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What I find especially terrifying is that the Thirteenth Amendment (which outlawed slavery) specifically does not apply to convicts. They have to be "duly convicted", but that's not a reach for this administration - and then they'd have a "legitimate" pool of slave labor.

Sounds like typical AI hallucination garbage. Do NOT rely on AI for factual information.
More, don't rely on it for judgement. It has none. It is nothing more than a sophisticated predictive text machine. It strings together words that statistically occur together, without any regard for meaning.

Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.

I don't understand this. Members of the military are required to keep national defense information secret - no NDA needed.Unless it's about unlawful orders? I wish we could see a copy of the NDA. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.

The Epstein Files aren’t the only thing Donald is covering up.

And with the government closed, no renewals will be processed.

US Constitution ArtI.S9.C8: "...no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust ... shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

Trump has orders that American Flags be flown at half-mast until Sept 14, to honor Charlie Kirk. That's five days.

I want to point out that the Flag Code (4 US Code §7) specifies 30 days for a president (or ex-), 10 days for a VP, Chief Justice, or Speaker, and 2 days for a Member of Congress.

The reasoning here is very scary.

T already implied that trans people in the military were fraudulently trying to 'fool' people about their gender.

I worry that the next step is to say that simply being trans is an attempt to defraud the US government & so you are engaging in a crime.

The National Guard of a state can only legally be called up with permission of the governor.
Can Governor Newsom, as commander of the CA National Guard, declare that the CA Guard will not impose disciplinary actions on guardsmen who refuse to deploy when called up without that authority?

Odd. I'm in the US, and they are in all the big box and appliance stores here. I frankly thought they were more a US phenomenon.

Republicans hope to pass the "Big Beautiful Bill" using "Reconciliation".
Reconciliation applies ONLY to pure budget bills. This bill contains many policy changes.
EITHER all policy points need to be removed (invoke the Byrd Rule),
OR the bill cannot be passed as a legitimate Reconciliation bill.

"Reconciliation" is intended to apply ONLY to pure budget bills. This bill has many significant policy changes.
Therefore:
EITHER all policy points need to be removed (Byrd Rule)
OR the bill cannot be passed under reconciliation, and needs the normal supermajority (60 votes) to pass.

DOGE claims it saved billions of dollars, money that had been in last year's budget. Where is it now?

That money - a budget surplus - should either:
-reduce the deficit, or
-reduce the need to cut so much this year.

Same with the tariffs.
Show us the balance sheets.

The order says "ensure that intimate spaces ... are designated by biological sex and not gender identity".

Fine. This says they have to "designate" -- literally, put a sign on -- the door. It does not say anything about restricting who uses those facilities.

Cooperative resistance, folks.

Clarification: This person had submitted a gender change with her passport application.
She did NOT already have a passport marked F, that they renewed with marker M.
She clarified this in the comments.

They are simply not accepting applications to change the gender marker.

The Constitution says that the supreme court justices "shall hold their offices during good behaviour".
To me this says the Constitution requires, at the least, an ethics standard, if not a board to determine when justices are no longer exhibiting "good behaviour".