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Packy Anderson
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Packy's just zis guy, you know?
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Boko Haram kills more Muslims than Christians but it will be a cold day in Hell before any Trumpist gives a shit about that.
Trump says he's instructing the Department of Defense to prepare for military action against Nigeria
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Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.
🚨 EXPLOSIVE NEW investigation: We uncovered previously undisclosed details about an 18-month money laundering investigation into Jeffrey Epstein that took place alongside the 2007 sex crimes probe, according to emails obtained from Epstein's personal Yahoo account
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Jeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case
Federal prosecutors opened a financial-crimes investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 amid their larger sex-trafficking probe. The financier and his legal team waged a war against them, his emails ...
www.bloomberg.com
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He knows the Sunday show producers are busy stacking their rundowns. Gotta feed them topics that aren’t ‘shutdown’, ‘SNAP’, ‘inflation’ or ‘Epstein’.
Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.
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I love the punditry that is essentially, “Mamdani probably can’t deliver on all of his progressive promises so to be safe we better go with the resigned in disgrace guy.”
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Yet in 2010, Noem—then a congressional candidate—had “20 speeding tickets, three stop-sign violations, two seat-belt violations and a citation for driving with no driver’s license.” She had six court notices for failing to appear, and had two warrants out for her arrest. trib.al/uQSDaqR
ICE Barbie Says Immigrants Are Too Dumb to Drive Semitrucks
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made the inane claim while bragging about arresting immigrant truck drivers.
trib.al
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Panem.
Spotted at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Halloween bash:

Giant ice sculpture with built-in luge. Pour booze in the top funnel and it chills and shoots out the bottom.

This monster? Likely $5K+ for one-time use.
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Donald Trump isn't just cutting "Democrat programs". He's cutting American programs.
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Leader of The Free Poopin'
Trump won’t stop posting about the bathroom!
I was going to say, we should eschew diversity and not allow anyone who isn't white, anglo-saxon, and protestant to hold office.

Which would mean NYC doesn't have a "valid" mayoral candidate. Especially not the Italian Catholic Cuomo.

*shakes head* We don't learn any lessons, do we?
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Point worth reiterating: “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien."
DHS document states ICE will NOT let people decline from being scanned by its new facial recognition app - Mobile Fortify.

It is used to verify one’s identity and immigration status. However, the face photos taken will be stored for 15 years, regardless of your immigration status.
You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says
Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.
www.404media.co
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The shutdown is ultimately a legislative negotiation about a budget.
Hard to resolve it when the controlling party in one part of Congress refuses to negotiate, will not re-open the House, is not in DC.
Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens
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You can’t even use SNAP to buy a hot rotisserie chicken unless you live in a state with a special waiver.
ROB SCHMITT: People are using SNAP benefits to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. This is a really ugly program.

SEN. RON JOHNSON: That program needs to be dramatically reformed.
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Food banks were already struggling to keep with demand. Then, Trump slashed $1 billion from crucial USDA programs supporting them.

Now, thanks to his shutdown, food assistance for millions of Americans is about to try up.

The perfect storm of cruelty.
Food banks were ‘operating on fumes’ even before SNAP chaos • Stateline
Even before the federal government shutdown posed an unparalleled challenge for food banks, nonprofits across the countr
stateline.org
Is it somewhere in Washington, enshrined in some little folder, a study in black and white of Anna's fingerprints?
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Anderson Cooper: Why should people vote for you if you won’t make a deal with Germany? Do you want us to wind up like Poland?
In the 1st question of his brief interview with Mamdani. Anderson Cooper reports Trump’s strongman threats to punish NYC if the Mayoral candidate is elected, as if he gets to select where funding goes according to his whims, & then asks whether voters will find it “worth the hassle” to vote for him.
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The students of Saint Joseph Catholic school in Hanover apologized, saying they didn‘t realize the significance of the float and that it won’t be used again in part because they now understand it is inappropriate and in part because it is running third for the Democratic Senate nomination in Maine
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
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I'm not a Nobel winning economist, but it seems to me the world's largest retailer and the worlds largest delivery services laying off hundreds of thousands right before the busiest retail and delivery season of the year is perhaps not an optimistic indicator of Trump's promised "Golden Age"
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You mean we gotta spend an extra hour in the middle of all this
But which Michael Dorn was *your* Michael Dorn? Star Trek, or CHiPs?
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This really is part of it. So many of them rolled over without putting up a fight, so scenes of ordinary folks demonstrating and standing up to ICE goons are foreign and a bit shameful to them
The "elites" of our country have exposed themselves to be fascist and/or cowards and can't comprehend millions of normal people telling the wannabe king to go fuck himself
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Mike Johnson has the House adjourned for 42 days, Trump just came back from a week in Asia, remodeled a WH bathroom and flew to Palm Beach for a golf weekend, they refuse to negotiate with Dems, Dems had to sue to get Trump to release SNAP funds, but Republicans are blaming Dems.
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I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.
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Every time you see a story of comically transparent corruption among Trump's immediate family, a cold shiver should shoot through you.

Trump will *never* accede to a situation where accountability for his or his family's ill-gotten gains is possible. Dictatorship to protect corruption is the agenda
This is exactly right, with one addition to the end:

Trump wants to have the unconstrained ability to use lethal militarized force against Americans to make sure he never has to give up power—so that the corrupt enrichment & rank criminality of him, his family, & his cronies goes forever unpunished
I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here.

And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.