So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
@apinionsvary I don't give a fuck who pays for this. Having a fight on the White House lawn has nothing to do with celebrating the 250th. This is a private birthday party for Trump. Trump is so white trash.
There is no world in which this is okay.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney.
His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.
If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself.
This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it.
The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next.
The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW.
Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do.
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@RogerSunderlin She was not a patriot. She attempted to prevent the peaceful transition of power as a result of a free and fair election. The fact that she was not able to discern fact from fiction is not relevant to her military status.
One of the most frustrating things in the homelessness debate right now is watching people attack “Housing First” while describing something that is not actually Housing First.
Secretary Turner recently shared a personal story about his family struggling with homelessness and said they were failed by Housing First because there were no wrap around services. But that has never been the core philosophy of Housing First.
Housing First has always included supportive services, case management, mental health support, addiction treatment access, workforce support, and stabilization services. The entire idea was that people stabilize better once they are housed instead of trying to solve every issue while they are still living in chaos.
What he is describing is “housing only” or poorly implemented programs where housing placements happened without adequate support systems behind them. Those are not the same thing.
Reasonable people can debate outcomes, funding models, accountability, implementation failures, or whether some communities became too ideologically rigid. Those are fair conversations. But we should at least be honest about what the model actually is before we declare it a failure.
And frankly, this is part of the bigger problem in America’s homelessness conversation. We turned complex human systems into slogans. Then people started arguing against caricatures instead of reality.
I’ve worked around housing and homelessness long enough to know there are no magic solutions. Some people need intensive services. Some need temporary stabilization. Some need treatment first. Some truly just need affordable housing. Most need a combination of things that change over time.
But reducing the conversation down to “Housing First means giving people housing and nothing else” is simply inaccurate.
@yankinasia@jimstewartson@ClassAwitch 'To Mike Flynn from D' on the pardon with Roger Stone's name on it? If it's not AI, then it's an early sign of Trump's cognitive decline. This is actually a hard one to answer! 😏
@nicksortor The Presidential Fitness test was a stupid annual event that did nothing to encourage fitness. There was no prep or training. Just calling kids to the yard during gym and forcing them to do random physical tests. If they did well, whoopee. If not, nothing. No follow up.
@CAgovernor Yes! And this should be an incentive for local govt to help speed up rebuilding so that they can recoup property tax revenue lost as a result of fires.