HalfAstorian

read the actual bill text and this is quite literally a provision designed solely to impede civil and criminal investigations into United States Senators and their staff. www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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“Human employees and tangible products are risky and eliminating that uncertainty allows Starbucks to become the instrument of pure capital that is the Valhalla of all corporations,” said hedge fund manager Gerrick Spum. Before Spum could continue the interview, his job was replaced by an AI…”

It’s Been a Year Since Trump Was Elected. Democrats Still Don’t Get the Internet “I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we are still so rigid and moderating everything when we have nothing to lose for the first time,” a Democratic digital strategist tells WIRED.

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The greying of the greening season

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Citizens reclaiming their time vs Mike Johnson

Madness. No way to look at it but murderous. Just see a boat and take down.

He’s just so Swedish

I have so many Stevie Nicks days…

Stevie Nicks oof

Now that is funny 😄

There is no place in that fiction for my reality to even land.

“Public reception of the change was a lot warmer than the sudden demolition of the White House’s East Wing this week, which Amazon also helped fund.”

(Btw, this small community has voted blue in federal elections since the 1980s)

A month after my husband died I started getting phone calls to buy my house. 8 months later I still get 3-4 per day and now texts and snail mail. It’s not an 8-5 work week either- I can get a call at 10p on a Sunday.
So exhausting and stressful.

We can’t let this happen.

And any Republican who refuses to renew health care subsidies for hardworking American families, saying we can’t afford it, needs to explain how they found $1 trillion in tax cuts to give away to the wealthiest people in America.

I still can’t get over how someone so transparently clownish has been used so effectively.

The Trump administration is withholding funding to tsunami-proof this hospital Local leaders in Astoria, Oregon are building a hospital meant to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis, but the Trump administration canceled its FEMA grant, and the shutdown has stalled communication.

Feds pulled funds a couple days ago in the middle of a hospital er renovation in the small community i grew up in. Only hosp in the community
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And they made fun of me bc I didn’t want to sign up on the website prior and I left my phone at home. Ha!

A pardon "following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company." Unprecedented corruption.

NYers have blood hound senses for desperation and bullshit. Wonder if they quickly deleted on legal advise from known actor-based profiling or someone just spotted the backfire coming?

It’s the Notre Dame fire if the biggest asshole in the known universe said “wow this church looks gay as hell. Let’s burn it down and build a casino” and no one was able to stop him from doing it.

White House East Wing being demolished.

Historic preservation is confusing. In Seattle, we conferred permanent landmark status to a Walgreen’s drive-thru.

Not a constitutional crisis - more like a constitutional burning.

“not in the plane crash or sense, but in the medical sense-we’re living through the sudden, ER-style flatlining of the healthy biorhythms of our 249 yr old constitutional order. The problem is that in a single blink of the historical eye, we’ve seen our entire constitutional system simply … stop.”

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The ability to walk right into the belly of the RW media beast and say these things--to confront hostility with grace and good humor--comes across as simply miraculous in this year of bitterness and political cowardice. A revelation.

Why don’t you like motorists, you wanker?!?

Epic from start to finish