Current US Policy:
If you’re suspected of trafficking a small amount of drugs with no evidence, we will murder you, but if you’re convicted of trafficking an enormous amount of drugs with copious evidence, we will pardon you. Because we are currently a very stupid country.
i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view
"In 2020, the government pointed to Maxwell’s 'willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct' as a reason to deny her bail. Now, with her entire life in the government’s control, it turns to her as a source of truth. Or, if not truth, a story that can help the president out of this jam."
so like i know brad lander is a candidate for mayor but maybe the headlines should focus on the fact they arrested the guy CURRENTLY IN CHARGE OF NEW YORK CITY’S FINANCES
Trump on the phone to large DC law firms: “Yeah, we need a couple million dollars worth of pro bono legal work to help us build some concentration camps in Central America and kidnap Americans who say inconvenient things and send them there.”
This administration is an unmitigated disaster. They can’t be trusted on the economy, they can’t be trusted to keep us safe, and all of the tough talk and bluster won’t cover up their historic recklessness and incompetence.
For the democrats saying “we can’t let the govt shut down” you’ve already lost. It’s not on you.
Republicans control everything, didn’t come to you for anything except your vote. Where else can you force changes? You can’t… you’re a willing participant in Republican majority
Incredible how MAGA kept accusing Biden of "shutting down the whole country during Covid", but are completely OK with Musk's demolition of the government.
below is true but also applies to media employees talking about:
lgbtq+ people, abortion, sexual violence, civil rights for people of color and immigration.
subjects are politicized by public figures and then editors tell employees they can’t talk publicly about them anymore.
common practice.
I have two friends, neither of whom are politics reporters but who both work in “the media,” who both told me yesterday that they aren’t even allowed to write or post about Trump with work accounts because describing anything he’s doing objectively would appear “anti-Trump.”
I’m a gun owner, and I respect the rights of responsible gun owners. That said, the second amendment will continue to be watered with the blood of children until the laws change.
Anyone else find it weird that the guy who says he has his kid track his porn use, is refusing to let anyone see the ethics report on a guy who was investigated for sex trafficking kids?