Debbie Spander

How is this remotely OK in 21st century US?

I was just helping my kid with their high school Gov homework, and was astonished to learn the United States has a Congress.

“They began banging hard on the door, tore off the cameras so we couldn’t see them, and eventually cut off our electricity.” When asked if she knew why federal agents were after her husband or if he had committed a crime, Barrón said, “No, never any crime..." www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.

yes!

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

He wants to dictate what the press can say. What a university can teach. Whom a company can employ. And to whom the law shall apply. He who wants all this is not a president, But strives to be a dictator. And all who succumb are not citizens, But subjects.

Thou shalt worry less about Tylenol causing autism and more about Donold causing fascism.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition. But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update. Thanks, WSJ.

Trump Downplays Russian Drone Incursion into Poland as ‘Mistake,’ Drawing Sharp Rebuke From Allies Analysts say that Trump’s unwillingness to confront Moscow is a “fatal weakness” for NATO READ 👉🏻 www.kyivpost.com/post/59943

Sotomayor says it plainly: The Supreme Court Majority just legalized racial profiling. In high school, you were taught American law afforded the "presumption of innocence". But now, if your skin is brown and you know Spanish, this court endorsed the presumption of undocumented.

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Are we great yet?

The Kidnappers are taking citizens just for recording. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects our right to document and speak out! They are violating our rights!

This grok stuff is so bad it’s impossible to tell fake from real, whcih may be intentional.

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Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot is spewing antisemitic garbage on X www.wired.com/story/grok-a... with @carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Stephen Miller and U.S. Homeland Security amplify an image from white Christian nationalist CJay Engel -- who has been the subject of my investigations since he and his allies began their move into Jackson County, TN. 1/x

Look who’s making the streets of Los Angeles safer!

“One more question, sir. You wrote a book about the former president's cognitive issues, but the current president posted that the former president was executed in 2020 and replaced by a mindless, soulless robot with cancer. What am I missing here?”

"The President re-posts a suggestion from an adviser that he release 'terrorists' near the homes of Supreme Court justices who’ve merely ruled that the government can’t send people to a foreign gulag without due process." www.rawstory.com/trump-chevy-...

Next year’s Best Picture Oscar winner: “CRASH LANDING INTO THE CUCKOO’S NEST” **** Starring **** DONALD J. TRUMP

ICYMI in yesterday's newsletter: Speaker Mike Johnson let it slip that the GOP is going to use Trump's “big, beautiful” budget bill" to “redirect funds away from big abortion and to federally qualified health centers” That means crisis pregnancy centers 🫠 jessica.substack.com/p/the-doj-pl...

So he’s an “Anti-Vaxxer”, hasn’t read the bible and peddles “hate” on podcasts as a Catholic Cardinal. Hmmm, probably not the right man to be in the Catholic Church, but I hear there’s an opening for a National Security Advisor in the White House. www.joemygod.com/2025/04/card...

He is!

Horrifying and yet all too believable. And a clear case where the actions of the administration set the entire country back: of course the patients and families her research could have helped, but also the broad financial impact her research could have generated.

Love it

I would too.

Imagine you’re Timothy Haugh, a decorated general, confirmed unanimously by the Senate to head the NSA. And while you’re traveling abroad, you find out the President just fired you on the advice of a 9/11 truther whose bigotry once got her banned by Uber.

Trump makes clear that his tariffs are about “penalizing Canada” over fake allegations of drug trafficking

we really need to stop saying “arrested” by ICE. the word you’re looking for is “kidnapped”.

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

Wisconsin, you know what NOT to do.

Yes, tariffs are a tax, but people don't mention often enough that they are a regressive tax. Taxes on consumer goods tax the poor at a higher rate, as basic necessities are a much larger part of their spending. If food goes up by 20%, it is a tax on the poor. Rich people won't even notice.

you've got to be Fing kidding..the Smithsonian now? there go all references to slavery, civil rights marches, maybe even Vietnam

Over to you @theatlantic.com Offer to publish it since it’s unclassified. See what they say.

There’s that airtight logic we’ve come to rely on from Don Jr

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

Nothing but Deflection, Evasion, and Inversion. Lying to cover up for your crimes that jeopardized our national security is despicable and irresponsible. Pete Hegseth must resign now.

This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory Even without ICE raids, 45/7's racist policies are disrupting our children's education. Colorado educators report high levels of absenteeism, growing anxiety, and increased racial slurs and bullying among students. www.rmpbs.org/blogs/educat...

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse