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When you go to the grocery store, does it feel like the packaging and portions are smaller but more expensive and that vegetables and fruits are declining in quality? The last couple of times I went, it felt very noticeable

U.S. cities step up security measures amid Iran tensions FBI director Kash Patel instructed federal counterterrorism and intelligence to "mobilize all assisting security assets needed."

The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement.
And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent.
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Just as the Framers intended

Yup…. Black curtains doesn’t make it a sciff

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Having black curtains doesn’t make it a SCIFF

Dean W. Ball Y @deanwball X.com Think about the power Hegseth is asserting here. He is claiming that the DoD can force all contractors to stop doing business of any kind with arbitrary other companies. In other words, every operating system vendor, every manufacturer of hardware, every hyperscaler, every type of firm the DoD contracts with—all their services and products can be denied to any economic actor at will by the Secretary of War. This is obviously a psychotic power grab. It is almost surely illegal, but the message it sends is that the United States Government is a completely unreliable partner for any kind of business. The damage done to our business environment is profound. No amount of deregulatory vibes sent by this administration matters compared to this arson.

Scary af, by @deanwb.bsky.social

New: As David Ellison prepares to take control of CNN, legendary CBS News producer Mary Walsh, who is exiting, sent a goodbye note to colleagues.

In the note, Walsh writes, "We’ve been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum. Honestly, I don’t know how to do that."

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

We have lost a decade of our life to an evil idiot…a dolt. A moron. One of the most racist and dumbest humans on the planet.

10 years.

Those who live in glass concentration camps shouldn’t throw stones.

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Where are the people who cheered for DOGE as it “found” “waste, fraud, and abuse”? They’re pretty quiet while the Pres. imposes an illegal tax on his own constituents. All DOGE did was steal everyone’s data, cost more than it saved, and side note: our groceries are still going up

Rep. Haridopolos: "It's shocking to me still today that 14 states don't allow a situation where they can get away with actually not having voter ID. It's comical. You can't buy a beer, you need an ID to board a plane."

Fake News. Newsday.com/matt

No one is above….

@billdayart.bsky.social

Trump administration tries to deprive poor Minnesotans of health care because brave Minnesotans stood up to them.

Empathy is what stops the law from becoming a weapon

Authority knows if they can drain empathy from society, they can hollow us out.

The most dangerous moment is not when the law is broken loudly, but when it is broken quietly

@asharangappa.bsky.social on the State of the Swamp on now

Big challenge for political pundits:

Discuss the speech the president actually gives tonight, and not the one you maybe thought you might have seen if you squinted just right.

Compare that real speech to the real world around us.

Probably in no small part because it casts Cannon in a terrible light.

“We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower … suicide because the [Repub] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.”

@hcrichardson.bsky.social

As FBI Director, Patel travels on official government aircraft — the cost of which (fuel, crew, maintenance) is covered by federal appropriations, not by Patel personally. Independent estimates put a round-trip flight to Italy in this situation at roughly $75,000 in operating costs.

As FBI Director, Patel travels on official government aircraft — the cost of which (fuel, crew, maintenance) is covered by federal appropriations, not by Patel personally. Independent estimates put a round-trip flight to Italy in this situation at roughly $75,000 in operating costs.

As FBI Director, Patel travels on official government aircraft — the cost of which (fuel, crew, maintenance) is covered by federal appropriations, not by Patel personally. Independent estimates put a round-trip flight to Italy in this situation at roughly $75,000 in operating costs.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.