In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

It's fascinating to watch originalists insist that the intention of the Founders was to create an all-powerful executive with near-plenary authority over the entire government only a few years after fighting the American Revolution

I periodically look at this website that tracks gun murders in the US. There's so many. Most get very little national attention. Charlie Kirk's entry is already way down the list. gunmemorial.org

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

It is no coincidence that Trump, Hegseth, Miller, Noem and other members of the admin continue to make inflammatory partisan political speeches to military and law enforcement. They are conditioning them now to embrace the planned war to come - their war against other Americans.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Just a fucking disgrace that any president would say this to active duty military. But I expect it from this asshole, who has never respected the apolitical military tradition we’ve had since Washington. No, what’s more disgraceful is the silence of Republican vets in Congress.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

wizard frog is insane

Russia launched a massive overnight attack on Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles targeting energy infrastructure. Lviv sustained heavy strikes with damaged homes and a fire at Sparrow industrial park. Over 73,000 lost power in Zaporizhzhia where at least one person was killed.

While the toddler is mesmerized by AI and posting stupid videos, Stephen Miller and Russel Vought are running the country to the ground.

The text here doesn’t even do it justice. Watch the video. His brain is just soup at this point.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Do these right-wing scum supply Junior and Musk? 2019: www.cnn.com/2019/06/26/a... www.wsj.com/business/elo...

so glad we’re writing this guy a $20 billion check to prop up his economy

Protesters captured one tear gas canister under a construction barrel. Finally the barrels have a useful purpose. But there was a lot of gas regardless.

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

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Trump admits what we knew all along - the shutdown is happening because they want to repeal Obamacare by choking off funding for it. Project 2025.

Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail not to touch Social Security—yet now his White House is plotting cuts to seniors’ benefits again. Another broken promise from a president who hasn’t even shown his face in public for a week.

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

Using massive Medicaid and Medicare fraud.

In the last two weeks these feds have choked & beaten protesters, broken bones, given people concussions from munitions, pointed their sidearms at people, tear gassed a neighborhood, shot reporters in the face, destroyed neighbors' property, threatened elected officials No National Guard necessary

I dgaf about this story but it’s so annoying how local media has just decided to completely normalize TPUSA to the point of repeatedly interviewing the bigot that mentors their ASU club and publishes multiple articles a week on how much he hates LGBTQ people or some white nationalist screed

Hollarsmith was previously targeted by the federal government after he and others with No More Deaths were hit with bullshit charges for their humanitarian work by the AZ-Mexico border after they attempted to rescue several migrants that were in distress and lost in the desert. Fuck the borders.

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

Naval Academy football head cheerleader is actually a good full time job for him. That is something he actually appears to be qualified for.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

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5 years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon--the most destructive oil spill in US history--the same company is asking the U.S. government to approve a new, larger, deeper, and riskier offshore drilling operation in the Gulf. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is considering BP’s proposal now.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University

We are ruled by bloggers, podcasters and con-artists. And they are all maximally WEIRD people.

I would just remind folks that Elon Musk is neither a rocket scientist, nor an automotive engineer. Sam Altman is not a computer scientist. Elizabeth Holmes is not a doctor. David Shor is not a data scientist. And Ezra Klein is not a trained public policy analyst. So this absolutely tracks.

this is like half of r/ups now

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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Crescent Dev owns the Apt. building in Chicago that ICE raided. The owners of Crescent are Sonny Kahn, Russell W Galbut & Bruce Menin. All 3 men have ties to Trump in campaign contributions or real estate—someone with better investigative powers than I should look into this.

🎶 Don’t cry for me, Tallahassee! Though I dress like a cartoon of classy. And while Ron is screechy and seldom appeals, He’s also shorter, So I wear low heels. 🎶

This is not law enforcement. This is undisciplined brutality with a badge. Personality disorders unleashed by authoritarianism. These guys joined law enforcement simply to be able to do this.

Three men pick the guy up and slam him to the pavement head-first. On its face that's a clear attempt to inflict serious injury. All three of those men ought to be looking at serious prison time.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

Listen, there are a lot of influencers who get their content from legacy media and investigative journalism and then tell you not to support legacy media or investigative journalism. That’s grifting.

I don't know if everyone's aware of this but during Biden's term one of the BIG stories in right wing media was that he was shirking because he went to his Delaware home on the weekends. It was huge. They never stopped talking about it.

But ask for college loan forgiveness: "HoW aRe wE GoInG tO aFfOrD iT?" Health care: "hOw ArE We gOiNg To AfFoRd It?" House homeless vets: … well, you get the picture.

Whenever Trump and Republicans talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, it was always projection. Donald Trump's government is the most wasteful, fraudulent, and corrupt administration in American history. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

We are not up against legislators in Congress fighting over healthcare or energy or consumable goods, we are up against a regime running step-by-step according to a detailed far right blueprint to reform the US government.

Note: This isn’t even about the ACA subsidies. This is Medicare. They’re destroying EVERYTHING.

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