This article is from a few weeks back, but it explains why the civilian authorities ordering the boat strikes may never face justice for it. If we can't try people for obvious war crimes, we need to fix the system or join the ICC.
Why Trump’s Boat Killings Would Be Hard to Prosecute
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This deal makes no real requirements for Trump or Johnson to even respect the budget. Recissions are still possible. Johnson won't even give the ACA bill a vote. This is a huge giveaway. Trump and Johnson will be taking victory laps, and they'll know they can win through cruelty again.
Group of Senate Dems Joins With GOP to End Shutdown Without Extending Obamacare Funding
After 40 days of the government shutdown, a small — but large...
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I'm with you. Anything Fox decides is an issue becomes an issue. Tan suit, anyone?
JFC, this reel. CBP is really looking for some nice Christian boys who want to smoke somebody. Lord’s Vengeance talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lords...
Lord’s Vengeance
The Department of Homeland Security posted an explicitly Christian nationalist and violent...
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Instead of considering a ridiculous ruinous budget, Congress should be considering impeachment.
Does Trump think Vance is going to knock him off? www.rawstory.com/trump-is-gro...
Trump is growing increasingly paranoid — and it's bad news for Vance: biographer
Author Michael Wolff claimed Monday that President Donald Trump is growing increasingly paranoid following a political rift with tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has positioned Vice President JD Vance ...
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Reporting by CNN has a good roundup on national security priorities that are being de-prioritized by the FBI to help ICE deport immigrants. Also, steps to hide this fact. Hat tip to David Kurtz at TPM's Morning Memo. Always informative.
White House pressure for increased immigration arrests strains law enforcement agencies | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is building up federal manpower and resources to meet the White House’s desire to triple the number of daily immigration arrests – signaling a renewed push to go well beyond e...
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Legal price gouging. Infuriating. "But Revlimid is also, I soon learned, extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each daily pill. (Although, I later discovered, a capsule costs just 25 cents to make.)" The Price of Remission talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-pri...
The Price of Remission
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In today's news, the Republican Senate is preparing to create an exception to the filibuster rules to deny California the right to set stricter car pollution standards in the state. On a related topic... www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/c...
The world’s ice sheets just got a terminal prognosis, and coastlines are going to pay the price | CNN
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are on course for rapid retreat, even collapse, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise even if the world pulls off the miraculous and keeps global warming to...
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Trump orders 20,000 new ICE troops. The people who will join after seeing what ICE is doing now are definitely the wrong people to be in law enforcement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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I'm thinking Musk needs some more of that sweet sweet government money. Trump Has Ordered Safeguards Stripped From Procurement As Pentagon Prepares To Spend $1 Trillion talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Has Ordered Safeguards Stripped From Procurement As Pentagon Prepares To Spend $1 Trillion
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Is anybody in the Trump administration honoring their oath to protect and defend the Constitution? Anybody? Even the conservative Supreme Court justices?
Dow 36.000 here we come! finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...
Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq futures plunge as Trump tariff rout set to escalate
Wall Street is coming off its worst week since the advent of the pandemic, shedding over $5 trillion in value amid Trump's tariff plans.
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Republicans could stop this at any time. They are complicit.
The only animating principle of MAGA is that you must obey Donald Trump. The whole lot pretend to be rugged individualists, and then they bend the knee to the guy whose personal Vietnam was avoiding STDs? A little self-respect please.
Remind me again why Americans trust Republicans over Democrats with the economy?
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.“The U.S. stock market is down almost 10% since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, marking the worst 10-week start under a new president since George W. Bush in 2001 during the height of the dot-com selloff.” 4/3/25 fortune.com/2025/04/03/t...
Shouldn't it be illegal to ship prisoners to an El Salvadorean hellhole even if they got due process? This seems like it's cruel and unusual punishment.
Note to Trump administration members. Many of you are breaking laws like there's no possibility that you might have to go to jail for it - *cough* Hegseth *cough* -, and maybe you're right. Remember loyalty is a one way street for Trump. Hate to end up as a sucker or a loser. Just saying.
I'm pissed at the Senate Democrats. Why are they just going along with approving nominations? At the very least, these things can be dragged out. They could highlight the already abysmal records of other nominees and ask if they will also be spineless. www.navytimes.com/news/pentago...
Senate confirms Phelan as next Navy Secretary
The Navy's new top civilian leader has said the service is in desperate need of reform and innovation.
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Every day it feels more like we're living through a prequel to a distopian YA novel that was too cartoonishly stupid to get published.
Apparently the far right's decades-long war on expertise now means Trump needs to fire anybody that knows a damn thing about anything.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.I bet Trump thinks all of the guys destroying American institutions are doing it so he can be the King of the Western Hemisphere. These people want an autocracy, and Trump helps them get there. He's probably the most useful idiot that ever idioted.
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov : 1/ I was disappointed in the passing of the CR, and I am even more so now that Trump/Musk have shown more clearly that the law is no bound to them. What are Senate dems going to do about this?
It's a little unsettling that as I'm reading the news this morning about the ongoing Constitutional crisis, my biggest fear is that the Supreme Court will decide that we're not having a Constitutional Crisis.
Good thing Schumer helped pass the CR. Without that holding Trump back there's no idea what crazy stuff he might be doing now.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last yr.Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES. Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...
What good is a filibuster if it only works when Democrats are in the majority? Ten Senate Democrats Help Pass House Republican CR talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/se...
Ten Senate Democrats Help Pass House Republican CR
Following Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) announcement that he would help...
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