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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Tyler from Spartanburg preparing for his call tonight.

Dickhead Matt Walsh complaining about rhetoric. Fuck that guy.

I wish this app was as easy to navigate as the bad place, with hashtags, linear posts etc.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

New York Post article featuring starving Palestinian child "Viral images of starving Gaza boy don't tell the whole story because he suffers from genetic disorders, critics say"

"It isn't genocide because he has a disability" may be one of the most evil things I've ever seen anyone publish in human history

An editorial by Reihan Salam makes for decent toilet paper.

Everything that we predicted with this 2nd administration is coming true on steroids. But the loudest voices were people like @jonstewartdaily.bsky.social who told everyone to stop calling them Nazis & calling for unity.

It’s time Democrats/Leftists take a page from the right-wingers & use talking points:

In every speech, every interview, every interaction wrt immigration or ICE the terms “Anti-Hispanic or Anti-Latino” are used as often as possible. It’s true and it is good political rhetoric in these times.

Trump’s Immigration Enforcement: Free The Criminals, Jail The Innocent

The Trump administration's immigration enforcement has revealed itself to be not just cruel, but fundamentally backwards: They're literally freeing dangerous criminals while manufacturing cases against innocent people. And…

One reason they’re attacking Mamdani is because he’s so damn concise & articulate in presenting policies people want that have already worked and are financially sound.

We’ve gone from the price of bananas to kidnapping people with no due process & concentration camps in less than 6 months. But I’m sure @theweeklyshow.bsky.social with Jon Stewart will be along to make sure we don’t call them Nazis soon enough.

I guess you can celebrate physically abducting people & putting them in concentration camps, but not wish it on someone with speech on Elon’s bastion of free speech! #AlligatorAlcatraz

What a fucking bigoted, lying disgrace @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social has turned out to be. Guess fighting against sexual assaulters wasn’t as important as she claimed.
Primary incoming.

Anyone who thinks this is going to only be used for “undocumented” migrants is delusional. Miller & Bannon et al. see all non-whites as illegitimate and if they can get rid of as many of them as possible they will too. I hope these people, the 6 SCOTUS members included, never know peace again!

DEAN: Do you have any concerns about your conflicts of interest and the president's?

BONDI: What I would be concerned about in Pennsylvania is all the child sex cases

DEAN: Did you hear my question?

Mental illness on display.

Donald Trump via Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114732948019406900 https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114732938285152785 To The Department of Energy: DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! And I mean NOW!!! EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I’M WATCHING! YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON’T DO IT!

At some point, Republicans are going to learn what the Department of Energy does, right?

Like... they have to learn at some point that it runs nuclear reactors and doesn't operate oil fields or whatever.

What would a military crisis in the Middle East be without Tommy here pushing for killing bad brown people so the angelic westerners could spread the utopia of markets, growth & technology? #Iran #Trumpswar #MiddleEast

Neocon “Never Trumpers” backing a war with Iran incoming.

I hope those ICE agents never know a moment of peace for the rest of their lives.

It was well known in NYC that Trump hired undocumented Polish & Eastern European laborers and often didn’t pay them toward the end of the jobs.

It's an illegal use of active-duty troops to enforce domestic policy, it's been a key foundation of our system of laws for 150 years, indeed a blatant disregard for the law, & that's how every headline should describe it.

Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says | Houston Public Media The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX.
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
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The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check Domestic deployment under Section 502(f) has its limits, and for good reason.

Posting for no reason.

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Yesterday #ElonMusk admitted he bought the Presidential Election for a pedophile.

#Trump in turn showed he believes he can solely direct appropriations, which is totally unconstitutional.

Not a peep from the @Democratsorg leadership. Weak.
#ElonVsTrump #Democrats democrats.org

Big Telecom Covertly Funded Smear Campaign To Derail Affordable Fiber Broadband Deployments In Utah We’ve noted for years how U.S. regional telecom monopolies have effectively crushed competition in many U.S. markets and utterly defanged our regulators. This one-two punch of muted competiti…

Another article that demolishes Ezra Klein’s “Abundance” argument bullshit that Jon Stewart fell for.

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