These are some truly sick people
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
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Another private surveillance vendor accessing data from commercial sources and data breaches and packaging it for law enforcement. In this case, the distributed nature of the license plater reader cameras is especially concerning
www.404media.co/license-plat...
License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows
Flock, which has license plate readers (LPRs) all around the country, wants police to be able to “jump from LPR to person,” according to leaked audio obtained by 404 Media.
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Today's
#UIClaims data out from the Department of Labor (
www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher continued unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, up 38% for the week ending April 26.
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It was never about birthright citizenship, this is about limiting the power of the courts
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...Sounds like Gabbard fired them for telling the truth.
Not much “intelligence” going on here…
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Gabbard fires intel officials who oversaw memo contradicting White House claims on Venezuelan gang
Democratic lawmakers criticized the firings, suggesting they were punishment for providing information that didn’t support the administration’s agenda.
This is not very reassuring!
Walmart CFO John David Rainey: "We've not seen a period where you've had prices go up this high, this quickly. We're well equipped and experienced in dealing with price increases that are going up 2 or 3 percent, but not 30 percent."
Everyone’s focus at
#SCOTUS is (understandably) on the birthright citizenship cases.
But in two other pending applications, the Trump admin. is asking the justices to let it immediately subject more than one *million* additional immigrants to arrest, detention, and removal.
More, via “One First”:
Bonus 150: A Tale of Two (Other) Immigration Cases
A deeper dive into two of the pending emergency applications from the Trump administration in immigration cases that have received far less attention, but are no less important.
NEW: Records show that senior State Department officials in both D.C. and Gambia coordinated with Starlink execs to coax, lobby and browbeat Gambian government ministers to help Musk. One official said Gambia is under “maximum pressure” to yield.
The Trump Administration Leaned on African Countries. The Goal: Get Business for Elon Musk.
The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk’s satellite internet company in five developing nations. In Gambia, U.S. diplomats have lobbied and browbeat at least seven government ministers a...
Garcia to Noem: "Can you commit to just letting his mother know mother to mother if Andry is alive? He was given an asylum appointment by the United States government."
(Noem wouldn't commit to it.)
The reconciliation bill out of the House is an absolute catastrophe for clean energy -- very close to a complete repeal of the IRA. If you want all the gory technical details, listen to this excellent but depressing episode of Shift Key:
Shift Key Special Edition: The Fight Over the Inflation Reduction Act Has Arrived
Rob and Jesse digest the Ways and Means budget bill live on air, alongside former Treasury advisor Luke Bassett.
Deaths from Fentanyl dropped over 25% in 2024. That is a phenomenal number. Kudos to
#AnneMilgram and the DEA. Don’t be fooled if Trump tries to claim credit for it. In fact, his policies threaten to reverse it.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/h...
US drug overdose deaths saw an unprecedented drop in 2024, but federal cuts could threaten momentum | CNN
Drug overdose deaths in the United States made an unprecedented drop to the lowest they’ve been in five years, according to a new federal government estimate released Wednesday.
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I don’t get how the Free Press doesn’t feel the smallest modicum of embarrassment acting as if Bhattacharya was “”censored by the government”” when a literal SCOTUS decision found that there was no evidence to justify him having any standing to bring the case at all. No govt official mentioned him!
'You Will Kill Me': Dozens Arrested Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts at US Capitol
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'You Will Kill Me': Dozens Arrested Protesting GOP Medicaid Cuts at US Capitol | Common Dreams
Over two dozen people were arrested at the U.S. Capitol for protesting the GOP's proposed Medicaid cuts.
The corruption is so out of control
Companies front loaded goods and a 30% tariff is still ruinous. The only reason to rush to ship is if you think it's going back to 145%.
www.wsj.com/articles/chi...
China Tariff Rollback Unlikely to Boost Imports, Port of L.A. Chief Says
The executive director of the Port of Los Angeles says he doesn’t expect a flood of goods despite the deal reached by the U.S. and China.
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
She erred on paperwork and is spending months in jail instead of doing life-saving research at Harvard.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
Opinion | I Came to Study Aging. Now I’m Trapped in ICE Detention.
