Good reporters only talk about how Trump is such a gweat wittle pwesident.

Interesting how “top US official” now implies some idiot Trump blowhard more often than a competent experienced leader.

Senator Rafael ‘Cancún’ Cruz running away from his constituents during weather crises? Well, I never!

If you nationalize your industry, you should be doing it to reform and re-gear it to support your country.

Clearly, Putin here is not interested in making it good for the country, but that his petty war has him cash-strapped and needs to forcibly ‘borrow’ his billionaire friends’ assets.

The chaos of living outside, she said — marked by violence, sexual assault, sleeplessness, and lack of housing and health care — can make it nearly impossible to get sober.

This is my point when it comes to people who wonder why homeless people can’t just “stop using drugs, tobacco and alcohol”.

I challenge anyone who thinks that to try being outside for a week, with one set of clothes, sleeping on benches, and trying to find food supports and shelter without a phone. And then tell us to our face how easy it is to do without drugs.

The complicity of many national governments in this genocide, including my own (Canada), will be remembered with disdain.

When someone gets charged for assaulting a federal officer, is the allegedly assaulted officer identified by name or department and badge number?

I’m smelling Musk’s typical brand of vaporware.

There was another thing that Musk made from the ground up. How’s that going?

The US government flaunting its effective tyrannical control of its tech companies are, somewhat ironically, helping the EU get away from that control by being encouraged to swap to Linux and FOSS.

Deportation macht Frei

Effectively hand-me-downs the military has no active use for.

That conversation has to happen now as well. But the points I raised are related to despair of the Reconciliation bill passing and those climate setbacks.

Democrats’ window of opportunity to change ahead of midterms is NOW until the primaries. (I’ve said my spiel about it before in this thread)

That’s where the resistance has to last 16 to 40 months, slowing down and making people aware enough of these things:

• how unserious about budgets Republicans are
• how much they are trying to punish regular people (poor middle and moderately wealthy class),
• while also looking to use the they are spending to subsidize companies, multi-millionaires and billionaires.

He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.

But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.

Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.

House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.

From Obama-care to Republi-kill.

Trillion-dollar taxpayer giveaways to billionaires also bring down the deficit, because reasons.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/trump-continue-control-california-national-guard

Note that the Court has allowed the Trump admin to control California’s national guard, for now. The full case is still ongoing.

In fact CBS execs are holding their mouths to his feet so that Trump can keep holding the threat to deny the merger over their heads.

In Scarborough, Canada where I grew up, shootings occur once every few years at the malls I go to, a library or neighbourbood park I’ve been to or like yeah even if i don’t get a gun pointed at me in my life, knowing that shootings have happened in places I’ve been to is harrowing to know. In the US, it happens several times a year in many neighbourhoods. Compare Chicago and Toronto, cities of similar size and climate, one has 2726 per year shootings, the other has 461…

When mass shootings happen regularly, and knowing that gun ownership is ubiquitous (rather than largely connected to presumably illicit criminal weapons), active shooter drills are as commonplace as fire drills worldwide, it’s a structural fear, of course we’re not paralyzingly afraid all the time, but it’s built into peoples’ upbringing. The effects bubble up in other areas and affect overall happiness.