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Just trying to have civil, sane discussions.
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.
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
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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.
If we can't try people for obvious war crimes, we need to fix the system or join the ICC.
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.
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...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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.
This is a huge giveaway. Trump and Johnson will be taking victory laps, and they'll know they can win through cruelty again.
I'm with you. Anything Fox decides is an issue becomes an issue. Tan suit, anyone?
September 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lords...
Lord’s Vengeance
The Department of Homeland Security posted an explicitly Christian nationalist and violent...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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 talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lords...
Instead of considering a ridiculous ruinous budget, Congress should be considering impeachment.
July 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Instead of considering a ridiculous ruinous budget, Congress should be considering impeachment.
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.
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...
www.cnn.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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.
Hat tip to David Kurtz at TPM's Morning Memo. Always informative.
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...
"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
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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...
"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...
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...
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...
www.cnn.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...
On a related topic...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/c...
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...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“They’re trying to kidnap someone”
On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.
www.motherjones.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Has Ordered Safeguards Stripped From Procurement As Pentagon Prepares To Spend $1 Trillion
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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April 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-p...
Is anybody in the Trump administration honoring their oath to protect and defend the Constitution? Anybody? Even the conservative Supreme Court justices?
April 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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...
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.
finance.yahoo.com
April 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Dow 36.000 here we come!
finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...
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Republicans could stop this at any time. They are complicit.
April 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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.
April 4, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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?
“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...
Trump’s second term brings worst stock market start since 2001
The U.S. stock market is down almost 10% since President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
fortune.com
April 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Remind me again why Americans trust Republicans over Democrats with the economy?
What Digby said.
This need to be blown up. The man was escaping the Salvadoran gangs and they threw him into a prison full of them. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare.
They can get him back if they want to.
They can get him back if they want to.
BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What Digby said.
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.
March 31, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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.
Remember loyalty is a one way street for Trump. Hate to end up as a sucker or a loser. Just saying.
March 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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.
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...
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.
www.navytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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...
www.navytimes.com/news/pentago...
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.
March 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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.
March 22, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Apparently the far right's decades-long war on expertise now means Trump needs to fire anybody that knows a damn thing about anything.
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.
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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?
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?
March 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
@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?
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.
March 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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.