Out of $678 million raised by institutional Dem "churn and burn" fundraising campaigns, less than $11 million actually got delivered to Dem candidates. A whopping $282 million went into consultants' pockets. It's not just money being wasted: it's trust.
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I'm told there were a bunch of witnesses, multiple videos
Dozens of feds, large MPD response, an observer saying he's a physician and had a gun pointed at him for checking the victim's pulse
Can't stop the mnemoris... bugoona......m
12 year old in the street just yelled "Bugonia" at me. I said "What's a Bugonia?" He yelled back "Bugonia mama!" Now I'm mixing rat poison in my sleepytime tea
Pic of tweet "The Senate bill re-criminalizes hemp products with a hard cap of 0.4mg THC per container, which will eliminate full spectrum CBD products from the market."
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
Oh yeah the senate democrats also voted to remove protections for thc and hemp based cbd last night. So many small businesses are about to close and so many people are going to be needlessly hit by legal actions due to this. bsky.app/profile/myta...
The democrats didn’t just give up leverage and millions of Americans healthcare they voted for expressly illegal and corrupt actions by the administration and their colleagues. They literally are helping materially to dismantle American democracy.
None of these people can hold power anymore.
The democrats voted to destroy what’s left of the judiciary last night btw.
Talks among a group of bipartisan senators accelerated after Democratic sweeps in the off-year elections in New York City, New Jersey, Virginia, California and elsewhere. Republicans said that Democrats appeared concerned that backing off their shutdown demands before voters went to the polls would depress turnout.
Also just so everyone is crystal clear the democrats knew that they were going to fold the entire time and only waited until the won the elections to bury their bad acts.
Assuming that his grandparents died in Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust, and his great grandparents went down with the Lusitania
laura loomer out here looking like 4 missing persons sewn together
THE TIME FOR BUTLERIAN JIHAD IS NOW! 🔪🤖.
Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.
“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.
These motivations are linked. By punishing the out group, one hopes to curry favor with the in group, which is to say "the winners." The winners are those best insulated from the effects of societal collapse. Look at Republicans desperate to win Trump's favor. They're begging to be "winners."
There are two psychological motivations for becoming fascist: the desire to punish out groups one blames for societal dysfunction; and the desire to be one of the "winners."
Global warming has become obvious. Resource scarcity and wars are inevitable. Even if you deny the premise, the effects are quite clear. Likewise, pandemics, inflation, mass migration events, job scarcity, etc. In short, civilizational breakdown. We saw the same effect during the Great Depression.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.
Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.
I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."
It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Two headlines.
Two economies.
Same day.
Poetic.
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i once again would like to express some alarm and concern at the sheer pace of Nazi-related news updates
Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.
I tend to think of classic Simpsons parodies as rooted in timeless, classic media - like their episode-length riffs on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Citizen Kane. But they approached new movies with the same obsessive specificity. That episode aired less than a year after the movie came out!
I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.
But Netflix are real dum dums for not letting a Frankenstein movie in OCTOBER have a nice wide release, our show was nearly a full house.
important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates
check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
Radu Jude doing an AMA. The questioner requests "Please more gay!" Jude responds "I will do my best!!!"
Breathlessly anticipating whatever insanity this exchange leads to
The salient detail all the articles about Trump tearing down the East Wing omit is that the East Wing was built primarily for the First Lady, and Trump's First Lady doesn't live at the White House. Not reading anything into this...
Lee Daniels's The Butler is definitely up there
