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Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

No name. No badge. No ID. No warrant. Face covered. That’s not an officer that’s an armed thug with government protection. If you can’t show who you are or why you’re detaining someone, you have no business laying a hand on them.

Senator Murkowski cut a backroom deal to exempt Alaska from Medicaid cuts, but the Senate parliamentarian shut it down. Protecting your own state while harming millions elsewhere is selfishness and disgusting.

Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.

"Wednesday’s show in the Oval Office was the asterisk hiding at the end of the text: Donald Trump does have a few human-rights lectures in him, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...