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Helluva story, and from CBS of all people
Remarkable story: "As the Justice Department continues to see employees departing in droves and struggles to recruit new personnel, the pattern of hiring people with a history of criminal convictions, court sanctions or other professional discipline has become increasingly common."
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Whatever impostor syndrome you may have once had, dispose of it fucking immediately. If these people run the country, you deserve that promotion, you can run for city council, you can start that business. If this is the baseline, shit, you can do surgery drunk in an alley and you will do less harm.
The entire administration is going to be staffed by Fox News hosts
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🙄 If that were true he’d already be on a flight back. The idea we have to engage in “diplomacy” over a thing we are literally paying them to do is ludicrous and insulting.
The Trump administration said in documents filed in federal court that it has engaged in “appropriate diplomatic discussions” with El Salvador concerning Kilmar Abrego García, the Maryland resident who was illegally deported to the Central American country last month.
So relieved that this is resonating with others who may be less terminally online than I am
Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?" Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’” “I’M PISSED!”
I'm ready for impeachment hearings over this case
The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..
I am hoarding vanilla extract 😝 Because apparently we have an unacceptable trade deficit with Madagascar
"But there is no domestic cinnamon industry, there is no domestic cumin industry. This stuff is, by default, global and is not from the U.S. We’re paying a lot more to do things that we can’t switch to another place." www.eater.com/24401316/tru...
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"Disloyal to President Trump" because he was appointed by a Trump appointee. Taking national security advice from Laura Loomer -- idiocracy
NSA is arguably the most powerful intelligence agency we have. Trump just fired its top two leaders. What’s next should worry everyone. www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/p...
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Replying to @sethabramson.bsky.social
Wake me up when America is ready to acknowledge that Donald Trump has never hired a single person on the basis of their competence or intelligence or experience or training but rather whether they'd give him two scoops of ice cream at dessert if they were his White House butler
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@warnock.senate.gov: "If they're interested in waste, fraud, and abuse, they should start with co-president Musk's own companies, and ask why has he gotten $20 billion and more from the federal government. This is wealth-fare at its worst."
So stop calling deportation. It's imprisonment & indefinite penal servitude without trial, or any sentencing at all
Totally agree with this. Flying a person to a third country that they may never have been to, directly into a prison where they are going to be forced to do hard labor, is not a deportation; it's something else entirely.
This is ultimately what they're after - privatizing schools, hospitals, prisons, roads, even the US treasury
If Donald Trump & Elon Musk have it their way, your Social Security will be privatized and your benefits will be entirely reliant on the stock market. If you want a sense of what that'll be like – take a look at your 401k today.
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This is why "conservatives" want to undermine public schools -- to get rich off of public funds
NEW: On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the country’s highest-earning superintendents.
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Democrats should boycott the State of the Union. Democrats keep calling this man a unique and dangerous threat, but never ACT like it. For once, Democrats' *actions* should match their words. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Absolute 100% required reading in re Big Balls and the Federal payments systems and [waves hands around] all this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/musk-in-yo...