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And chew gum found in urinals.

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Photo shows overview viewpoint from the gallery of people milling around blue carpeted floor of the the U.S. Senate during a vote. Caption below photo says: YEA 52 and NAY 47 Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to the consideration of H.R. 7147, the Consolidated Appropriations Act

Congress moving closer to a shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Senate Democrats have filibustered a DHS funding bill - it needed 60 votes. Funding runs out Friday night.

ACLU's lawsuit over ICE raid at an Idaho racetrack could be a game changer The filing aims to hold rogue federal agents accountable by linking them to a conspiracy.

About 200 officers from a range of federal, state, and local agencies descended on an Idaho racetrack.

The officers rounded up 400 people, forcing just about everyone onto the track, where, according to the suit, they sorted people by perceived immigration status, typically based on skin color.

This man is in charge of America’s health.

Here he is on right wing media talking about how he’s not afraid of germs because he used to snort coke off of toilet seats.

On NPR this morning, two lawmakers talk of the DOJ surveilling their searches in the unredacted Epstein files. First, GOP Rep. Nancy Mace: "There is a tech person who logs you into the computer. They log you into the computer because they're giving you your own identification...”

"A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16...

"He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants...

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Just a rotting bag of flesh devoid of any brain.

Pretty compelling: Tuesday night, protesters packed the City Council meeting in Surprise, Arizona, over a proposed ICE detention center.
👉 You need to hear what this man told the Council. x.com/LOLGOP/statu...

Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery has suspended oil processing after a fire caused by a Ukrainian drone attack, Reuters reports. The AVT-1 unit processes about 18,600 tons per day. In 2024 the plant refined 13.5 million tons of crude. #Ukraine

This ICE sniper-training contractor caught a gun-under-the-influence charge, per Lexis.
/ht @agordon.me

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, removing key basis for climate change fight.

Trump on Lee Zeldin's extremely boring speech: "That was long"

Russians desperate for solutions. Due to Starlink outages, Russian troops are laying so-called Wi-Fi bridges to maintain communications at positions. According to reports, these setups make them easier targets for Ukrainian FPV drones. #Ukraine

“What about all the people Jeffery Dahmer didn’t murder?”

So he admits they did murder?

Rand Paul to ICE/CBP officials: "You have to look at what your rules are for drawing weapons, because it appears to be they're not using the same standard as the police"

Shortly before he left for college in DC in 2022, the radical new social media director for DHS, Peyton Rollins, won an award for work promoting diversity in US culture. So what radicalized him? The seven jobs he had between 2022 and 2025 working for people like Nancy Mace and Steve Scalise.

Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design" "What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."

Violent interactions with the public aren’t surprising, a former ICE official said of the agency under Trump.

“That’s sort of by design.”

HASSAN: DHS officers have killed two American citizens in Minnesota this year. What were their names?

LYONS: Renee Good and Alex Pretti

HASSAN: I'm glad to hear you say their names. Because so far this morning, as well as in 3 hours of testimony Tuesday, you failed to say their names a single time

Sen. Schatz on the failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers: “I’m not entirely sure the United States Senate can survive this if we do not have Republicans standing up for our most basic principles."

Not only is this what you would do if you were trying to kill a technology and a company developing it ….

it's what you would do if you were trying to kill *people*.

They shut down the sky over El Paso under “National Defense.”
Flights grounded.
Local leaders blindsided.
The story shifted.
And the object? A balloon.
The object isn’t the story.
The scale of the response is.

HASSAN: You said you don't want to comment on these ongoing investigations because you don't want to bias them. So did Noem and Stephen Miller bias the investigation when they called Pretti a domestic terrorist?

LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments


H: That doesn't make any sense

Hassan to Lyons: "I would hope I get the same treatment that Sen. Wicker got, which is to say the town doesn't want the detention center, so please cancel it. And I would expect that my partisan affiliation shouldn't make any difference to that determination."

LOL…yet she sits by while brown children are put in detention camps, rubber stamping those actions by her silence.

Trump has his discolored hand all painted up today

When are we going to put this failed game show host out to pasture? There is NOTHING Presidential about him. Nothing.

US trying to avoid "damaging" Chinese deals in Venezuela, energy secretary says U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said during a trip to Venezuela on Wednesday legitimate deals by legitimate Chinese companies will be fine in Venezuela, but the Trump administration is trying to av...

So the US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped its president and first lady in order to protect _Chinese_ oil and gas interests? Seriously? It just keeps getting weirder. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

DHS took confidential immigrant tax data from the IRS in order to carry out Trump's cruel deportation agenda — and target immigrants at their jobs.

But I thought immigrants were "lazy freeloaders" who mooch off the system and don't pay taxes?

Hello?