Let me get this straight.
The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately.
Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes.
Trump said no.
Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workersโ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote.
Like a petulant child flipping the board when heโs losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse.
Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judgeโs approval while hiding behind masks.
We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican partyโs losing electoral math.
Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today.
Trump is the one standing in the way.
OK, this is nuts.
In Sept 2023, geophysicists over the world started monitoring an odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was recorded in the Arctic, then Antarctica - then everywhere, every 90 seconds, regular as a metronome - for NINE DAYS.
What the HELL?
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A while back, I learned something mindblowing about the geological history of the Mediterranean Sea, and I just can't get it out of my head.
Now I'm going to make it *your* problem too. Sorry.
Hang onto your hat. This gets wild.
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Important info, especially in the wake of @LelandVittert on @NewsNation conveniently omitting all the violence and violent rhetoric spouted by the right.
So much disinformation on this site tonight in the wake of the horrific Kirk murder, with conservatives cynically suggesting that all of the political violence in this country comes from the left.
In fact itโs the opposite. Here are the facts for those with short memories:
The man who targeted and killed Democratic state Rep Melissa Hortman was a Trump supporter.
The man who targeted the home of Dem Governor Josh Shapiro was a Trump supporter.
The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6th were Trump supporters.
The man who targeted and killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas was a Trump supporter.
The man who tried to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband was a Trump supporter.
The men who were convicted trying to kidnap Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer were Trump supporters.
The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Obama and Biden was a Trump supporter.
There is no equivalent or even similar list of Obama or Biden supporters who have carried out similar murders, attempted murders, or violent attacks.
Hey MAGA. You laugh because you think you're safe from all of this racism, and death, and destruction. But you're wrong. Trump will come for you too. It's both predictable and inevitable. Know how I know? Because I currently live in Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches.
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@LucasSa56947288 Yeah, Iโm done taking the high road. Dems should go low, take over, and then fix things so that gerrymandering is both illegal and impossible.
Is it too much to ask for a warning BEFORE an annual subscription renews instead of the "thank you for your automatic subscription renewal" email they send AFTER taking your money for a product or service you haven't used and forgot to cancel?
Do you know why we have a minimum wage? Because companies were exploiting their workers for profit.
Do you know why we have Medicare? Because companies will use you for your labor for your entire life and then toss you to the side when theyโre done.
Do you know why we have Social Security? Because companies refuse to provide pensions and retirement plans.
Do you know why we have an affordability crisis? Because while companies have been bragging about record profits, they have refused to increase wages to keep up with inflation.
Why?
Because no one has MADE them.
What did the Republicans do today? They rewarded these predatory practices by giving these corporations PERMANENT tax cuts, while the crumbs they gave the working class expire in two years.
ENOUGH.
Democrats will do what the Republicans have refused to do for decades.
Donโt want to pay a living wage? Then youโre going to pay taxes to cover section 8 housing.
Donโt want to provide health coverage? Then you will pay taxes to cover Medicaid.
Donโt want to provide pensions for your tenured employees? Then youโre going to pay increased Social Security taxes to cover their retirement.
You come into this country, use our resources, our labor, our knowledge and our land. And if you refuse to take care of the people who provide the resources or live on the land?
Well, youโre going to pay one way or another.
I am so SICK of being taken advantage of so some fat cat can sit on more money than a million people could spend in a lifetime.
We work our ASSES off and you just laugh your way all the way to the bank.
That ends NOW.
#Project2026 starts TODAY.
@lisamurkowski You REPRESENT the Alaskan people, but, through that representation, you WORK for ALL the American people. And you have betrayed every one of us.
@LePapillonBlu2 Oh, I believe it. I was abroad in 1972, and overheard people dissing the US then. Backpackers sewed Canadians flags on their packs so they wouldnโt be mistaken as US citizens. It has to be a thousand times worse now.
Well. It doesnโt exactly fit with the timeline I had planned, but I was laid off this morning. I do, indeed, blame the current regime for the chaotic economic circumstances that have led businesses to reduce their workforces.