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Don't forget the rest of the backwards lineup: "Dr." Cassidy, Scalise, Higgins, Landry, Letlow, and Edwards the Lesser!

Louisiana, home of "Cancer Alley" for over 40 years, finally decides to do something about . . . chemtrails. Yeah, that tracks.

The gov't has openly admitted to *losing* people (including kids) who have been detained (not just this administration) -- losing them! If the gov't can't even keep track of who they're rounding up, how is anyone supposed to know their loved one is "just" in a private prison and not someone's trunk?

black&white cat looks done with the week already.

Badger, it's not even Monday! #catsofbluesky #tuxedocats #cats

She's big mad that Sesame Street taught many of us how to count, and so we know that she tied for 5th, which is really not that exciting. She's also mad that Sesame Street taught us to share, so she looks extra petty for caring this much about who got to hold a 5th-place trophy.

Because they can't force people to go to church (yet), but all kids have to go to school -- or be homeschooled, and you know they can't wait to make teachers teach only the content they want so they don't have to take care of their damn wiener kids during the day anymore.

Yup. And any woman might want to think twice about a long-term relationship with someone who embraces the party of forced birth, restricted voting access for women, and ending no-fault divorce, among other potential marital "spats."

America was infamously built on "importing" foreign "servants"; MAGA miss that system still. Sadly, it'll never dawn on Lower MAGA that this domestic "class of servants" will include them when they run out of POC. Wealthy MAGA are contemptuous of poor whites too; heck, Vance made his name off it!

True, I was just pondering how a large portion of this mess can be laid at the feet of MSM for indulging Tru-- Wait, they're decrying the media's indulgence of legal proceedings AGAINST Trump? How'm I supposed to take your book seriously, JT, when you make wild claims like that with a sober mien?

I suspect he's an energy vampire.

Whoa, Shreveport burn out of nowhere!

(Louisianan here. He's a creep. Sorry about all this.)

It's just, Sean, we didn't have ANY Newarks until you and your boss and that weirdo billionaire took over. . . .

Well, Trump is the one who made it about dolls!

I'm curious if they ever tried socializing with someone outside of College of Law. Maybe they just had snobby friends?

God I hope somehow someday that woman realizes the man is more American than she'll ever be. What a loathsome toad of a person. May she end up relying on the social services she votes for, and may any children unfortunate enough to be hers get far, far away as soon as they can escape her clutches.

If they're really that worried about a "masculinity crisis," they should try not being such scaredy cats about everything. Grannies ride the subway every day and somehow survive, while these MAGA guys need a fainting couch at the very idea of public transportation. And they say we need safe spaces!

Hell, we essentially solved child poverty in America. Solved it. Full stop. And then we decided to just not do that anymore, so it's making a comeback (much like measles). I'd say it's baffling, but I've finally learned that Republicans just really love dead kids. They can't get enough of them!

What scares me most are the comments saying they can do this surgery in Mexico & she should be Mexico's problem. Bad enough for the loons in power to want this, but power does corrupt. What warped these everyday Americans such that they callously dismiss a sick child as someone else's problem?

Honestly, that's exactly how I read what the police chief said -we won't ask your immigration status, so don't tell us. If we don't know, we can't report you to ICE. It's stupid in that it shouldn't be necessary, but I do think he's trying to tell his community how to call for help w/o risking ICE.

It sounds like the police chief is trying to tell community members just not to tell the cops their immigration status, and it won't come up. Sad that it needs to be said, and worse that a child is dead, but I hope I'm reading the chief's tone correctly that he doesn't want this shit either.

Weird, I lived in Knoxville for 15 years but must have missed the roving Latino gangs terrorizing the good people of East Tennessee.

"Why are our numbers sinking?" demands the least likable employee of the least likable man on the planet.

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Here's Pesto, because I felt bad that all the rest were on my runty little profile here except for him.

And that's the lot of 'em!

The first headline I saw was to the effect of, "But this time it didn't explode until reentry, so it's a real victory for SpaceX." It's like my six-year-old nephew saying that this time he only shaved off one eyebrow and me reporting it as "Area toddler heroically saves eyebrow."

Harvard: "Fewer. It's 'fewer' LGBTQ graduate majors, Ms. Leavitt. We're offering free classes and suggest you take one."

(Nothing wrong with being a plumber, of course. God bless plumbers, & HVAC repair people, & electricians, etc. They make more $$ than I ever will & deservedly so. It's just their transparent bullshit and condescension that rankles, as usual. Like when they talk about freedom, Jesus, or the troops.)

Their kids will go to (a safely neutered) Harvard; our kids will go to trade school. Meanwhile, they'll continue to pass laws that ravage workers and stifle unions and still tout themselves as the blue-collar party. Weirdly, the media and roughly half of the country will continue to believe them.

Oh they are. It took a sex pest to drive AL to elect a Dem senator, & that didn't last. It took a wildly corrupt candidate to drive LA to elect a Dem gov, & when his terms were up, in came Jeff Landry, who started doing Trump's business before Trump even took office again. We're not great at this.

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BOOP

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