where exactly is that extra money that they got from normalizing the 50% spending increase during COVID? It never seems to go to, you know, government programs….

  9. kinnath

    Mears, 19, . . . . . .

    The teenager, of Montana, reportedly broke into her ex of seven years’ house

    Need to know the age of the man who was raped. Could well be a youthful romance that carried over into adult life.

    • Not Adahn

      Elementary school sweethearts?

      • prolefeed

        Or, alternately, she alleged in court that they had been together when she was 12, and he invoked the Fifth Amendment on that topic.

      • kinnath

        Middle school sweethearts.

        Dating through puberty into young adulthood.

        Mental illness sets in around this time (common age for some types of problems).

        Break up after high school as things deteriorate.

        He could be a couple of years older in this scenario.

    • Suthenboy

      yeah, this story seems a little hinky to me. Did Deirdre write this? It seems liker her style.

  10. Drake

    Find somebody who loves you as much as Samantha Ray Mears loves her ex boyfriend.

    • Brochettaward

      You have never seen how much I love my Firsts.

      I have them all catalogued in binders with special dividers for each First that also encapsulates key details such as what I was wearing and my precise thought process as each millisecond ticked by.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Those binder?

        Protected with a machete. And urine.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    Whatever they were doing, they were just living their lives, and that, it seems, is what enraged their assailants.

    There I was, minding my own business, and WHAM.

    Sounds legit.

    • SugarFree

      The Knockout Game is just a myth.

      • Sensei

        I’m aware that at least one of the self centered victims was doing the shuffle step down the middle of the fucking sidewalk as slow as possible while playing with the goddamn phone.

        No idea on the other MAGA victims.

    • EvilSheldon

      Sometimes a homeless schizophrenic is just a homeless schizophrenic…

      • Sensei

        Of which there are now legion in NYC.

      • Brochettaward

        I’m guessing these are not the attacks of random homeless suffering from mental illness. Nor are they being committed by MAGA-hat wearing white dudes. Or the Orthodox Jews. Christ, it probably isn’t even migrant men.

  12. Drake

    Oh no!

    David Cameron showed up in the U.S. to help get $61 Billion of our money sent to the Ukraine.

    David Cameron’s attempt to persuade Donald Trump to permit the US Congress to push through $60bn in military aid for Ukraine appears to have failed, after the British foreign secretary was not even granted a meeting with congressional speaker Mike Johnson, who could in theory put the package to a vote.

    • The Other Kevin

      That’s interesting. If he had persuaded Trump, would that mean the deep state would tilt the board in favor of Trump?

    • Suthenboy

      What is Cameron’s cut for helping launder tax payer money through Ukraine?

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Find somebody who loves you as much as Samantha Ray Mears loves her ex boyfriend.

    Just remember to keep the cutlery in a secure place.

    • Fourscore

      A little crazy in the bedroom is OK but there needs to be preset limits.

      • SDF-7

        There are most definitely times ’round these parts when I think “Boy I’m glad to be such a square”.

        This is certainly one of them. Run for the hills is my only reaction to that loonie.

      • Suthenboy

        I was going to say ” Everyone thinks I am a boyscout, maybe I am. It’s not that I dont know stuff, it’s just that I know better.”

  14. The Late P Brooks

    The broken and damned have a home at Salon, the Internet’s open-air asylum.

    A nuthouse with typewriters.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The fuck is a typewriter?

      • Bobarian LMD

        It’s like a type setter, but faster.

  15. Timeloose

    “forced him to have sex with her” At first I couldn’t understand how he could get past the anxiety of having to perform or die, but then I remembered being ~20 years old. He could also be 50 for all we know based on the article. Inquiring minds do not want to know.

    • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

      A light breeze, and then…

  16. bacon-magic

    I bet she was good in bed.

  17. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    I might not kind Montana Woman out of bed for eating crackers, but I definitely would kick her out of bed for urinating on it. The machete is a tossup.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Whoa. Is it too late to change my answer?

      • Gender Traitor

        Yes. You’re committed now.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        As a person of polish descent… are we disproportionately represented among the criminally insane?

        Probably some sort of oppression I need to be compensated for.

    • The Other Kevin

      Sounds like she’s extreme MAGA, what with the peeing on the bed. Probably a Russian asset too.

      • Compelled Speechless

        She roams the cities at night around the corner from Subways waiting to pour bleach the on darkies (their word, not ours)!

      • Common Tater

        Russian MAGA pee hooker

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Now, that money is running out, and Congress has yet to extend the program. The Biden administration has blamed congressional Republicans for standing in the way of legislation that could renew the ACP and ensure Americans aren’t hit by higher bills.