Wow — how could anyone ever imagine that the GOP wouldn’t be a good faith actor on the filibuster!?
Senate Republicans promised to keep the filibuster after winning back the chamber in November.
Now they’re rapidly moving to kill it—shattering a precedent they defended vociferously for four years under Biden. And once they’ve crossed the Rubicon, there’s no going back.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Senate Republicans Are Poised to Deal a Shattering Blow to the Filibuster
Throughout the 2024 campaign, GOP senators shouted from the rooftops that they would preserve the tactic if they won back the chamber. Whoops.
RFK Jr. just claimed again that MMR vaccines contain “aborted fetus debris”.
This is a lie.
"Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey... Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark."
gizmodo.com/transportati...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport
Would you let your family fly out of Newark?
‼️ Putin is not interested in real peace, but only wants to buy time and avoid new sanctions.
🇺🇦 Zelenskyy is demonstrating a willingness to engage in dialogue – to expose the true essence of Russia’s position to the world community.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/direct-negot...“Why does your opinion […] have more authority than the Supreme Court?”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a contentious hearing on immigration policy.
Kristi Noem Ignores the Law -- and Reality -- in Tense Immigration Hearing
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the House of Representatives on Wednesday in a contentious hearing on immigration policy.
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Turning the greatest republic in the history of the world into a shitty little personality cult dictatorship at breakneck speed.
Spotted going up at USDA today…
something to be said about how these people view americans as inputs to be used up by capital
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,” George Orwell wrote in his cautionary tale against totalitarianism.
The Trump administration just got a lot more Orwellian.
Kristi Noem Refuses to Even Look at Photo of Abrego Garcia’s Tattoos
Representative Eric Swalwell had the photoshopped image walked over to her.
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NASHVILLE mayor Freddie O’Connell: “By ICE’s own admission, a large % of people caught up in this sweep had no criminal record.”
As @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn claim this is about violent criminals, DHS’ own release shows it’s just 5 of 196 (2%)
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HAPPENING NOW: Hearing in the case of Kaseniia Petrova, the Harvard scientist from Russia who was detained by ICE after she failed to declare scientific samples when she returned to the US from France.
The hearing is before a federal judge in Vermont.
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Breaking:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.
GOLDMAN: Will you give Abrego Garcia the due process the Supreme Court has required you to give him?
NOEM: If he were to come back to this country, he would be immediately removed again
G: How do you know? The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he hasn't been treated appropriately
Newark airport had three air traffic controllers on duty instead of 14.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Newark airport had three air traffic controllers on duty instead of 14
On Monday evening the airport had far fewer than the 14 controllers agreed on between the union and regulators
“And we weren't involved at all in anything [happening at DOGE], which Elon was in charge of...
[Musk] did it all on his own.”
“IN CHARGE OF,” you say???
“DID IT ALL ON HIS OWN,” you say???
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...hahahahahahahahahahahahaha LIKE CLOCKWORK
first heat advisory of the year and my power's out
Texas in a nutshell, babyyyyyyy!!!
I can't understate how beyond over this I am
New blog from me at
@motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts
"You will kill me."
Curious as to which podcasts are on the “bad” list.
Nothing says “land of the free” like interrogating citizens over their podcast playlists at the border.
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WATCH LIVE from Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Pete Buttigieg joins VoteVets for a town hall on the MeidasTouch Network. Veterans, military families, and Iowans speak out on the stakes—and the policies failing those who served.
LIVE: Pete Buttigieg EXCLUSIVE Town Hall…in IOWA!!!
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Nearly 470,000 people in the Gaza Strip, or approximately one in five of its residents, could starve to death in the coming months under Israel’s total aid blockade, according to a new report published Monday.
Report: One in five people in Gaza could starve to death within months
Almost 250,000 are already starving under Israel's blockade, according to the UN.
Pete Rose now eligible for the Hall of Fame after Csr removes him from the permanently ineligible list, concluding that ineligibility should only last the lifetime of the player.
Policy also applies to "Shoeless Joe Jackson," he of "say it ain't so Joe" fame for his supposed role in the 1919 WS.
