JR Ellermeier

What the fuck is this country doing?

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries.

Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.

"No hell is hot enough or eternal enough for Dick Cheney."

jack donaghy: "That information is classified. At least until Dick Cheney dies which is gonna be a long time from now. That man is mostly metal."

This is what national failure looks like. small children worried about secret police.

Unbelievable.

As in, literally, not credible.

42 million people cant buy food this month. It’s time to tax billionaires.

I would rather live next door to someone who speaks another language than live next door to someone who doesn’t want to live near people who speak other languages. I know nothing about Person A but I know person B is a shitbird.

House Republicans haven't shown up to work for 40 days.

Donald Trump isn't even in the country.

They shut down the government, spiraling us toward a health care crisis that will hike your monthly premiums and jeopardize coverage for millions—

And then just left.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in economic activity.

It’s not about the money, Trump just wants Americans to go hungry.

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

We’ve got money for the Jeffrey Epstein memorial ballroom no one asked for but not enough money to help feed the kids of people who work at Wal-Mart.

Only in America.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.

When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

The Speaker of the House, #2 in line for the presidency, has never seen anything and knows absolutely nothing of what happens in DC.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

The modern day Vinny Testaverde

Welcome to our new and improved doctor’s office!

If you’ll just scan this QR code, access our poorly designed website and repeatedly enter the information we already have on file as the site crashes, we’ll be with you in twice the time it used to take.

two panel meme showing a guy shooting another guy. in the first panel, the guy being shot is labeled "government funding" and the shooter is labeled "republican majorities." in the second panel, the shooter looks at the camera and says "why would democrats do this"

i made this a couple days ago bc of a dumb headline but it’s proving rather evergreen

Republicans control the White House, Senate, and House.

This government shutdown is on them.

Like Trump and Vought didn’t do illegal impoundments when the government was open? Or Thune did anything to stop it?