    If the government pays for it, it won’t count as inflation.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I was paying 22 bucks a month for my phone when I was offered the Biden phone.
      I got a 75 dollar unlimited plan for free! I quit using it and got another plan, but they won’t turn off the Biden phone. They send me texts to write my congress and whine.
      Meanwhile charging the fed 75 bucks a month, great work if you can get it.

  19. The Other Kevin

    The song of today was almost my senior prom song. But Sarah Mintz on student council had to have “Wonderful Tonight”, and so it was. Then the DJ forgot to bring that CD and we had no prom song.

    • SDF-7

      Just be glad no one bled a pig, TOK.

  20. Suthenboy

    Pissed on the bed? Trump is behind this, isn’t he?

    • SDF-7

      Just be glad it wasn’t Tim.

    • Brochettaward

      5 seconds? I First in a mere fraction of a fraction of that. Do better, Haitian militants.

    • UnCivilServant

      Sounds like a targetted attack. Nobody just goes around wearing Balaclava at a mall.

    • SDF-7

      Jesus… good on the kid, but having some very non-Christian thoughts about the assholes. At least it sounds like they were caught and are being tried as adults… not slapped on the wrist.

    • Brochettaward

      No pictures of the youths who committed the crime, but their names are present.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m hoping that’s out of a journalistic code that it’s probably not good to post mugshots of minors rather than the more probable activist journalistic code of protecting anyone darker than a sheet of paper no matter what they do.

  21. SDF-7

    Here’s hoping the Founders have a spare $50 to wake up Winston’s Mom for a well deserved drubbing.

    • Brochettaward

      “The reality is that the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist.”

      Perfect description right there.

      • Compelled Speechless

        No one they know voted for Reagan.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Over the past four years, wages of nonsupervisory workers, who account for more than 80 percent of private employment, are up by about 24 percent, while consumer prices are up less, around 20 percent.”

      He had to dig really far up his ass to get that number. I know NOBODY who is making 24% more than they were 4 years ago.

      • kinnath

        while consumer prices are up less, around 20 percent.”

        Horseshit. Food is up 50% or more. Energy is way up. Vehicles are way up.

        The working class is being crushed by this.

      • Suthenboy

        Fifty percent? Depending on the commodity the low end is 50%…from there up to 300%.
        Standard fare with price controls dont count – milk for instance.

      • Brochettaward

        I can say that my raise was the smallest I received in 4 years. My company explicitly stated they were giving raises because of the Trump tax cuts. Under Biden, smallest raise in 4 years as a dollar amount and obviously percentage. They are acting like we are in a recession cutting costs right and left.

        Also, 24% raise would mean jack shit. “They even admit by their own flimsy math that consumer prices are basically on par with this supposed pay bump.

      • The Hyperbole

        I am. Closer to 50% more, TBH.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        I am making that much more… but I also have 4 more years experience.

    • Bobarian LMD

      called Taylor Swift fandom ‘slightly racist’

      So not all bad then?

    • rhywun

      Perfect. Remember this the next time someone tries to claim that West isn’t a racist POS crackpot himself.

      • Common Tater

        “Black people can’t be racist!”

      • Brochettaward

        I’m surprised that when you Google definition racism they haven’t added some bullshit about systemic power being a necessary component. They have, however, added some bullshit about it being typically aimed at minorities or the marginalized and how it can be the product of institutions.

    • Not Adahn

      What part of “Cornel West” did you not understand?

    • Not Adahn

      I must emphatically agree with you.

    • Compelled Speechless

      Which historical atrocities are we allowed to trivialize and which are verboten? Has anyone made a chart?

      Is there anything in history that has been more trivialized by sheer repetition and frivolous comparisons than the Nazis?

    • Brochettaward

      While I despite Disney and sympathize with Carano for being blacklisted for her political beliefs while her co-stars got away with comparing Trump supporters to Nazis, she has no real case as I see it. Musk is just fucking with Iger and using her as a pawn.

    • Suthenboy

      A 29 year old making those kinds of decisions?
      Wisdom…enlightenment…whatever you call it is achieved when you finally realize how much you dont know. This is why wise men throughout history have advised “know thyself” as the key. Sadly few people ever realize what that means.
      29 years old…give me a fucking break.

  22. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    About to start my state of California mandated diversity training. Wish me luck.

    • Brochettaward

      Bring some fried chicken and watermelon to share with the class.

    • Sean

      I hope you showed up wearing a dress.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Only on casual Fridays.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I gotta say, there’s a whole lot of orange behavior going on around here.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        what does that even mean?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        C’mon man. Are going to make me review they slides? I think it’s bad behavior based on a protected characteristic. Like saying this training is totally gay.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        If you were a real G you wouldn’t participate.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Just learned that there’s such a thing as bigender. I’m just not sure if that’s bi-gender or big ender.

