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The Kobayashi Maru No-Win Scenario: The Shutdown

Let’s figure this out: Last November, the electorate decided that Vulgarmort was the guy. The Big Ugly Bill —which essentially guts the ACA— passed without any Democratic votes in the House and Senate. The Republicans used the Senate reconciliation…

it's funny that Trump is the only guy who can take a cave and make it into a even Greater L

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

If this were a Democratic president actually falling asleep on the job right in front of our eyes, the right wing media sphere would keep this story alive for years, noting every single time it happened. The 'regular' media would join in with hundreds of think pieces.

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Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.

Bessent shamelessly lies: "Inflation came down in April for the first time in four years under President Trump...Walmart came out yesterday and said the Thanksgiving meal is 25% less." (Inflation fell steadily in the last two years of the Biden administration and Walmart is making the meals smaller)

California voters passed Prop 50 nearly 60% to 40% and the CA GoPQ filed a lawsuit to prevent the People's will from taking effect.

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting:

- AI skip tracing
- AI face recognition
- Cell tower spoofing vehicles
- Signal exploitation equipment
- 6 months of MREs for detainees
- Detainee transport vans
- Device cracking & data exploit firms

1/15 Let me make this clearer:
I’m thrilled that Zohran Mamdani won, despite his decision to once join #DSA, a well-intended, but very dated organization. After 35 years, it has fewer than 125,000 members in 290 counties (out of 4900) across 50 states. That’s not a …

The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

A guy who could think more than one move ahead would see this and wonder if maybe they shouldn't be purging so many experienced and civic-minded military officers as well. For...reasons.

I don’t know much about MAGA. Just that they love leaders who are “high energy” and “not sleepy.”

Watch this.

The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic. Now it’s almost gone.

The mandatory veiling of women was once a pillar of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Arash Azizi writes. Now it’s almost gone:

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

Nothing says ‘fit to lead’ like napping through your own medical endorsement. Get Grandpa Don to bed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

The loud part out loud

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

These do have a familiar ring. I wish I hadn’t thrown away my pocket Constitution.

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published February)

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Gonna need every Democrat member of the House to do this every day and ask Johnson why he doesn't know anything.

BTW the governor-elect is a huge supporter of telehealth! Thank you, New Jersey for electing her.🙏💙

people used to buy pet rocks. I imagine this is similar.

He’s got to know people are noticing a pattern here. Right?