Ted Cruz Stripped Weather Forecasting Funds From Trump’s Megabill. Then the Floods Came. Among other things, he removed $150 million slated to improve modeling, predictions, and public communications.

Christ, I just went down this rabbit hole and there is a LOT

Mitch McConnell has a net worth of up to $52 million, and has had high quality government-financed healthcare for decades. Losing your healthcare, losing your loved ones, losing your life, isn’t something people should be told “get over it.”

Buncha 19 year old girls are gonna learn the hard way that financial independence is important when they're stuck in shitty marriages and have no ability to enter the labor market and support themselves.

Anne Burrell, Food Network star and 'Worst Cooks in America' host, dies at 55

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli defense establishment continue to believe the Trump is likely to enter the war in the coming days to bomb Iran's underground enrichment facility. Per Barak Ravid.

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

Clark Gregg and George Clooney are fantastic together.

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

Imagine if Kamala Harris had won and excepted a $400 million dollar plane from a foreign monarchy. Seriously, just take a minute and imagine that.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

Do that hockey, Seattle! Excited for this.

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Terrifying.

*Former Steeler draft pick Mark Bruener. Mark is still alive, just retired. Huge congrats to Carson! Definitely the heart of the Huskies last year. 💜💛

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private server or Pete Hegseth using the nuclear codes as his password on Pornhub, both parties have ignored our nation's security.

It’s already a win for Hegseth that the conversation is around if he should resign and not if he should be jailed.

Bad for school kids, bad for farmers, and sure as hell won’t “make America healthy again.”

Hey, if I'm ever disappeared off the street illegally, please make a big issue about it, even if I suck as a person, which I probably do.

So that’s a ‘no’ on joining the Big10 mutual defense coalition?

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

The judge held the birth certificate, said it was authentic and proved he was born in the U.S., but the Florida prosecutor said the court couldn't release him because ICE asked the jail to hold him.

Introduce articles of impeachment. Even if it won't make it to the floor. It's your duty to try, IMHO.

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

All of these men are being illegally detained in a foreign gulag. They weren't deported. They were illegally imprisoned. This is the face of fascism. Look at it.

If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

NEW: Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

So far, I've heard some version of "could be worse than 2008" from Ray Dalio, Nathan Tankus, and Yanis Varoufakis.

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

BREAKING: In a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats voting in favor, the House passes the SAVE Act, a bill that could strip voting rights from millions of Americans. From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

A gem of a sentence from @nathantankus.bsky.social , "The stock market is trading in an erratic 'hyper-fundamentals' fashion where the only fundamentals that matter are the current state of Trump’s 'thinking.'"

Even when Bill Clinton signed legislation weakening Glass Steagall in 1999 there was no weakening of FDIC and Congress has consistently increased guaranteed deposits up to $250K in 2008, which Dodd-Frank made permanent in 2010./4

A play in two acts.

it was the worst of times, its was the wow somehow it keeps getting worse of times

BREAKING — DOGE will descend upon Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) buildings tomorrow, an agency source tells me. FDIC is responsible for insuring all commercial/personal US bank accounts for up to $250k and regulating banks. Scary in light of Trump’s manipulation of markets this week.

What happened today reeks of insider trading. Trump’s tweet wasn’t random—it was a signal. Someone cashed in, and the public deserves to know who and how much. Follow. The. Money. “This entire White House is one giant grift.” —Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social shining a spotlight on it! 🔥

Remember when people dismissed the "Abolish ICE" folks as being too hysterical? Now, here we are.

really interesting and worthwhile essay!

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Democrats: you're not in a debate about the merit of tariffs. There's no need to hedge your broadside of Trump to look tough on China or supportive of U.S. manufacturing. Attack. The scale of this crisis is way bigger than you think. Don't overthink this.

🚨 The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on the SAVE Act TOMORROW — and we need to make sure they do not pass this dangerous bill. Call your representatives right NOW and tell them to vote “NO.” We make it really easy to call in less than five minutes at WeAll.Vote/fight.

Heinous, violent criminals are still citizens and shouldn’t be deported to a foreign prison either.

“All who are hungry, come and eat; all who are needy come and celebrate Passover."-the Passover Hagaddah

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