      • Sensei

        Why not both?

      • Suthenboy

        I quoted Lewis Carroll earlier regarding the mangling of language…having words mean what one says they mean, being different from one moment to the next.
        What he missed apparently is the ability for those people to invent words out of thin air and try to conjure them into reasons for fear and panic and ‘something must be done!”.
        Christ from one day to the next we go from two to 163 genders with more springing up all the time like dandelions.
        Of course they are just trying to create a world in people’s heads that is impossible to make sense of.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      All in all the training wasn’t as bad as I feared. It mostly boiled down to don’t be a jerk or a creeper and don’t touch a black woman’s hair, which I guess is a thing.

      • Gender Traitor

        Gee, I seem to recall black girls touching – sometimes even braiding – my (red) hair during grade school assemblies.

        I should declare myself a victim.

      • Common Tater

        Technically, redheads are more of a minority.

        (unless you’re in some Celtic country)

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Redheads have no souls and therefore cannot be victims.

      • The Hyperbole

        Why would you touch anybody’s hair?

      • Suthenboy

        Exactly. Who would do that? I have been called a racist for even asking that question as if only a racist would not want to touch a black person’s hair. Wut? Heads they win, tails you lose. (I know, I know, euphemisms)
        I have heard that trope for years yet never seen or heard anyone profess to have such a desire. Well, almost no one. I have seen people who have never seen very white skin, blonde hair or red hair desire to touch women’s hair like that. “It looks so silky” is what they said mostly. I must confess I have the same desire but I keep my hands to myself.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I have no idea, but then I’m an introverted dude. It took a lot of getting used to living in Eastern Europe where everyone kisses each other on the cheek.

  23. Pope Jimbo

    How it started

    As the first openly gay sheriff in the Midwest, Hutchinson cites his narrow win over Stanek as part of a push by the county’s progressive voters, particularly young voters and people of color, who want to shake up county leadership. Other races in Hennepin County during the most recent election — such as Angela Conley’s challenge to and victory over incumbent Peter McLaughlin for a seat on the county board — felt that political energy, too.

    Colleagues of Hutchinson have said he brings an ability to connect with anyone, regardless of race or background, to his new position. Metro Transit officer Sidney Jones, who worked closely with Hutchinson when he was a patrol officer, says he has an ability to “build the bridge between police and the community.”

    • Pope Jimbo

      How it is going

      Current and former members of the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office — including current Sheriff Dawanna Witt — blasted former sheriff Dave Hutchinson in a lawsuit Wednesday alleging bigotry, erratic behavior and threats of retribution by him that led some to fear for their careers and their lives.

      The lawsuit, filed against the county, alleges county officials were aware of Hutchinson’s behavior and didn’t do enough to stop it.

      The lawsuit says Hutchinson’s staff “became more fearful of Hutchinson’s behavior,” which allegedly included “threats to their jobs and threats to their physical safety” and that those suing “had serious concerns about Hutchinson’s potential for violence and worried he would ‘snap.’”

      The allegations include an incident in 2021 where “Hutchinson unholstered his gun, a revolver, and aimed it at employees while ‘joking’ about ‘shooting’ people. In doing so, Hutchinson flipped open the gun’s chamber and bullets fell to the ground.”

      I notice that this article doesn’t mention that Hutch was gay. How can they diss this trail blazing gay man?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I hope someone said, “Don’t shoot shoot shoot that thing at me.”

        Next season on Peacock, Hutch, Openly Gay Sheriff.

      • rhywun

        Popular with progressives, particularly people of color!

  24. Compelled Speechless

    “Hutchinson unholstered his gun, a revolver, and aimed it at employees while ‘joking’ about ‘shooting’ people. In doing so, Hutchinson flipped open the gun’s chamber and bullets fell to the ground.”

    These euphemisms.

    • juris imprudent

      “Let me just whip this out”

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Was this Minnesoda pol supposed to this out loud? Remember that big find of helium in northern Minnesoda? Someone wants to wet their beak.

    As Pulsar Helium inches closer to building Minnesota’s first helium drilling operation near the Iron Range, lawmakers and other officials are scrambling to make sure the government can make money if the new and potentially lucrative industry touches state land.

    State officials also hope environmental rules pass the Legislature because there is little regulatory oversight on this new type of gas extraction.

    Sen. Grant Hauschild, DFL-Hermantown, introduced a bill that would block companies like Canada-based Pulsar from extracting gas without first obtaining a permit from the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and would direct state regulators to adopt rules for environmental review, production and reclamation.

    It would also give the DNR power to require royalties for gas production that draws from state-managed lands.

    “There is a fear that Pulsar would be able to drill and suck out helium at a commercial level from private land, and we would get no royalties,” Hauschild said Friday.

