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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.

I kinda like Busuu, it allows you to get speaking practice with feedback from natives without the pressure of doing it in a live conversation. Otherwise, Memrise is a good substitute, I picked up a lifetime subscription.

The Texas state board of Pharmacy can see the controlled substance prescription records of 37 other states. All that's needed for Ken Paxton to access those records is an administrative subpoena.

All three have been Democrats, meaning a 219–215 GOP majority at the beginning of the year (because Gaetz) is now 220–212.

Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X Elon Musk’s AI bot is undressing women on X.

the state of Twitter: you can reply to any image of a woman with a request to Grok to undress her to her underwear and it will comply and post the reply in thread: www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program

Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

They’re scared to have their bluff called on the sorts of positions that gratify their base but would be unlikely to stand up in court.

A well-oiled machine 🫠

Some of what is happening is that the massive strategic shift of NDP voters toward Liberals to block Tories... may have helped Conservatives in some places.

This was a seat where the NDP was running for reelection. But the NDP fell to third, and Conservatives easily picked it up:

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2.

So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

Carneynation Revolution #cdnpoli #canada

If the CBC shows me one more riding with *literally 11 votes counted* and spends 45-seconds discussing the early returns as showing a possible flip, my head is going to explode.

it couldn't be more obvious they are preparing for eruptions this summer and a subsequent crackdown

Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…

There we go.

They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident

Following up on this. They just banned a Canadian trans musician from getting a visa to tour the US.

They're straight up banning trans people from entering the US.

www.stereogum.com/2303977/bell...

US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications

THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US.

This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Imagine making this your first bill. My God.

The more Democrats play Republican Lite, the more Democratic voters will just not vote.

We need a true opposition party with the spine to run on principles, not a corporate funded party who remixes MAGA stupidity to make it sound patriotic.

Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA “This would decimate American leadership in space.”…

This really is an extinction level event for NASA's science programs.

arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

"We had two tragic deaths in the House Democratic Caucus; had those deaths not occurred last month, Republicans could not have even passed the bill today," Hakeem Jeffries says.

What he doesn't mention is both deaths were of politicians in their 70s. One had cancer but ran for re-election anyway.

If the US government requires passports for you to practice your rights such as voting then passports should be provided for free to all and within a reasonable timeframe by said government.

Freedom of speech is when the government arrests people for protesting the President's car company.

The entire reason you curb the exercise of arbitrary power is it prevents one asshole's mood swings from wrecking an entire country! You don't praise it when it momentarily swings in your favor

This chart was made in America by skilled artisans.

It also provides important context for understanding our current tariff situation.

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