Texas is the absolute best Republicans can do. MAGA, let's talk.
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Navalny is a hero. Not one step back. 🇺🇦 I'm old but not stupid. Helps to laugh.
🗳️ Today marks 90 days until the midterm elections — a very important day as it relates to voter purges and the fight over a nationwide database that Trump is trying to build. @marcelias.bsky.social explains. Find more details here: https://demdock.com/3TvSilR
After Capital One shut down hundred's of Trump Org accounts, Trump sued, alleging the decision was politically motivated. But Capital One says the accounts were actually closed following a money laundering investigation. #CapitalOne #Trump #money #lawsuit #moneylaundering
Sen. Wyden: It seems that every time Republicans get their hands on Social Security, life gets worse for older people. Thanks to Trump and the Big Beautiful Bill, the crisis is speeding up. It gave huge tax breaks to billionaires and corporations, and plundered Social Security by $168 billion.
6 August 1913 | Czech Jew, Kurt Roubiček, was born in Česká Lípa. He was deported to #Auschwitz form #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.
Tommy T is legitimately perhaps the dumbest man to ever serve in the U.S. Senate, and while he may have gross fantasies about seceding into a New Confederacy, almost 30% of Alabama residents are non-white. Doubt that they want to be walled into a paranoid white nationalist garrison state.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Qatar, Israel, Brazil. Cuba, Greenland are all in #47s sights for invasion, war and/or pillaging resources. But hey, the ballroom, arch, reflecting pool, Oval tacky stick on gold applique. Vote accordingly in November
The prospect of "taking the oil" may ultimately be what convinced Trump to launch the Maduro raid. Of course, pillage is a war crime.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoTrump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela -- billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils."
Let's be clear, Trump is in Las Vegas to champion his billionaire friends he gave the biggest tax break in history to... not the working families who are struggling in the economy have wrecked. The average Nevada family now pays $2,900 more on necessities since Trump took office.
NEWS: A federal judge has granted the Wall Street Journal's request to stay discovery in Trump's defamation lawsuit over its Epstein birthday letter story, signaling a dismissal may be imminent.
Judge Slams Brakes on Trump’s Epstein Lawsuit as Dismissal Looms
The ruling blocks Trump's effort to depose Rupert Murdoch while the judge decides whether the case survives.
meidasnews.com
i can’t help it, this is such a hysterically, comically corrupt fucking presidency, just comic book villain levels of cartoonish corruption
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoLombardo on Trump: "When the press and media runs him down, they think about 'he's taking care of his billionaire friends.' But those billionaire friends provide jobs. And unless you take care of them, those jobs are absent."
In New Mexico, people are furious over Trump stealing precious water supplies and demanding an end to it.
As anger mounts, feds tell border wall contractors to stop drilling for water in New Mexico
Ranchers along the U.S.-Mexico border are outraged that the federal government is drilling unpermitted wells to pump water from the region's drought-stricken aquifers.
wbur.org
Trump: "Dana has the most successful fight in history the other night at the White House" (The fight was June 14, nearly two months ago)
I believe you can see this guy slowly realizing where Schiff was going.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
This is indefensible and shows just how vile of a human being Trump is.
The booing of what sounds like a foreign (and no doubt in the man's mind, 'Islamic') name, really speaks volumes about the mindset of some Trump supporters. Even when Trump is gone, this white Christian nationalist section of US society will still remain.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
Sherrod Brown's U.S. Senate campaign releases a new ad scorching Jon Husted for slashing Medicaid: "You can't hug our daughter, take your picture with her, and then cut the care that she relies on."
El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
In a recent report, Greenpeace warns Portugal of looming risks from climate change and decades of coastal urban pressure, with 40% of beaches at risk of vanishing. ➡️ https://l.euronews.com/1AOo
Hundreds of Haitian immigrants who have had Temporary Protected Status are being told by DHS to appear at ICE offices to be fitted with ankle monitors or face deportation. Haitian immigrants, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for over a decade, deserve a pathway to citizenship — not deportation.
Some Haitian immigrants in Ohio told to report to ICE and given ankle monitors
Hundreds of Haitian immigrants in Ohio who had Temporary Protected Status have been summoned by the ICE for in-person "check-ins," immigration advocates say.
abcnews.com
So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.
Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 14h agoBreaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.