Raskin: Our chairman… How does one go from a libertarian railing about the deep state and the fbi and the doj coming down on the rights of the people to becoming a supine submissive authoritarian who votes against providing basic due process rights for the people against the government?
Pam Bondi says ICE agents can enter ANYBODY’S home without a warrant to find “illegals.”
Baby girl fuck you. Grown men are NOT coming into my house looking for a goddamn thing. I’ll sue you bitches to the STRATOSPHERE
Signed,
Someone who already sued the Dept. of Corrections and won.
The fact that everything around us is burning to the ground & some people still have no clue that they voted for the arsonist or are complicit in the arson is absolutely mind boggling.
People are ok with it so long as the black woman isn’t their President 🤯.
America, we have a problem!
#OTD in 1944, USS Missouri (BB-63) was launched. The "Mighty Mo" would become the last battleship commissioned by the U.S. Navy and later serve as the platform upon which Japan surrendered. She was decommissioned in 1955, recommissioned in 1986 and decommissioned again in 1992.
The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.
Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.
"Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day today, haven't we?"
"Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow though."
- Grant and Sherman after the disaster of the first day of Shiloh, April 1862. They won the next.
Today is one of the bad days in American history. Better days will come.
A new study found a 62% reduction in cervical cancer deaths among women under 25 in the U.S.
Dr. Ashish Deshmukh joins us to discuss the study and why the HPV vaccine, introduced nearly 20 years ago, is likely behind this decline.
Shout out to all the local Pakistani and Chinese restaurants and their staff who will be working Christmas.
As the manager at Royal Kabob told me, "Brother, we're always open. Even on the Day of Judgement, we'll be open."
Respect.
Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.
He was in the 72nd Pennsylvania. Baxter's Fire Zouaves. Part of the Philadelphia Brigade. They were part of turning back Pickett's Charge. Counterattacked at a crucial moment. Look right behind The Angle.
Here's their plaque on the PA memorial at Gettysburg. He was in Company F.
Cool monument.
California, a state of nearly 40,000,000 people, has the same amount of representation in the United States Senate as Wyoming, a state of less than 600,000 people.
This is the direct result of a deal struck between slave states and free states in the 1700s.
It’s time for that to change.
i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
This story from BBC on the new Ranis/Zlatý kůň genetic work has a great first sentence that captures the importance:
“Far from triumphantly breezing out of Africa, modern humans went extinct many times before going on to populate the world, new studies have revealed.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
People on restricted budgets (SNAP or otherwise) buy unhealthy, overly-processed foods because they’re cheaper. And many concentrations of poverty are effectively in food deserts where fresh, healthy foods aren’t available at any price.
This ain’t rocket science.
Here is my write up in @thenation.com about yesterday’s awful anti-trans hearing at SCOTUS.
If I made the arguments Alito and Barrett made when I was in law school, I would have gotten an F. Unless my professors were bigots like them.
It is truly amazing to me how many people think the equal protection clause should just *not apply* when they think their bigotry and discrimination is *justified.*
When Social Security is dead
When Medicare is dead
When welfare is dead
When any form of educational grants to localities are dead
When you're carted away to a detention center for asking questions
Will you care then what the price of eggs is?
Donald trump is making these cabinet nominations in a way that says he's not taking it seriously at all, almost like he's just picking names out of a hat.
Regardless of party affiliation, we should be VERY concerned that he's appointing unqualified idiots in almost every area.
Social Media etiquette: How to avoid coming across as a turd in your replies
"Actually..." - do not mansplain. Or womansplain. Avoid all splaining.
"There, I fixed it for you..." - If I wanted it fixed, I'd do it myself.
"Raise your..." - fuck off.
"I think you meant..." - seriously, fuck off.
"For Spain and for the King!: Galvez in America," by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, 2015, depicting Spanish forces led by Bernardo de Gálvez at the Siege of Pensacola, 1781.
Way back during Officer Basic Training, one of the cadre referred to M*A*S*H as "that communist show" and that probably should've given me a clue about what I was getting into.