M_Dudrey

Despicable.

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The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

I've just canceled paramount. That was my financial decision.

Just canceled Paramount. I'm old enough to remember Walter Cronkite doing the CBS evening news. He's probably spinning in his grave at this point.

Ken Casey: ‘I’m Not Going to Shut Up’ A conversation with the Dropkick Murphys front man about punk, politics, and Donald Trump

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Scoop: Elon Musk and DOGE staff would face drug testing under House Democrat's bill Special government employees would be barred from federal service for a year if they test positive for certain illegal drugs.

SCOOP: A House Democrat is introducing long-shot legislation that would force billionaire Trump lieutenant Elon Musk and his staffers at DOGE to undergo routine drug testing

— Anyone who tests positive for certain illegal drugs would be barred from federal service for at least a year

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Thank you!!

This is a "gift" article and should not be paywalled.

Is Trump preparing to invoke the Insurrection Act? Signs are pointing that way A joint Department of Defense and Homeland Security report will soon recommend whether or not to invoke the Insurrection Act over illegal migration.

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Beautiful!

At 10 years, GSA’s tech consulting team (18F) celebrates over 450 projects to make government work better Supporting Successful U.S. Government Modernization Projects WASHINGTON — Today, 18F, a digital consulting office within GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS), celebrated its 10th anniversary

Some former @Tesla employee working for the #DogeDaycare teen team just informed the actual government efficiency staff (the one that has implemented ~450 projects of database and software improvements at GSA in the last 10 years), that they are all fired!
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Picture of Ryan Gosling in glasses making sexy eyes with caption “ Hey girl, what did you do last week?”

Elon just sent us all an email demanding a 5-bullet progress report by EOD Monday. FEDS please hold for Altgov guidance. Meanwhile, help us draft our report:

1. Held convos without pronouns
2. Practiced Roman salute
3. Checked genitals in bathroom
4. Burned all books
5. Threw out all spoons

Lincoln put it best:

“Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid…When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

Follow the Money The financial markets are the only thing that can stop Trump’s reign of chaos.

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Cruelty and Loyalty On zone-flooding fatigue and the tenets of autocracy

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Jack Schlossberg (@jackuno) on Threads Please watch this powerful video and read this statement on RFKJr from my mother

Breaking - Caroline Kennedy speaks out on RFK jr. calls him a “predator”

www.threads.net/@jackuno/pos...

January 26, 2025 On January 27, 1838, Abraham Lincoln rose before the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois, to make a speech.

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YouTube video by Mario Adrion As a German, Here's What I Think About Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute

youtu.be/H6ecK70OnMk?...

Most straightforward pushback would be joint statement by e.g. McConnell, Grassley, Ernst, Collins and Murkowski, saying they won’t vote to confirm any nominees until satisfied there will be oversight in the agencies.

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business.

Costco
Meijer
Kroger
Giant Grocery
Ben & Jerry’s
Ulta, Macy’s
Old Navy
Nordstrom’s
TJ Maxx
GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…)
Dollar Tree
Walgreens
Wegmans

In light of the IG firings, shouldn't Democrats

1. Use every procedural device to tie up the Senate (I'm no expert on this, but demand roll call votes at every routine step of business, etc.).

2. Shame (to the extent possible!?) pro-IG, pro-oversight, institutionalist Republicans to join them.

The Pathetic Billionaires’ Club How fuck-you money can become fuck-me money

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Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

Terrible.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Leaving us undefended is a strategy that benefits America's enemies