The Under Wear Bear

ACTIVE-DUTY members of the military don’t need the $7 a day in SNAP food assistance funding that has lapsed thanks to the GOP’s month-long government shutdown

About 1.2 million VETERNS are also enrolled in SNAP.

- 20,000 military families
- 213,000 National Guard & Reserve
- more than 1m veterans

Such a wild world when MTG and Ted Cruz are the MAGA voices of reason.

We are in a serious govt shutdown, but instead of negotiating, Trump posted several pics of his WH bathroom remodel today and now this. He is currently headed to Palm Beach for another golf weekend.

Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio and Kristi Noem represent “a growing list” of senior Trump-administration political appointees now living on military bases — “where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest”

Wonder why

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

It’s getting harder and harder to avoid concluding that the people who keep voting for shitty people are shitty people themselves.

It would be pretty amazing if Andrew ends up being the type of petty that relishes bringing down collaborators with him.

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

People under 45: Can I have a fork?

Mandami: Here's a fork.
Centrist Dems: Here's a spoon!
Reps: Here's a knife!

Media: Why are young people voting for Mandami?

Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries Christopher Moynihan, who had been sentenced to 21 months for the riot, allegedly said Hakeem Jeffries "must be eliminated".

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Well, would you look at this? Super Majority of SNAP recipients are White, “native born” & majority have a HS or GED education. Sounds a lot like the majority of white Trump voters. WHO KNEW???

Oh.

Canada was caught, red handed, putting up a fraudulent advertisement on Ronald Reagan’s Speech on Tariffs. The Reagan Foundation said that they, “created an ad campaign using selective audio and video of President Ronald Reagan. The ad misrepresents the Presidential Radio Address,” and “did not seek nor receive permission to use and edit the remarks. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is reviewing its legal options in this matter.” The sole purpose of this FRAUD was Canada’s hope that the United States Supreme Court will come to their “rescue” on Tariffs that they have used for years to hurt the United States. Now the United States is able to defend itself against high and overbearing Canadian Tariffs (and those from the rest of the World as well!). Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn’t! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD. Because of their serious misrepresentation of the facts, and hostile act, I am increasing the Tariff on Canada by 10% over and above what they are paying now. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

The president announces an arbitrary price hike on Americans because his feelings are hurt by an ad accurately quoting Ronald Reagan’s criticism of tariffs

FDR Memorial, Washington DC. Quote is from the Fireside Chat of April 14, 1938

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

I am looking forward to this hearing.

It will provide an excellent opportunity to remind people of all the reasons why Donald Trump should he serving a long federal prison term.

Data Hoarder Uses AI to Create Searchable Database of Epstein Files The open source project has been mirrored as a torrent file and represents one of the easiest ways to navigate a messy data dump.

A data hoarder set up a searchable archive of the Epstein docs released by the House Oversight Committee. Used OCR and a self-hosted AI to analyze and categorize them.

Actually useful bc the docs were released as disorganized jpeg files in a giant Google Drive

www.404media.co/data-hoarder...

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Experts say counters for election rigging are high voter turnout or the opposition counter rigging.

The 2020 election had the highest voter turnout in over a century. Higher participation rates correlate to higher Dem votes.

If you rigged an election and lost, you'd probably assume it was stolen.

Merkley: "What we've seen is that democracies no longer die bc men w/guns go in and take it over. Instead, it's electeds who erode the separation of power. If you have a rubber-stamp Congress & courts that deliver more power to the executive, suddenly you have an authoritarian state. It's here now."

The Rich Get Richer...the worst are just getting richer

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Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

surely just a coincidence.

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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