Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Ossoff: "The WH put out a video depicting this war as a video game. When service members are returning in flag-draped coffins, & even more have lost limbs or suffered brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this WH treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to a moral rot."
By holding oil prices hostage Iran shows Trump that regime change can go both ways. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...
Very interesting stuff here. A new supplemental funding bill, notionally to pay for the Iran War, will be a back door way for the White House to claim Congress retroactively authorized the war itself talkingpointsmemo.com/news/for-tru...
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
As a reader since Election 2000 I concur. Highly recommended.
EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social
www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...
HOLY SHIT.
A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election.
Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?
Karp always delivers, he can't help himself and rants openly about Palantir's bloodlust and war-profiteering. He's been doing this for years. Anyone who speaks seriously about Palantir should be shunned. They are what Karp says they are.
If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...
Still no censure of Tommy Tuberville, Randy Fine, or Andy Ogles, who are openly promoting hate against Muslims while the US is bombing Iran, killing the Ayatollah, and people like Lindsey Graham are calling it a "religious war" DURING RAMADAN.
How do you think this all ends, folks?
Talarico: "There's another war in the Middle East. There's a cost of living crisis. There's a secret pedophile ring & no one has been prosecuted. So the people responsible are trying to distract us with the same old culture wars ... what do the American people care more about -- pronouns or prices?"
lmao why is the NASA administrator going on Fox and railing against Iran?
(this is a rhetorical question -- the answer is that nobody in the Trump administration has actual job duties)
using public office to name and shame evil landlords into submission is so cool. i hope democrats learn from him
Trump is the leader of the pedophile protection party.
Trump is in the Epstein files 38,000 times.
Trump wrote to Epstein about their “wonderful secret.”
Trump flew on Epstein’s private jet (and lied.)
Honestly that is the key to all this, the source of all of our problems: everyone is 12. Even the flabby, saggy, balding Boomers & Gen Xrs: psychologically they're all 12. They're immature, self-centered, lazy, lack impulse control & are utterly ignorant of the world all while thinking they're cool.
"We started a war of aggression for no reason & commenced it by accidentally bombing an elementary school & killing over 100 kids."
That simple fact is so horrific that it's just kind of bouncing on the surface of our collective consciousness. We can't absorb its full implications & significance.
I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.
They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!
If the shoes don’t fit, you must submit.
It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains.
Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.
As a point of comparison, the US spent $21 billion in FY 2022 to feed billions of breakfasts and lunches to kids in schools across our whole country for an entire year under the universal school meals program that was later discontinued.
Can this be a solution?
the way it seems right now, irans goal is to destroy our economy and our goal is to provide footage for dank memes the administration can post so edgelords will think theyre cool
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
