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While Stephen Miller publishes the faces of the judges that struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, his own goons in ICE refuse to show theirs out of fear of being publicly identified. If our judges are brave enough to face MAGA threats with their faces showing, ICE should not hide behind masks.

One of the primary guys leading DOGE is not a U.S. citizen

Federal job applicants will soon be quizzed on their favorite Trump administration policy as part of the hiring process, according to the Office of Personnel Management’s new “merit hiring plan.” buff.ly/XAs9UPN

All those old guard conservatives who incrementally moved closer and closer to MAGA are now members of a party that worships a draft dodger, hates NATO, loves Putin, started a trade war, passed record deficits, pardons criminals who beat cops, and hates the Federalist Society.

The reality that masked men without proper identification are confronting and arresting and taking away people should be intolerable to anyone who calls themselves American.

Oh, look, I wrote this two months ago.

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

Elon Isn’t Tony Stark. He’s Michael Scott. www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

An astonishingly hypocritical opinion. Giving Trump the right to install agency heads who will have the incentive and power to destroy the agencies is not “insulation”. - Supreme Court insulates Fed board while backing Trump firing of agency leaders - CNBC

Actual news story or SNL spoof? You decide. Trump appoints Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top prosecutor in D.C. - ABC News

If a democratic president would have targeted law firms like Trump did, the GOP would have sacked the Capitol. Again

So we keep hearing “guns are not the problem, the problem is mental health” so that will be addressed by cutting help for mental health problems. Good policy decision “Education Department to cut $1 billion in school mental health funding over DEI” - The Hill

Funny how the paperwork only matters when it’s a woman or minority voter.

In a way, it is kinda poetic that the country's inability to accept a black woman directly led to its downfall as a global power

Seriously

Episode 287 in the ongoing series “I don’t know the face eating leopard would eat MY face.”

This is certainly consistent with a strong campaign against waste, fraud, and abuse. “Justice Dept. says it will pull back on litigating cryptocurrency fraud”

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

A reminder of what Trump inherited from Biden.

It is very difficult to hold onto the belief that big business is data driven when big business continues to vote as though the economy is better under Republican presidents than under Democratic ones

“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.” - Trump, 8/14/24

Then I’m sure they won’t be asking for government subsidies to compensate for the impacts tariffs have on them.

The very definition of “too much wealth” - losing $15.9B in one day and still having 10-20 times that amount.

TRUMP DITCHES FALLEN SOLDIERS' DIGNIFIED TRANSFER FOR GOLF DINNER Trump won't attend the dignified transfer of 4 U.S. soldiers at Dover AFB who died in Lithuania. He'll be at his Saudi-backed LIV Golf dinner in Florida instead. The soldiers were honored by Lithuania's president.

Good for ADL. Normalizing masked men in unmarked cars grabbing people off the street and disappearing them is never a good thing for the Jews. And especially bad for Jews if being justified as being done on our behalf.

Trump’s team posted a fake image of Trump with Brad Schimel replacing Mike Pence from a 2016 photo from Day 3 of the RNC.

In a world of Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman, be a Cory Booker.

“Jewish females, with the double woke whammy of being both women and a religious minority, have been written out of the Academy’s history.” www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

This is not an exaggeration: illegally gutting this program will cause Americans to freeze to death in their homes.

I believe the line is: “Lock them up! Lock them up! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say By John Hudson www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

This is the gold standard for predicting GDP growth. After record growth under four years of Biden, Trump has the country headed the wrong way in just a couple months.

In the deportation case ACLU asserts what I had believed to be the case: USG has never invoked state secrets to prevent a judge from knowing what he needs to know to enforce his own orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We all know that if Obama had invited a Black rapper covered in bling to stand next to him as he signed an executive order in the Oval Office, rightwing media would have lost their minds. That’s what white supremacy is all about. One spoken rule for me, another spoken one for you.

This is (a) wildly wrong on the facts and (b) dangerously wrong on the conclusion, in that this zealot is running for a spot on the Wisconsin state Supreme Court.

In one low-income Phoenix ZIP code, ProPublica estimates that only one voucher was used per 100 kids. That’s compared to a wealthy ZIP code where an estimated 28 vouchers were used per 100 kids. (Published Oct. 2024)

I’m Jewish. My wife is an ex-Soviet Jewish refugee who was born in Ukraine and moved here as a child. Those who ally with Charlottesville neo-nazis, proud boys, Christian nationalists and all the other white supremacists don’t get to hide behind my people to justify dismantling our society.

This is why it’s important to record, broadcast and share these abductions whenever possible. As in BLM, the disconnect between what “most Americans” think is happening and what is actually being done in their name is severe. But when it finally breaks through, the effects will be significant.

Trump admin lawyers offer opaque claims about efforts to preserve Signalgate messages found on phones of Hegseth, Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Rubio. The euphemisms are particularly 🤌🏻 “residual administrative content.”

This—what Trump is doing now in trying to destroy American universities, research, and free speech while blaming it on pretend offense to the Jews is certainly the most profoundly antisemitic act I’ve seen from US government in my lifetime.

Sorry, liberals, the United States is not an oligarchic democracy, it’s an oligarchic republic.

The inspector general. Come ON.

the constitution isn’t is a word game and the fact that you can abuse the language to produce an outcome does not mean the constitution allows that outcome. the 22nd amendment was ratified to restrict a president to two terms in office, period. that is what it does.