SH😮CK-tor Benway

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

Hmmmmmmmm

wizard frog is insane

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.

I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize

Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

So much Democrat and pundit handwringing about the shutdown as if they're in charge of the government.

They're not. The only possibilities are Trump makes things worse with Democratic approval or Trump makes things worse despite Democratic resistance. Don't bail him out.

My latest (on @msnbc.com):

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Trump could have entered office, engaged in some corruption, let the GOP cut taxes for him, and played golf for four years, and left in 2029 a rich man.

But instead he put Stephen Miller in charge. And Stephen Miller doesn't want to be rich. Stephen Miller wants to do fascism.

This thread of expected premium inflation is startling. Millions of people potentially are about to experience premium inflation in the 100s of %

Pritzker needs to take some sort of demonstrative action against this. But nothing he does will stop this.

Still, liberal voters and elected leaders are confronted by the fact that the police are not democratically accountable. They have no interest in protecting you or your rights from the feds.

When they ask me if I support a “two-state solution”:

I solve this by having strong opinions about music only like a hundred people care about

What isn’t clear?

Also Dutch People: God has already decided who is saved and who is fucked and there’s no way ABSOLUTELY no way to know which is which.

Dike: *leaks*

tired: they're keeping the government shut down to keep from releasing the epstein files

wired: they're keeping the government shut down because the president is dead

I’m just glad they haven’t done anything insane to evidence lately

I get people think it’s pompous to call it a “discernment crisis”, so maybe someone can rewrite it, but: we have tens, hundreds of millions of Americans who lack basic self-protecting skills of evaluation and information literacy. People who expect to be protected by others, little self-awareness.

Probably a lesson here somewhere

Why does Diddy kinda look like Arafat

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I think we should do Trump-is-dead speculation every time we get a clean chance, it’s clearly great for team morale.

If you’re not into it, I dunno, post cat pics or something and enjoy the downstream benefits of other people being in a good mood

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far.

Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

This GOP move does several things:
+ No votes in the House until at least October 14
+ No swearing-in for Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ
+ No 218th signature from Grijalva on the Epstein Files discharge petition
+ Continues the House 'jam' of the Senate on the CR

Gov. Pritzker has said all the right things, but now he needs to act and get these state troopers out of there.

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Yup

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.