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Republicans to Democrats: We started a war so now you have to agree to additional DHS funding without ICE reforms.

Please don’t forget to vote today! Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina are kicking off the 2026 midterm cycle with their primary elections.

Oops.

There goes one of Trump only two accurate claims of success for his second term, down the drain.

I was just going to skeet this today (that they are going to blame terrorism on Dems)….it’s also worth noting that even if DHS were funded, almost all their reapurces (plus the FBI’s) are going towards immigration

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

GOP (7 months from now): "Of course he canceled the election, but he did it proactively as a defensive action."

Sorry peeps, it's benign. Put the popcorn and champagne away for now.

Yaaay! 🥳
Which part is going to fall off first?
The nose? An ear?
The ‘mushroom’… 🤭

Here it is. Republican now view the Constitution as a "moot point." Trump is being officially anointed as "America's First Dictator."

KAINE: To wage offensive war, the framers of the Constitution were absolutely plain that you gotta come to Congress

KERNEN: But it's almost a moot point

KAINE: Let me just underline the fact that I made an argument about the Constitution and you said it's a 'moot point.' I don't believe that

It's opposite day!

Kristi Noem taking an oath.

One of the few bright spots left over from a formerly good faith Republicans is that he still swears in witnesses.

Kristi Noem with triple thickness fake eyelashes on.

Kristi Noem testifying before SJC now.

www.c-span.org/event/senate...

Imagine if Joe Biden started a war and then tried to explain it to the press, only to start rambling about his gold drapes and a ballroom. Fox News heads would explode.

ALERT: Average price for gallon of gasoline jumped 11 cents overnight to about $3.11

According to report from motor club AAA

U.S.A. deserves a Commander-in-Chief who doesn’t have a 3 hour standing appointment with ‘Executive Time’ esp in times of war. This is a fixed item on POTUS public schedule. Same reason we never had early call times on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Trump is not functional human being.

entirely possible, except this instance will have a much longer tail because we’re creating new enemies by the minute and the potential consequences of the whole world fucking hating us continue to grow considerably more terrifying.

Agree. Hell, even your Allies have started hating you.
Not all Americans, but Trump, his lawless cabinet, his enablers, & those who voted him in & still support him, & those who prefer to ignore what is happening because they find it unpleasant, boring, or both.

After 30+ years, thousands of lives and trillions of wasted dollars, most Americans know this much.

Stay the hell out of the Middle East.

Watching the most delusional and incompetent administration in our lifetimes try to convince us otherwise, would be comical if it wasn’t dangerous.

Your 401(k) is under attack too.

Today is a new day, with a new round of gas price hikes.

The judge describes a string of discriminatory, retaliatory and unrebutted abuses by DHS and ICE against a man who was granted accces to the country and had permission to work -- then was arrested for ... seeming Latino? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad.

"The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pete Hegseth is a dangerous as anyone we may fear in Iran. He is an extremist in every sense of the word. I’ve met a few like him, Greg Kelly comes to mind. Former drunks & rapey frat bros who find Jesus when the booze goes away and think toxic violence is part of the gospel.🖕🏻

"Squirter:" The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict - emptywheel Donald Trump started an illegal war of choice to prevent US forces from being targeted. And yet, no one considered the possibility that the Arab states hosting those US forces would themselves become ...

Reup: "Squirter:" The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict

emptywheel.net/the-catastro...

Forever?! It’s Tuesday. There are 245 days until the midterm elections. Minnie ain’t done with Bovino, the White House press flush the last of their credibility and Trump says America can fight ‘forever.’

Forever?!
It’s Tuesday. There are 245 days until the midterm elections. Minnie ain’t done with Bovino, the White House press flush the last of their credibility and Trump says America can fight ‘forever.’

Kristi Noem now claims that the FBI is leading the investigations into the Renee Good and Alex Pretti murders, which would be news in the former case (unless they're trying to claim she broke the law).

She's now claiming that the contractors themselves were competitively bid, but she was simply helpless that she and her aides got a cut of the subcontract.

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

John Kennedy got Kristi Noem to admit she has to approve contracts over $10M. (Her deputies can approve up to $5M.)

Then he asked about her $220M propaganda campaign.

www.propublica.org/article/kris...