Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...

"Under the annual appropriations act, lawmakers are permitted to enter 'any facility operated by or for DHS used to detain or otherwise house aliens.'

The law is clear that members of Congress are not required 'to provide prior notice of intent to enter a facility'..."

www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

The Price of Remission When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked…

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion.

It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social

CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season—most in 15 years

Measles surpasses 1000 cases—first time in 30 years

USA has the lowest life expectancy & highest infant & maternal mortality of any developed nation on Earth

This is what RFK + the for profit health scam industry has wrought us. Smh

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Under the title is a picture of Trump’s kids with their spouses and own children. They are stood solemnly outside what looks like a church. They are looking on at Melania who is seen in the foreground out of focus. The headline says: The Firm: Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

Alcatraz, Gulf of America, a third term, being Pope.

All distractions.

So well done to the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world for focusing on a story that matters.

Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.

What a surprise, Pam Bondi and Pete Hegseth have concluded that it would not violate the emoluments clause for Trump to accept a “flying palace” 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar.

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them. The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.

By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com

Whether it’s Donald Trump trying to end habeus corpus or members of The Squad being generally clumsy with their campaign messaging, both sides are to blame for the dismal state of our politics.

No matter how many times they lie about this, it doesn’t make it any more true.

So if I am getting this right:
Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired.
Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal.
Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.

Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources

ABC reports Trump to take “flying palace” from Qatar and use it as temporary Air Force 1 before converting it to a personal possession.

I am struggling to understand why, when as the Deputy Attorney General acknowledged, it is not appropriate to comment on a pending criminal investigation, it is ok to disparage Newark’s mayor, who now faces charges under a federal criminal complaint, on national TV. 1/

US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

3 Lawmakers Involved in Newark Protest Could Be Arrested, D.H.S. Says

A spokeswoman for the DHS suggested on Saturday that three Democratic members of Congress might face assault charges after a confrontation outside an immigration detention facility in Newark during the arrest of the city’s mayor.

Masked thugs kidnapping people off of the street are not heroes.

Why are ICE agents wearing masks and dark sunglasses?

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

If we ate the billionaires, we'd save a 1000x more money for our government? Do the math!

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing.

This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it.

No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...

DOGE's funding is up to $40MM, @ProPublica.org finds

And this: "If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend" www.propublica.org/article/doge...

New:

DOGE's spending has been secret.

No longer.

My colleagues have uncovered it.

www.propublica.org/article/doge...

BEIJING (AP) - Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father's panicked voice: The brakes don't work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier. Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car's brakes - and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

Musk absolutely wants to make it to illegal to criticize his shit-box products in the U.S., too - this woman in China was forced to pay TESLA after faulty brakes almost killed her family.

Stop the rabid dog.

apnews.com/article/tesl...

Being a fucking idiot has consequences. Unfortunately, they’re for everybody.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Dolly Parton Urges Indiana Republicans Not To Ax Her Book Program For Kids Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends books to thousands of kids across Indiana. A new budget proposal from Republicans could slash its funding.

I thought this was an Onion article at first

And to think just four days ago, after lecturing the Europeans on free speech, JD Vance was in my Twitter replies lecturing me about free speech too.

Oh the shamelessness!

This is who they are:

Chancellor Crystal Hines Martin of Hinds County, Mississippi has issued a prior restraint order so ludicrously unconstitutional it’s only consistent with deliberate misconduct or abject ignorance of the relevant law. Disgraceful and lawless.
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