The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.
A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.
Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something elseβwhen it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARYβis about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine
Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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This is terrorism and mayhem. Cities and states have an obligation to enforce laws to prevent it.
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an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can
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People are gonna believe what they want to about Seattleβs weather, but whenever I watch a game out there it seems fantastic.
11.10.2025 12:03 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Cβmon squeeze play
11.10.2025 05:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lol
11.10.2025 04:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ok Mβsβ¦.
11.10.2025 04:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Seems like Illinois State Police should escort them in.
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"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."
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Gotta say itβs pretty heartening to see Chicagoans go full βI hate Illinois Nazisβ whenever ICE tries to grab someone off the street.
10.10.2025 20:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This arrest appears to be in direct violation of a temporary restraining order prohibiting DHS officers from arresting journalists. The officers here may well be subject to contempt of court. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...
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Republicans starting to draw attention to No Kings next week is interesting. To me it suggests they are worried they will be big, so they are trying to delegitimize instead of ignoring. The darker read is they are going to try to suppress them.
10.10.2025 18:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The oil and agricultural industries being hit hard is a recipe for a Dem Senate.
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ICE is hostile to our rights.
10.10.2025 15:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Trump about to hike tariffs on China just in time for the holidays.
10.10.2025 15:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There was never going to be a moment when everyoneβeveryone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the populationβwas roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.
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I've said it before, but it's remarkable how quickly the feds have managed to piss away the seemingly ironclad presumption of candor & credibility they enjoyed with federal judges.
They've lied so shamelessly, flagrantly, & frequently that judges have decided not to be played for fools any more.
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We are witnessing the most lawless behavior by a leader in American history, just daily, extraordinary abuses of power. National Democrats must speak out in a loud and clear voice against Trump's escalating authoritarianism. It is time now.
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The cool zone really ramps up when we start getting jury nullifications.
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Michigan Avenue right now.
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This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then theyβll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.
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Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV
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Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, andβI would hopeβstill see that itβs incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia β¦β
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The priest pepperball video has broken algorithmic containment on the other platform.
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Homeland Security @DHSgov
We're having an All Night Revival
Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row
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More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys
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My Ioniq 6 is yelling at me to go to the dealership a year inβ¦to get the tires rotated. I will, but that will likely be the sum total of maintenance during my lease.
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