KayKinMd

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Naval Academy football head cheerleader is actually a good full time job for him. That is something he actually appears to be qualified for.

Idiocracy was unrealistic only because we got dumber quicker than the movie anticipated

A mass shooting in Alabama, but no, send troops to Portland. A democratic judge and senator's house gets burned down, but no, it's the left that's violent. Sickening.

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

Democracy Forward just sued the DOJ for undercover FBI videotapes that would show Trump's border czar, Tom Homan, accepting a $50k bribe to steer government contracts.

🧵 Interesting thread on the effects of (often unintentional) bias in the selection of Nobel Prize winners.

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IG newberlinlibrary

In more ways than just spelling!

Speaker Johnson is fighting release of the Epstein files

Senate GOP goes ‘nuclear’ to break Trump nominee gridlock The rules change could allow the Senate to start confirming nominees in groups starting next week.

Less than a month ago, John Thune and his GOP majority changed Senate rules to allow Trump’s nominees to be confirmed.

But now they won’t change their rules to reopen the government. Let’s be clear- this is a GOP shutdown.

Expedite a FOIA lawsuit? Trump administration wants $50K first Pay-to-play comes for Freedom of Information Act litigation

The National Security Agency ‘expedited’ a FOIA request — then took 1,827 days to process it.

The Defense Department ‘expedited’ another — it took 1,119 days.

Now, Trump wants requesters to pay $50k if a court expedites a FOIA lawsuit?

No way.

He's the one that gave the Taliban an unconditional surrender in Afghanistan, no less. Because it was election season, he really wanted to run on "I got us out" and he considered an unconditional surrender to be a small price to pay.

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Man in a dark blue shirt sitting in a wooden chair with a gray tabby kitten trying to sit with him. An arm in a green sweater is reaching to pull him down.

The head of a gray tabby kitten peeks over the edge of the counter from my lap. A man in a blue shirt is in the background.

Mine is less patient. In the first picture he's trying to muscle his way onto my husband's lap, and in the second he's made his way onto mine.

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

“With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, (higher) than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined,”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wasn't all that scared, tell the truth. I don't feel safer.
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181. Courts and Domestic Use of the Military In response to adverse judicial rulings, the President's advisers and supporters are claiming courts lack the power to halt domestic use of the military. A critical early precedent is to the contrary.

Here’s the longer version of this thread:

www.stevevladeck.com/p/181-courts...

The specific provision is section 2 of the Calling Forth Act of 1792:

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

For more background on the judicial review provision, and on how President Washington expressly relied upon it in putting down the Whiskey Rebellion, see:

www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/427_pa9s...

I’m just going to keep repeating that undocumented immigrant workers actually _help subsidize federal programs for everybody else_.

In 2022 alone, they paid $25.7 billion into Social Security and $6.4 billion into Medicare—both programs they can’t access due to their legal status👇🏽

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

ministry of silly #walks for #birdoftheday - always love watching penguins ambling. #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #penguins #birdphotography

Do any reporters in the room ever ask her for evidence of Portland being "war ravaged?" I'm not making a declarative statement in the form of a question–does anyone actually ask for evidence? Because Gaza, South Sudan & (parts of) Ukraine are actually war ravaged, and obviously Portland isn't.

@lollardfish.bsky.social clued me in to the origins of the word a while ago, and I've been trying to break myself of the habit of using it and other, similarly offensive words since. It's surprising and depressing how ingrained some of them are in my vocabulary.😔

Border Patrol shoots woman on Southwest Side; agents, protesters battle for hours The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were “rammed by 10 cars,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which has yet to be verified. In the protests that followed, agents used tear gas and pepper balls.

2/ "U.S. Border Patrol shot a woman Saturday on the Southwest Side, marking the second shooting involving federal agents in Chicago since President Donald Trump’s administration launched an aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the area last month."

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

America Needs a Project 2029 The road back from here will be harder.

Trump has so transformed and degraded the machinery of American government that it isn't enough to just beat him or his successor. Someone has to rebuild the liberal democratic state.

Shows an empty Statue of Liberty plinth and a voice from a boat says “before she was deported, she was a valued member of the community for 139 years).

www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovic... An appropriate cartoon for the day CD

Follow the rehab story, stay for the release video at the end.

Bill Nye leads charge to save NASA science from deep Trump cuts "Cutting NASA funding means turning our backs on discoveries that change the world," Bill Nye said ahead of Capitol Hill rally.

Millennials reading this headline: BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL

www.axios.com/2025/10/05/b...