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I have a sneaking suspicion that Majority Leader Thune does not like Speaker Johnson very much.

He cites this bill www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
Which also shares two statutes. Not just the one he cited.

He left out a statute
He only mentions one. www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

He has zero idea how things work. Regular people can't haggle with insurance companies, businesses, group plans, can.

This is why they didn’t want him back: He is a witness.

Are people not allowed to go to their homes? Was she just supposed to sleep on the streets?

He shot her without even asking her to see her ID to prove she lived there. Just shoot first, and threaten to shoot again later if she doesn't move along.

Why Did Donald Trump Free Someone He Purports To Be a Dangerous Terrorist? - emptywheel Do not let Trump's fascist spectacle distract you from laying out all the political problems with the latest story Trump is telling about Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Why Did Donald Trump Free Someone He Purports To Be a Dangerous Terrorist? www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/15/w...

I have my answer

I’m sorry but I’m still thinking about the Secretary of Defense texting “We are currently clean on OPSEC” to a group chat that, unbeknownst to him, included the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine.

I don’t know what more he needs to acknowledged the truth. Which is. America is not okay.

That is just awful. Thank you for sharing it. I had not read her story.

Agreed.

Yep. It the most wild thing about it. It’s likely to get worse. Sigh.

Having to pay back wages to workers you unlawfully fired—while creating chaos in agencies that now need fixing—is literally the exact opposite of efficiency.

Right?
I wouldn't come here, if I wasn't already here.

That's good to know.
I agree with Canadian citizens warning against traveling here, to the US.
I still find it wild that we are here.

"It's so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government," sneered the woman to the people who elected her to be their voice in the federal government.

Trump attempted in his first term to withhold funding from Ukraine.
He had the right to pause it--which he did.
He did not have the authority to withhold it permanently.
Eventually, that money allocated by Congress went to Ukraine.

You seem nice.

Let it sink in, Canada's government is telling folks in Canada, not to travel here, because we are now considered unsafe for Canadians.
That's fucking wild.

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

They could have paused for review, but since Congress allocated the money to Israel, Biden nor Harris, could have stopped the money.
Congress has to stop it.
Now, we have a president saying that he will remove Palestinian's to other countries and posting vid of himself living it up in Trump Gaza.

Final point: The "short-term pain" would not be evenly distributed. Tariffs hit low- and moderate-income households hardest. So do cuts to Medicaid and other programs. So do recessions. And while a recession may be temporary, the impacts can be long-lasting.

“The lack of specific information about each individual actually highlights the risk they pose.”

Something the Department of Justice actually wrote in a brief. In 2025.

My word.

I'm not 100 percent certain she knows she's lying.
Trump believes foreign countries pay the tariffs and that tariffs bring massive revenues into our country paid for by those foreign countries.
It's plausible that she believes trump and hasn't googled "what is a tariff" herself.

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X engineers clocking in this morning

Reached out to a very distant acquaintance at Perkins just to say "wow, this is really outrageous and fucked up, sorry you're going through it" and she was sincerely appreciative of other lawyers reaching out.

Just sharing for those of you who may be wondering "should I say something to them"?

OK, charts thread! Starting with the top line: Job growth has been a bit slower to start the year, but remains solid. Note, though, that these figures pre-date most of the cuts in federal government jobs. #NumbersDay #EconSky