All of these are policies they're already supposed to be following. So why would anyone believe they'll start following them in exchange for DHS funding. I mean, come on. The proper response to "We won't deport U.S. citizens if you fund DHS" is, "Are you fucking kidding me?"

When people aren't shitty, it makes being shitty look like a choice. Thus shitty people must dismiss all virtue as "signaling." </fin>

i celebrate st. patrick’s day as the lord intended, by helicoptering a snake over my head and heaving it at a protestant

A little history lesson before you quaff your green beer.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

Appointing a guy who you think is weak on security to oversee the nation’s antiterrorism program is a bold move.

Trump: "It used to be very successful. Now it's a country run by fear. It's a country where they tell protesters, 'Don't go outside, because if you do, we're gonna kill you.'"

This is gonna work great.

The pro-Israel, crypto, and AI lobbies have spent $21M+ to influence tomorrow's Illinois primary via innocuously-named Super PACs like "Elect Chicago Women". Not a single one of their ads mentions Israel, crypto, or AI. Citizens United is corrupting our system every day.

Every single word in this, including if and the, is grounds for impeachment.

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I was eating at a restaurant in Japan that had robot waiters and occasionally the robots would get stuck in a standoff, so one of the human waiters would walk by and just hip check one of them and they’d be fine.

Olvera Street, the La Brea tar pits, and the San Juan Capistrano mission.

Let’s hear more about the ballroom, please.

Trump’s DOJ is suing Utah to get the state's full voter rolls, including birthdates, addresses and IDs. The NAACP is fighting the data grab, arguing it puts minorities at risk and will scare them away from registering to vote. Read more: utahpolitics.news/trumps-doj-w...

We need to end prediction markets for government action. NOW. This bone chilling story about a reporter’s life threatened bc he simply reported on Iran missile strikes: “After you make us lose $900,000 we will invest no less than that to finish you.”

I didn’t know Lichtenstein even had a navy.

First takeaway from French local elections: continued gains for far-right, esp. in south of the country. Far-right wins reelection already in the first round in Perpignan, biggest city it already governs, & many smaller towns. It's going to be in a strong position to gain Toulon & (bigly) Nice.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

Search your camera roll for hell

Did they invent mines that recognize flags?

Time makes mugs of us all

France just won the entire Six Nations tournament by kicking a penalty in overtime and I don’t know why anyone watches any other sport than rugby. Allez Les Bleus!

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.

The alarming fact is that we’re not even close to the bottom with this madman.

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

CNN: Trump fundraiser uses images of dead soldier casket and “promises access to the president’s ‘private national security briefings’” in a bid for cash.

Vietnam was a catastrophe and there were objectively smart people in charge. I’m sure this will go great with the dumbest secdef in history who got the job because Trump thinks he looks good on tv and is good at blowing the sun up the president’s ass

once again, if the only thing you knew about trump was that he was a malignant narcisscist you'd be much better able to predict how this stuff goes than people who interpret his actions through the lens of geopolitics or military strategy or whatever. creates a crisis then demands credit for fixing

Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."

4/ The GOP’s “Save America Act” wld force all 50 states to submit their voter rolls to the DHS’s objectively suspect voter purge system while simultaneously making it very difficult to re-register. Remember the 2000 presidential election in Florida? This wld be 50X worse.

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

NEW: When Maryland's congressional delegation visited ICE's overcrowded holding rooms in downtown Baltimore Monday, they found the place unexpectedly empty. What happened to all the people being held there? We figured it out. Story for @thebaltimorebanner.com: www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...

“will not appoint people who give press conferences completely shitfaced” seems like a pretty easy commitment the next Dem candidate can make

Disgusting “joke” by the Salt Lake County GOP Chair

Sen. Kennedy took issue with this post below. Since our exchange, I have been inundated with unhinged emails and voicemails, including this one: deranged, violent hostility. But over the last decade, I've gotten used to these responses from nativists.

What’s happening here is that the 30% of the country that wants, like Mike Johnson, to impose its right wing religious values on the country using state power is falsely accusing the 1.3% of the US population that is Muslim of wanting to impose their religion on the country using state power.

If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...

They’ve solved the problem of mission creep, by not having a coherent mission at all

A large warehouse facility on Salt Lake City’s west side has been sold to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Remember the scene where Indiana Jones faces off against the huge fighter dude so he just takes out his gun and shoots him?

I'm having a hard time dealing with the fact that the government I pay taxes to just obliterated 150 little girls in their school. I don't know what to do with the shame of it.

Ten days in and he’s already creating new speed bumps for the bus.

It is a weakness of our system that the murder of 160 schoolchildren does not result in an immediate dissolution of the government.

X ABC Meta Paramount These companies all settled lawsuits with Donald Trump by promising to donate as much as $63 MILLION to his presidential library. But then, Trump dissolved a library fund. So where'd the money go? I'm pressing these CEOs for answers.

as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them

INBOX: Latin Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bobby Pulido, who is running as the Democratic candidate for #TX15, is offering to sing at any quinceañera in his district by request, after his Republican opponent remarked that he “only belong[s] at Quinceañeras": pulidoevents.com/quince

“I'd prefer to be dependent on China for the import of solar panels & batteries, than I would, for oil & gas coming from the Gulf, and I'll tell you why… if I buy that solar panel, that battery, that wind turbine, that transformer, I buy it once every 25 years. I don't have to buy it every day”