Heidi Schuster

A cartoon depicts a man and a woman walking side by side on a street. The woman wears a stylish dress and holds a purse, while the man is in a suit. The caption reads, "My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.”

Current mood

Don’t forget the guy in the frog costume.

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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

They provided me with a much needed laugh. Great job with the alt text btw.

Ms. Martinez’ lawyer says body cam footage shows the agent turned into HER car and yelled “do something bitch” before firing shots.

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

"At the Pentagon, some military lawyers, including international law experts within DoD’s Office of General Counsel, have raised concerns about the legality of the lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers....

Multiple current and former JAGs ... told CNN that the strikes do not appear lawful."

“It appears the federal government is engaging in prohibited viewpoint discrimination by targeting demonstrators based on the content of their speech, while favoring those with whom the federal government agrees,” he wrote.

Portland Says Feds Are the Ones Engaging in “Viewpoint Discrimination” Andrew Schwartz

Federal law enforcement officers have used excessive force against peaceful protestors and given favorable treatment to those who support Trump administration policies, Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor told Justice Department officials today.

Doesn’t match the description of any casino I’ve ever been in. Granted I haven’t been in very many.

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People choose to serve because they want a better life — for themselves, for their families, for other Americans

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

What’s more American than tacos? 🙄

The difference in response from PPB this time around is a nice surprise.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

This happened at our house the other night too. So strange.

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So she never goes on vacation? Sad.

Eyewitness Darrell Ballard told the reporters: “We’re under siege. We’re being invaded by our own military.”

Importantly this wasn’t the military, it was DHS. I fear that the respect the public has for the military will be damaged by this confusion, made worse by the rhetoric of the president.

The Garfield NHS Twitter page was one of my favorites. I left Twitter for good not long after he left for the Eisenhower Library job. He was so excited for this job.

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There. A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

“Contractually, N.B.A. players get paid roughly 50 percent of what's called “basketball-related income,” which includes most of the league's revenue.
—by my estimation the percentage of revenues paid to W.N.B.A. players fell, from 11 percent four years ago to less than 7 percent this season.”

7%?!

Oh how I know this feeling.

Please find your elections and get folks to turn out.

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

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This seems to be a recurring theme.

If someone says "why don't they just get in line," send them this.

It is also unfortunate that White House leadership has decided to use American consumers as a hostage or pawn in the trade negotiations. American consumers also voted for President Trump (not sure why that's relevant).
Why aren't we expecting news on Tuesday of substantial support for our consumers?

This seems like a structural problem.