Power of the Purse!?! Who needs checks and balances?

FFS we're going to strip Venezuela for parts and sell to the highest bidder and it's all going to go into their pockets All it's going to cost is so many American and Venezuelan lives

I don't think it's possible to have a "judicious transition" involving an invasion by a foreign power

Cool, so not only do we have economic systems from the age of imperialism, we now are just straight up trying to colonize again Worth noting, US forces have no control over Venezuelan territory

Here's a link to the 2020 DoJ press release on the Maduro indictment. It basically accused him of all the illegal acts and corruption of the Venezuelan military as "Cártel de Los Soles" and coordinating with FARC www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Just a reminder, the Screwworm epidemic in North America was eradicated in late 1900s by US cooperation with Central America We will now spend billions to get rid of this pest we previously eradicated b/c we didn't want to send a million to Panama

Lol, DHS is trying to depict the ideal America by stealing a foreign artist's work

This isn't the flex she thinks it is

I want to be so clear, this is an illegal usurpation of Congress power of the purse

Good to know that Buck v. Bell will be coming back and Skinner v. Oklahoma will be repealed They're saying eugenics with their whole mouth

This picture looks like they're about to drop a terrible hip-hop album using slurs in every song

Looks like the photographer earned his $1000

Geressy's a right-wing man-fluencer type, they're almost exclusively into femboy twinks, trans women, and being cuckolded. The only surprising thing is that he reads his porn www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

There's a saying, "a grand Jury will indict a ham sandwich." The fact this phrase exists and the DOJ still can't indict goes to show: 1) How incompetent these GOP hack prosecutors are, and 2) How BS these charges are

Cool so we're pirates now

He's right, a large purchaser could drive prices down. It's what Medicare/aid does So, hear me out, what if we had one massive insurer for everybody. Imagine how low we could drive prices down

Girl, you were fired from a job you didn't have. Bye

This has some real "if I Did It" energy

There's a lot wrong with our immigration courts. The fact they're Article 1 courts and thus subject to the whims of whoever can promise the most gold laying geese to America every 4 years is just one of them. Albeit a big one www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

In 2022, TN cracked the blue district around Nashville into 3. Distributing the city Dem vote into larger, more rural districts to get another GoP seat 3 Years later, the GoP base got angry about rising prices and the Dems are getting out their base This GoP gerrymander may just bite the GoP

Buried in the article is this paragraph. If the drugs aren't coming to America then even the DoD's paper-thin legal justification falls apart. They're just killing people because they want to.

It is self-defense to kill people who may smuggle drugs again is some Judge Dread level unconstitutionality. The civilian equivalent of this logic would be shooting someone who was arrested for drug possession

I have read the case resulting from this fire many times as it's a major case on MA's (archaic) mens rea requirement. It paints a maddening picture of the conduct leading to the fire but doesn't talk about the survivors or families. Thanks WBUR for triggering this empathetic overload.

Trump moves us closer to an unnecessary, unpopular, and illegal war with Venezuela by saying he's closing their airspace. Pulling from the old neo-liberal playbook, justifications are lies and gaslight

It's also not the first time DHS posted in support of remigration

DHS is right, DHS's goal has never been more clear. DHS wants a white ethnostate

If Trump wants to undo Biden's executive orders that's allowed. In fact, he's already undone a lot of them. What he can't undo laws or pardons signed by Biden. And threatening to prosecute someone for their speech or testimony is unconscionable and unconstitutional

That's up there as one of the more evil intended purposes of ChatGPT. AI will never be your friend or significant other. Marketing it as such will only hurt and isolate people

More evidence of ICE using arrests to try to cover up their own brutality

"We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe"

I have read the RFK Jr. poem and now believe written language was a mistake

He looks like the villain from a low budget 80's sci-fi movie

You can have the china that calls you "dirty" and threatens your life, or the china that likes your food

Let's be clear here Judge Nachmanoff, asked if Comey's lawyers a clarifing question about their position. What Halligan has done seems like a violation of VA Rules of Professional Conduct. Specifically Rule 3.5(f), 3.6(a), and especially 8.2 nypost.com/2025/11/19/u...

The last people he looked at that way were the children on Epstein's island

No matter your politics, the elderly really appreciate it when you visit

I understand he's representing himself, but there's not a lawyer in the country who could have gotten him pretrial release on these facts

This is just internal Lebensraum. I hate to make the German history comparison, but DHS is literally saying there are too many immigrants for the (right kind of) Americans to live their lives. Lebensraum literally means living space

This is 233 pages of "your receipts don't add up and here's why" She doesn't even get to her analysis until page 179

Got it, playbook is to arrest people ICE and CBP brutalize, claim they were assaulting ICE & CBP, then drop the cases in the next news cycle before you have to answer too many questions in court

Umm... First, it's incredible dangerous and difficult to get into Venezuela and get people even remotely conected to the drug world to talk Second: apnews.com/article/trum...

This judge mentioned George and Alex Soros 17 times. 14 were for ad homin attacks on the plaintiffs experts and attorneys. 3 were references to how the opinion is a "Soros" victory

Two things: 1)High rates are one of the things keeping inflation down 2)This SCOTUS expressly said the president cant fire a member of the Fed

In the text of the bill currently sitting on Trump's desk there's a specific carve out for docs jeopardizing an active federal investigation. However they're also required to tell Congress why they made the redactions and withholdings. In short, this is just the beginning of the fight

We need to take a moment to appreciate the utter audacity of Halligan filing a true bill that only two grand jurors looked at apnews.com/article/trum...

Limited to certain pick up and drop off points. This is just trains with extra steps! Tech bros need to stop investing in their worse trains and just build trains

It is not well known that the cattiest and sassiest people on earth are federal judges. From Judge Brown's decision in the Texas gerrymandering case

I want to be very clear here, this will only benefit insurance companies I'm a lawyer reading impenetrable documents is what I do and my head hurts every time I try to figure out my health insurance

Lawyer here: you're right! Prosecutors are not allowed to insinuate people don't have 5th amendment rights and ask jurors to imagine the government has more evidence than it actually does Pretty much everyone who's watched a police procedural knows that

Hassett blames increased cost of beef on pest infestations. That's the New World Screwworm. We eradicated it from US in '66, Central America in '06, and built a bio barrier in Panama to keep them out. In Feb, Admin announced it would move the barrier to the US border causing a bunch of problems