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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Pope Leo decries 'grave crime' of mistreatment of immigrants Pope Leo decried mistreatment of immigrants as a "grave crime" on Thursday, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants weeks after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies.

Meanwhile his most significant accomplishment in life is being told to fuck off by two different popes in one year.

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

I don't know why there's such a widespread and persistent conviction America can't confront its domestic crises while protecting and expanding its commitments abroad, because it's been done before; in fact, they usually end up strengthening, rather than undermining, one another.

The woke left is alienating edgy young comics like Bill Maher and Jerry Seinfeld

The Little General!

Slow?!

the Clinton administration intervened in Yugoslavia to stop a genocide while taking on white power terror groups at home; Medicare Part D and PEPFAR were enacted at around the same time as each other.

Why would the DOJ scrub the fact that right-wing extremism is the #1 domestic terror threat in America?

Why not acknowledge and confront it?

Also why haven't they released the Epstein Files?

Also why did Ghislaine Maxwell get a sweetheart deal transfer?

These problems won't go away.

Nashville school shooter, 17, was inspired by Hitler and Candace Owens according to 'manifesto'

Here Are the Far-Right Conspiracies the Quebec City Mosque Shooter Followed

Unrepentant and Radicalized Online: A Look at the Trial of Dylann Roof

As El Paso Gunman Faces Sentencing, the Hate that Inspired Him Rises Again The lawyer of the white supremacist who slaughtered 23 people in 2019 said his client was inspired by President Trump's words

We keep hearing that "the left" as whole is responsible for Kirk's murder.

It's ludicrous on its own but even more so when you recall that we've had mass shooters who explicitly cited specific individuals on the right -- even Trump! -- as motivation but the right insisted no one was to blame.

Bullshit like renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War is about covering their weakness and pretending to be strong.

Unfortunately this weakness leads to projection and lashing out, which makes it incredibly dangerous. That’s why this movement represents an existential threat.

Yeah, but here’s the thing: the guy killed two people because they were Jews, not because they were Israeli diplomats (he had no way of knowing that).

So it’s 100% an antisemitic act and seeing a connection to some of the rhetoric flying around isn’t being hysterical.

Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved.

by J. D. Vance

Seems bad that the new U.S. Attorney who is threatening to lock up Trump’s political opponents was working for Russia before getting his new job. But maybe it’s just me.

Concur.

- Holocaust Historian

A federal judge has ruled that five government agencies must release billions in funding for climate and infrastructure projects paused under Trump.
 
Judge Mary McElroy — a Trump appointee — issued the temporary injunction. It instructs the admin to release the funds while a lawsuit proceeds.

every time Marco Rubio appears in public he shrinks an inch, by May he'll be Ben Shapiro sized

Frengel Reyes Mota

No criminal record, no gang ties, no tattoos, applied for asylum, father of a 9-year-old, government's case full of errors, sent to mega-prison anyway amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Yes, when you back Russia, you are taking the side of Iran and North Korea.

Three days ago a Republican state senator in Minnesota submitted a bill declaring "Trump Derangement Syndrome" to be a certifiable mental illness. It was a funny stunt. Anyway, today he was arrested for soliciting a minor, which is not a funny stunt and a sign of an actual psychological disorder.

The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

Nay, come, let’s go together.

~Hamlet, Act 1 Scene 5

And we all know why –

To funnel tax cuts and lucrative government contracts to the obscenely wealthy, like himself.

Taking from YOU to feed his own greed. It could not be any more clear.

Everything you need to know about Trump's tax cuts.

Dude says we have to take care of our law enforcement

FUCK YOU!!! YOU ASSHOLE YOU PARDONED OUR ATTACKERS

This economy is going to be so easy to crash, you'll think it were a Tesla.

I hope he's right. But in the meantime, the executive branch of the government is illegally seizing powers to dismantle the administrative state and this nation's most necessary programs. This is an authoritarian coup, or another attempt at one.

119тн CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. 26 Deeming certain conduct of members of Antifa as domestie terrorism and designating Antifa as a domestie terrorist organization. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 9, 2025 Ms. GREENE of Georgia (for herself, Mr. BiGGs of Arizona, Mrs. MileR of Illinois, Mr. HiggINs of Louisiana, and Mr. HUNT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Deeming certain conduct of members of Antifa as domestic terrorism and designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Whereas the extremist organization Antifa is motivated by communism, anarchism, socialism, and violence, and has continuously demonstrated their commitment to lawlessness and criminal behavior; Whereas, in 2016, the Department of Homeland Security formally classified Antifa activities as "domestic terrorist vi-olence"; Whereas one chapter, Rose City Antifa, has rejected the civil treatment of perceived enemies, stating, "We can't just argue against them; we have to prevent them from organizing by any means necessary.", and this same chapter

A resolution has been introduced in the House to classify “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Because of course fascists would want to make antifascism illegal.

www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

How Trump Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From Congress The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the…

A Nixon-era law forbids presidents from blocking spending over policy disagreements. Federal courts have also prevented presidents from refusing to spend money unless Congress grants them the flexibility.

Trump seeks to upend it all.

By @mtredden.bsky.social
(Published Nov. 2024)