the scumbag trying to tear al green's sign out of his hands is texas rep. troy nehls, a former sheriff, who afterwards asked the president to sign his tie like he was a beatle.

I am not a lawyer! but arbitrarily cutting off federally mandated funds for punitive, retaliatory reasons seems like it might not be entirely legal. just one cartoonist's opinion!

Gotta pay the king, no mechanism not to pay the king

I don’t want to live in a world where “insider trading on what a celebrity is having for breakfast” is a real thing that can happen

for folks who are active on x, threads, etc and feel bad about it bc of its stewards but have a hard time letting go: sometimes your behaviors overpower your values online because tech companies hire psychologists & sociologists to come up with ways to put you in that position

thought you probably needed to see this

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

The guy who staged a failed coup last time is building a massive personal militia staffed with lawless thugs. At this point it’s just naïve not to see where this is going.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

WTF.

It’s extraordinary depressing, if not in the least bit surprising, that the debate around a potential conflict with Iran—even by skeptical House and Senate members—completely disregards the pesky little details in the Constitution regarding the necessity of legislative approval to wage war.

Absolute fucking mess of a sentence. All constructed to make Cuba look like the aggressor. I’m sorry, people in a Florida speed boat were firing at Cuban border patrol and they shot back ????

It is, actually, this.

uuhhhhhhh not good *FOUR US SPEEDBOAT PASSENGERS SHOT DEAD BY CUBAN COAST GUARD:AFP

Interesting confirmations in the interview I did for this. Troops in Erbil were regularly flying "ring route" flights to Syria and Tower 22 (the outpost in Jordan where 3 soldiers would later be killed) and moving troops and equipment around those locations as part of the fight against ISIS

New York National Guard soldiers got a French medal for a rescue mission in Iraq during an ISIS ambush four years after the last ISIS stronghold in Syria fell.

Marco Rubio made it so you can't renew your passport at the library any more, very annoying! www.frommers.com/tips/news/li...

Possible context for the search of the LAUSD superintendents home and office this morning. The cause is unknown as it is sealed per local news but

FBI raids LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho's home, office

The FBI just raided LAUSD

BREAKING via the LA Times The FBI is currently raiding the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and LAUSD headquarters.

great story from Nic on Guard unit that stepped in to rescue French special ops in a 2023 firefight.

A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

"While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022." lol

Good morning generals and commanders

National Guardsmen awarded French valor medal for rescue of allied special forces trib.al/t1fK59R

In Aug. 2023, French and Iraqi troops got ambushed by ISIS. More French commandos got rushed in to reinforce them and evacuate. Stories at the time didn't mention it was two National Guard crews that flew them in and out. Those six soldiers received French medals. taskandpurpose.com/news/nationa...

The President singled out racial minorities as the source of fraud in the United States and the first line in recaps is “he stayed focused on the economy“ lol

The Washington Post writes -30- on its fully staffed Ukraine bureau. In related news, Jeff Bezos’s net worth is estimated at $223,900,000,000.00.

As @mtsw.bsky.social says, they like Trump and they want him to win

I have a lot of Trump supporters very mad at me

Heard sam Seder say it today on @majorityreport.bsky.social but it really is nuts the official Dem response was given at a tourist spot created in the 1920s instead of, like, Minneapolis

Senior CDC official resigns abruptly www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...

Imagine if instead of saying stuff like "Trump lies" or "that isn't leadership," Dems said "trump is murdering Americans, creating concentration camps, enriching himself through widespread corruption and trying to stop you from voting. And as such we won't vote for his nominees or fund his terror"

New York billionaires who call themselves liberals and moderates are currently spending their time figuring out how to punish the people of New York City for electing Zohran, while doing absolutely nothing to stop the demented Nazi in the White House.

short of seppuku on live television there is no chance anything "turns around" tonight but congratulations to everyone who didn't write this

also part of the state of our union

one of the basic problems of prediction markets that our brilliant economists clearly have not thought through is that the insider trading poisons basically everything in public life. everything is potentially untrustworthy, a set-up. the fix is always in.

Among those at the Capitol today apparently was Tommy Robinson (real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon), a British Islamophobe and the co-founder of the virulently racist English Defence League. He showed a photo on X of him meeting with Rep. Randy Fine.

GOAT

Mike Johnson cutting a promo FOR dems. Which Schumer and Jeffries will totally not use

Abigail Spanberger being a more unapologetic liberal as governor of Virginia is a sign of what happens when Democrats have a bigger majority in their state legislatures. We saw the same thing when Tim Walz went from being a Blue Dog pro-gun Democrat to being a progressive as governor.

Donald Trump killed two of my constituents. He is a liar and should be ashamed of himself.

His brace sucks. He’s got no leg drive. If you’re built like that benching 315, your technique has to be impeccable. His isn’t, and no other lift we’ve seen him do suggests he’s a physical freak.

Ok I’ve watched the Hegseth benching 315 video and I can’t prove that it’s fake but I strongly suspect that it is. There are plenty of guys who bench 315 who look like Pete Hegseth physically, but I’ve never seen a guy who looks like Pete Hegseth bench 315 with form that suboptimal.

Just heard someone on NPR say Congress isnt doing much because Trump is "in the driver's seat." Did not mention. That Trump has violated Articles 1 and 2 of the constitution regarding war powers, appropriations, raising money, etc

Trump has hit at least EIGHT foreign countries in the last year: Somalia Iraq Yemen Iran the Caribbean (exact location/nation’s waters undisclosed) Syria Nigeria Venezuela And he wants to hit Iran again. And probably Mexico. And maybe Cuba.

The only interesting thing that could happen at this event has not.

that was some weird shit

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets