@rschumacher
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Kristi Noem's 28 year old aide spent millions of DHS $$ to buy a fleet of of vehicles with ICE's logo clearly marked on them. Now they're sitting idle because the clearly visible logo gets the trucks and agents attacked, and prevents ICE from doing stealth raids.
www.rawstory.com/madison-shea...
After slashing SNAP & Medicaid, Trump is using his Iran War to line the pockets of military contractors.
I'm reminded of the words of MLK:
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
America's fascist right has pulled a 180 and is selling the idea that expensive gasoline is a good thing. Americans have failed a lot of intelligence tests in the last decade. This is another one.
One of the Epstein prison guards made large bank deposits so suspicious, the bank alerted authorities. She was also googling Epstein just before his death. And no way were those 2 malfunctioning prison cameras a "coincidence". Oh -- and Donald Trump was President at that time.
Mike Johnson speaks at Trump's property in Doral: "We're in the middle of the new golden era, the new golden age"
oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
🚨BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi violated federal law when she replaced Alina Habba, the former interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, with a “triumvirate” of attorneys, a federal judge ruled Monday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: "They emptied their mental institutions. They emptied their insane asylums. That's a step above a mental institution. They emptied them all right into our country."
So after Taco Trump bails out of his Iran War, is he going to count it as one of the wars he supposedly ended?
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
A win! A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from gutting the appeals process for migrants facing deportation stopping a planned overhaul that would have automatically thrown out all appeals
"[The United States government] can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."
—Benjamin Franklin in his Constitutional Convention closing speech, 1787
Reminder: DHS is still routinely violating people’s constitutional rights.
Democrats must continue to fight to rein them in.
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Another lie to justify his stupid and illegal war.
CNN airs compilation of JD Vance on the campaign trail saying he would keep the U.S. out of war in the Middle East. "We're going to stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world. Our interests are very much in not going to war with Iran."
Trump can walk away from this “little excursion” as he now calls it, but I have a feeling that Iran isn’t going to let bygones be bygones for a few more decades.
Most of the world despises us, and none of our allies respect Trump. But our enemies love him. He is easy to use, easy to fool, and easy to play. Just offer bribes and public praise and he'll do whatever you want.
Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"
Trump lies: "There's not a country in the world that does mail in ballots anymore. They tried it ... there's no elections so corrupt as the elections in the United States of America. And we can solve them."
Taylor Swift
Pearl Jam
Olivia Dean
Zach Bryan
Oasis
The Cure
What do they all have in common?
They've all spoken out about Ticketmaster ripping off fans.
But Trump just gave Ticketmaster the equivalent of a corporate pardon.
It's a betrayal of every fan in America.
Trump: "They're walking around with no legs"
Q: You said the war is 'very complete.' But your defense secretary says 'this is just the beginning.' So which is it?
TRUMP: You could say both
Three million pages of Epstein files were released. Around the world: arrests, investigations, resignations. In the U.S.? Officials say there’s “nothing there” and the person who appears in the files the most goes unscrutinized. @gloriouslygloria.bsky.social examines the silence.
This presser is fucking insane.
Trump threatened to target Iranian electricity production and “hit them so hard that nobody can ever rebuild in that location”
That’s not a thing. Even if we nuked them.
He also said we’re bombing Iran to help China. Batshit crazy.
He’s a psychopathic sadistic liar.
What exactly is the Pentagon paying these AI companies to do to us?
www.npr.org/2026/03/08/n...
When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.
But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.
A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.
My mentions have folks calling Talarico a "fascist" and assuring me that black Texans would never ever vote for anyone who uses Christian language.
For the good of democracy, I'm begging some of you to take a long break from social media. It's not helping you and you're definitely not helping us.
💥 Ukraine blew up a massive arsenal of Russian Shahed drones in occupied Donetsk yesterday.
