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There is no law that says "the White House can accept 'donations' to cover budget shortfalls with no oversight or disclosure of where the money came from."

None of this is legal, unless we're in a dictatorship where Trump can just say what the law is now. Which — apparently —we are.

DOD accepts anonymous $130M donation to partially cover troop pay White House and military officials will not say who the donor is or whether the gift has been properly vetted.

So the government is "shut down" but Trump can illegally fund anything he wants with "donations" from people who want to bribe him. That's where we're at this week. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

The biggest thing ultimately for me is the Star Wars company wanted to make a Star War and the Star Wars actors wanted to make a Star War and some fucking suit who is guilty of sucking all the creative juice from his company said no so now the Star Wars company cant make Star Wars

Absolute madness. Utter incompetence and malpractice from Iger and Bergman. Reylos are going to burn down Burbank.

Bob Iger, a man who had no logistical objections to a movie that doesn't explain how Jeff Bridges came back to life, can't imagine a resurrection story in a series with immaculate conception, bigfoot pilots, and old baby frog puppets.

Roberts is a Nazi

See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

YouTube video by Novara Media BREAKING: A Fleet of Vessels is Approaching the Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla are incredibly brave people, doing what our govt should be doing: breaking the blockade & bringing aid to Gaza. Here's the livestream as it approaches the Gaza coast, and I'm pretty sure the genocidal Israeli govt will try to stop them:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAN...

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla 24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

Correct link to the current live feed:

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Israel Kills 51 Palestinians in 24 Hours as Gaza-Bound Global Sumud Flotilla Sails into “High-Risk Zone” Two missiles struck al-Falah School in Gaza City, which had been converted into a shelter for hundreds of displaced people.

Israel Kills 51 Palestinians in 24 Hours as Gaza-Bound Global Sumud Flotilla Sails into “High-Risk Zone”

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

"The ICC was set up in 2002 to legally pursue cases of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression.

Out of 33 cases launched since its inception, all but one involved an African country."

Three West African countries to quit International Criminal Court The three military juntas, who came to power through coups, say the judicial body is 'incapable' of handling 'proven war crimes'.

"Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have announced they will immediately withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), labelling it an "instrument of neo-colonialist repression"."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government kidnapped a 5-year old girl to use as a hostage against her father

Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

We live in a country where the president can order a comedian to be yanked off TV. What I describe is not a democracy.

If you have not grappled with the fact that this happens in this country—that this HAS been happening for a very long time, and you’ve been riding your high horse sniffing and thinking that THOSE people didn’t protest RIGHT—that is on you.

I’m saying this because I got tagged into someone saying “well, it won’t be a problem if nobody does illegal things at protests.”

Illegal things like what, getting kettled by cops after they tear gas your peaceful, permitted protest?

If you have no sense of the way that this country has criminalized what would otherwise be peaceful, legal protests over the course of decades, you are not qualified to be having this conversation.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported

Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling.

We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

It’s important to remember that this all started not because a comedian said anything wrong but because a comedian said something in a tone that was disapproved by the president and his executive team.

Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

There is a roughly 100% chance he thinks that both this and Kimmel are the same ABC