La vache est fachée

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

I bet it's one of those "we don't care what your diversity background is as long as you fit into our white conservative tech bro culture" things, give or take whatever they dig up on you in their own systems.

when the stereotypical sv vc pitches end with “and change the world” they don’t specify “for the better”

Opinion | MAGA Elites Who Live on Their Phones Are Ruining the Outdoors

In the past year or so, this new conservative vanguard has rolled out the most boldly anti-environment agenda in modern American history. Recently this has included taking steps to allow a foreign company to mine for copper just upstream of Minnesota’s beloved Boundary Waters wilderness.

I work in veterinary medicine. We had this absolute lunatic recording doctor’s recommendations with ChatGPT and denying care for his dying dog based off of ChatGPT saying the doctor’s recommendations were unnecessary. So now it’s killing pets too.

like even if Trump wanted to just walk away and leave the region to burn it seems like he’s created a scenario where the two options are a cohesive enemy state that can strangle the global economy or a collapsed collection of militants that can strangle the world economy, WHICH IS ACTUALLY WORSE

“Congratulating ourselves for being tough enough to knock something down, and shortly thereafter finding ourselves totally incompetent to build its replacement” is the theme of Trump’s second administration, whether it’s the White House, federal government, Middle East, or global economy

At first, the election of President Bush in 2000 suggested a new direction. During the campaign, Bush had said, “If we are an arrogant nation, they’ll view us that way. But if were a humble nation, they’ll respect us.” He had also advocated reducing America’s many foreign commitments and warned against “nation building.” But early into the new adminis¬ tration, the terminology for China was changed from “partner” to “strategic competitor,” and the need for scrapping the ABM Treaty and building a National Missile Defense was reemphasized in urgent terms.

early Bush vs actual Bush foreign policy is fascinating:

"The KIDS Act is being used as a smokescreen for everything Big Tech lobbyist want, which is a national surveillance program where they can harvest the personal and private data of every American, with zero actual protections."

I seem to recall a study from several years back that showed a Bill with popular support had a 30% chance of passing but a Bill the public at large hates had a 80% chance of passing and not a day goes by that I don't think about that.

Landsman, Cuellar, Vargas

we are coming for you.

Good point. And the people around him certainly deserve to listen to a fiddle be traumatized... ;)

[nodding head in black person in february]

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Even if he did know how, I don't think it would be advised to play the fiddle with that injured hand.

correct

there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.

deathgenerator.com

The only way we ever get past these Horrors is to meaningfully confront the Nazification of the GOP and the federal government at large.

And Platner literally cannot credibly do that.

lol

*HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO SUBPOENA BONDI IN EPSTEIN FILES PROBE

I know you all were wondering, so I did the math: Noem lasted 40 Scaramuccis.

If anyone may be curious about how or whether Donald Trump has authority to appoint Markwayne Mullin as acting DHS secretary effective Mar. 31, 2026, well good news I suppose, because we recently had another president Donald Trump who did this in 2020 and there was a bunch of litigation about it
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Reminds me of the ancient Garfield & Friends bit that Wyoming means "no state here."

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

Kristi Noem led a lawless and violent agency that wreaked havoc on our state and killed two Minnesotans. Her firing is welcome news, but it is much too late.

rendering myself immune to a whole class of security breach by simply not using this shit

Police told Kelly Wilkinson to ‘cool off’ and give estranged husband ‘a break’ days before he burned her to death, inquest hears Wilkinson was turned away by police while seeking help four days before she was murdered, Queensland coroner’s court told

A woman was accused of 'cop-shopping' by police because she'd been to 2 different police stations to report her ex-husband for stalking and threatening her. They told Kelly she needed to ‘cool off’ and to 'give him a break’. He stabbed her and burned her to death
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pritzker already out with the Noem diss track and it's a banger.

the reporter laughing is the icing on top