It’s Only About The Oil!

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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What Could Have Kept Me Out of Prison We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable housing and a living wage topped the list.

Ahead of the 2020 election, we asked people in prison what might have helped keep them from committing the crime that led to their incarceration.

Among their responses were:

• affordable housing
• a stable, well-paying job
• mental health support

I know why, JD.

It’s because in 1967, Governor Ronald Reagan abolished involuntary commitment of people with mental illness — then in 1981, President Ronald Reagan repealed the Mental Health Systems Act, shuttering federal mental health centers.

People with nowhere to go have nowhere to go.

For generations, if you came on a visa and applied for asylum, you would generally not be arrested even if your visa expired during the process. That’s over now. They’re arresting everyone, even people who have done legitimately nothing wrong.

What a terrible, awful, inhumane, cruel policy.

And it looks just like my iPhone

Unless they were pale and eager to invest in worthless meme coins.

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Screenshot of three tweets from @JamesSurowiecki dated 2 April 2025. (1) "It's also important to understand that the tariff rates that foreign countries are supposedly charging us are just made-up numbers. South Korea, with which we have a trade agreement, is not charging a 50% tariff on U.S. exports. Nor is the EU charging a 39% tariff." (2) "Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we have a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia. Its exports to us are $28 billion. $17.9/$28 = 64%, which Trump claims is the tariff rate Indonesia charges us. What extraordinary nonsense this is." (3) "Even given that it's Trump, I cannot believe they said "We'll just divide the trade deficit by imports and tell people that's the tariff rate." And then they decided to set our tariffs by just cutting that totally made-up rate in half! This is so dumb and deceptive."

Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.

World Autism Awareness Day:

RFK Jr lacks the understanding that autism is hereditary.

It’s more readily diagnosed bc of the advancement of recognizing autism’s presentation.

RFK Jr’s compassion is a façade-
He exacerbates the challenges facing autistics with his ridiculous conspiracy theories.

If I was a judge and a DOJ lawyer filed a brief saying "yes, we mistakenly shipped someone with a right to be here to a foreign gulag but you have no power to order us to bring him back" I'd put that lawyer in jail until that person was brought back.

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Polish Cold War hero Walesa writes to Trump expressing 'horror' at Zelenskiy spat Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing "horror" at his argument with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

www.reuters.com/world/polish...

History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

Only an idiot would think we should eliminate emergency response in a natural disaster, education and healthcare for disabled children, gang crime investigations, clean air and water programs, monitoring of nursing home abuse, nuclear reactor regulation, and cancer research.

Can you guys not afford a qualified media team?

Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time

bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/s...

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools

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And just like that, America lost her allies.

I just read something about money already paid to New York from the federal government had been“clawed back” from the bank account it was deposited into. This adds another level of concern over everyone’s banking info being hacked.

Well, we’ve shown clearly that the US is siding with Russia.

Opinion | There Is No Going Back (Gift Article) The president’s opponents, whoever they are, cannot expect a return to the Constitution as it was.

every word of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

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If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.