Edie Jamison

In case you wondered why Trump can't afford to pay for disaster relief: they are diverting disaster relief money to fund concentration camps

Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.

‘They cared about us’: More rural Indiana communities losing access to labor and delivery services • Indiana Capital Chronicle Hospitals are closing labor and delivery departments in rural communities, creating maternity care deserts around Indiana.

‘They cared about us’: More rural Indiana communities losing access to labor and delivery services

It gets worse. Schumer isn’t just going on a book tour—he’s charging for tickets.

Absolute insanity. While Americans are scared and in crisis mode, he’s basically saying, let them eat cake.

@schumer.senate.gov Step Down.

A Deeper Look at Claims by KGB Officer that Trump was Recruited by Soviet Intelligence in the 1980s I'm a Former CIA Russia Specialist -- Here's My Take

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36 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and unification of Germany, the spirit of homo sovieticus is alive in the former DDR... it just got transformed into Neo-fascism.

And yes, we are aware that this is a simplification of the German problems, but there is no way unsee this corelation.

State's proposed budget could cost Indiana Historical Society its building • Indiana Capital Chronicle Provisions in the state’s draft budget could leave the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) in a bind, possibly without a building.

State's proposed budget could cost Indiana Historical Society its building

Becoming more apparent lately. . .

Algernon Austin: There is a racial preference in the job market. It’s for white people. Individuals with similar skills should have similar outcomes, but this is not the reality. White people are given a preference.

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Montana Bill Would Charge Women for 'Trafficking' Their Own Fetus The legislation, House Bill 609, is the first of its kind in the country

“Montana Republicans have introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that would criminalize women for getting certain out-of-state abortions, accusing them of ‘trafficking’ their own fetuses.

“…Republicans have broken a legislative seal—signaling that they’re coming for women’s right to travel.”

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If I were a Democrat, and I saw Trump do a purge of high-level generals who were women and people of color and wouldn't be "yes men," I wouldn't vote to advance JD Vance's college friend for Secretary of the Army.

And yet....16 Democrats just did so

New MSNBC Bloodbath of Non-White Anchors After Joy Reid Forced Out Jonathan Capehart, Katie Phang, and Ayman Mohyeldin have all lost their shows.

Plus Joy and Lester Holt? Looks like the slide deck of a Power Point presentation at an employment discrimination webinar. Not a good look @msnbc.com
Not a good look at all.
A betrayal of your loyal audience & a disaster for your network.
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BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

When violence instigating extremist have been given a victory lap by the POTUS, let’s not be confused about the rise in hate groups and hate crimes.

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court

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This is a coup. Unelected, unvetted civilians are “shutting down” government agencies. That’s a fucking coup. Act like it.

These DOGE guys' phone numbers & addresses are easy to find, in case anyone wants to file a FOIA request for all their communications (including those on any personal devices used to conduct government business), or serve them with evidence preservation demand letters in anticipation of litigation

According to the same sources, other people at the top of the new OPM food chain include two people with apparent software engineering backgrounds, whom WIRED is not naming because of their ages. One, a senior adviser to the director, is a 21-year-old whose online résumé touts his work for Palantir, the government contractor and analytics firm cofounded by billionaire Peter Thiel, who is its chair. (The former CEO of PayPal and a longtime Musk associate, Thiel is a Trump supporter who helped bankroll the 2022 Senate campaign of his protégé, Vice President JD Vance.) The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.

So apparently, two people making important decisions at the Office of Personnel Management are a 21 year-old and another that just graduated high school last fkn year.
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The Republicans who have said there should be strings attached to disaster aid while LA burns include:

Speaker Mike Johnson
Sen John Barrasso
Sen Tommy Tuberville
Rep Warren Davidson
Rep Ronny Jackson
Rep Zach Nunn

DJT et al. should either put up or shut up (or do both). They won't but they should.

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I Have Resigned from The Washington Post, effective today Why I left to help launch a vibrant, new, independent media outlet

@jenrubin.bsky.social says it all. Check out just the first wave of founding contributors— and multiply by like 5 for the large balance of household names of top journalists, scholars, and political figures who already have signed on. They can’t miss.

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[my body shaking as I type this, fighting my brain over each letter]

HUAC tuah, politicize that thang

State for Sale A conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds.

This plan is near completion. From 2011:

This thread is must-reading.

Donnie Dissatisfied And the big bully half mast flag.

Has there ever been anyone in our collective memory who has complained MORE about what HE didn’t get than him? We’re talking about someone who could literally shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and get away with it.

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WOW! THIS PAID OFF…

Elon Musk spent $277 million to get Trump elected, but he’s $276 billion richer since the election—he now has the power to kill a bill with a tweet and come January he could crush competition and avoid accountability as a result of his investment.

I can’t love this more. Thanks for a thread to make me smile in the midst of our dismal future prospects.

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