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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."

Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."

So festive!

Yes, I'm certain that the family of National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, as they are grieving over her loss, will take great comfort in Trump's margin of victory in West Virginia

Trump official refers Rep. Eric Swalwell for a federal criminal probe over alleged mortgage fraud Swalwell is the latest Democrat to face mortgage fraud allegations from Federal Housing Finance Agency head Bill Pulte, who sent a letter to the Justice Department on Wednesday.

And then the Bill Pulte corruption of weaponizing his office variety.

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Top Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential housing data A confidant of Bill Pulte, the Trump administration’s top housing regulator, provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor.

Bill Pulte doing more corruptioning, this time of the "crash the whole housing market" variety.

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Prisons have men in it that are they're for raping 15-year-old girls, Megan.

I think a big reason Chicagoans are avoiding shopping at the Miracle Mile is because it's very inconvenient to drive all the way to the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles

Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider

NYT headline: Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.

Read that again.

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Mockler: Throughout my youth, I've watched Donald Trump normalize a type of extremist rhetoric that the U.S. has never seen before. Now, that is manifesting in the GOP…

Mockler: The way that Donald Trump speaks about the democratic party, the way that Donald Trump speaks about people who disagree with him, has normalized his extremist rhetoric. He said that we were gnats who need to be taken care of in front of the military.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

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.

Why do fascists dream of electric people?

More articles about the woes of MAGA or the MAGA adjacent. Where are the think pieces interviewing the marginalized?

An article about people in the LGTBQIA+ community discussing how they just want to live like everyone else, love, marry, etc. is way more important than “people hate my swasticar”🙄

Just unreal

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

C-SPAN caller from Missouri to Missouri Rep. Mark Alford: "I hope you, sir, as an elected official, will think of the people who are in nursing homes, their parents are in nursing homes, their Medicaid is going to be cut. What is going to happen to Missourians whose hospitals are gonna close?"

Trump’s Immigration Push Diverts U.S. Agents From Drug, Money and Sex-Crime Cases Federal investigators are resigning, and morale is low, as they juggle complex cases and detain migrants.

Federal investigators who used to fight crime are now being redirected to immigration
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Former FCC Chair Wheeler: An autocrat's favorite tool is a monopoly on telling the story. And if you can control the people who tell that story, then you've got an autocrat's greatest dream.

This is fascism.

The FBI is now actively working to put together a team to arrest Comey between now and his court appearance on Thursday, but other FBI supervisors have also refused to cooperate, said a source knowledgeable about the conversations and a law enforcement source familiar with the situation. The expectation is that the FBI will eventually find somebody. CBS News has reached out to the FBI for comment. Comey's lawyer, Patrick Fitzgerald, declined to comment to CBS News. Reuters was first to report that an FBI agent was sidelined for refusing to help with a perp walk.

I don’t understand the supposed legal basis for this.

DOJ requested a summons—*not* an arrest warrant—under Rule 9 of the FRCrP.

Are they going to go back to the magistrate and ask for a warrant, even though Comey hasn’t failed to appear? If not, what’s the exigency for a warrantless arrest?

JB Pritzker: “Trump’s treasonous words are leading to treasonous actions. Pushing back at authoritarian regimes starts with a resistance that can effectively ridicule the opposition and look into the camera and say this guy is full of shit”

Boo.freaking.hoo.

Official VA emails advising veterans and federal employees to blame the "Radical Left" for the shutdown instead of Trump are facing criticism for using government channels for partisan propaganda, which violates the Hatch Act.

Not one tiny bit differently.