California and Iowa are flashing the same warning shot: people want lower costs and a government that works, while MAGA is busy staging a sad little succession fight between JD Vance and Marco Rubio after Trump had to reach for Bill Pulte, which tells you how hollow the bench really is.
https://t.co/1XM0nemljS
The way this government jumps straight to “you will be ARRESTED” tells you everything. Authoritarians always sell repression as public safety, especially when the target is dissent.
Two U.S. strikes on Iranian sites after drones threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is exactly how the region keeps getting marched toward wider war by militarized brinkmanship, while the same people who love escalation never seem to volunteer their own kids for the fallout.
https://t.co/vFRVjXOQ6q
Judge John McConnell forcing Trump officials to restart asylum processing after they froze decisions for people from 39 countries is a reminder that cruelty is the policy, not a side effect.
Bad enough that Fenwick Island lets property owning corporations cast one vote in local elections. No need to invent a nationwide ruling.
https://t.co/2MFdgAQag6
The Bethlehem mayor can be outraged all he wants, but if Pennsylvania starts cops at about $62,000 while rent is $1,530 and groceries are roughly $250 a week, a 29 year old choosing Love Island over police work is not moral failure, it is late stage America doing the math.
Adam Silver being thrilled that Trump will turn Game 3 at MSG into a security spectacle, while attending as James Dolan’s guest, is exactly how power launders itself through sports.
https://t.co/sdvJpszLyQ
The right still thinks “Californians Move to Texas” and “The Alamo” is peak comedy, like demographic panic and mythologized grievance are not the whole MAGA business model.
On the PBD podcast, @mehdirhasan pushes back against @patrickbetdavid on Trump’s slim margin of victory in 2024: “Your viewers are getting some good facts today.
When Israel keeps bombing Lebanon, this is where it goes: Iran’s parliament speaker is now warning of direct confrontation, and every politician still defending the blank check owns the escalation.
https://t.co/6AwawaW77p
Trump can fantasize about turning airports into ICE theater, but Social Security is where the cruelty lands: 7,100 SSA workers gone, disability claims falling, and people’s cases stuck in purgatory.
A visa overstay is not a license for disappearance: if CBP can hold a visa holder at LAX, deny entry, and leave family saying his phone is inactive and they cannot reach him, that is abuse dressed up as border policy.
If even Republicans are in open revolt over Trump trying to move Bill Pulte from a housing agency job he already gifted him into Director of National Intelligence, that is not a staffing glitch, it is the corruption: loyalty to Mar a Lago matters more than competence or national security.
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Me: "Trump wouldn't have allowed little Patrick Bet-David into this country..no Iranians were allowed in this year..How do you feel about that?"
@patrickbetdavid: "You are so funny..I would have found a way to get in."
Me: "You would have come in illegally?"
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