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Mullin will essentially be an even less qualified Kash Patel at DHS.

He'll cosplay ICE, HSI, whatever and wear all the cool gear and play with all the toys, but other than that, he'll have no clue what DHS should actually do and won't care.

P.S.-DHS was a bad idea from its inception.

“We’ve spent so much of the last six months focused on the lived American experience of the supercharged secret police regime of ICE and CBP that we’ve mostly overlooked how much money is flooding into all aspects of border security.“

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"It’s worth considering that the most immutable role of Donald Trump’s presidency, across both terms, has always been this: His first appointee to any position is always the best and most competent — and it only goes downhill from there."

Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.

Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job

you don’t hate rich people enough

It’s far more than that — the $3M is for 25 of them! They ordered THOUSANDS.

Beware the Fake TACO.

Spooked by markets, he makes stuff up to a credulous press. Gets the calming headlines, and the situation hasn’t actually changed.

I mean — we know that’s not a yeti, so….

Bigfoot erasure.

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

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this might sound like a joke, but it's very much not

Noem got canned, but all the DHS jets she bought are flying high Disgraced DHS Secretary Kristi Noem is still using one of the luxury jets she bought with taxpayer dollars, and ICE’s new “deportation fleet” completed their first flights – getting Americans out of a...

NEW FROM ME: Noem got canned, but all the DHS jets she bought are flying high

Come for the fuckjet tea, stay for the weird callback to the Buffalo Bills????
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noem-got-can...

Here at the new and improved WaPo op-ed page, we will concentrate solely on cheerleading free markets and individual liberty.

Family demands answers after US citizen detained at O'Hare Airport, held for more than 30 hours Family and friends of a U.S. citizen detained at O'Hare Airport say they're furious after she was held for more than 30 hours.

For a US citizen to arrive from abroad and simply disappear, being detained by Trump's secret police, is no longer anything unusual. www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/f...

We are so so so close to House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries — so much closer than people realize!

Trump speaking after markets close is usually a sign he’ll say something bad for the economy, and the White House communications team doesn’t want a graph with the line going down and blaring red numbers with a minus sign on the screen with him when he does.

Trump openly lies about the bombed girls school. As Americans we make mistakes in war but they are unintentional and we own them.

Trump blaming Iran is no different than what Putin does when he blames Ukraine for attacks Russia clearly does.

We’ve become accepting of pure lies

Adios Kristi Noem And yet Trump has now nominated to DHS someone even less qualified!

Something most people are skipping over: Markwayne Mullin is so unqualified for the role of DHS secretary that he's even *under-qualified* compared to Cabinet cos-playing clowns Kristi Noem and Pete Hegseth. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/adios-kris...

ICE has made itself so toxic that it can’t use the garish new marked vehicles it purchased for millions of dollars.

If Bellingcat has confirmed this, then surely the Pentagon knows it hit the girls’ school too — and is simply lying to us about that fact right now.

This should be unacceptable in a thousand different ways.

Adios Kristi Noem And yet Trump has now nominated to DHS someone even less qualified!

Sure, it seems worth breathing a sigh of relief that Kristi Noem is out at DHS — but here's something almost no one seems to mention: Markwayne Mullin is even *less* qualified than she is to lead the nation's third-largest Cabinet department. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/adios-kris...

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

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congrats to everyone who voted for this because their burrito taxi was expensive

Also, now that the Dow is so far off of 50,000, I believe that according to the Pam Bondi Rule we are legally allowed to care about the Epstein Files again?