Sporkman

As Benjin Stark said to Tyrion Lannister, nothing someone says before the word “but” really counts.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

RFK Jr. said this during his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast (episode #1999). We are so doomed. 😳

Did I miss this on CBS?

Unfortunately, it's not a legal hearing with a judge, as every damn statement they made would be deemed "non-responsive" and they would be held in contempt.

At some point, would it be weird to say that maybe we should just plug MAGA dipshits into some kind of Matrix-style alternative reality where they can just dunk on libs all the time regardless of reality while the rest of us live here in the real world and support each other? Feels like a win win

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The DOJ no longer exists
It is now the Department of Corruption

I remember when the DOJ was supposed to be unbiased law enforcement and insulated from political pressure.
Not Bondi

The NYC Bar has issued an opinion concluding that the Trump-ordered attacks on Venezuelan fishing boats constitute unlawful summary executions. This is a very big deal. And it explains why the DOD can't find lawyers to say the attacks are lawful. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

During a detention hearing on Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported that Martinez's defense attorney, Christopher Parente, challenged the government's account of the incident, and claimed that the body-camera footage shows an officer daring Martinez, “Do something, bitch,” before firing at her. Parente at the hearing also said that the footage showed the officer driving the vehicle suddenly "turn the wheel to the left" then jump out and "just start shooting", according to the Chicago Tribune. "What I do know is - it was Ms Martinez who has seven holes in her body from five shots from this agent, who fired within seconds of getting out of this vehicle," Parente said, as the Tribune reported. The body camera footage has not been made public.

It's not looking good for DHS's account of yet another shooting.

ICE agents work around the clock despite government shutdown. What to know As the government shutdown enters day five, affecting many federal employees, ICE continues to operate without pay, with some courts still operating.

Those people are out there terrorizing Americans and immigrants without pay, in case you wondered. 🧊🐖🧊🐖🧊🐖

www.news9.com/story/68e32d...

Jeffries brought a MTG tweet to his presser

It’s looking like it will be the bridge to it.
The Supreme Court doesn’t seem interested in standing up against it

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

Josh Hawley, Yale Law School ‘06, Missouri Attorney General 2017-2019, pretending he doesn’t know what tapping a phone means

After a string of losses, Trump attacks judges & threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act—The surest sign of a loser is to blame the umpires or referees. If you’re Trump, you blame the judges. Judges appointed by Trump keep ruling against him. He’s not happy about it.

Steven Miller, Trump’s hench-

Becky A Robertson @AnciraBecky Scientists who study Long Covid pictured last week wearing N95 respirators. photo people sitting in a conference center ballroom with golden chandeliers overhead. they are at long, slender tables draped in black cloth that many are using for laptops or to take notes on paper. all of the scientists are wearing face masks.

Scientists who study Long Covid at a conference. All are wearing N95 masks. source:
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Murray: "If House Republicans were here, I'd make sure they understood over 3/4 of the families on the exchanges actually live in R states. And I'd make sure they understand the 10 states where families will face biggest average premium increase hikes when the ACA credits expire are all R states."

Reporter: Is it the WH’s position that furloughed workers should be paid their back pay?

Trump: It depends on who we’re talking about. We're going to take care of our people. There are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way

What a coward.

Legacy newspapers: "Print media is dying, and the public will suffer for it."

Also legacy newspapers: "We can't offend the government with information and framing that helps the public."

This should be a five-alarm scandal that dogs the administration for the rest of its existence. We'll see if it is.

I think maybe yes. Median voters are obsessed with this story.

They might as well be deceased as well. They do nothing.

Padilla: Do you believe government officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not? 

Bondi: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump.

Padilla: I asked a simple yes or no question

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh

Anyway, back to toiling

There is value in higher education, beyond simple job training.

They should just say white at this point, they're not fooling anyone 🫩

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.