WTF Sh*t's F*cked Up and Bullsh*t - a "Who Cares" thread for news

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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[Free]

Trying to take "work with what you know" seriously, except for the part about getting away with it.

DEA Officer Who 3D-Printed Cocaine Gets 17 Years in Prison

The former Fed stole evidence and replaced it with a brick he made with a computer.

gizmodo.com

For about five years U.S. Drug Enforcement officer and Nassau county sheriff’s deputy James Darrell Hickox used his position with law enforcement to moonlight as a drug dealer. He once even stole cocaine from an evidence locker and replaced it with a 3D printed brick. His various schemes didn’t work out and now he’s been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

Hickox was arrested in 2023 and pleaded guilty to the various charges against him in 2024. He ran his drug dealing game while employed as a deputy for the Nassau County Sheriff’s department in Florida and as a DEA agent. He pleaded guilty to charges of stealing drugs and money, transferring drugs to dealers for sale on the street, and tax evasion. He made more than $420,000 as a drug dealer and the IRS was upset it didn’t get its cut.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Russell Brand moves to the US in a headache for prosecutors

The comedian accused of sex crimes has embraced Donald Trump — and may have to be extradited if he is charged in Britain

www.thetimes.com

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[Noodles]

I decided to like and follow local news pages again on Facebook.

What a stupid mistake that was. The comments just make me loose hope again.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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Trump Jr can be seen shooting ducks from a foxhole in a lagoon in the video from Field Ethos, an outdoor lifestyle publication he co-founded. In one clip, he points at a distinctive rusty orange duck among the bodies of half a dozen waterfowl.

“This is actually a rather uncommon duck for the area,” he says. “Not even sure what it is in English, but incredible shoot.”

The ruddy shelduck, known in India as the Brahminy duck, is a migratory bird that winters in south Asia and breeds in south-east Europe. Its global conservation status is not under threat but environmentalists have raised concerns about its future as climate breakdown shifts its breeding range.

Zanoni said killing the protected bird was a crime and questioned Trump Jr’s right to hunt in Italy as a non-resident.

Massimo Buconi, the president of the Italian Hunting Federation, pushed back on the claim that foreigners were not able to hunt in Italy but said the law would have indeed been broken if the bird in the video was confirmed as a ruddy shelduck.

“At a glance it looks like a ruddy shelduck,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s protected in America, but in Europe, and in Italy, it is protected. You cannot hunt it.”

 

[Cindy Claveau]

I decided to like and follow local news pages again on Facebook.

What a stupid mistake that was. The comments just make me loose hope again.

Yep. I usually wait long enough that I've forgotten how many shitty people there are in this world sharing my oxygen with me.

Then I get a crash course in inhumanity and everything is back in focus.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Innula Zenovka]

Trans panic at work ...

Girls can have short hair, says team accused of fielding boys

Under-12s football side is taking on stereotypes in the sport after two of its players were bullied

www.thetimes.com

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A girls’ football match ended in tears after a player with short hair was accused of being a boy by the rival team.

The all-girls York Railway Institute AFC team was playing in October last year when an 11-year-old, who has a short haircut, scored a goal.

The opposing team’s coach and parents on the sideline questioned Flo Topham’s gender, her coach said, asking if a boy had been brought on and requested to see her registration.

The under-12s game was stopped as a result of the dispute, leaving the girls on the team, who were already “anxious” due to similar incidents in the past, devastated, Adam Cooper, the team’s assistant coach, said. “When Flo was brought on, she scored straight away. The comment from the coach was that we had brought a boy on, and he continued to call her a he.”

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Trans panic at work ...

Girls can have short hair, says team accused of fielding boys

Under-12s football side is taking on stereotypes in the sport after two of its players were bullied

www.thetimes.com

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This shit fucking disgusts me. I mean, why not just come right out and say that girls can never ever perform as well as boys, and maybe spare some of these young ladies the indignity of being misgendered! Because that is exactly the message they are sending with this shit!

