He asked for ice cream for his last meal. When he didn't finish it, he asked the guards to save the rest for later. He didn't understand there would be no later. August 1936, Pueblo, Colorado. Someone broke into the Drain family home and attacked two sleeping sisters with a hatchet. Fifteen-year-old Dorothy was killed. Twelve-year-old Barbara survived. Days later, railroad police in Cheyenne, Wyoming, picked up a drifter named Joe Arridy. He was 21, had an IQ of 46, and had wandered away from a state school for the intellectually disabled. He couldn't count past five, tell colors apart, or name the days of the week. A sheriff questioned him and announced Joe had confessed. There was a problem. Pueblo police had already arrested the man they believed did it: Frank Aguilar, who had once worked for the girls' father and was found with a hatchet head matching the wounds. Aguilar was convicted and executed. Joe was convicted anyway, on the strength of that confession. On death row, Warden Roy Best grew so fond of him that he brought him toys. Joe's favorite was a wind-up train he'd roll down the corridor for other prisoners to send back. Best called him "the happiest prisoner on death row." The day before his execution, Joe gave his train to another condemned man, Angelo Agnes. On January 6, 1939, he walked to the gas chamber smiling. The warden wept. In 2011, Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter granted Joe Arridy a full posthumous pardon, citing "the great likelihood" he was innocent and a coerced false confession. It was the first posthumous pardon in Colorado history. A pardon can restore a name. It can't bring back a life. Should a confession from someone who couldn't understand it ever be enough? Disclaimer: Details of his last days come from the warden and newspaper accounts of the time. The 2011 pardon found he was very likely innocent; no court ever retried the case. Photos: unknown photographers, Joe Arridy and his toy train, 1936-1939 newspaper photos (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons

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Hillbilly Superstitions If a rooster crows at night, bad news is close. Old folks said the bird only calls after dark when somethin’ is already wrong. Y’all still listen for it before you go to sleep? #HillbillySuperstitions #TheCyberHouseCrew

Well, look who stopped by the Gridiron Sugar Tour before the game… 🤘🏈 @TexasFootball @ArchManning HOOK ’EM! 🤘🧡🏈 #HookEm #TexasFootball #GridironSugarTour

PHOBIA FILES — EP. 26 Globophobia: The fear of balloons. It’s not the balloons themselves. It’s the fact that every single one of them is just waiting for the right moment to scare the shit out of me. Balloons have an invisible line one second you are blowing them up and then all of the sudden *boom* they are gone. I am known as the jumpiest fella you could ever meet so between exploding and static electricity balloons get a no from me dog. Anyone else feel like balloons should go the way of that smelly stuff that makes bubbles we used to get at the dollar store?

Globophobia (fear of balloons) Somebody brought a balloon into the house and I treated it like a loaded gun. Tied to a chair. Floating there. I watched it the whole time. Every time it moved I moved. Somebody laughed. I did not. I was calculating the distance to the door in case it decided to pop. Ain't the color. It's the part where it looks quiet and then it ain't. One little sound and the whole room jumps. I can handle a dog that barks. I cannot handle a rubber sack that waits. If it's full of air and it can sneak up on a man, I am already outside. Y'all celebrate. I'll be on the porch, counting the balloons and calling that careful.

🐍✨ 𝘼𝙗𝙙𝙪𝙡 𝙀𝙡-𝙎𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙙 𝘽𝙇𝙊𝙒𝙎 𝙐𝙋 𝙤𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙏𝙑 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙖 2012 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙢 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧. When Bret Baier tried to read the document—which called on Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to "purge" the country's media and police—El-Sayed panicked. "No, no, no… STOP. I’m not interested… Don’t be Rogers’ campaign. Be a journalist." Notice what happened next? ❌ He never denied co-signing the call for authoritarian purges. ❌ He never explained WHY he endorsed stripping freedom from the press. Instead, he went ballistic and deflected, claiming Brett asking about his actual record was an attack on his Muslim faith. The defensiveness is the tell. What is Abdul HIDING? Michigan voters deserve to know who the real Abdul El-Sayed is before sending him to the U.S. Senate. 👀

Who is the most overrated singer that is wildly popular and makes you say, "I just don't get it?"

