NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.
Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.
That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!
And New Mexico did the same last week:
A remarkable sentence in this piece about Elon 'Icarus' Musk:
"After he took his four-year-old son, X, to the White House last month, insiders say Trump asked for the HMS Resolute desk to be disinfected."
www.ft.com/content/ea5b...
A bill from two Democratic representatives would investigate the “pink tariff,” which encompasses the higher tax rates on imported items classified as women’s goods.
Forget public grade schools. The Turd Reich Redux regime is decimating higher education.
More than 30 nations will participate in Paris planning talks on an international security force for Ukraine #Europe
www.ctvnews.ca/world/russia...
Anything left at USAID will be about promoting fascism and calling it Christian nationalism. Pete Marocco needs to be household name.
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the Dow has now given back all gains made since November 5
I have a piece up at @thebulwark.bsky.social. The Silicon Valley oligarchs like to think of themselves as heroes out of an Ayn Rand novel, but they perfectly encapsulate the *villains* of Atlas Shrugged. 1/
BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents?
MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
Huge loss for the Post and all of its readers. We’re all worse off for this.
Breaking:
TORONTO (AP) - Canadian province of Ontario applies 25% electricity surcharge to U.S. in response to Trump's tariff war.
Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "Why is a White House official, that's not even elected, why is that person belittling the Polish foreign minister? It's not appropriate. It's not right. We need more discipline in the White House."
The Tesla Valentine’s Day great wheel heist. Investigators say the building’s cameras were not recording, and the Teslas’ cameras were inactive as the cars were off. #3E #TeslaTakeDown
All Democratic Senators/Representatives should have a bluesky account as well as twitter...
Hm, if only there had been a way for an elected leader to predict what Trump would do in office before throwing support behind him.
cutting the fat
Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests. @ninalakhani.bsky.social reports for @theguardian.com:
“We’ve seen the many ways in which Trump has sought to undermine Congress, and now he’s seeking to undermine the judicial bench,” said Nancy Gertner, a Harvard law school professor.
“This is a president who is arrogating to himself the powers of a dictator.”
Agency in charge of Australia’s $368bn submarine program faces staff morale crisis
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
Pete Hegseth worships at the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, led by “Doug Wilson, an untrained and self-proclaimed pastor who advocates for Christian nationalism…”
Wilson also wrote that “sexual violence is women's fault for not being submissive enough.”
President Biden's deputy natsec advisor for cyber and emerging tech Anne Neuberger told reporters that Chinese hackers got into (at least) 8 U.S. telcos in a broad spying campaign that affected "dozens of countries" since it began.
The latest on All Things Considered: www.npr.org/2024/12/04/n...
Jeff Bezos said he is "proud" of his decision to block the Washington Post's endorsement of Harris (which the publisher of the paper initially suggested he had nothing to do with) and "very optimistic" about the Trump presidency and Trump's plans "around reducing regulation"
I remember her from season one
Wait, wait, wait!!!
Pete Hegseth is pledging to Senators that he WON’T drink while serving as Defense Secretary?!!!?
He wouldn’t be running a fucking Applebees.
He’d be in charge of our entire fucking MILITARY.
‘I pinky swear I won’t drink on the job.’
How the fuck are we here?
