Almost Heaven

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"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." Incredible.

"President Trump’s chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his 'score settling' against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration’s still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled *in part* by the president’s desire for retribution."

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What would you do without the filibuster?   Dems: universal health care, child care, voting rights, abortion rights, unicorns 4 all Trump: make it marginally harder to vote

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The Trump administration is not anti-crime. It is totally for crime done by rich people.

In a million years, you would never guess that this tirade is about…. fonts.

Today is the 68th anniversary of the creation of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, and over 200 recent employees have shared an open letter decrying the near-destruction of the division’s mission and expressing the hope to one day rebuild it.

I… uh… don’t think the developers of New York’s new soccer stadium have read the book?

Chat: "If you’d be happy with a clean, accurate, AI-generated schematic map (showing all terminals, concourses, and future expansions), I can produce that as an image." Also Chat:

Take my money amc plus

we need to find Prominent Baseball Man and throw him into a volcano. it probably won't work, but I'm out of ideas.

Sometimes, justice is best served cold (cuts)

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Hungry to learn more about every layer and condiment of this trial

Ugh can’t believe I was let down by my favorite base ball squadron the Toronto Blue Jays

Would be news to Russ Vought

Happy Bat Week to all who celebrate!

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Thinking this more and more

lol nothing matters

Trump’s Beautiful for Billionaires Bill isn’t cutting any deficits. The truth is he’s adding TRILLIONS to our national debt. All to give the wealthy another massive tax giveaway.

lol

"Mr. Merkley said his view was that he needed to make the case against the authoritarian tack of the Trump administration sooner rather than later. "'The longer you are in an authoritarian state,' he said, “it becomes more and more entrenched.'"

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, is about to cross 20 hours of continuously holding the Senate floor and speaking to "ring the alarm bells" about authoritarianism.

14 hours in, Sen. Merkley is still going strong.

TUNE IN: I’m holding the Senate floor to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy. We cannot pretend this is normal. youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Why yes I’ve always been a fan of the [reminds self who’s playing the Dodgers next] uhhh Blue Jays

omg

Go Niners. And also kittens.

Straight from the horse’s mouth. Russ Vought has been angling for this shutdown so he can execute more of his extreme Project 2025 Agenda. Meanwhile, Americans are suffering under this Republican circus and watching their health insurance bills SKYROCKET.

Here's Russell Vought 3 years ago, planning ahead for this very moment: "'We have to have a Speaker that goes into these funding fights with a love for the shutdowns,' Vought said during a November, 2022, briefing call, 'because they create an opportunity to save the country.'"

Ok, time for the shutdown to end

"I know more than you" – Ron Swanson

But, like, why? Who wants this? Who does this benefit?

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That’s what they want you to think

When he signed the bill into law that guaranteed backpay to furloughed federal workers during a shutdown, Trump and his White House clearly understood what the bill did.

Adjusted for timing shifts, the federal government spent $228 billion more in Fiscal Year 2025 than in 2024. DOGE was never about cutting spending.

Russ, call your office. "On Tuesday, the Trump admin said furloughed feds were not guaranteed back pay. On Wednesday, it sent notices saying they were"

I may be just a simple country Congressional aide, but seems to me that if you don't want to give backpay to furloughed federal workers, you shouldn't have signed the bill guaranteeing backpay to furloughed federal workers.

There's nothing we can do if the executive branch just decides to violate the laws we pass is certainly one opinion that a Senate majority leader could have

Until yesterday, my wife, a (now former) fed, was getting paid to not work. Starting today, I'm working and not getting paid. Efficiency!

Russell Vought was 32 in this photo

The Trump Administration broke the law when FEMA illegally withheld funding for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, the Shelter and Services Program, and the Next Generation Warning System Grants Program.

Kagan, in dissent: The Constitution "gives Congress the power to make spending decisions through the enactment of appropriations laws. If those laws require obligation of the money... then the Executive must comply." SCOTUS majority: No he doesn't because [garbled gibberish]