Sarah Ames

Shameful

It’s a terrible time for the House to pass what The Building Trades called “the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country.”

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

Line graph showing total wealth of Forbes 400 from 1982-2024 in billions of dollars. Y-axis ranges from 0 to 5,000 billion. Background shaded red during Republican administrations (Reagan, Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Trump) and blue during Democratic administrations (Clinton, Obama, Biden). Graph shows steady upward trend with notable growth during Democratic terms. Text boxes indicate average total growth: 16.5% for Republican administrations, 57.1% for Democratic administrations. Percentage changes labeled for each presidential term, with Biden showing +64.6% growth through 2024. Data source: Forbes 400 lists, 1982-2024.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

As the GOP prepares to enrich the mega rich by adding trillions to the debt and cruel budget cuts, it’s worth noting that a Democratic admin probably would have made them even richer through sound economic policy and by not by throwing the markets into a panic every few weeks.

Shocked, I tell you; shocked.

Senator Padilla has the right and responsibility to advocate for his constituents and hold the Trump administration accountable for their abuses of military power. Violently handcuffing him and dragging him out of a press conference is outrageous.

Largest Trans Survey Ever: Top Reason Trans People Stop Transitioning Is Transphobia “In almost every single case, the reason was anti-trans discrimination in the form of pressure to ‘detransition’ from one’s family, friends, or community.”

ErinReed 11 Jun 25 -- A survey of 84k trans ppl -- the largest ever -- found of those who detransitioned, 94% did so due to social discrimination & rejection. Just 4% of them (0.36% of the total) detransitioned because they were not trans. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

In Donald Trump's America, if you say "I am Senator Alex Padilla, I have questions for the Secretary," you get thrown to the floor and handcuffed.

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

so they've moved along to liberating the city from the governor and the mayor?

Boebert: What we’re seeing in LA is an insurrection

Pritzker: You don’t know understand what insurrection is. It is outrageous that you are asking that when you are the one condoning the pardoning of people that attacked police.

This is the central dynamic to most of the Trump Administration’s legal strategies, including, most notably til now, the deportations to El Salvador.

A law says: Under condition X, the President can do Y.

Trump: I declare X is happening! So I can do Y.

worth adding. he's the ranking member on the immigration subcommittee. of course she knows who he is.

NEW: FBI LA statement to @FoxNews re: Senator Padilla "During a press conference today held at the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office, Senator Alex Padilla was detained by members of the U.S. Secret Service assigned to Secretary Noem’s detail when he became disruptive while formal remarks were being delivered. Secret Service Agents were assisted by FBI Police who are in Los Angeles at this time. Senator Padilla did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin. Senator Padilla was subsequently positively identified and released."

A DHS official told me Noem & security had no idea who Senator Padilla was. Now, the FBI is running with the statement that the senator "did not identify himself and was not wearing his senate security pin" — but he very much did identify himself, loudly, on video...

She is saying, in effect: "We are going to liberate the city from its democratically elected leadership using the military"

About 700 Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests | CNN Politics More than 700 Marines based out of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in California have been mobilized to respond to the protests in Los Angeles, and the troops will join the thousands of Nati...

Sending Marines to face off against citizens on U.S. soil is fundamentally un-American, a MASSIVE waste of taxpayer dollars, and an insult to our servicemembers.
 
A dangerous and needless escalation by a wannabe dictator.
 
Everyone must speak out against this abuse of power.

The New Anarchy America faces a type of extremist violence it does not know how to stop.

A stunning piece from a few years ago. Trump trolled Portland in 2020 by sending in the troops. Now he's trolling LA.

Trump has no right to deploy Oregon National Guard against protesters in Portland, Kotek insists Kotek criticized President Donald Trump for deploying the National Guard in California without the governor's consent.

Trump will take this as an invitation.

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner (Gift Article) Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.

“Lights out tonight,
trouble in the heartland,
gotta head-on collision,
crashing in my guts man”

Hard to believe this story will play in the heartland, also hard to believe it will be known outside of the major newspapers’ readership

But here goes:

berto.fyi/3SjbrUa

Trump’s “Golden Dome” Won’t Work—but It’ll Make Elon Musk Richer For 40 years, missile defense has never been about keeping America safe. It’s all about the contracts.

National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it.

https://trib.al/HylddRa

US military spends eight times more on Viagra than gender-affirming care In a hearing over the Defense Department's removal of transgender service members, a judge uncovered that the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra.

"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

Translation: The move is blatantly illegal and corrupt.

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

Please tell me someone is filing complaints with the bar.

So f*ing corrupt

My thought exactly. But those Obama girls did. Reverse racism!