A big part of the problem that 99% of police critics ignore is that most of them are extremely work shy and inefficient Insubordination, shirking, and OT theft are all rampant There is no constituency for "make them do a better job". To most ppl theyre perfect or shouldnt exist

Every activated Guardsman has a family, a job, school, or something that they are leaving to do their duty. It’s one thing when it’s a war… or a real mass civil disturbance, which those only last a few days. But to rip these people from their lives for a show… is awful.

Hey Grok — what do you think about FBI Director Kash Patel sending the FBI to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump? And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges. They had printouts of my posts.

Did FBI Director Kash Patel send FBI agents to Morgan Freeman's house with printouts of his tweets about Trump to intimidate him? Freeman didn't threaten violence or anything else. Are you ok with the government intimidating and threatening people because they something about not

Since we passed the Affordable Care Act, Republicans have tried over and over to repeal it. And over and over, they’ve failed — in part because millions of people now depend on the ACA for quality, affordable health care. Now Republicans are trying something different: quietly

Trump DOJ, 5/29/25: The plaintiffs don't suffer any irreparable harm if the court stays its ruling against tariffs, because the government can always just refund everyone if we lose the appeal. Trump DOJ, 8/11/25: Just kidding. We can't afford to pay anything back if we lose!

Once again, the president cannot spend money given to him by foreign countries on whatever he wishes without congressional authorization. And obviously treaties like the ones Bessent is describing have to be ratified by Congress.

the total collapse of civil society in the face of an unpopular, authoritarian, and senile president (who only won 49.9% of the vote in the first place) is one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen

Crazy difference between Clinton's 1993 deficit reduction bill and Trump's 2025 tax cuts (which explode the deficit) Clinton significantly raised taxes on high earners and cut them for the bottom 40%, while Trump raised taxes on the bottom 30%.

Operation Warp Speed saved millions of lives and should be a model for future pandemic prevention, instead Trump is throwing away the best part of his legacy to appeal to paranoid losers. slowboring.com/p/trumps-awful…

On a related note, there are actually a *lot* of states that still have gay marriage bans codified in the state constitution, including blue ones like VA and OR. They would go back into effect if Obergefell is ever overturned. There should be a more concerted to repeal these.

Absolutely unbelievable: the sitting HHS Secretary tried to pressure the Annals of Internal Medicine to retract the major Danish study of 1.2 M kids that found no harm from aluminum in vaccines. The journal refused. This isn’t just anti-science it is political interference.

I work in water and have been screaming this to anyone who listens and mostly no one is listens. I don’t know if it’s enviro funders or enviro staff, but the groups just don’t like tech bros (fair, neither do I) and want to use any means possible to justify opposing AI.

This is irrelevant to the legal argument. But it's obvious what they're trying to do --- they're trying to convince the court that it would simply be too destructive to follow the law and that they should therefore stay out and leave the matter to POTUS and Congress.

"Actual savings so far: -$1.4 billion" politico.com/news/2025/08/1…

Suspending the monthly jobs report is a terrible idea for so many reasons--a big one being that it would be illegal, since the report is mandated by federal law (29 U.S. Code § 2).

This prediction turned out to be all too accurate.

While Trump gets ready to meet Putin in Alaska, Putin is getting ready to test a nuclear-powered cruise missile intended to defeat the Golden Dome.

From my DMs: "ICE/HSI/BP heavy presence along I-10. Especially between Red Rock and Picacho."

Guy who hates accurate job counts also hates accurate vote counts