Julia Sugarbaker 🇺🇸

“Do you think life should suck for everyone and be an ongoing hell or do you think things could be better?”
“BETTER!”
“This somehow isn’t going as well as I thought”

The vast majority of US adults are stressed about grocery costs, an AP-NORC poll finds A new poll finds the vast majority of U.S. adults are feeling some stress about the cost of groceries, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariffs rema...

The vast majority of American adults are stressed about the cost of groceries, a new poll finds, as prices continue to rise and concerns about the impact of Trump’s tariffs remain widespread.

Q: Why did you cut snap and health care research? Rep. Flood:
We do not have unlimited money in the United States. [Crowd booing]

Opinion | The DHS adds blasphemy to its list of offenses DHS’ attempt to cherry-pick Bible verses to justify its policies is a battle it can’t win.

This isn’t devotion...it’s a hate sermon served with Bible verses by DHS. When government weaponizes faith to expel people and stage mass deportation theater, that's fascism in a cloak. Resist the cruelty. Fight the lie. #AntiFascism

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

This is probably old news by now. You get what you give. Birds of a feather flock together ( 🐓 TACO ).
People that made the loudest noise to "save the children" and "its for the children" "protect the children" are proving (themselves) to be predators. Louder they scream the more they have to hide.

'Ominous' Supreme Court order buried in 'obscure' weekend filing: expert A legal expert flagged an "ominous" order the U.S. Supreme Court slipped into view over a summer weekend that could even further erode voting rights.The court's intentions can be difficult to parse th...

They killed campaign finance in Citizens United, killed reproductive rights in Dobbs, and now they're ready to deep six what is left of voting rights.

This 2026 ruling in effect will reinstitute Jim Crow 2.

The midterm timing of it also means they want civil rights unrest and will get it.

In case anyone was under the impression that Tesla wasn't down with "stiff arm salutes" and starving kids in Africa.

Make it make sense.....

WTF did he expect?
If you put a vengeful, narcissistic megalomaniac in charge, you're going to get chaos & destruction.
And it cannot pick & choose the states or regions. It will hit everyone.

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ICE may deport migrants to countries they aren't from with just six hours' notice Immigration officials may deport migrants to countries other than their own with as little as six hours' notice, Trump administration memo says.

It is important to emphasize that enforced disappearance is a violation of international human rights law and US legal challenges are being pursued against such practices.
Trump is doing it anyway.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Many are moved from state to state, often a day or two before a Federal hearing can happen, for no reason but to delay or deny that process. Over 100 have already been deported WITHOUT DUE PROCESS! In the meantime, DeSantis is gloating and praising the fascism. And now NPR is on life support.

Many being held have NO criminal record. Some have lived/worked in the US for 20+ years. One was picked up for "fishing while looking Hispanic," others for "driving while looking Hispanic." Attorneys can visit clients by ZOOM, but the background is blurry, so there's no attorney client privilege...

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

I know everyone likes to joke but the grocery store is genuinely unconscionably expensive right now.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

I know this will get me in trouble. I usually try not to curse but my military is showing…

These stupid motherfuckers want to put a nuclear reactor on the moon. Boondoggle and a straight money enema to our oligarchs.

Epstein files must be very, very bad.

The VISIBLE Act would ban ICE agents from hiding their faces and require them to wear visible identification. Congress must pass it.

For all those rightwingers crying about how “DeMoCrAtS GerRyMaNdEr ToO,” just ask them if they support a nationwide ban on gerrymandering. We do. They don’t. They’re not mad at the concept of gerrymandering, they’re mad that they don’t get to be the only party wielding it anymore.

Abbott just issued arrest warrants for the Dems who fled the state.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: unbothered.

“You have a lot of intelligent attorneys that serve in the Texas House, and so they know there’s nothing he can do outside of the Texas jurisdiction.”

Rep. Ann Johnson
They're willing to break the law to cling to power.
We're willing to break quorum to protect it.

Today's news cycle feels like it was written by a sugared-up 5-year-old:

GIVE ME $15,000 IF YOU WANT TO VISIT!! IT'S ILLEGAL NOT TO BUY MY LEMONADE!! I'M GONNA BLOW UP THE MOOOOON

My general rule of them is if you or anybody else finds yourself saying “why didn’t you just…” that’s a good indication that there is a deeper complexity at work that countless smart people have tried to fix

And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

Since the interviewee must remain anonymous, we are now calling this Moynihan's Law:
"The easier a governmental task looks to an outsider, the more likely it has been found to be impossible by many smart people in the past."

S&P, on private credit:

“.. Selective defaults, driven by flexible covenants .., have surged, outpacing conventional defaults by a 5:1 ratio in 2024. This trend is concerning as it obscures early warning signals and allows companies to deteriorate further before triggering conventional defaults.”

I want to see them all stand trial for crimes against humanity. Homan too.

These are INNOCENT PEOPLE.
And YOUR PRESIDENT, YOUR "ATTORNEY GENERAL", YOUR GOVERNMENT sent them to BE TORTURED in a FOREIGN DICTATORSHIP.

If you voted for Trump and you don't DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO REMOVE HIM,

Then ALL OF THIS IS ON YOU.

And you will be going to hell.

GET UP.
SPEAK UP.