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But a Jesuit wouldn't eat in a restaurant too often since they take a vow of poverty.

“How can Portland POSSIBLY stand against the might of the federal government?!”

“Let me introduce you to our frog.”

The US wine industry today employs more people than coal did at its peak a century ago

The level of anger and violent rhetoric spewing forth from Trump, Vance & particularly Stephen Miller is profoundly irresponsible. There’s a reason societies depend on responsible public servants to model decent and ethical behavior—so that they don’t devolve and fracture into violence & hate.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

More from Newsom’s press office.

I known that the standards are pretty low at Fox News, but Will Cain seems to be especially bad at this. Just stepping on one rake after another.

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Pam Bondi orders grand jury probe of Obama administration review of 2016 election Past probes, including two conducted by Republicans, found no such crimes. Democrats have accused Bondi of trying to distract attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Bondi’s order to open grand jury investigation of Obama is absurd. Besides statute of limitations and presidential immunity problems, it will be a stretch to show a then-confidential investigation interfered with the 2016 election. THIS is lawfare.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I’m sorry — *Cracker Barrel* is too woke for the Trump administration?

Cracker Barrel?!?

Trump's megabill includes $45 billion for the construction of immigrant detention facilities.

To put that in perspective, the Los Angeles Clippers' Intuit Dome, one of the most expensive sports arenas in the world cost $2 billion.

Trump has enough to build 22 Intuit Domes.

The word is performing more or less the same function as “communist.” It is a means of going after enemies of the state, whoever they might happen to be. And here it gives an actually antisemitic administration cover for its own antisemitism.

I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system.

Texas has the best democracy that money can buy

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it.

They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory.

Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human.

Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

Won’t be long before we learn of an ICE detention center setting up in a former regional hospital

Sorry, no beds for cancer patients, we’ve got to lock up this father of three who works as a roofer.

No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.

Always money for war.

MAGA be like :
- Let's bomb Gaza... Yay!!!
- Let's bomb Yemen... Yay!!!
- Let's annex Canada... Yay!!!
- Let's deport non-white american citizens... Yay!!!
- Let's defend Ukraine against Russia... Are you out of your woke marxist mind!?!

It's a fantastic book - download it - buy it - or just borrow it and read it. The Dust Bowl Triolgy are worth the effort.

Which would have been harder for people to believe in 1968, that Amiri Baraka's son would become Mayor of Newark, or that he would be arrested by the INS (now ICE)?

a picture of a link to the USTR website where the file "https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/US%20UK%20EPD_050825_FINAL%20rev%20v2.pdf" is linked with the text "GENERAL TERMS FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY DEAL"

lmfao I just realized the actual file for the US-UK trade deal has "FINAL rev v2" at the end of the name like it's a high school group project written the night before it was due

I think a lot about CJ Roberts writing this in 2024: "The dissents' positions in the end boil down to . . . fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals about a future where the President 'feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.'"

As Trump’s Family Crypto Business Gains Steam, Ethical Concerns Mount A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy...

A crypto company part-owned by the Trump family stands to earn millions of dollars from a business deal involving a state-backed investment fund from the UAE. The arrangement amounts to “foreign policy for sale,” critics claim. www.wired.com/story/as-tru...

Trump’s Quest for Crypto Riches Is a Constitutional Scandal Waiting to Happen The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president. The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for...

The largest investors in Donald Trump’s crypto coin have been promised a private audience with the president. The arrangement could put Trump at odds with the Constitution and add fuel to calls for his impeachment, experts say. www.wired.com/story/trumps...

Seeing clips of VP Harris’ speech last night and I don’t think I’ll ever get over what we lost by not electing her.

We could’ve had a joyful, qualified, competent, pro-youth champion. Instead we have a felon willingly walking us into a recession…

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

Say. This.

Tweet from Ben Gvir: I had the honor and privilege of meeting with senior Republican Party officials at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. They expressed support for my very clear position on how to act in Gaza and that the food and aid depots should be bombed in order to create military and political pressure to bring our hostages home safely.

Remeber, the real villains are graduate students who say this is morally wrong.