I wonder if Slotkin Kelly and Goodlander have realized yet that voting to give more powers to ICE to detain people was a stupid thing to do

There have been tons of massive protests, the average American doesn’t support this crap and they’re doing what they can

The question should be the fuck is wrong with America’s police officers, service members, judges, and lawmakers and other elected officials

even Biden booting him from Democrat circle

Not what happened, Biden went out of his way to bring Summers on to his campaign and only dropped him after progressives called him out for it (arc)

Otherwise totally agreed

not to mention horribly unjust to everyone waiting in line

Bullshit, the fact that a line exists because our systems move so slowly is what’s unjust to those people

I think it’s also because the minority of people who still identify as Republicans care more about people they don’t like being hurt than their own material well being

I like the spirit behind this, but to make this effective first we’d need to deal with the fact that a lot of lawmakers already pay for most of their stuff with lobbyist money and insider trading

Two other attendees said that at the time it was unclear to them whether Bove meant to sink the boats after seizing the drugs and arresting the crew — as the U.S. Coast Guard traditionally does — or sinking them with the crew and drugs still on board.

“It seemed so outlandish I didn’t take it seriously. It just didn’t seem reasonable until they started blowing boats up, and then holy s—-, does this all go together?” said one former senior DOJ official who was in the room. “Now that you look back on it, I think you can infer he probably meant just sink the boats with the people on them.”

Jesus fuckin christ, it is so frustrating how like 999/1000 times when one of their friends demonstrates obviously criminal intent right in front of them cops go dumb as pig shit and are like “When he said ‘let’s just kill them all’ I thought he was being metaphorical!”

Let’s all mentally prepare ourselves for Trump to claim he wishes he could release these documents but his gosh darn DOJ just won’t do it because they’re using them to investigate Bill Clinton or whoever and he certainly wouldn’t ever want to interfere with a federal investigation

Yeah, ask these people to define what they mean by “rhetoric” and I bet this common ground dissolves pretty quickly

Republicans blamed rhetoric by the widest margin, 73%-19%, but independents (53%-28%) and Democrats (54%-34%) were also much more likely to blame extreme political rhetoric as a factor than to discount it.

Also basically every chapter of Habitat for Humanity has a home repair program people can apply to

“Everyone should be able to make their voice heard in truly democratic processes.” - good populism

“We should form an angry mob and go burn the houses of [minority group].” - bad populism

“To hell with the doctors, this old folk remedy totally cures [communicable disease].” - also bad populism

Populism is always going to be a force in politics imo, trying to stop it just leads to more bad populism than good populism

I bet the actual research has some interesting things to say, but this article feels like it’s vague on purpose so it can get positive reactions from both the people who define “populist” and “divisive” as “fascists” and “bigoted nonsense” and the people who define those things as “anyone who complains about wealth inequality” and “talking about global climate change or Israeli genocides”

The problem with the party leadership route is that party insiders are the only ones who get to vote on it, and when that’s the electorate she can’t even beat Gerry Nadler. If she can run in a race with real people voting on it I think she could beat anyone.

Depends on who needs this meme I suppose

That for profit company would appreciate people doing their advertising work for them for free I’m sure

Has it actually been reported anywhere that the sandwich in question came from this restaurant chain?

Judge Gettleman has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to provide three meals a day, adequate supplies of water, access to prescription medicine, clean bedding and space to sleep for any detainee held there overnight, with “adequate supplies of soap, towels, toilet paper, oral hygiene products (including toothbrushes and toothpaste) and menstrual products for women detainees.”

Holding cells and toilets are to be cleaned, and detainees should have access to showers “at least every other day,” according to the order.

If you have to order the waiter to bring you a soup the chef didn’t spit in you should probably just skip ahead to finding a different place to eat

For the government’s books, sure (if anything, it was a 0% interest loan, which is probably better than a wash strictly speaking)

But for society in general - the money was gathered from consumers but will be getting returned to businesses, so not a wash at all

Based on the elections this week and a bunch of polls over the last thirty days, I’m pretty sure they are actually

Didn’t stay in office tho

Actually, it’s even stupider than that I’m pretty sure, two grand juries refused to give them an indictment for a felony charge, so they brought a way less severe misdemeanor charge because you don’t have to get a grand jury to sign off on those, and that’s what we’re wasting this time on