Damn, I hate it when things that happen mean nothing :-(

This is an absolutely insane administrative process. Within the space of a week, states were told by judges/White House *no SNAP benefits *half benefits *full benefits *pause provision of benefits. Result is chaos, uncertainty, and uneven access to benefits depending on where people live.

They’re wearing masks so they can’t be prosecuted later. As long as they think they can’t be prosecuted, their crimes will intensify. They will torture, starve and kill, as they have already, on greater and greater scale. Signed, someone who’s covered the unaccountable War on Terror for 23 years.

Who fuckin' cares

Because Marjorie Taylor Greene has been in the news (and on "The View"), just remember that she's deeply bigoted and any "changes" in her views are fraudulent because she wants to be president.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Not ICE. Border Patrol. They’re wearing Border Patrol uniforms with clear Border Patrol patches on them. There are many videos of ICE officers doing outrageous stuff but a lot of the absolute worst videos are of Border Patrol, who are basically Bovino and Miller’s most aggressive tool right now.

I've concluded that the president does not know what dogs are.

It would be funny if he ran for Congress and lost a third time.

Thinking about the many times I've seen "Obama is ignorant" or "AOC doesn't understand economics" or the like while Trump belches out a half-baked insincere proposal for a two-step version of the same ACA subsidy he's trying to eliminate.

GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown. REPORTERS: 😳 KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

He sucked.

UPDATE: Justice Jackson temporarily blocks SNAP benefits order to allow appeals court to rule. DOJ asked SCOTUS for a stay as USDA was in the middle of completing its process for making full payments. Jackson's order came a little past 9 p.m. Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-admi...

rosen is one of the moderates who sincerely wants a bipartisan deal, her being this angry is a good indicator of where they’re all at

Me when I skim comments before replying:

BREAKING: Judge Immergut issues a permanent injunction against Pete Hegseth and the deployment of the National Guard to Portland. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

President Donald Trump has approved a pardon for Michael McMahon, the White House said Friday, a retired New York City police officer who was convicted in 2023 for his role in stalking a New Jersey family on behalf of the Chinese government.

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Imagine nearly dying and then spending your time acting like this.

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

FOLLOW-UP: Col. Thomas Siverts, assigned to the Pentagon, appeared on his younger brother's podcast, a cesspool of antisemitism. The podcast's co-host said Col. Siverts' boss, Pete Hegseth, deserved six bullets to the head. But the IG won't investigate. (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them. Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies. Subscribe to support our journalism.

LOL

So many cowards

In celebration of Native American Heritage month I want to talk about erasure. Erasure is how anti-Indigenous racism functions in the U.S. today. 🧵

"No one likes me, I win."

SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

BREAKING: The Sixth Circuit, in a 10-7 en banc decision, holds that an Ohio school district's anti-bullying policy that requires students to use children's preferred pronouns is likely unconstitutional on these facts. Judge Murphy, a Trump appointee, writes the court's decision.

He and the Republicans could really truly solve this conundrum if they were just willing spend a bit of our tax dollars to let people eat food and go to the doctor but they’d rather do this

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Yeah man can't wait

Let's be crystal clear that the Trump administration is to blame for this. If you get stuck somewhere, don't yell at the airline folks, call your congressperson instead.

How evil is it to have knowledge of this and stay silent? newrepublic.com/post/202813/...

Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.

Starting to think the pardon power was a mistake.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

I keep saying: Tisch cooperated w ICE to arrest Leqaa Kordia. She shouldn’t be commissioner if @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social wants to protect us from ICE. If there is to be an NYPD — & Zohran repudiated abolition — then its role must be to protect ppl from ICE. If that’s unrealistic whats the point?

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Re-upping after the sandwich guy's acquittal.

The DOJ is big on propaganda videos and press releases, but their cases are weak. We can keep beating them in court.

Sandwich guy is 3-0 against the feds, absolute king shit

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

Sandwich man leaving court