Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
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"Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer."

That's who ICE arrested and disappeared as part of Donald Trump's immigration policy.

It's outrageous.

I've been pressing for answers and I'll keep pushing for accountability.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago.

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thought this would be a helpful resource for my journalist friends

Noel Casler (@noelcasler) One of the last times I was in Portland was on a CSN tour, spent the sunny late summer day shopping, bought a Shinola watch at a lovely jewelry store that also kindly courtesy-buffed the TAG Heuer wor...

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Holy shit scorched earth motherfucker

They would then also have more control over coverage of debates and elections. Before long they’d be choosing the head of FCC and everything else.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Updated Trump Administration FCC Guidelines for Late-Night TV Hosts “ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air for Charlie Kirk comments after FCC pressure.” — New York Times - - -The FCC has long held that “the public interes...

"Late-night jokes shouldn’t be biting, critical, or funny. Jokes should be more like third wives — anodyne, mostly quiet, and on good terms with convicted pedophiles."

Richard Ayoade tells David Letterman he is writing with the director Wes Anderson: "For someone so visual, he's extremely verbally dexterous." #TAF25 bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Change makers break from sheeple PEOPLE & take a stand against inhumane treatment of others. Beyond race, creed, culture and gender.

We all bleed the same COLOR. Humanitarianism & never doing to others we don't want done to us is unconditional love and respect for others whether we agree or not.

Accurate

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

126. The "Fixed Star in Our Constitutional Constellation" It's worth spending time with Justice Robert Jackson's 1943 majority opinion holding that the First Amendment bars compulsory flag salutes and compelled recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.

"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein."

Justice Robert Jackson, 1943

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

Rock solid "Mutha fukin wind farms!"🔥

Democratic elected officials, here's some unsolicited advice.

People are looking for leadership. Right now. This moment.

Someone, anyone, take the konch and forcefully respond to JD Vance and Stephen Miller's promise to declare war against America.

Speak up now. Press conference today.

"leftist ideology" is basically "don't kill people" and "mind your own fucking business" pass it on

Damn good question.

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To Trump, Vance, and Hegseth

If Epstein Shocked You, The Names Behind His Money Will Floor You. I'm Telling You More About Them...Right Here Names, Wires, Shell Companies...The Ugly Truth Treasury’s Sitting On.

If Epstein Shocked You, The Names Behind His Money Will Floor You. I'm Telling You More About Them...Right Here👇
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Will we be able to see the strings from Thiel’s hands controlling him?

How is every headline in the media not “Dumbass breaks global postal system after just 7 months on the job”?

This is exactly right.

Pritzker gets it.

If there’s a Noble(sic) Rest in Peace Prize, I know who’d get my vote.

It’s Time for Americans to Start Talking About “Soft Secession” Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don’t need federal permission to govern.

Uncooperative Federalism is here!
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this is good! this is exactly the kind of thing we want to see from the elder statesmen of the party! we are not in normal times and should not play by normal rules and it’s important for people like Obama to come out and say it

He’s like a four year at his parents dinner party showing the adults his trucks.