JonS253, but spooky

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News. A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

Because they're not "letting Qatar build an air base" - they're building quarters for Qatari pilots (and their families) who'll be going to Mountain Home AFB to learn to fly the F-15s we sold them like a decade ago. That's where we train F-15 drivers; the Singaporean air force has a place there too.

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Comic Panel one. Stick finger singing, "Raindrops on rose/ And whiskers on kittens." Panel two. Same stick figure holding pot and singing, "Bright copper kettles leave/ ...Flakes on my mittens!?" Panel three. Same figure still holding pot and singing, "Hey, these are stone with a copper veneer!" Fourth panel. Same stick figure has put down pot and is singing, "I've been bamboozled by Ea-Nāşir!"

Ea-Nāşir's perfidy seems eternal!

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead.
(And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

The gentleman’s agreement that prevented people from reporting on Barron is now over

It is open season

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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Yes, that's precisely what he wants. He's unaware that fascism requires that there always be an internal threat to guard against, and that one day (probably not too far down that path) the threats will include "employees of the New York Times".

Jason and I are both with Hillary. Are we tripled?

Ahem.

This has always been part of the GOP playbook: Downplay incidents of right-wing violence, and then repurpose them as supposed acts of leftist terrorism for public consumption. They first did this in 2020.

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Madness. Absolute madness. This is entirely about the Epstein Files and you can't convince me otherwise at this point. Miller and Hegseth want Generals who will take over blue cities but it looks like that's clearly not a priority for the guy in charge. Number 1 is covering for him.

Are you fucking kidding me.

Old pulp mystery cover showing a woman staring dead-eyed at the viewer. My fake title: "I read the news for five seconds today" subtitle: Seriously WTAF

I haven't done a #FakeBookTitleFriday entry for ages so, even though it's Saturday, I thought I would get a timely entry out there!

Only person I talk shit about in private is David, leader of the Raiders in Appalachia immediately after the Great War, who got so wrapped up in his conviction that the Responders had killed his girlfriend that he wound up accidentally killing her himself while exacting revenge.

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

And also, this headline? Inadequate

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Exclusive: Chief Justice “Stonewalls Congress" on PACER Hack, Senator Says The Courts sidestep a congressional request for independent review. Post-hack procedures have significantly reduced transparency in the judicial system.

Did you know that the federal court system is hacked by the Russians? To the point that the courts are afraid to put documents into their own computer systems.

ICE budget now bigger than most of the world's militaries Donald Trump wants to inject $150 billion into his immigration crackdown over the next four years.

www.newsweek.com/immigration-...

On launch, it was a buggy mess. Most of the bugs were cleared up within a few months; it really improved when PvP became opt-in. At this point, with multiple NPC factions and expanded areas, it's damn near an entirely different game.

It helped to move it to Rapidan Camp. Too much going on at the Whitespring already, not to mention griefers nuking the event (nuking Skyline Valley just triggers Neurological Warfare).

a russ vought special

Frogs Against the Machine