    • Brochettaward

      People…using their own land…to make a profit? Without the government getting a cut outside the usual taxes?

      Who has ever heard of such a thing.

    • Suthenboy

      No one else said it so….
      If they drill a hole in the helium deposit, won’t they pop it?

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I’m worried it will cause the earth to float away like the house in Up.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    About to start my state of California mandated diversity training. Wish me luck.

    Be sure to say, “Welcome to the land of fruits and nuts.”

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It was online, but I’m sure I would have said “Wassup, bitches?” if it was in person.

  27. The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

    So, any project managers out there?

    What is a normal amount of project for you to manage at the same time?

    • Drake

      I’m usually managing 3 or 4 good sized projects at a time.

      • The Artist Formerly Known as Lackadaisical

        What is ‘a good size’? do you have any team backing you up for review of submittals?

  28. Brochettaward

    Good news for everyone. You can now watch The American Society Of Magical Negroes from the comfort of your own home!

      • Brochettaward

        Yea, it’s a fetish.

      • Brochettaward

        And no, it’s woke trash.

  29. Common Tater

    “BREAKING: House votes down FISA reauthorization bill after Trump demands lawmakers ‘kill’ it

    The vote included 19 Republicans and 209 Democrats.

    “We’re enacting sweeping changes — 50 reforms, 56 to be exact — to the program … that will stop the abuse of politicized FBI queries and prevent another Russia hoax debacle, among many other important reforms,” Speaker Johnson said.

    “No more Steele dossier, no more of the intelligence community relying on fake news reports to order a FISA order, no more collusion,” he added. “It’s critical we address these abuses because we don’t want to be able to lose section 702 of FISA. It’s a critically important piece of our intelligence and law enforcement in this country.””

    https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-house-votes-down-fisa-reauthorization-bill-after-trump-demands-lawmakers-kill-it

    Needs beheadings and salting the earth.

    • juris imprudent

      Damn, we have to give credit to Democrats? What the hell are they thinking? There’s a catch, there has to be a catch, for them to do something in agreement with Trump. 8D chess or something.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I feel like I’m reading this wrong. The (D) was more overwhelmingly for getting rid of FISA? Their whole brand for the last 8 years or so has been that every Fed agency is beyond reproach and questioning them is terrorism.

        They probably know that there’s already a highly classified program to replace it that’s way more far reaching and invasive and they want to help keep it hush hush. You know, for democracy.

      • Brochettaward

        The only thing I can think of is that they are scared of what may happen if Trump gets back into power.

  30. Evan from Evansville

    Melt with You is MY favorite high school romance song. BUT, Nouvelle Vague. They do their French, light jazz version w their own beautiful voice. My sweetheart introduced me to them and it’s still a fantastic album, all of their own covers. Here’s their version. Gotta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX8Ah1eSt8&ab_channel=Kwaidanrecords

    That crazy ex sounds a lot less crazy after putting the ages, and a bit of imagination, together to see where that anger MIGHT be coming from.
    The NYC thing…yeah. So it’s almost all bullshit. Uh huh. Why are people so drawn to shit like this when we live in by far the safest time/place in our species? We’ve never had so much near-instantaneous opportunity to hear about it. Over and over… Same old shit as ever, but with it this quickly…I do think we’ve crossed a barrier with the acceleration of innovation. Our brains can’t process this shit. But Neuralink is so promising. It really is. I want in. No shit…As a test subject. Hrm.

  31. Evan from Evansville

    Special Thing I did today! I’m happy with myself. Two more days of work left. Kinda crossed a line. I texted this to my friend before and ain’t gonna redo the damn thing: “there’s a kid I kinda actively don’t like. the other “counselors” also don’t. it’s known. he was being his normal cunt-ish self: we were lining up to go back inside. trying to get all the balls in the cart, etc for a head-count. he couldn’t stop taking shit. he kicked a ball away and I ordered it to be got. 2 sec later I got pissed with him and another ball.

    I stole it and kinda accidentally kicked the basketball away.
    “OH! Now YOU have to get THAT one!”
    “Piss off,” and I walked away without another word.
    they all kinda soaked it in and got the meaning. I meant it. they cooked w me saying such a naughty thing. it didn’t come back on me. at least not yet. if the 4th grader remembers he may tell someone. he coulda told anyone else, and I was seeing if he did, as I would certainly get in ‘trouble’ for that one.

    I didn’t! and I don’t care if I DO.” I’m embarrassed that telling a kid to piss off would be so frowned on. I didn’t scream it, but I *did* say it like you would to a drunk at a bar you’re fed up with. How “bad” do you think that is to say to a kid? He was purposefully being a dick in the rain. Historically, he deserved far worse than what I gave him. I also, do not have children. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