El Taco Riendo dining room is back open and Kristi Noem is fired which means nature is healing.
At the Senate Iβm continuing to push for rental assistance funding and for an extension of our pre-eviction notice which we need to help families stay in their homes.
The two most important positions at USAID under Biden were staffed with (a) celebrity airport book author and (b) sycophantic nobody rather than any of the thousands of people with legit field experience. The Trump replacement for (b) was wildly superior to the Biden pick! That's embarrassing!
And they're the kind of jobs you can't really trust to a true neophyte because the entire office falls apart if the deputy doesn't know their ass from their elbow
Pretty clear example of this is who were the deputies at state, defense, and justice during Biden which are the exact kind of low salience, high impact, very technical jobs that could do well with having fresh blood in the seat
Basically the lack of pipeline means you have very limited options for homing FoPO staff from mid to high or low to mid when you're out of power, which means your choices who like... actually know how to run an office and do the job are thin
Very clear the last time with Biden because half of the time you saw people bumped up a tier or reshuffled upward from their Obama admin postings
Which means you end up very reliant on turning over the keys to whoever was one rung down on the ladder the last time / who was the principal's court fopo eunuch at their last job
Also credentialism and post-grad alumni cliques
Think a major issue is that there isn't a strong talent pipeline/process for Dem FP because it's basically think tank or academia, because working for a prime or finance is more verboten than ~consulting~ so you quickly run out of places to stick people when out of power
I mean most people who know anything about foreign countries are liberal, but when was the last time somebody with decades of field experience with USAID was appointed to a senior FoPo position? Dems don't want expertise or knowledge, they want sycophantic lobbyists, just like Republicans.
imo, i think this circles back to the point that because foreign policy is a low salience issue for the majority of voters and because the Dems don't really have a grand strategy or even a vision, you end up getting lobbyist or Blob
Everything MY preferred group does? It actually has an unlimited amount of context and you have to sympathize with it no matter what. The other side? Actually they're orcs.
the cheapest and most abundant and utile political resource for the american ruling class is muslim life. this has been true my entire life. you can never go wrong slaughtering muslims
Weβre fighting to make life affordable for IL-08, and if you believe in our campaign, weβd like you to join us! Donβt let shady dark money dealers swoop in and steal this election!
Fundamentally, ICE owes the United States public an account of how many people the agency is detaining and at which locations.
So much in imm. detention has changed over the past 4 weeks. Just look at the health crisis at Camp East Montana and ICE's subsequent decision to rapidly transfer 100s of people away from the camp. So far, all we can have to go on is thanks to local reporting.
www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
It's past 6:00pm Eastern Time.
ICE once again failed to release congressionally-mandated detention statistics on its typical biweekly schedule.
The last update was on February 12, 2026. Four weeks ago.
www.ice.gov/detain/deten...
being a carless american is awesome. financial harm caused by rising oil prices won't directly effect me, and secondary effects aren't something we are trained to think about. when the time comes i'll just blame the rising prices i do experience on supernatural causes. maybe goblins
You can view all the clips from the DOGE raid on USIP that I uploadedβwhich were obtained via my FOIA lawsuit against DC Metropolitan Policeβhere: www.youtube.com/@marisa_kabas
The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.
The footage shows that at one point an MPD officer asks Jackson and the DOGE lawyer if the USIP building is owned by the General Services Administration (which typically deals with the federal governmentβs real estate). βItβs a private building, and thatβs why we need MPD,β Jackson says.
The most tense moment is when DOGE, USIP and MPD all converge in one of the hallways. USIP outside counsel George Foote tries to better understand how the DOGE got into the building in the first place, but he's shut down. βIβm asking the questions, not you,β Trump's new USIP president said.
MPD used an extensive locksmith set to break open doors in the USIP buildingβincluded knives. At one point in the footage, there were two knives on one lock simultaneously, creating what appeared to be a dangerous situation. Fortunately no one was hurt.
After the DOGE group showed up but before MPD arrived, the USIP building had been placed in lockdown mode, meaning all interior doors were locked and elevators were no longer operable. So once in the building, MPD needed to manually break down interior doors to give Trump's team full access.
Body cam footage shows Kenneth Jackson, the Trump-installed new USIP President; Laken Rapier, Jacksonβs Chief-of-Staff; DOGE workers Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox; and DOGE lawyer Justin Aimonetti were present at the raid. MPD let them in through a side door, despite USIP staff's objections.
SCOOP β Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
I thought his intro video was great! I don't want to run a 78 year old in Maine! and then I learned about his tattoo
not that hard, folks
If you can never think of an example of someone saying "Welp I fucking chunked it on that one my bad guys!" then you shouldn't take political advice from them.
The reason you so many of the most annoying Twitter Politics guys are sticking by Platner has nothing to do with the candidate or policy and more to do with the fact that they can never have been wrong. I was excited about him for a bit and now I am not. Very easy thing to say if you are normal.
At this yearβs DICE Awards, Ghost of YΕtei VA @erikaishii.bsky.social used their platform to demand that video game workers are treated fairly and with respect.
If you want to be part of our fight to build a better industry, reach out and get connected with an organizer.
Congratulations, Erika! πͺ
