I mean, yes that is the way things currently are, but it’s not the way they should be

Trump administration expected to appeal the decision.

Historically speaking, when fascist leaders relocate to bunkers good things happen

Small step in the right direction, but

a) There are pretty obviously widespread and violent violations of the law happening, you don’t need to assess them, you need to be immediately arresting and imprisoning these ICE scumbags, then organizing the widely available evidence and bringing charges against them. Treat them like the urgent and deadly threats they are and get them off our streets now.

b) Water under the bridge at this point, but why tf did a bunch of citizens have to put themselves in danger to gather evidence of New York laws being broken? Pretty sure that’s the cops job.

Arrest them on sight because they’re imminently dangerous, organize the widely available evidence and bring charges after they’ve been secured in a cell

Nah, with how they talk about “drinking lib tears” and stuff all the time Republicans definitely know what they’re saying and doing is wrong. The people who are so deluded they don’t know what they’re doing is wrong are the moderates, you could talk those assholes into supporting a genocide and they’d still think they were good people who could lecture others on right and wrong and be taken seriously.

Ever since Biden pulled funding from UNRWA most American news orgs just forgot it existed

Born to be an constantly evolving set of self evident ideas, forced to have an identity

A government shutdown isn’t a general strike, but it could be the start of one

She wants the Epstein files released because she thinks the secret codes to the Jewish space lasers are in there somewhere. I also think antisemitism explains her willingness to call out Israel for genocide (which, like, to be clear, shouldn’t be an antisemitic stance at all, but MGT is a dumb hateful bitch who thinks every single Jewish person is in on some massive conspiracy to rule the whole world so of course she stupidly folds the real crimes of Israel and Epstein into that bullshit).

After failing the sobriety tests, Deiseroth was placed in handcuffs and informed that he was being placed under arrest. He then pleaded with the officers to not take him to prison and asked what they were going to do with his two children.

… I really don’t think I could properly express my sentiments about both the level of parental care and hypocrisy on display here in a way that wouldn’t get me at least a stern talking-to by some fed dipshit,

So I’ll just leave this article about teenagers and young adults who have been forced to become caretakers for their younger siblings after their parents were kidnapped by ICE (arc) instead

I don’t think that’s right, I’m pretty sure any kind of budget resolution (continuing or no) has to have 60 votes under current Senate rules. Once they’ve got that bottom line resolution passed then they’re able to use reconciliation on individual components of the budget to move monies around (so long as they end up at the same bottom line) and pass those with only 50 votes, but establishing that bottom line still requires 60.

Best source I could find at the moment for this is a publication I haven’t heard of before tbh, but it’s being rehosted by MSN so it’s most likely somewhat legit, and this all sounds like stuff I’ve read before,

First, the House and Senate must agree to a budget resolution, which sets overall spending and revenue targets. Then, bills advanced in the name of “reconciling” tax and spending practices with that budget resolution need only a simple majority vote to win approval in the Senate. There are limits on what qualifies for reconciliation and on how many bills can be deemed as reconciliation each year.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-senate-republicans-need-reconciliation-to-fund-trump-s-agenda/ar-AA1y4YRk (arc)

Because centrists like Macron and Jeffries keep trying to shove unpopular market-centric bullshit on to people. Human beings in general haven’t gotten worse, our leadership class has.

Also, some places require you to re-register at least a few weeks in advance of any election, so if they sent mail to an old address you never saw telling you your registration was deleted months ago but you only find out on election day when you go to vote you could be screwed no matter how badly you want to vote

Weird how the reporter for this story had access to Friday’s announcement that they were firing a whole bunch of people and Sunday’s threat to do even more but somehow missed the news on Saturday that they were forced to rehire a bunch of the people they fired on Friday (arc). Maybe with this administration’s lengthy track record of lies it’s not the best journalistic practice to just unquestioningly repeat what they say or something.

No, it’s not, it’s if said administration is allowed to. They’re not nearly as powerful as they want us to believe, they have been told no by court decisions and public outrage and been forced to back down on a variety of things already, and that’s probably going to happen more often as their stupidity causes more things to break down in highly public ways that are impossible to spin and they have to find more scapegoat enemies and distracting spectacles, which will cause more things to break down and etc.

For sure, although it is a bit reassuring to think that there’s public pressure for him to say these things

Dems need to demand all of these people are hired back as part of any deal to reopen the government

e; unless general public outrage forces them to do it before Dems even have a chance to negotiate (arc), I guess

I mean, not being forced to work while not being paid sounds like an ok deal, especially when the odds are pretty good the courts are going to force the administration to give you backpay for all the time you weren’t working and hire you back anyway

Survival in a world that wants us dead is a revolutionary act and every day is another chance for you to make a new crack in their systems of oppression