Everyone should be outraged when a newspaper publishes the identity of a minor child, especially a 5 year old. But that is exactly what The Press Enterprise (@PressEnterPA) did! When a mother blocked a MAN who was pretending to be a woman, this news organization thought it would be appropriate to OUT the child who was being protected by her mother. Instead of addressing WHY an adult man would believe it was NECESSARY to scare a little girl in a restroom, where it is supposed to be a females SAFE PLACE, is beyond a normal human’s mind to comprehend. Then to add the cherry on top of this horrific pedo display by the Pennsylvania Bloomsburg Library and The Press Enterprise, they attempted to make the perpetrator out to be the victim. This is what @TheDemocrats @DNC and @DemSocialists are doing to our country and our children! Our children deserve to be PROTECTED from predators!

This is AWESOME! Ron DeSantis presented President Trump with this coin!

I remember using this in my science class as an experiment. The cinnamon’s natural oils act as a hydrophobic, meaning they repel water and do not mix with it. So you can stick your finger in a cup of water with cinnamon on top and your finger can stay dry. Happy Saturday friends!!

Happy almost Halloween 🎃🔪

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THIS restores my faith in humanity. Two separate people stop to rescue two dogs that were running together on a highway on-ramp . ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you to whoever these kind souls are 🙏🏼

In honor of Caturday meet Tuvok and Nutters. This best friend duo is too cute for words! I love when animals become friend that may normally be prey. Warms my heart.

When *My Cousin Vinny* hit theaters in 1992, many viewers saw Vinny Gambini walk into an Alabama courtroom in an ill-fitting suit and expected him to make a disaster of the case. He looked like he didn’t belong there and gave everyone reasons to doubt his abilities. Yet years later law professors began using scenes from the comedy in their classrooms, showing students how much Vinny actually understood about defending someone in court. What makes the film special is how unexpectedly it earned a reputation for getting courtroom procedure right. Vinny doesn’t win through an emotional speech or a last-minute miracle. He studies the evidence, examines the timeline, questions what witnesses claim to have seen, and looks for facts that don’t fit the prosecution’s version. One clear example is his questioning about grits. The exchange is funny, but the legal reasoning is serious. He asks a witness how long it takes to cook grits, then uses the answer to challenge the timeline. He doesn’t accuse the witness of lying. He asks simple questions and lets the inconsistencies reveal themselves. He uses a similar approach with an elderly woman who claims to have witnessed the crime. Instead of attacking her character, he calmly asks about her glasses, her eyesight, and the distance from her window. As the conversation continues, the reliability of her identification becomes less certain. A witness can honestly believe what they saw and still be wrong. When Mona Lisa Vito takes the stand, her knowledge of automobiles is established and tested through questioning. The technical details she explains connect directly to the physical evidence. Legal professionals noticed. Law professors began showing clips to students, and trainers used the film to discuss courtroom questioning and evidence. Much of the comedy comes from the way people judge Vinny before he has begun his work. His clothes are wrong and his manner is unfamiliar. But as the trial progresses those early judgments crumble. He succeeds because he pays attention, keeps asking questions, and refuses to stop until the evidence makes sense. Almost everyone knows what it feels like to be underestimated. The film reminds us that appearance doesn’t necessarily reflect ability, and that genuine skill can come from someone who doesn’t fit the image others have in mind.

Sometimes, you just have to stand alone and let your feelings be known. It's easy to be one of the bunch in a kettle. Never noticed, never recognized. Be that kernel that sets himself apart!😅

Happy 90th to the guy who spent thirty years making the Rolling Stones sound like they had a foundation. Bill Wyman never needed to show off. He just locked in with Charlie, kept the groove honest, and let everyone else fly around on top of it. 💯 Ninety years old and that bass still feels like the quiet reason half those songs still work. 🎶🔥 What’s the Wyman line that still makes you turn it up?

🚨SHOW ID 🚨CAST YOUR VOTE WHY IS THAT CONTROVERSIAL? Senator Scott accuses Democrats of opposing voter ID to enable ballot harvesting and election cheating. HE’s NOT WRONG! Pass the SAVE America Act. Put election integrity front and center. Only American citizens should vote in American federal elections. Congress … finish the job! BOOM!🔥