Richard Benjamin

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No way Iran’s nuclear sites have been “completely and totally obliterated.” He’s lying.

I done know if he knows the truth and is deliberately trying to mislead, or doesn’t care about the truth and is just saying what he thinks sounds good.

Damaged, sure. But not completely obliterated. No way.

Big congrats to the "no new wars" crowd.
You got what you spent years willfully ignoring. Good for you.

I do not live in New York, and won't be participating in the mayoral election, but I think this coalition-building sentiment is good and wanted to highlight it:

Here’s Speaker of the House and self-identified “constitutional lawyer” Mike Johnson’s justification for allowing armed officers of the state to execute their jobs with their faces concealed like armed bandits.

Mercy

Prime time for a "Bureaucracy keeps your ass alive, actually" platform

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

if dems want messaging help, stop telling people you're "fighting back." it sounds like you're being mugged. call off the podcaster search, take your ridiculous money pile and try opening some food banks and free clinics. hurricanes are coming and the feds have no plan. looks like an opening to me.

I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding.

That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement

A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

It never fails to crack me up how these fucking clowns roll out with more gear to arrest one unarmed civilian than a Ukrainian assault trooper gets to charge a machine gun nest in hill under artillery and mortar fire

• Deregulated crypto after launching a crypto firm
• Selling meme coins for political access to top buyers
• Opening a private DC club
• Cut 19 foreign business deals
• Peddling exclusive investment tips

Definitely stretch before listening to her mental gymnastics.

Tweet from Charlie Spiering @charliespiering: "Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters)" UNderneath is a zoomed in picture of a phone with the chats open. You can see chats with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, someone whose last name ends with "cheidt," and a group chat labeled "NSC Scheduling." You can see You can see that JD Vance's chat has a text saying "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off. He is going to be here..."

Honestly this is just incredible content.

Call it something fancy like "malfeasance" or something simple like "incompetence" but either way there should be articles of impeachment to remove the HHS secretary for being a shameless liar who is working relentlessly to make people sick.

A Luckovich cartoon showing trump kneeling beofre China's Xi and it's captioned "The Art of The Kneel"

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts

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Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen.

She has been on a govt salary for years.

Something aint right

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Expect more headlines like this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

This time 10000 million. Also, normies still don’t really know what is happening. This is as much about press coverage of ALL THE THINGS as anything else. I am hoping he breaks Storm Thurmond’s record, it gets big coverage, and people start to realize he’s talking about real things they care about.

One take. Legend.

“This is what happens when you fill a government with all of the most unqualified people ever to hold their roles.”

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA J.G.G., et al., Civil Action No. 1:25-cv-00766 Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the Linited Siates, Defendants-Respondents. NOTICE INVOKING STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE The Executive Branch hereby notifies the Court that no further information will be provided in response to the Court's March 18, 2025 Minute Order based on the state secrets privilege and the concurrently filed declarations of the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security. This is a case about the President's plenary authority, derived from Article II and the mandate of the electorate, and reinforced by longstanding statute, to remove from the homeland designated terrorists participating in a state-sponsored invasion of, and predatory incursion into, the United States. The Court has all of the facts it needs to address the compliance issues before it. Further intrusions on the Executive Branch would present dangerous and wholly unwarranted separation-of-powers harms with respect to diplomatic and national security concerns that the Court lacks competence to address. Accordingly, the states secrets privilege forecloses further demands for details that have no place in this matter, and the government will address the Court's order to show cause tomorrow by demonstrating that there is no basis for the suggestion of non- compliance with any binding order.

Respectfully Submitted, PAMELA J. BONDI U.S. Attorney General TODD BLANCHE Deputy Attorney General EMIL BOVE Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General CHAD MIZELLE Acting Associate Attorney General YAAKOV M. ROTH Acting Assistant Attorney General s/ Drew C. Ensign DREW C. ENSIGN Deputy Assistant Attorney General 950 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20530 AUGUST E. FLENTJE Acting Director EREZ REUVENI Assistant Director BRIAN C. WARD Acting Assistant Director PATRICK GLEN Senior Litigation Counsel

BREAKING: Trump administration invokes “state secrets privilege” over questions from Chief Judge Boasberg into whether the government violated the classwide TRO blocking removals under Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

all the dems waiting around for the GOP to "make a mistake" before doing anything... now's a chance to show they weren't just stalling when they said that