Connie Matthiessen

Interesting ay?

Kristi Noem is so desperate to find ICE agents that she’s lifting age caps and giving out bonuses while a majority they arrest have never even been convicted of a crime.

Republicans are facing backlash for boosting ICE funding while cutting health care. Just take a look at Mike Flood’s town hall.

Fourth court blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order nationwide U.S. President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship was blocked nationwide by a fourth court on Thursday, after a judge issued an injunction in a class action covering children born anywhere in the United States who would be affected by it.

Watch the Lawless Majority of the Roberts Court try to slow-walk the birthright citizenship issue now! The four nationwide injunctions meet every procedural requirement and the rulings are clearly right on the merits. Maybe Trump’s DOJ just won’t seek cert.

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South Park wins the internet for their profile pic of Kristi Noem on Twitter X.

Boom.

This is CBS’s total surrender to Big Brother. George Orwell and Edward R. Murrow would weep. We all should. What will we see ABC and NBC do?

Smithsonian restores Trump to impeachment display in American history museum The National Museum of American History removed a placard describing the president's two impeachments last week. The new text makes minor changes -- and offers slightly less detail.

Breaking news: The Smithsonian restored President Trump to an impeachment display in the National Museum of American History but made slight changes.

The restoration comes after The Post reported that Trump had been removed from the exhibit’s temporary sign.

Every day I’m inspired by the bravery of these courageous ICE agents.

A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General in Texas history.

This malignant clown was impeached by his own party.

He has ZERO credibility on issues of law and order. Pipe down.

Kennedy’s rejection of mRNA vaccines thwarts scientific progress — and threatens national security, experts say Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is also a matter of national security, experts say.

Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to discontinue funding for mRNA vaccines has alarmed scientists. But it is also a matter of national security, experts say.
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The WSJ Editorial Board has just published an absolutely *brutal* takedown of RFK Jr.’s desire to end the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

“…about to dismantle a rare oasis of legal sanity.”

“Therein lies the real goal of Mr. Kennedy’s “fixes”: Enriching the personal-injury bar.”

New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration My early morning runs in Washington, DC always include a swing around the tidal basin for a quick stop at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial. It’s one of my favorite memorials in our nation’s capital.

New National Park Service Exhibit at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Temporarily Halted by Trump Administration
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"When I talk to folks in Europe and I talk to even older people...they look at me like, do you guys understand how bad it is? Do you know how far down the path towards dictatorship you actually are?" @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social talks American authoritarianism with @timmiller.bsky.social:

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Orange is the New Hack.

I happened to notice this post of mine from 2019. It’s stunning to realize how clear the agenda was then that he’s advancing with deeper hostility now.

International Trade 101.

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Idaho lost one in three obstetricians after its abortion ban New research confirms: Crackdowns on reproductive rights have harmful ripple effects across local health care.

Two months after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade, in June 2022, Idaho’s trigger ban outlawing most abortions—one of the strictest nationwide—took effect.

According to a new peer-reviewed paper study, Idaho lost more than a third of its OBs—94 of 268 total—afterwards.

Federal mRNA funding cut is 'most dangerous public health decision' ever, expert says Many public health experts and scientists say they are stunned by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for future vaccine develop...

Federal mRNA funding cut is ‘most dangerous public health decision’ ever, expert says
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Nearly 2 million Americans on unemployment, highest since pandemic era Continuing unemployment claims jumped to 1.97 million in late July, according to a Labor Department report, highlighting a weakening labor market.

The number of Americans receiving unemployment benefits for at least a week rose to the highest level since late 2021, according to Labor Department data.

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

What to know about mRNA vaccines Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic

Research shows mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Priorities.

The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.

The Epstein Scandal Is Getting Much Worse. Don’t Look Away Coverage of the Epstein scandal is starting to wane, we can't let the story fade from the conversation.

The Epstein Scandal Is Getting Much Worse. Don’t Look Away
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ challenged in federal court hearing

Thank you to Friends of the Everglades for standing up against “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

NEW: Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating police officers on Jan. 6, 2021, and yelling "kill 'em" as rioters attacked law enforcement. He’s now working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice.

Jessica: As for the manufacturing boom which he is talking about—in the latest jobs report, we lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs and the manufacturing industry has contracted the most we have seen in the last nine months,

Fact check:

mRNA vaccines for respiratory viruses are meant to prevent severe illness (bad Pneumonia).

This means beefing up our immunity in the *lower* respiratory tract, eg the lungs.

Kennedy talks about the *upper* respiratory tract and vaccine efficacy in nonsensical gibberish.