“Going to do some farm stuff “ — I wouldn’t hire him to stock a store shelf

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Irresponsible use of an ancient photo we expect better

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.

So are we just gonna ignore that a white kid killed 2 teen girls because he was upset they insulted Charlie Kirk?

Imagine. JUST IMAGINE if this was an undocumented immigrant? But meanwhile I bet you’ve barely heard about this atrocity. SMH www.instagram.com/reel/DPewI1w...

What do you think about eliminating tariffs and, oh, I don’t know, also the rampaging authoritarianism

Are you nuts

I wonder if this escalation, particularly sending TX NG into Chicago will push people to a national strike. It’s not an American tradition but neither interstate armed conflict and we’re getting awfully close

What court would want this as their legacy

Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info.

SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...

Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized.

He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.

I think we’ll be in the streets before then. America may yet see a general strike

this appears to be video of the incident that set everything off in Chicago yesterday. No part of this is consistent with the narrative DHS put out immediately after.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar.

Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' :

"[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

Reporter: “How important do you think Black & Hispanic voters are to you winning your campaign?”

Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for Governor of one of the most diverse states in the nation:

“Next question.”

I have never seen even the police toss tear gas canisters out of an suv. They get out and deal or they drive around. What they don’t do is act like it’s falujah

Ugh. That’s gross

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k.

2025: $228
2026: $1142

She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care.

This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

He was great back in the halcyon days when i didn’t know what a narcissist was. He laid it out and things made more sense.

Jacques Torres! Lucky duck

I cannot conceive of the emotional abuse these agents, these representatives of the US government, endured as children that they can be party to this monstrosity of evil

Libertarians watching Government goons fast rope from black helicopters into a Chicago apartment complex, drag Americans from their beds, and leave them hogtied naked on the street:

How to inject life into the lackluster NJ governor’s race - threaten the NJ-NY tunnel project

Because, sure, NJ voters would prefer to swim across

Providing free Wi-Fi to rural schools is leaving those communities behind.

Ending free Wi-Fi for rural schools, now that's how you show those communities you care, they matter, and haven't been forgotten.

I could be wrong here, but wasn’t Eisenhower the guy who fought fascists

Kudos for being able to listen to it

I just start challenging the narrative and keep it up until my husband switches off the radio and sighs

Well, at least teaspoons aren’t knives and the way trump’s going they should be keeping the knives away from him