Xtina

Graffiti art of Sandwich Guy hurling a sub at ICE on a city wall

LET FREEDOM RING

Should women have rights? We go through the pros and cons bsky.app/profile/jess...

*US DISMISSES BOEING CRIMINAL CHARGE OVER 737 MAX JET CRASHES

Not for nothing, but Meta announced that the CFPB dropped an investigation into financial products advertising just last week! news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

On average Meta shows its platforms’ users an estimated 15 billion “higher risk” scam advertisements every day.

(Meta earns about $7 billion in annualized revenue from this category of scam ads each year.) www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from showing Faceboon and Instagram users 15 billion “higher legal risk” scam ad impressions a day, internal documents state.

That haul vastly exceeds how much the company expects regulators
To fine it for running scam ads.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Jared Isaacman, the billionaire Space X fanboy picked to take over NASA, plans to eviscerate the agency

The Trump regime is East Winging the Goddard Space Flight Center, home to the 10,000 scientists and engineers in NASA science and engineering directorates.

lol

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

too big to fail speedrun

how is this real

I just feel it necessary to explain that if this one line were true, what he’s saying is American consumers are paying a tax out of their own pockets to keep the global economy from collapsing.

People used to try to convince me that GW Bush was secretly smart and now they try to convince me that Trump is secretly smart.

Nope. They're dumb. Our system elevated dumb men all the way to the top, that's what we have to reckon with.

This is why you DON'T stop the shutdown. Clearly the voters know who's responsible for the shutdown and now it's gonna be even worse. Since the news isn't willing to be honest with Americans about what Trump was and is, this will have to do so they can get the message.

This one shouldn't get lost tonight.

something is happening

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Remember this.

if you didn't follow the VA governor race you didn't know that Earle-Sears ran like a billion anti-trans campaign ads and Spanberger didn't flinch or pull a Newsom.

going all-in against trans people is a losing move, especially when the federal government has made harming and killing us a priority.

“Employees were compelled to turn over
their biometric data to train avatars like Ani”

this is going to be so much darker jfc

Mary Sheffield will become the first woman elected mayor of Detroit, CNN projects. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/4oRiL7z

IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax-prep giants The tax agency has quietly built its own prototype system for filing tax returns digitally and free of charge, according to current and former officials.

👀 Scoop: IRS Direct File, the free government-backed program that let you file your taxes for free, is dead.

IRS wrote to state tax agencies saying it would not be operational this coming tax season, per records I've obtained.

IRS Direct File: 2023-2025.

(Story from when the pilot launched.)

“we will not comply with court orders demanding we spend the money congress has allocated to feed the hungry” is quite the message when you’re trying to get congress to come back and allocate money

I don't have my reading glasses on and for a minute I thought that was Lady Gaga. Such a great look though.

these people are shooting pepper balls direct into people's faces but smelling mustard on a Subway sandwich is an attack punishable by law

never have I wished for cameras in a courtroom more

The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

A fair and just outcome here would be that the defendant face an entire firing squad of sandwiches