Joshua Smith

Connections got me today

Really great analysis of just how much money Republicans pumped into the deportation-industrial complex with last year's reconciliation bill. www.kevinmcnellis.com/posts/ice-cb...

Transparency is not optional.

Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is leading Senate Budget Dems in demanding answers from Pete Hegseth on why he classified his spending plans for the Big, Ugly Betrayal Bill.

G-d bless The One, The Only, The Truly Incredible Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band www.sfchronicle.com/super-bowl-l...

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

When was your street last plowed? I mean, you could just look out the window to answer "it hasn't, duh," but this is fun too:

This is @senateapprops.bsky.social erasure

The Carrot weather app never misses

NEW: Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov is calling for transparency from Trump's Budget Chief, Russ Vought, on the $100 million slush fund Republicans gifted Vought's office when they passed the Big, Ugly Betrayal law last July.

Trump claims the affordability crisis Americans are facing is a hoax, all while he wastes money renaming agencies and renovating the White House.

Ranking Member @merkley.senate.gov's full statement here: www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

No need to use AI. We already know the American people don't want more cuts to working class programs so that Republicans can deliver bigger tax breaks to their wealthy donors.

Enough with your 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲, 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗻 agenda.

How a G.O.P. Senator Quietly Became a Best-Selling Author

👀 “If you want to stump Lindsey, just ask him to name a country he wouldn’t bomb,” Mr. Kennedy writes... “Invite him to dinner, and you don’t know if he’ll sit down for an intelligent conversation or get drunk and vomit in the fish tank. But that’s why I like him.”

I legit believe that it's an underrated problem of the electoral college, that a president can just write off residents of states that don't vote for him.

More than twice as many people voted for Trump in LA County than in West Virginia, but to him, the former are irredeemable blue state liberals.

Facing Political Pressure, Trump Seeks Answer to Rising Housing Costs

This is sociopathic.

"Nor does everyone in the administration believe that a full-court campaign on housing is necessary, with some arguing that ballooning costs are primarily a blue-state problem."

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

Legit wild that the ICE crackdown in Minneapolis, "justified" due to the high-profile fraud cases, has gone so overboard as to force the lead fraud prosecutor to quit.

This nonsense is so blatantly pretextual that they aren't even trying to hide it.

188 members of the House just put forward "'The Don' payment program" and I think I just died of second-hand embarrassment

Every time the announcers mention Patriots receiver Pop Douglas, I hear “Cobb-Douglas Production Function” and I can’t be the only one.

…can I?

Never a doubt

This explains… everything?

*Driving to the airport, 6-year-old son crying because we left the kittens at home*

Wife: We’re flying United

6: We’re not united without the kitties

Never a doubt

Almost Heaven

I have a feeling that people are going to be smashing that unsubscribe button

"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared." Incredible.

Should have mailed this suggestion back to 2009. The streetcar doesn't work because *it* doesn't have a dedicated lane.

"President Trump’s chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his 'score settling' against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration’s still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled *in part* by the president’s desire for retribution."

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What would you do without the filibuster?
 
Dems: universal health care, child care, voting rights, abortion rights, unicorns 4 all

Trump: make it marginally harder to vote