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A picture of Second Lady Usha Vance, presumably in the audience, watching her husband JD intimately hug Charlie Kirk's widow. She has a very sad expression on her face. Captioned as "When you watch your husband get handsy with a single mom in leather pants but you can't make him sleep on the couch because he'll fuck that too."

I'd feel sorry for her except she knows he's a wanker with political ambitions who has no moral compass.

Harris County commissioner raising alarm over $47 million pay increase for county employees Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey is sounding the alarm about a "Pay Equity" proposal aimed at County employees making less than $75,000 per year.

A typical Republican response to lower level employees getting a wage raise, and a typical FOX article misrepresenting facts. Instead of showing the percentage of the increase to the employees, they show the total cost which is easier to foment outrage against.

Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report At an airport in South Carolina on Thursday, US representative Nancy Mace called police officers “fucking incompetent” and berated them repeatedly, according to an incident report.

I have to admit that Rep Nancy Mace is an expert on incompetence. Maybe if she wasn't such an unhinged bigot, and born again idiot, she wouldn't be afraid of the consequences of her actions.

I admit to only a partial reading of what I see as screed. Complaining that 33% of judges are women? Why isn't it 52% like the population? To think that the author was able to say this without being pilloried is horrifying.

Trump didn't write this. The grammar, spelling, and punctuation are pretty much correct. Also he had a party to go to where he was the center of attention.

Once again I had plans to go out last night, but ended up staying home. I'm an extrovert who's transness is causing anxiety and reluctance to expose myself to the big pockets of transphobia here in SE Texas.

Another day another Republican pedo.

I had never heard about the extra neurons in autistic people, but it makes total sense. I like learning something new each day if possible. Thank you.

Were peacock tongues on the menu? Inquiring minds want to know.

This should happen Cal. Judge to Rep Jackson.
Judge: Let me get this straight, your State of Texas can redistrict to gerrymander new Republican seats, but California can't? Why is that?

Jackson: Well, er, we are Republicans with a mandate and we can do whatever we want and they're Democrats.

Jesus, was he actually trying to look exactly like tRump or what?

Hegseth orders the military to detail dozens of attorneys to the Justice Department, AP learns Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to provide dozens of lawyers to the Justice Department for temporary assignments in Memphis and near the U.S.

The Justice Department laid off or ran off how many lawyers in the past 9 months? Also military lawyers may be subject to ethics rules, but may be swayed to do a substandard job to keep in the good graces of Hegseth to retain their ability to remain in the military.

An example of a foreign Ambassador doing what the US media fails to do on a daily basis.

With a whole pineapple!

I guess he's keeping tRump's mental decline reserved for his next tell all book due out August 2028.

.. Party leadership intentionally keeping Congress out of session so Trump can wage a war on Venezuela without being ordered to stop or not have funds cut off for it? Johnson said yesterday that Congress won't be called back into session until at least January.

Hear me out on this because I may be totally wrong. Speaker Johnson has Congress recessed. Trump has sent an Naval Taskforce towards Venezuela. Only Congress can declare war. Presidents can use military force at their discretion for only 30 without Congressional approval. Is the Republican... 🧵

My understanding of AI is that it can distill the input it has to answer questions put to it. It can't however generate an original thought. It can't ask itself questions. The output is only as good as the input. So why spend all that money? What am I missing?

The 1%ers have wrung the rest of us out to the breaking point. Their greed knows no limits at this point. They seem to believe this is a sustainable situation.

If people are squeezed out of their homes, can't afford a car, and can't afford to eat, they're going to become a mob. That's not good.

Naomi Klein wrote about how the 1%ers intentionally wreck the economy so they can swoop in and take over. Venture Capitalists do it to entrepreneurs, Agribusiness has done it to family farmers, and now Real Estate Corporations using mutual fund stocks are doing it to home ownership.

So very true and succinct.

When the Convicted Felon47 tells you he "passed very hard cognitive tests". Take it with a grain of salt and consider who's telling you they were difficult.

He is a President of very little brain, piglet.

Personally I get the impression that the Dem Party leadership think they get to pick their candidates, usually based on how much money they can bring in, and the Dem leaning voters will just have to vote like they're told to.

People get a huge dopamine hit when they are in a large group of people who are basically like them, and congenial. It's probably an inherited trait that helped build a tribal group in our distant past generations. Religion plays on that.

I cannot for the life of me understand why some reporters take a Republican insulting and dressing them down in public without snapping back. Even if it's the President, you don't have to be subservient to them. Stand up for yourselves, you are our unelected representatives act like it.

The Orange Menis has been giving out and selling hats saying "Trump 2028" since he moved back in to the WH. Now he says he looked into it and he doesn't have a path to run again. I believe him, do you believe him,... I believe him. Would a President lie to us?

/s

I had a senior moment this morning while writing a lengthy thread about Estate Taxes. In the first post I mislabeled it as a Capital Gains Tax. Since Blue Sky won't let me edit it, I deleted it.

I am guessing that in their mind single equates to gay.

* Did you tear the wings off flies when you were younger, or do you still do it?

* Do you put kittens/puppies in a sack and throw them in the river?

* Were you a hall monitor in school?

* Did you take younger kids lunch money by force or intimidation?

If so ICE has a job for you.

.. on their inheritance because of the $11/$13 million. The estates that the Republicans are trying to protect are 1%ers estates. Executives that awarded stocks as a bonus or a stock option have a lot of income that they have deferred. They do pay income taxes on the value of the stock.. 🧵

... Actual earned income is taxed every year. Passive income is only paid when the asset is sold or transferred.

The Republicans use the farm analogy because the average person can relate to a farmer/worker. The reality is that most people who inherit family farms pay very little to nothing.. 🧵