All this "means testing" and "rooting out fraud" is just thinly veiled cover for finding increasingly absurd ways to deny people aid. Surveillance systems suck up money and resources that *should* go to recipients. We're led to believe poor people lose their privacy rights and liberty to save a buck

As the article points out, the entire supposed point of REAL ID was that it would prove you were who you said you were, and that you were a citizen or legal immigrant. It's invasive, requires A LOT of documentation & admin burden on both people & states, and is apparently... worthless to DHS.

You can’t report illegal acts because you don’t want to compromise them being carried out is an interesting take, if true

Very surprising that the president who forced himself on women and girls without facing any consequences thinks he can force himself on countries without facing any consequences.

An abuser's *actions* are very important to pay attention to. His words are more or less meaningless inasmuch as he has no relationship with truth or reality ... whatever he says is merely whatever he says and it's probably just some effort to manipulate ...

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary

Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning

Compare this to Biden leaving Afghanistan & think about what the incentives are for every American politician

Who's going to store and power all this biometric data? Who will they sell it to?

It’s 2026 and no Democratic senator has called for Schumer to step down.

It's 2026 and Schumer is publicly admitting he continues to take Trump at his word

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

How on earth can they pretend this helps safety? This is grotesque. I was a regular shopper @wegmansofficial.bsky.social, but never again. Hope you experance the same consumer feedback Target has.

The number of places I can shop ethically keeps shrinking. Why are businesses always run by evil assholes?

he’s probably going to unfollow me for this but I don’t really care. Polis is the worst elected Dem in the country imo

Trump must be impeached immediately. This is not how a democracy functions.

It's actually important that, to the extent you are able, you stop using oil

there is no constituency that needs you to fall all over yourself to call Maduro illegitimate before you dare criticize Trump. Voters have been down this road before. No one thought Saddam Hussein was a nice guy. Criticism of Maduro at this stage correctly reads as a defense of Trump to most people.

At some point you start to believe this is intentional dereliction of duty. Collusion and not cowardice. Or does it matter?

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

what if they made the whole senate out of susan collins

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

This is *extremely* weak leadership from Jeffries and Schumer. When the wannabe king ignores congress to initiate regime change abroad, they are requesting a fucking briefing sometime soon.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are so pathetically out of their depth

AMERICANS DO NOT SUPPORT THIS ILLEGAL, UNPROVOKED, AND UNNECESSARY WAR. Trump must be removed from office.

Thoughts: 1. The United States is in a full blow constitutional crisis, and that is not even the headline news. 2. How does Congress react to a president waging war without its consent? 3a. What does this mean for Greenland?

We need to stop celebrating aircraft bombers before games.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

You could make this argument for bombing and regime change in the US. “Donald Trump was ineligible for the presidency in 2024 under the 14th Amendment, and therefore the United States must be bombed to restore democracy.” Somehow I don’t think the pundit class would be so credulous in that case.

The U.S. is functionally now a pariah state and must be treated as such until the cancer rotting out the heart of the White House is cut out.

Most people will focus on the insider trading element. What's more concerning is how this could've been a tip-off of pending military action. Like Signalgate, except anyone can see it in real time.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

”In violation of international law, the embattled, doddering autocratic leader of America’s ruling ethnic faction invades and kidnaps the Venezuelan leader ” is a more accurate headline.

There are people still paying for blue checks. On the CSAM machine. Incomprehensible

There are multiple national political commentators who earnestly predicted that Eric Adams would be a legitimate presidential candidate and a national figurehead of the Democratic party by now and those commentators still have careers somehow.

The automated sexual abuse that Musk is doing right now should be national news. People should be going to prison for this shit. The logical conclusion to generative image creation and the internet, pure public automatic violence. Every Pizzagate fear just out in the open.

one of whom was literally fucking assassinated. the person responsible for the agenda he got to run on as a VP candidate. melissa hortman said they weren’t going to sit on their hands with a trifecta. she said lets fucking go and she led one of the most impactful legislative sessions ever.

I wish we'd start making the case that fascists have traumatized these communities, that they have already paid a brutal penalty via fascist terror and harassment, and that we owe them reparations, including citizenship. 1

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

I'm glad I don't really play video games anymore. 25 year old me would be pissed, though.

These things need to be banned. Full stop. They are dangerous in so many different ways.

Now this is becoming interesting: US Coast Guard won't touch them, but did they consider that a Russian flag painted on the side looks like a big target to Ukrainian drones? mezha.net/eng/bukvy/oi...

Dude shows up at a day care with masked adult men. Maybe cops should be asking questions about his/their motives instead of accepting his implausible story that he was “testing” a theory. He was at a daycare with other grown men in masks. That is weird and creepy.

Amazing how legacy media panics over a leftist mayor, compared to how chill they were about an actual fascist becoming president. Really clarifies their priorities.

This is a *bad* flu season If you're not vaccinated get vaccinated. It's hitting really hard and it's hitting hard very early.

Our government decides what it does based on literally insane racist conspiracy theories. Everything is driven by criminal levels of evil, hatred, and stupidity. We're over as a nation unless and until this sort of thing is completely eradicated, and there is basically no hope of that.