 

[Sheera Khan]

The mindset is: You cannot lose! That's a given. If the opponent scores a goal that must be cheating. And if you can unsettle the opponent with baseless claims the better it is for you. And that is all what counts!

I hate it!

 

[Free]

*sigh*

A 15-year-old went to a Brooklyn parade. The NYPD wrongly accused him of a mass shooting

A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting.

apnews.com

Camden Lee was leaving high school football practice in September when he saw the photograph, splashed across the New York Police Department’s social media accounts, that would soon upend his life.

In a crisp surveillance image, the 15-year-old stands alone in a hoodie and shorts, eyes cast down on a Brooklyn street. “The pictured individual,” police declared in an accompanying caption, had “discharged a firearm” at the West Indian American Day parade, killing one person and wounding four others.

“I see the NYPD logo. I see me. I see ‘suspect wanted for murder,’” Lee recalled. “I couldn’t believe what was happening. Then everything went blurry.”

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Oh hey, how about some news on a...death cult with a connection to Silicon Valley?

Bay Area 'death cult' with Google tie linked to 'sprawling web of violence across America'

Cults can range from bizarre and eccentric to flat-out dangerous. And according to reporting in SFGate, a "death cult" in the San Francisco Bay Area known as the Zizians appears to fall into the dangerous category — as its members are being linked to a "sprawling web of violence across America...

www.rawstory.com

SFGate reporters Andrew Chamings and Katie Dowd, in an article published on February 13, explain, "Investigators across the country are piecing together connections between the double homicide of a wealthy married couple in Pennsylvania, a deadly shootout in Vermont and two brutal knife attacks on a landlord in Vallejo, (California). Four people who are allegedly Zizian cult members are in custody facing homicide charges, despite multiple escape attempts. Three members of the fringe group are missing and wanted, including the leader, Jack 'Ziz' LaSota, who faked their death in the San Francisco Bay."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

That performatively bearded Christian Nationalist guy has some thoughts on terror. It's good when courts controlled by Christian Nationalists inflict it, though in context Christian Leninist might be a better term.

 

[Isabeau]

I can’t stand that repulsive man. Not clicking, will take your word for it.

When he eventually dies, I hope it will be from an excruciatingly painful ailment.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Innula Zenovka]

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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

So before the internet my parents and most of the adults in my life maintained 'Americans are stupid', based solely on prejudices of the 'other'. Then I got on the internet, met a lot of pretty great Americans, smart people, usually saw things a little differently but not enough to really worry about it. 911 happened, and then, Freedom Fries. No problem, there are dumbasses everywhere, every village has idiots.

Bluesky

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This is Freedom Fries level stupid. So stupid that the prejudice is coming back. So stupid that should we avoid nuclear armageddon and get back to a normal tense relationship not arranged around smacking our faces with shovels covered in BBQ sauce in the leopard enclosure, Canadians, and indeed the world, will discover, 'oh, that tourist is an American? Best watch and make sure they don't stick a chop stick in the electric socket.'

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

This is Freedom Fries level stupid. So stupid that the prejudice is coming back. So stupid that should we avoid nuclear armageddon and get back to a normal tense relationship not arranged around smacking our faces with shovels covered in BBQ sauce in the leopard enclosure, Canadians, and indeed the world, will discover, 'oh, that tourist is an American? Best watch and make sure they don't stick a chop stick in the electric socket.'

We have gone completely freaking bananas here. People who don't believe viruses are real are in charge of federal health policy. People who think wildfires and hurricanes come from Jews with secret weather machines, are dismantling federal disaster and weather forecasting services. People who think industrial waste being dumped into rivers doesn't actually hurt anyone "because the water washes it away", are in charge of environmental policy. And they didn't like, lie their way into power, they were voted into power because they promised to destroy those things, because the majority of our electorate now actively hates knowledge and science, and thinks cynicism and cruelty are the new virtue and actually caring about anything is stupid and weak.

If I was visiting a foreign country right now, and was in a situation where I could easily get away with the lie, I'd tell someone who asked that I was Canadian.