El Martillo

This is what happens when the gamers age.

Trump floats 50-year mortgages — experts call it ‘a horrible idea.’ Here’s why President Trump has floated the idea of mortgages that take half a century to pay off. Here’s how that could affect Bay Area home prices — and why financial experts don’t like the idea.

President Trump has floated the idea of mortgages that take half a century to pay off. Here’s how that could affect Bay Area home prices — and why financial experts don’t like the idea.

Get his ass!

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

"Wind projects lead to better local schools and lift neighbouring property values by about 3 per cent, according to a surprising new piece of research out of the US this week." reneweconomy.com.au/wind-farms-l... via @racheljourno.bsky.social 🔌💡

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

Anyone who goes to conservative conferences knows how many groypers and or Nick Fuentes disciples staff Capitol Hill offices, think tanks or lobbying firms.

The disconnect on that stuff for people is mind boggling.

Dudes LOVE to just parrot common knowledge and take it as a given without much reflection or examination. The common knowledge in this sense being the aforementioned “Men/Mars, Women/Venus” and “human nature” nonsense. I don’t know why so many who know how to examine truth, are so bad about it.

You’ve GOT to be kidding me!

Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Should have been bricks

The WPA kept two of my great-grandfathers working.

Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.

Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.

Does this sound familiar?

Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."

I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC

I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.

I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.

Wired: ICE planning a shadow deportation network in Texas As we’ve mentioned, Dallas will soon discuss whether the Dallas Police Department should participate in the federal 287(g) program, specifically, a part

Another thing to keep in mind: www.dmagazine.com/micropost/wi...

The Marshall Project says ICE partnerships also hurt local police retention The City Council isn’t meeting or holding briefings this week, which means the question of whether Dallas should consider participating in the federal

And this is a Marshall Project story about how it could have a negative impact on police retention.

www.dmagazine.com/micropost/th...

Several people have signed up to speak. What's interesting is it's not just a single demographic--they're all being represented so far, and they're all adamantly against the city partnering with ICE.

Your Dream House Might Be a Fantasy AI has has invaded the real estate industry, dissolving the boundaries between image enhancement and false advertising.

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

RFK Jr. peeling out of the meeting like he can't remember whether he's the one who sold that guy the heroin.

All I'm saying is the reason I don't buy that POLITICO article about Rs moving away from Trump is that they could easily just agree to release the Epstein Files and then they wouldn't even have to worry about the political fallout. Media would do the work for them. They want and like him in charge.

If you are a federal worker or know someone who has been impacted by the shutdown, these resources can help: aflcio.org/about-us/pro...

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.

Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

People want so badly to give proven awful even evil people the benefit of the doubt. Human beings want to badly to not believe that people are not actually capable of being so terrible. There is something in us that wants to find the humanity in people who wouldn't return such grace.

If NYC is more than happy to vote for a young Muslim man, then I think that's a pretty strong indicator that 2024 was not about Americans rejecting a woman of color.

Today, Idaho is the reddest state in the union. The current GOP governor, Brad Little, is considered way too liberal for the right wing of the party despite being pro-life, pro-business, pro-Trump. The Dems haven't won a statewide office in years.

You cannot appease your way to victory.