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seems bad

“This is the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives.” This is how the DHS ends their press release announcing the death of Alberto Gutierrez-Reyes in ICE detention in California. @lataco.bsky.social

Kristi Noem was asked during Senate testimony yesterday whether Corey Lewandowski had any role in approving DHS contracts.

"No," Noem said.

That's.....BS. And my colleagues have the goods.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...

In ominous sign, Texas Republicans changed voting rules, then blocked efforts to protect voters “We can’t let a small group of conspiracy theorists set the rules for Texas voters anymore."

Texans in two counties struggled to find their polling locations for primary voting Tuesday after a GOP-driven change. The secretary of state’s office failed to provide accurate information. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the kind of thing that gets played at a war crimes trial

losing a primary by FIFTY points because you backed ICE should tell everyone where the zeitgeist is right now

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

'Sadiq' by Brian Turner "It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more." - Sa’di It should make you shake and sweat, nightmare you, strand you in a desert of irrevocable desolation, the consequences seared into the vein, no matter what adrenaline feeds the muscle its courage, no matter what god shines down on you, no matter what crackling pain and anger you carry in your fists, my friend, it should break your heart to kill.

Hegseth's gleeful, schoolyard bully, my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad rhetoric around killing people is so ghoulish. For someone who's seen combat to get off on killing like this is a sign of a deeply damaged psyche.
Have some poetry by Iraq veteran Brian Turner, more like the combat veterans I've known

It’s shit coffee and we love it.

I do wish they would reverse centralizing their baking operations though, their donuts used to be top tier 30-odd years ago

i love the handful of people responding to this to say that Dunks is bad coffee

i don't think they understand that New Englanders' affection for Dunks is only incidentally related to the quality of their products

If you've been watching Industry, you may appreciate this

"When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen." Is one of the truest things Trump has ever said

Screenshot of an X post by journalist Jonathan Karl quoting a message heard when calling the State Department emergency number, advising Americans not to rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation. Below is a video still of Karl speaking in a newsroom.

Rubio’s State Department had all this time to prepare but failed to consider what the impact would be. Just like what happened with USAID when they gutted it overnight. Criminal incompetence.

war is expensive and sometimes a country is willing to fund it to the point of planting victory gardens and collecting cans

other times it is illegal, the country is against it, and they pick your pockets to fund it anyway while saying they can’t afford park rangers to keep Yosemite clean

28 USC 530B(a): "An attorney for the Government shall be subject to state laws and rules ... governing attorneys in each State where such attorney engages in that attorney's duties, to the same extent and in the same manner as other attorneys in that state."
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I would like to remind you all that we are broke, we have no money, we have to cut spending immediately for all of you entitlement bums on Medicare and Medicaid... but war, we have tons of money for that.

The Constitution is clear: Congress decides on war. When a president uses military force without authorization and Congress stays silent, they are abandoning their role as a co equal branch of government. War is the most serious power our government has. Shame on the U.S. Senate today.

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

im doodling tonight

So few Americans realize that the political apathy conversation is directly related to the voter suppression conversation, which is directly related to the structural anti-Blackness question. So instead we just go, "Why don't THOSE dummies vote?!?".

In the last 4 days one of my senators broke a Marine’s arm, the other one announced he wasn’t running minutes before the filing deadline so his hand-picked successor could take his place without a primary and my rep announced he was giving up his seat as well.

How’s y’all’s congresspeople doing?

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.

This is a man way in over his head.

AOC: We already have multiple American service members who are dead for an illegal action that the president has pursued with no plan out. They don’t know why they got into this war. They’re talking about a hundred different reasons, and they don’t know how they’re getting out.

oh no

Foggy, fairytale run through Griffith Park this morning.

Executive branch has *way* too much discretion.

The mechanism for these revocations needs to live in Article III courts.

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural

ICE Agent Injured After Repeatedly Trying To Detain People In Neighborhood Mural https://theonion.com/ice-agent-injured-after-repeatedly-trying-to-detain-people-in-neighborhood-mural/