Laine ❯❯❯❯

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Trump’s entirely capable of firing the Fed chair and wrecking the dollar to distract from his close friendship with a criminal sex abuser. That’s the nature of the man.

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

Trump & the GOP just passed the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in US history.

17 million kicked off insurance

$1 trillion in Medicaid cuts

Largest SNAP cuts ever

Largest veterans' cuts ever

$4 trillion in new debt

$1 trillion in handouts for billionaires

Pure evil.

Stephen Miller says they are “actively looking at” suspending the writ of habeas corpus, which is only allowed when the US has been invaded or during an insurrection, which would not allow people to challenge their incarceration in court if they are arrested and detained.

Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.

His argument fails even on its own terms.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

When he says “home-growns”, he’s talking about US citizens. He wants Bukeke to build more torture prisons in El Salvador for Americans. Not me saying it, Trump saying it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

Can someone ask her where we are putting all the new banana and coffee plantations we need in the US?

This is Senator Jim Banks from Indiana. No need to tell you he’s a Republican—it’s clear by the cruel disdain he shows his own constituent who was laid off.

Note: he waits until the door’s about to close before telling him he deserved it & calling him a “clown.”

He’s not just cruel—he’s a coward.

this one stings

I miss DEI

Well. Except for Snackie.

For the visual learners...

Sadly, this is totally relevant to Americans today.

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

The US government is a Jenga tower and right now the Trump admin is pulling out every piece and one will cause a complex system collapse. We won't know what precisely will do it but something will and it'll cause a collapse. I think a lot of things we think matter won't by the end of the year.

A protester calls Pete Hegseth "a misogynist" during the Senate confirmation hearing.

Nailed it.

Outliving the authors of one’s obituaries is no mean feat.

Luigi Mangione’s manifesto does something truly groundbreaking in the genre: it is edited for brevity

True. ☑️

Conversations in my AP Gov class:

M: I’ve been thinking about AP Gov too much. I had a dream I got into an argument with Matt G*tez

P: He’s in your dreams? Well you are 17 so you’re his type.

"Yes she is corrupt but she isn't Matt Gaetz" is the strongest endorsement I've heard so far for Pam Bondi's AG nomination.

Local man shocked to discover that well documented pathological liar is not, in fact, a man of his word.

Звезда российского балета выпал из окна после критики войны - Русская служба The Moscow Times

39 year Russian ballet dancer, Vladimir Shklyarov, has died after falling from the 5th floor of his building. He was critical of Russia’s genocide in Ukraine.
Russian law enforcement claim it’s an accident

www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/11/18/z...

This essay by a 16 year old 💔 “I was flush with anger — but it was diluted by an even stronger feeling: defeat.”

So, Trump nominated Brendan Carr, the author of the FCC Chapter in Project 2025, to be the Chairman of the FCC.

But, but he “doesn’t know anything ABOUT Project 2025”. 🙃