Seriously I cannot think of a single pledge that Trump hasn't gone back on, up to and including "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" and his constituents could not be happier. What's the point of being honest at this point, when voters want to be lied to?

Look...I don't doubt our ability to kill people. But we've just destabilized the lives of millions of people, as well as the systems that (for better or worse) govern their lives. And it rarely ends the way we hope it will when we do that. And mind you it's only February. I doubt he's finished.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

$608 million. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

ffs. www.tmz.com/2026/02/28/m...

Okay I feel like this is going to come up a lot in the next 24 hours so let's just clear this up: Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader allegedly killed today, is/was *not* the same person as Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader who came to power in the 1979 revolution.

manufacturing consent through lowly paid influencers

So basically we just destroyed the government of a country with 90 million people who aren't exactly our buddies on the best of days...

Not today's topic but: www.advocate.com/politics/her...

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

Seems pretty apparent to me: the next Dem presidential candidate should simply lie their ass off about everything and do whatever they want once in office. That seems to be what the voters want at the moment. No reason to continue playing by the rules of a game you already lost.

10-22-2024

10-28-2024

Huh.

Really challenging to follow someone who's both informative and a dick.

BREAKING: Israel has launched a “preventative” attack against Iran, as witnesses say they have heard explosions in Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to the Reuters news agency.

"Thank you Julie Donuts"

Oh hey, all that stuff Trump defunded last year actually had a purpose. Who knew.

DHS tried to lure her back. So, they could shackle and deport her again. In a tearful video call on Friday with journalists, Ms. López said a representative from ...[ICE] had tried to persuade her to return to the ...[U.S.] by wrongly suggesting that she was likely to be set free upon her return."

Bingo. Also they never seem to apply this concern to their own side's, shall we say, exploration of the extreme.

right wing pastors are screaming, crying, throwing up because John Piper posted a Bible verse on the everything app.

Sounds like pork. Conservatives swore they hated pork.

I'm old enough that I watched a healthy girl in my kindergarten class catch polio and was in a wheelchair by 1st grade and she died at 36. She cried all the time because she was in pain. When you die I'm gonna piss on your grave, Del.

So, not eight wars?

We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week

I give you the dumbest man on the internet

"The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt—again and again and again—to force the United States government to comply with court orders," he writes.

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

I'm not against data centers per se but they're using up so much memory the cost of the DIMMs I need is basically a car payment right now. heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

Trump’s first-term Surgeon General speaks out against Trump’s current nominee for the job, Casey Means

There’s been far too little focus on what the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act would do below the congressional level. Republicans in several Southern states may be able to gerrymander quasi-permanent legislative supermajorities and wipe out Black representation across local governments

This is where they were heading until covid forced them to think about others. Allies, friends and connections are just obligations they didn't sign up for. So are civil rights, Title IX, The EPA, gay marriage and any law that doesn't place straight white males in charge of everything.

Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons? Wait. He didn't.

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

🚨NOT GOOD: Nonpartisan CBO confirms Trump’s policies, including Republicans' Big, Ugly Bill championed during last night’s State of the Union, will DRIVE UP the debt significantly—raising America's debt-to-GDP ratio to 175% of GDP by 2056.

House Republicans introduce a bill to effectively ban trans women from sport nationwide, fittingly titled as The Riley Gaines Act. This story brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

The judge concluded that the government could not be trusted to review the reporter's devices independently.

Maybe they were drug runners. That's how it works right?

Basically this WH's position is that women are fragile things that need their lives, marriages and reproductive systems managed by the government, while men are virile stallions who stamina cannot be constrained by modern laws.

*I can't believe he just said that *Those numbers aren't remotely accurate *That plan is never going to happen *He's completely divorced from reality [I didn't watch, I'm just guessing]

NEW: Remember when the government rounded up dozens of unaccompanied children in the middle of the night and tried to summarily deport them? A Trump-appointed judge entered an injunction barring their removal. But lawyers for the children say the government is trying to circumvent that order.

Hmm... working within the system to ensure your side had a voice instead of just stomping your feet and throwing a tantrum. What a concept.

Sources: DoD told Anthropic it will invoke the Defense Production Act or label Anthropic a "supply chain risk", if not given unfettered Claude access by Friday (Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I'd have more faith in this argument if I hadn't lived through 2024.

Mother with legal permission to live in US was deported less than 24 hours after her green card hearing, despite chronicling 27 years in California—her high school diploma, years of tax filings, vaccine records and paperwork showing she had repeatedly obtained federal permission to remain in the US.

Clarence Thomas is celebrating Black History Month his way: by becoming the first black judge to rule that they don’t have to deliver the mail to you if you’re Black