HB5800: SAFE Drivers Act Standardized Assessment for Fluency in English for Drivers Act
Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. 2025-12-01
Sponsors:
- Republican: 27
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Detainee says guards bet on suicide Like other detainees, Ramsingh said that between cleanings the rooms, restrooms and showers were often filthy and infested with insects. He said detainees stole others’ food because everyone was hungry due to the small and sometimes inedible meals, which led to fights, and the conditions took a toll on his mental health. At one point he said he overheard a security guard talking about bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide. The guard said he had paid $500 into a pool, with the total pot riding on the outcome. The talk was particularly jarring, he said, because he had contemplated suicide himself.
This is a sign of the complete moral failure of our society. AP report. apnews.com/article/suic...
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
So Russia is helping Iran target American troops. Ukraine is offering drone defense.
Guess who Trump NEVER ONCE has EVER criticized?
Correct. Russia
I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both
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In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
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Proudly watching my MA Senator @edmarkey.bsky.social at the People’s State of the Union, recalling that time in 1998 he was such a good sport listening patiently to us, his constituents, while we played pool at an Irish pub across from Union Station in DC. www.youtube.com/live/oArKZut...
Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)
Yeah, we know. That's why he was found liable for rape.
Something About Mary
It’s the Something About Mary look.
This man is allergic to work! Suck it up, buttercup. You can take some time off as needed, but then pull it together & get it done like the rest of us do!
ICE wants to spend 38 billion to house immigrants. It would cost 20 billion to end homelessness in the US. America first my ass
BREAKING
Former ICE agent:
On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.
Yes. Correct. He said that. And specifically, “the breeding gulags” for white girls and young women. Presumably if they submit & reproduce for their white nationalist agenda they’re good & let out. Tracks with Trumpstein file emails we’ve seen, separated in stalls and deemed good & worthy or bad.
Some is so obvious & some is some Scooby Doo shit. So many of the crazy conspiracy theories don’t seem quite so unhinged lately. Our challenge is not to fall for simplistic scapegoat answers to all these unknowns in our raw desire for justice for these heinous crimes. www.youtube.com/live/kqhPuX2...
You’re onto something with core job requirements for the presidency or Congress, like we hire for every other job in this country - requirements related to likelihood of success in the role. A required ethics exam (like we lawyers have to take) could be a good idea too.
but we can't afford universal health care and housing for all.
Wow this whole thread. Equal parts scary & validating. Grateful for the professional investigative reporters & others taking a thoughtful, measured approach to the research & writing to put this all in perspective for us.
As expected, MAGA is coming after disability benefits for combat veterans.
Here's just one example of the rule's impact: Veterans taking anti-depressants for PTSD will be forced to stop taking the medication in order to retain their disability payments.
Crypto transactions for human trafficking—both forced laborers in scam compounds and sex trafficking—grew by at least 85% in 2025. Now measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Almost all these deals are being carried out on Chinese-language Telegram channels. www.wired.com/story/crypto...
“The Republicans know that they can't win unless they cheat, and that is exactly what they’re trying to do in Fulton County.”
Trump is building a national voting database, possibly to disenfranchise Democrats.
The FBI could sieze Ballots before they're counted.
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
The FBI’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election ballots and records in Fulton County, Georgia has election experts raising red flags for 2026.
One expert warns the raid was a possible test run for future midterm interference in swing districts.
"Four hours after his arrest, he was taken to a hospital emergency room in Edina with swelling and bruising around his right eye and bleeding. A CT scan revealed at least eight skull fractures and life-threatening hemorrhages in at least five areas of his brain..."
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This visual goes well with the post from @timothysnyder open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
