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Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

Have you ever seen an industry beg to be Mangioned quite like this?

No, seriously, have you?

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I've never truly believed the argument that Trump is doing an accelerationist theater piece before but I sure do now.

US government to take 10% stake in Canada’s Trilogy Metals Alaskan road project opening remote areas for mining approved as US looks to break dependency on China for critical resources

The US appears to have a de facto national-level sovereign wealth fund now. Like other less-than-fully-democratic regimes, its investment decisions are heavily influenced by the idiosyncratic preferences of the Dear Leader.

The Democrats could have reformed this law when they had the White House and both houses of Congress.

ICYMI: Grassley Exposes Biden FBI for Targeting Nearly 100 Republican Groups and Individuals | U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) this week released...

Yes, he's been complaining the FBI "targeted 92 Republican organizations and individuals as part of its sweeping Arctic Frost investigation against President Donald Trump," including Turning Point USA.

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That's because TP USA bused people to Stop the Steal.

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

Look at what they have to face

How do Stephen Miller's relatives feel about the shame he's brought upon their family? Josh Barro and Ross Douthat drop by to explain.

Hey CNN why are the gas prices on this photo so low? Ohhhh. I see. You're hoping no one notices this photo is from before the internet fucking existed. You shitheads.

whats the point in "dealing" with the Trump administration when this is the person executing the deal, and is openly promising to violate the laws and break any agreeement? If you want to bargain for something in the shutdown fight, make firing Vought a condition of any funding package.

His one two combo sums it up. His second point tells us he is afraid to be in the city and so he reverts to calling it gay to make himself feel more like a "man."

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

The idea that the Republicans refusing to pay Federal workers because they didn't want to pay for health care subsidies for everyone else puts *Democrats* on the defensive is the kind of thing only DC media could believe to be true:

I know we’re going in circles but it is abundantly clear that they have literally no idea, let alone a plan, to fix their own mess.

Nobody is at the wheel, it is the first social media AI presidency and they drove themselves into a blind alley.

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

"Parente said the video shows an agent turn a federal vehicle left into Martinez’s vehicle, after which an agent says, 'Do something b----.' The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez."

There is a growing realization among our generation—journalists and non-journalists alike—that we're going to have to rebuild this country's media institutions from scratch.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

We have the Insurrection Act for a reason—

But it's not so a President with 34 felonies can ignore court orders and punish cities he doesn't like with military intimidation.

Especially not when the courts are telling him his claims of insurrection are "untethered to the facts."

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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One guest, a retired major general, was asked about Hegseth's dismissal of the rules of engagement. He answered: "The words the president and secretary of defense are those of potential war criminals."

With one of his campaigns slogans on it

71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.

Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”

As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.

Yes but then they would have to make a concrete statement about Trump and those are only reserved for Dems.

They like what Trump's doing! Sorry to all those too blind to see it! Not my problem!

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

"The law says X"

"Trump plans to do Y"

"This is but a 'tradition' dating back hundreds of years"

Twice now, in three days. Also, @nytimes (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

What is journalism, anyway? 🤷‍♂️🤔

Forget “DEI”—Bari Weiss Is Proof That Merit Doesn’t Matter She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

Thorough accounting of TFP's shoddy journalism here.

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This is a must-read