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It’s unacceptable that this is just now coming to light.

DHS’s lack of transparency with the public and members of Congress makes us less safe.

We need transparency and accountability NOW.

This, from the lawyer who successfully argued the tariff case before SCOTUS, casts huge doubt over the applicability of the statute the @POTUS is relying on to slap down a new 15 percent global tariff.
His own lawyers dismissed it in their arguments to the court.

I couldn't agree more! #fascism

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a poorly drawn cat sitting in a loaf position, connected by a cord to a wall outlet as if charging. above the cat, handwritten text reads: “zoomies are loading”

a cat sitting in a loaf position on beige carpet near a wall outlet. a white phone charger is plugged into the wall, and the cord curves across the floor toward the cat, creating the illusion that the cat is plugged in and charging

Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus Senior Army warrant officers will bid against each other for a bonus that they will take to sign up for six more years of active duty.

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Wow! Deep red Idaho! Thank you for supporting Ukraine!

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

Worth a repost, for those who didn't see it yesterday.

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Any help in the US going to Ukraine is coming from volunteers in places like Pocatello, Idaho.

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I Was on ‘Naked and Afraid.’ I Know the Real Reason We Love Survival Shows. The themes addressed on shows like ‘Naked and Afraid,’ ‘Alone,’ and ‘Survivor’ are more relevant than ever

The themes addressed on shows like ‘Naked and Afraid,’ ‘Alone,’ and ‘Survivor’ are more relevant than ever

Just an FYI that my town in deep red Idaho hasn’t forgotten Ukraine. bsky.app/profile/kari...

FYI.

City of Pocatello - City Hall's Facebook post Pocatello Welcomes Novovorontsovka Delegation The City of Pocatello was honored to welcome a delegation from Novovorontsovka County, Ukraine, to our community. The delegation shared firsthand their experiences and the critical role of local leadership in keeping their community functioning under the extreme conditions of war. The delegation was also here to recognize the assistance of the Pocatello community. Through the generosity of Pocatello residents and local supporters, three solar stations were funded to help restore running water to nearly 5,000 residents in Novovorontsovka, a community located just miles from Russian forces. This life-sustaining project was facilitated by forPEACE and reflects the compassion and global impact of those who call Pocatello home.

This is the Idaho I know & love. Helping a community in Ukraine restore its power. Slava Ukraini! Slava Pocatello!

City of Pocatello - City Hall's Facebook post Pocatello Welcomes Novovorontsovka Delegation The City of Pocatello was honored to welcome a delegation from Novovorontsovka County, Ukraine, to our community. The delegation shared firsthand their experiences and the critical role of local leadership in keeping their community functioning under the extreme conditions of war. The delegation was also here to recognize the assistance of the Pocatello community. Through the generosity of Pocatello residents and local supporters, three solar stations were funded to help restore running water to nearly 5,000 residents in Novovorontsovka, a community located just miles from Russian forces. This life-sustaining project was facilitated by forPEACE and reflects the compassion and global impact of those who call Pocatello home.

This is the Idaho I know & love. Helping a community in Ukraine restore its power. Slava Ukraini! Slava Pocatello!

'Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs:' Inside an AI-Powered Private School Leaked documents reveal the inner workings of Alpha School, which both the press and the Trump administration have applauded. The documents show Alpha School's AI is generating faulty lessons that som...

This is an insane story start to finish. $65k a year "AI school" heavily surveils students, generates nonsensical questions that "does more harm than good," scrapes from competitors. Stores hours of video of children insecurely. Lots more:

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A Colombian congresswoman who supports Trump denounces her son’s arrest by ICE: ‘He has been chained up for 20 days’ Ángela Vergara calls for ‘intervention’ by Gustavo Petro’s government to speed up repatriation flights while facing criticism for her ideological closeness to the Republican

The MAGA leopard eats right-wing Colombian faces as well.

Buffett is giving all of his wealth away when he dies. Kids get nothing. They had to make their own way (which they’ve done).

Last week my Instacart driver picked up expiring-that-day half & half. I was so happy. 😂

Yep. And “best buy” doesn’t mean “expired.” Thanks to grocery delivery, I only step into a grocery store nowadays to hit the discount sections dotting the store’s periphery. A quick in & out visit avoiding the crowds & saving 50-75% per visit. My pantry & freezer look like discount racks.

That’s how NAFO became such a large international online movement in support of Ukraine worthy of Lithuania’s highest civilian honor. That & weird looking dog avatars. And memes. Great memes.

Operation Metro Surge cost Minneapolis at least $203 million, city officials say Minneapolis officials have released an estimated tab on what Operation Metro Surge has cost city residents so far.

So far it looks like Trump, Noem, and operation metro surge drained Minneapolis alone—not yet counting St. Paul, Bloomington, etc.— $203 million. This was a MAGA Trump assault on an American blue city. Nothing more. Start seeing it.

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I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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Few things in life truly make me feel happier than snagging perfectly edible food on deep discount at the grocery store with the "Manager's Special" tag.

a man wearing a hat and a sweater is standing in a grassy field . ALT: a man wearing a hat and a sweater is standing in a grassy field .

Best ham I’ve ever eaten was an uncured ham originally $20 marked down to $7…and I still have 2 more in the freezer!

How it happened: The campaign was born in early 2024, according to sources familiar with the internal deliberations. Tony Sayegh, a Treasury and White House official in Trump's first term, became a key man in the TikTok triumph. Sayegh was on a ski vacation when he saw President Biden declare in March 2024 that he'd sign a TikTok ban if Congress passed one. Sayegh — dubbed "TikTok's Trump Whisperer" by a Wall Street Journal article shortly after Trump's election — phoned a TikTok executive and suggested the very solution that eventually came to pass: If Trump won, he could sign an executive order thwarting the ban. "Impossible," the TikTok official said. "Can't happen." But it did, thanks to an aggressive political and legal strategy, paired with some lucky breaks. Some TikTok executives were skittish about going all-in with Trump, but Sayegh often told the company's D.C. team that Trump was the only person who could save TikTok in America. Chew warmed to the strategy. The biggest U.S. investor in ByteDance, TikTok's China-based parent company, is Susquehanna International Group, where Sayegh is head of public affairs.

Key reporting from @axios.com. In essence, a former Trump official, and then executive at TikTok's largest US investor, called TikTok and made clear that if Trump won in November, the ban wouldn't happen.

Then Trump became the most viewed content on TikTok.

And won.

And TikTok wasn't banned.