InevitableSwing

calling up every single reactionary militia to put on masks

I'm actually sort of surprised Trump didn't already sign an executive order saying he has the power to "deputize" an unlimited number of militia members to stop "foreign enemies from infesting the United States of America".

My supermarket doesn't have that. All I get is "year to date savings". :(

“Schumer 101,” said one source with knowledge of the process.

Caves compared.

Our Big Wet Boy and His Big Wet DEALS.

I like how the BBC chose a photo that makes Trump look like a circus clown.

OP's broken link - https://erikhoudini.com/#post%3Fid=523675+&title=ice-raid-sparks-chaos-mom-torn-from-baby-in-worcester-streets

Working link - at least right now - [Never mind - the site is fubar]

Bibi, Bibi, Bibi - listen-listen. I keep telling you that ya gotta buy $Trump meme coin.

Mr. President - respectfully - our relationship is not of that nature.

But it is of that nature. America - Strong and Powerful. Israel pound-for-pound is good but not Strong and Powerful like America. What are you without us? Ya gotta buy $Trump meme coin. It's a respect thing.

Netanyahu doesn't say anything. He just scowls.

This is a sort of generic Bluesky joke but I keep laughing anyway.

Jeanine Pirro becoming a U.S. attorney makes me feel better about my chances of one day becoming a member of the Wu-Tang Clan. Anything is possible now!

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The best Wu-Tang song.

Non-spoiler alert: She's an awful person. I wonder if she's crazy, sort of crazy, or pretends to be crazy because that's that right-wingers want.

President Donald Trump says he will appoint Fox News host and former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Trump announced the pick in a post on Truth Social. The selection comes as Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Thursday that Ed Martin, who is currently serving as D.C.'s interim top prosecutor, would not be taking the position permanently after losing support among top Republicans in the Senate.

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Pirro has been a longtime ally of Trump, dating back to her time as a prominent prosecutor in New York. She was an early supporter of his 2016 campaign and publicly defended him during the "Access Hollywood" tape scandal. Following Trump's loss in the 2020 election, Pirro pushed false allegations of election fraud involving voting machines and was later among the Fox News employees named in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit for broadcasting false claims about the company.

Fox News eventually settled for $787.5 million and admitted the statements were false. In 2019, Pirro was reportedly suspended by Fox News after she questioned the loyalty of Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to the U.S. Constitution, citing Omar's Muslim faith.

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One of Trump's final acts before leaving office in 2021 was issuing a last-minute pardon to Pirro's ex-husband, a longtime GOP donor. With less than an hour before his term ended, Trump granted one final pardon to Albert Pirro, who was convicted more than two decades ago on 34 counts of conspiracy and tax evasion after he was found to have improperly deducted over $1 million in lavish personal expenses as a tax write-off for his businesses.

I hate the fucking American media! I found an article but it was a super-lazy garbage job by the reporter. At the very, very end there was this tripe.

While Prevost is seen overall as a centrist, on some key social issues he's viewed as progressive. He has long embraced marginalized groups, a lot like Francis, who championed migrants and the poor. But, also like Pope Francis, the Illinois native opposes ordaining women as deacons, for instance, so on that point he's seen as conservative on church doctrine.

"Progressive" is a word that hardly has any meaning in the US. And that's quintuplely true for somebody like the pope. So - he's not in favor of death camps for the homeless - I guess.

I hope his wife and kids stay safe. Emphasis mine.

The Hidden Struggle of John Fetterman

Fetterman was, according to Jentleson, avoiding the regular checkups advised by his doctors. He was preoccupied with the social-media platform X, which he’d previously admitted had been a major “accelerant” of his depression. He drove his car so “recklessly,” Jentleson said, that staff refused to ride with him. He had also bought a gun.

“He says he has a biometric safe and takes all the necessary precautions, and living where he does I understand the desire for personal protection,” Jentleson wrote, referring to Fetterman’s rough-and-tumble town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. “But this is one of the things you said to flag, so I am flagging.”

I'll paraphrase a soundbite I heard yesterday on MSNBC. Emphasis mine.

The easiest trade deal Trump can make is probably going to be with the UK... Because US-UK trade involves a lot of services... And Trump doesn't seem to care about services.

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I almost started laughing. I should have expected that President Jellybean Brain might not even understand what "services" are or why they are valuable. What are they even? They aren't on ships and they aren't in shipping containers.

His Wikipedia page seems to be pretty much useless.

Pope Leo XIV

Criticism

Prevost has faced criticism from advocates for clergy abuse survivors regarding his handling of sexual abuse allegations during his leadership in the Augustinian order and in Peru. The advocacy group SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) has alleged that Prevost may have failed to act against abuse claims involving Richard McGrath, a former president of Providence Catholic High School, allowing him to remain in his position despite longstanding accusations.