Booker (drained, teary eyed): and with that I yield the floor

(15 minute long raucous standing ovation)

Next order of business the confirmation of Kevin Sorbo to head the department of Housing. And it’s unanimous (gavel bang)

Yup. If the President can unilaterally stop Congressional appropriations, then we're past any 'guardrails.' Congress is now an advisory body; it does not control the power of the purse.

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For those wondering: Yes, I'm uploading the entire 15 GB public-facing CDC.gov website that I downloaded a few days ago...but it's gonna take awhile to upload...

Links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 15 of 15) Note: All 15 pages can be found here. As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Administration is purging data from federal websites, it's good to know that the Internet Archive has been archiving much...

UPDATE: The 15th & final batch of CDC.gov links is now available, covering everything from Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers through Zika cases in the U.S.:

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Wasn’t the outrage over Hillary Clinton’s private email server at home the possibility that it *might* contain sensitive information?

But now South African Michael Scott can just install a commercial server at OPM to scoop it all up?

This is absolutely disgusting.

A man who called independent women “medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome” and said, “Every effort must be made not to recruit women into engineering…ditto for med school and the law and every trade” is now on the Board of Trustees of the University of West Florida.

Meet Scott Yenor.

I guess all social media is just here for the grift at this point. Whatever boosts interaction. The liberal grift took over here fast and is apparently trying to maintain their monopoly

There's no real MAGA civil war. Elon successfully bought Trump, because he's always for sale and idolizes oligarchs. And he'll work to sell it to his base. And they'll buy it

Bizarre that it’s made to “self-evaluate,” calling its own assumption absurd, as a way to “resolve” the issue at hand. We can say that there’s nothing going on here beyond a program parroting a human, but it’s quite manipulative!

Lol, $95M for 10 years and something like half a billion devices sold in the US? Buying a $1000 phone and the guy flips you a quarter and says "that's the discount for all the spying we're gonna do"

let's play a game

find me an article on today's net neutrality ruling that mentions corruption exists

or that harmful telecom monopolies exist

or that mindlessly taking a hatchet to popular consumer protections isn't populist

or that the telecom lobby spends $320k A DAY lobbying government

I strongly recommend never reading U.S. press coverage on a subject you know a lot about

I'm sure some of this coverage would be better if the U.S. news industry hadn't fired everybody over the age of 35 because they were too cheap to pay health insurance

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Great resource for those of us unfortunate enough to care about this agency!
#NLRB #UnionYes
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Waymo is peak American innovation. With way less money they could have built a reliable public transport network, but instead someone was like "what if we could find a way for empty vehicles to contribute to traffic too? There's no reason we can't have more cars on the road than there are drivers"

Trump allies warn California leaders they could go to prison over sanctuary city laws The America First Legal Foundation sent letters to Los Angeles and San Diego leaders warning of 'consequences' over sanctuary policies for undocumented residents.

Miller sent a 12/23 letter threatening 249 officials would be jailed for opposing Trump’s deportation plans. His letter doesn’t cite any legal authorities. CA’s sanctuary law was upheld by courts and SCOTUS refused to hear Trump’s appeal #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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This is a bizarre, but genuine preoccupation of academy adjacent folks who are annoyed with partisans who are academics/public intellectuals. It’s not a substantive complaint about the Dem party who almost entirely ignores us. And who ran Harris & Walz who never even approached this vocab & tone.

Pretty sure it's about frequency. There's no reason there's not a bus running down every reasonably major street every 10 minutes

Why can't Minneapolis figure out public transit? It's like booking a flight here. Seriously. Other cities made this shit intuitive decades ago

Republicans Have Crashed a National Economy Before To Enable Power Grabs and Privatizations Lessons from Chile during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet

Republicans Have Crashed a National Economy Before To Enable Power Grabs and Privatizations
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we already have a hotline that only responds for rich people, it’s called 911.

Feeling the same. Found a lot of the lefties I followed on Twitter, but they seem much less active here. Also regretting biting on some lib heavy starter packs because there were a handful of people I know and like on them. Should've just built organically

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

Newsflash! Only an alcoholic in denial “promises to stop drinking if they get the job”. 37 years sober here

Frey to workers: “A big part of that is making sure we have a Labor Standards Board.”

Frey to his wealthy donors: “I was proud to veto the Labor Standards Board."

We might not be able to trust this guy.

Tell your Council Member to override the veto: buff.ly/3Z0wldx

"I'm confused." That's obvious. Far too confused to have a reasonable conversation with. I don't like trust fund nepo babies who use their money and political connections to grift and avoid accountability. Pretty simple.

He wasn't gonna get the maximum sentence. We'll never know what he would've got cuz daddy pardoned him before his sentencing. But he was going to prison, like anyone else found guilty of felony tax fraud. Moreover, your fabricating the sequence of events. He pled guilty and was awaiting sentencing

Please stop. He very knowingly lied. And pleading guilty then getting a pardon from daddy is kinda being above the law. He was looking at up to 17 years. You people like like MAGAs

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