Lemme get this straight…
Republicans have control of Congress.
Democrats introduce a clean bill to fully fund TSA.
Republicans block it.
Then they blame Democrats for long wait times at airports?
This is on them.
As long as you don’t need gas, groceries, affordable healthcare, retirement savings or constitutional rights, things aren’t so bad.
Some of the frivolous September purchases made under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s stewardship include a $98,329 Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, $5.3 million for Apple devices such as the new iPad, and an astronomical amount of …
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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.
A trove of nearly 3,200 disclosure records, which ProPublica made public this week, reveals a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate.
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more.
They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.
Every time some right wing fucker talks about migrants who commit crimes, I go ask them why they're not commenting on the crimes that Jan6ers have gone onto commit (two have been arrested this week). This guy features prominently.
It’s a bunker.
I’m not sure why there is any reporting done on what Leavitt says. She lies and gaslights. Report on that.
And to make things crazier, once that happens, consumers are going to figure out they're being taxed to pay for the tax they were illegally taxed.
🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”
NANCY MACE: What is a woman? Have you learned that lesson?
WALZ: I'm the governor of Minnesota. I'm not here to be a prop for your obsession.
A white Ford Transit van that is labeled "Midwest Plumbing". This is not a real company.
We saw an uptick in ICE activity today.
ICE continues to be spotted around the metro area - dining, driving, and hiding in between events.
Current vehicles on the short list include Black Chevrolet Tahoes, White or Silver Jeep Wagoneers, and White Ford Transit vans with fake branding.
There’s been some weird instances with apparent bounty hunters working with ICE, of which this seems to be one. You can tell because, well, they’re actual pros and not out-of-shape bozos cashing a check. We chased some a week ago and these guys can drive
What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
Can’t say I haven’t wondered about this possibility as well given the particular psychologies of Trump and Netanyahu, but betting on it is dark shit indeed.
Let’s talk Iranian war.
You’ve probably seen a lot of hand-wringing over missile interceptor quantities. Are we running out? Can we fight for years?
As usual, the answer is somewhere in the middle.
Bottom line up front: interceptors are a finite resource. That’s a fact.
This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else:
“What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”
video taken in downtown minneapolis today of reported bounty hunters PULLING A GUN on someone standing in the road in front of city hall. (business on the van is fake.) hennepin county sheriff’s deputies were right behind and did nothing
video by government employee who saw it on their lunch break
These motherfuckers deliberately target schools for violence HERE. I sure as shit believe they targeted schools elsewhere too.
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
I do think a things that all of these insulated powerful people don’t quite understand yet is when they go hat in hand to the legislature begging for money, a lot of angry people who have upended their lives to help their neighbors are going to see how little they did and be very vocally angry.
NEW: Since Jan 2023, ICE + CBP together have spent at least $515 million on products from Palantir, Microsoft, Amazon, & Google.
But where is the money actually going, & what specifically is it powering? Here, I break down everything we know about both of these things:
www.wired.com/story/how-bi...
Kristi Noem said Alex Pretti “committed an act of domestic terrorism. That’s the facts.” Defend it or retract it, but don’t deny it.
Sounds like Kash Patel is a co-conspirator covering up a murder.
Where are the children you abducted, Kristi?
Why haven't they been returned to their parents?
Are they being abused in your gulags? www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
