Leftist libertarians are such an odd product of social media

Pretty ominous redactions in the Gateway tunnel case. Very real risk DOT/DOJ navigate this case by paying the outstanding invoices to GDC yet terminating the grants for convience, effectively rendering this case moot and derailing the project.

On the day It Happens, JD is going to have an all time Wile E. Coyote moment when he realizes everyone hates his guts and he doesn't have the juice without Trump's coattails to ride. He has no understanding of the extent of the free pass he's getting right now for existing only in Trump's shadow.

It remains surreal how Congress acts as if USAID wasn't completely eliminated. There's no staff capacity to program this money. At least continuing normal appropriations make it more likely some form of USAID returns in the next admin, even if everything continues to be impounded in the meantime.

Incredible photo choice in the article

We'll see how this plays out but it's hard to imagine a significant delay being avoided at this point even with a fast preliminary injunction.

This is especially true on this fight because the immediate problem doesn't require a legislative fix. Schumer is incapable of seeing any role for himself outside of his institutional role, but by staking out a strong moral stance you build pressure on the admin to retreat even absent legislation

One thing different about caving on this compared to the many previous caves is this cave ensures ICE will continue to murder Americans in broad daylight and pressure on all elected officials will only continue to build.

People losing their minds about DC snow removal are a good example of why liberal governance is so hard. People always want someone to blame, and it's not a winning political message to say the truth which is sometimes things get a little hard and require patience.

I've been astonished how the USAID precedent basically went ignored throughout the federal grant and contracting space, despite the fact that the surrounding litigation should be extremely alarming for any recipient of federal funds. Very real chance of this project being derailed

This is certainly just brazen corruption, giving some ICE guys a nice taxpayer paid vacation. High chance these guys get drunk out of their mind and create an incident. I also have to imagine the percentage of ICE agents who have ever left the US must be single digits.

Way too early prediction is that Iva Jovic wins gold at the 2028 Olympics

I do wonder how many of these guys will be full time Budapest residents 3 years from now.

Yet another example of why you do in fact need to yell at democrats from time to time. They're not gonna change their minds about ICE on their own, you have to make them realize they have no choice but to change their mind

Bezos and Ellison are both playing the same game: intentionally humiliating the institutions they own to curry favor with the administration. There's no intention to succeed commercially or even ideologically. This will continue until they offload the scraps when a Democrat is inaugurated in 2029.

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Good riddance to the Vichy Post

Always funny when people assume you have to be some kind of hard leftist to hate how complacent Dems have been the past year. Just no feel for reality at all. It's good that today some Dems are actually pushing back, but that simply would not have happened without people making their anger heard.

This site has a lot of people always tone policing anyone who gets mad at democrats, but someone like Mark Warner doesn't arrive at this point without feeling the heat from the base.

I remember a few weeks back when people were erroneously sharing that video from Russia erroneously claiming it showed people in NYC pelting ICE with snowballs. It was so immediately clear it wasn't ICE because the guys in the video weren't immediately open firing on the crowd.

This is also why it was absurd when people gave Rizzo credit for "winning" the Soto trade. The fact that trade was necessary in the first place was a damning indictment of Rizzo's tenure, regardless of the return the Nats got.

Maybe it's a good trade, maybe it's not, but regardless the worst crime of prolonged "rebuilds" is just how irrelevant it makes everything feel. I've been cynical about the team for years now, but I tried to get into watching the young guys develop.

I truly can't believe there are still people who see no issue with aging politicians and think it's ageist to care about this after a decade defined by people not knowing when to retire leading us into our current abyss. Wild stuff.

Normally I expect these things to be a bust in DC, but the last big snowstorm in DC was the weekend of the Pats vs. Broncos AFC conference championship in 2016, and they're playing each other again this weekend so that's the only model I need to know this storm is for real

I remember all the accounts smugly calling people doomers at the time for suggesting this was happening, or for suggesting that DOJ was lying in their court filings

Punting there is wild

All power to her if she was a part of the protest, but it seems likely she was just going about her day. Important for more of the public to understand when ICE is in your neighborhood, it doesn't matter what your citizenship is and it doesn't matter what your behavior is: you're at risk.

Abolish ICE

Kostyuk looking like she could be a serious contender for the AO title

One unfortunate thing about this site is you get people who thought Biden should've stayed in the race (a position so dimwitted it should be disqualifying from ever expressing a political opinion again) who drive a lot of the conversation about Democratic strategy and tactics

This press conference alone is basis to demand Vance's resignation

I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE

Again, abolishing ICE on day 1 is a necessity for any democratic administration. Don't go through Congress, just RIF the entire agency on the afternoon of inauguration day. Anyone not willing to do this has no business being the democratic nominee.

Honestly kind of good to have a candidate like Rahm Emmanuel who can act as a bit of a heat sink. A guy absolutely no one except a handful of professional Democrats and establishment media like, he can unite everyone else in dunks.

The fact that the 2025 hurricane season was fairly tame meant the administration continued to destroy FEMA without any wake cup call. It's too late now for the 2026 hurricane season, it's just a matter of whether we get a bad one or not. If there is a bad one, there's essentially not a FEMA left.

"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month

Local cops are just another arm of the feds.

It's wild how the phenomenon of people assuming Trump is on their side even when he's emphatically saying he's not is a phenomenon that afflicts people all over the world www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

It must feel incredible to be Marco Rubio. Basically the only guy in the room with an actually defined agenda here, surrounded by the dumbest people alive. It's going to be incredibly easy for him to convince Trump that Delcy Rodríguez is insufficiently deferential and pull the US deeper into war.

I continue to maintain if you insist upon "distraction" messaging (you shouldn't), it should be framed as Trump being the one who is distracted from other issues. He's distracted by frivolous nonsense like the Kennedy center and east wing, etc.

All that's been accomplished by removing Maduro but endorsing the rest of his apparatus is ensuring that the US has alienated the opposition and created a system where both the holdover Maduro regime and opposition compete based on who most forcefully opposes the US.

The funny thing about tripping over yourself to try to give Trump credit for taking down the Maduro regime is that apparently that didn't even happen. We're supposedly just partners with the regime now, but in a manner that basically ensures everything collapses with us in the middle of it.

Look, all I want from my party is for them to despise Trump with every fiber of their being, and that's simply not the party we have.

A lot of pretty interesting things in this story from October, just don't see how the current structure holds even for another week. Too many actors, both in the Trump admin and in Venezuela, don't want it to succeed.

One notable thing is today was pretty much the only possible optics win Trump can get out of this war. It's all downhill from here for however much this war escalates and however long it lasts.

In some ways it was more noticeable today because most Democrats were actually pretty good today. Schumer and Jeffries are unique in how out of step they are with the party, and this isn't the first time.

For Schumer, we are perpetually in the process of reaching a hypothetical point where things might get difficult and require action. Yet that's always off in the distance, never the moment we're actually living in.

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

Turns out Trump giving a speech essentially calling the VP our lapdog and saying the US would loot Venezuela's resources didn't pave the way for an easy occupation.