That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

4 months apart

One commenter replied, “based song choice,” which was liked by the Border Patrol account. Another commenter wrote, “if you know you know.”

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

Quite a day.

BTW cited you here an added some more context. Turns out NC Dems weren’t all that crazy about giving redistricting veto power to a then-GOP governor and said the Voting Rights Act would put up enough guardrails (Hindsight: WELP) www.ncrabbithole.com/p/why-cant-n...

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
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JD Vance said today on the TPUSA podcast that these guys were “just a bunch of kids in a chat room.” bsky.app/profile/blue...

Wisconsin Rep. Snodgrass (D) slams Republicans for cutting an amendment to release Epstein Files, shortly after they voted to increase sex trafficking penalties.

"Either you're with children and women who have been victims of trafficking and sexual assault, or you are against them."

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

The president freely admits he's using your tax money to repress you and interfere with your free choice of representatives. He's looking into the camera and telling you he's a tyrant bsky.app/profile/atru...

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
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