President Trump pardons former Puerto Rican Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced, who was accused of participating in a bribery scheme, a White House official confirms.

Mark Zuckerberg lost a trillion dollars because his big Vision of the Future was 'Second Life: No Legs + Wal*Mart', that we are still afflicted with his "ideas" is the most incisive criticism of capitalism anyone can make

It would be unjustified even if the agency was useful and perfect and beloved! They almost TRIPLED its funding LAST YEAR! It's absolutely deranged to be contemplating a funding increase for this agency under ANY circumstances, to say nothing of the current situation.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

When people talk about "de-escalation training" for law enforcement, it implicitly concedes the idea that protesters are irrational and uncontrollable and *special techniques* are required to avoid murdering them, but that is not at all what is happening.

giving ICE officers "not punching people in the face" training, bud that is not a real kind of training that exists. People are born with the knowledge of how to not do that. Eight billion people are practicing it at this very moment.

All of this functionality would be trivially easy to just directly implement in their software (except for the stupid picture thing, which LITERALLY NO ONE actually needs), but I'm sure the plan to to replace all their devs with a chatbot too.

who needs this. who has target volume so high they simply can't goto the actual website.

Good information here about the current funding situation of the agency that congressional Democrats are negotiating a funding increase for:

What you can even say?! After the BBB passed, their 2025 budget was almost TRIPLE their 2024 appropriation! Even if it was an uncontroversial agency functioning normally and legally (and it's none of those things), this would be absurd just on fiscal grounds! IT'S AN OVERFUNDED AGENCY!

It’s not just republicans. Congress fucking sucks, for real.

Guys that's all they do, every day, in like 40 different ways! I didn't need a judge to tell me that! They're just collecting revenue through the IRS and spending it however they want! We don't have laws anymore!

"appears to show" lol

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

Crime is legal for Republicans.

glad to hear Pedophilia Grampa is doing well!

This is what Democrats want with their calls for "more training." More poisoned infants, more blinded youth, more suffering for us all.

Suggestions for brands of rope will now appear at the bottom of the page when the bot encourages self harm.

two stupid hogs bumping their stupid hog heads together. squealing with delight at making the rest of the world live in the mud with them

~<Every single institution> we have is counter-majoritarian: - A hyper-gerrymanded House - A hyper-malapportioned Senate with staggered elections - FPTP SMDs in a continent-wide country with our urban/rural population distribution - The EC Stop it. We need <checks on counter-majoritarianism>

lol c'mon, man

As a Minneapolis local I am begging you NOT to donate to the Star Tribune. They are a mouthpiece for police, corporations, and conservatives who repeat those voices unquestioningly.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

You purity-testing tankies just don't understand. Mindless GOP drones vote R no matter what, which is why we need to promise to mindlessly vote for Newsom no matter what 3 years in advance without questioning any of his positions or behaviors. This is called leverage.

Evergreen comment on European affairs: "You can take Emmanuel out and add Lüdwig or Hans or anyone.”

🏳️‍⚧️ Hunter Schafer appears in a Prada ad 🏳️‍⚧️ Right-wing men: finally, they're putting hot women in ads again!

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Ah. Wonderful.

The majority of libs who are fretting about the idea of elections being canceled are doing so because that’s actually much, much easier to reconcile with than what is far more likely, which is Democrats are simply going to nominate this guy and lose.

If I believed everything I’ve read since about 2001, then I would be convinced every country we have ever bombed the shit out of is populated by people with few greater concerns than roaring with rage at the reluctance of the left in America and Britain to approve of them getting bombed

1. The US is spiraling into domestic chaos, 2. there is literally nothing I can do about anything happening in Iran, and 3. the exiles in question are monarchists. So...yeah. 🤷‍♂️

NEW from me: Towards the end of Trump's interview with 60 Minutes in November, Bari Weiss rushed into the room to introduce herself and the pair exchanged kisses on the cheek, leaving 60 Minutes staff stunned at the "overly chummy" embrace. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

You can't just say you want to Abolish the Harkonnens without stopping to think about all the people employed to install heart plugs into the Baron's slaves who have no other job skills or experience who would be losing their healthcare & retirement accounts if we take away heart plug jobs entirely

Every single word a lie. If they're talking, they're lying.

LAT tries to get to the bottom of who's behind the slew of Nazi propaganda suddenly being posted to US Government websites. www.latimes.com/politics/new...

Barbara Hepworth, Hollow Form (Penwith), 1955-56 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136123

Donald Trump is popular with Republicans because Republicans do not actually believe in freedom, they believe everyone should have a boss, and they believed that if they elected Donald Trump then he would show all the unruly Americans who acted like they were too good to have a boss the truth.

arresting everyone with an actual job

R.I.P. incel town square

We need more of this stuff. “Why do they get to veto my first amendment rights “ is what we should always ask people who do this sea lioning bullshit

Nobody asks brands like Black Rifle Coffee or whoever, whose entire personality is "we want to kill libs for sport" if they feel weird about alienating a majority of Americans.

“I hope the people looking at them are not duped into thinking that it's OK to openly and freely get others to disobey the President of the United States!”

Guy drinking whiskey at 8:30am: It’s always CBS News’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil somewhere.

telling the queer, jewish, communist, and other minority communities in 1930s germany that the problem in the country is they’ve forgotten how to talk to one another

Sure man. Whatever.