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Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Imagine being 17, your little brother by your side, begging to speak to your dad as he’s dragged away. You may never see him again. And this is every day. Soul shattering, nightmarish stuff, never to be forgiven.

Politico Magazine: "The Theory Behind Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"

The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.

Yep, it’s the food stamps.

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

If this didn’t happen domestically, it would be a war crime.

It should be a crime to fire at civilians within the United States within certain distances.

We have never seen civil disobedience *or even outright riots* in which short-range is anything but punitive and cruel—it doesn’t aid control.

"We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different, leave our mark in the history books, and make a difference." -- Letter from Aurora's mayor to PD

Corruption is not a sideshow Autocracy is the few vs. the many

“Corruption, across history, is practically synonymous with autocracy. Abuses of power for personal gain are both an inevitable consequence of unchecked power — that’s why the checks existed in the first place — and part of the playbook autocrats use to stay in power.”

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

This shit should be illegal. It's so gross and obviously abusive.

trump is demolishing our national symbols and selling the country for scrap to his corrupt donors

This is unacceptable.

Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes explains why she is suing Mike Johnson for not swearing Adelita Grijalva into office. "By not swearing her in he's depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation. That's called taxation without representation. We fought a revolutionary war over that."

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

How many Trump nominees is this now with "a Nazi streak"? Just asking.

Nonzero chance one of those awful TRUMP signs winds up on the side of the finished renovation.

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor. I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor. Who would it be? David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist. Thank you for the correction. Very welcome.

amazing opening
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National Security Presidential Memorandum/NSPM-8 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF WAR               THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET SUBJECT:       Use of

I can’t overstate how entirely untethered to the constitution and past practice this unilateral move to repurpose funds to pay for military pay is. The commander-in-chief clause has precisely 0 bearing on the ability to expend funds. Here’s a list of authorities that do:

“Trump is deeply unpopular. He’s failing on multiple fronts. His presidency is a disaster. The economy is is on the skids. The tariffs are a catastrophe. He’s admitting, and his own agencies—the Labor Department is admitting—that his mass deportations are screwing the economy in various ways.”

Bub the green dinosaur enjoying a quick coctail

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The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

Why Denver Airport Isn't Playing Kristi Noem's Finger-Pointy TSA Video "Democrats in Congress refuse to fund the federal government, and because of this, many of our operations are impacted," she claims.

Denver isn't:

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

they like Trump and want to help him