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The reality is that members of the DC National Guard are soft targets. These are people who are part time military. They train 2 days a month and 2 weeks out of the year. Compare that to DC SWAT or DC Metro Police. Someone is going to realize that and challenge their authority.
DC is a federal enclave. It isn't a testing ground for anything. DC got limited home rule only 50 years ago. Before that it was totally under the control of the federal government. Worse case DC goes back to pre-1975 federal rule, which there are people alive who remember what it was like.
DC is a federal enclave. There is no 'invasion' of US National Parks by the DC National Guard. Effectively, Trump brought in federal law enforcement to terrorize DC. There is no objective there.
This isn't on Congress it is on the States. Congress only has a say in 2 public offices Senators and House Representatives. All of the rest of the questions on the Ballot issues are state representatives including the electing members of the Electoral College to select a President and VP.
Why? So the Chicago PD can shoot at ICE inadvertently? Why?
Ok, so why do I need to know that?
This is Thanos. He has figured out how to rest and babysit at the same time. Very impressive, very Montessori. 13/10 (TT: thanosthesaint)
So Speaker Johnson is saying that there is a human heart, mental health issue among white men in the USA?
ICE can't operate in any city without coordinating with local LE. There is too much potential for a mishap.
SCOTUS recently insisted that parents have an extra-special right to opt out of classroom content that interferes in their religious belief. In that case it was LBGTQ content. Christians don't agree on the content of THE Bible. I see parents taking issue with a OK official version of holy text.
AG Paxton has a soon to be ex-wife and a soon to be next-wife. He likely needs 3 primary homes.
Because the press pretty much ignore nearly every elected Democrat. When Democrats do have press conferences the press doesn't really report on the content much anyway.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
The intent of the law is to create a case for SCOTUS to so ... something. The text of THE 10 commandments doesn't appear in any translation of Exodus. It comes from a SCOTUS case and matches the text in laws in AR and LA. The laws even match. Schools can just silently not comply.
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
The law is a bit convoluted. Texas doesn't not require schools to purchase the posters but does require school to accept any privately donated posters. There isn't any enforcement mechanism in the law itself so it isn't clear if a school doesn't do anything what happens.
The gag order itself isn't likely to do anything. This appears to be the defense lawyer laying the groundwork for a dismissal?
There just isn't any utility in having the military on the streets. The military needs some adversary to operate against otherwise it is just all for show. The military in US cities are not going to start shooting people on the street. This doesn't even happen in occupations of hostile nations.
What happens when you put incompetent people in positions of power is they make lots of unforced errors like this. The result isn't one big collapse but thousands of small cracks hindering the institution's ability to operate.
Sure. Everyone carries a spare kidney in their trunk. Famously explained in the song "My Humps" What you gon' do with all that junk All that junk inside that trunk? That is my spare kidney.
It is not just 'extreme danger' it is just a lot of frustrations. Postal services around the world shut off mail service to the US, not due to some sort of protest but simply because the incompets at the Dept of Treasure didn't issue any guidance on how to collect and pay duties on low cost items.
Can't believe that in 2025 we have to be telling people that vaccines are safe and slavery was bad.
I think connecting autism to vaccines animated the push against autism. The reality is finding the 'cause' for autism does nothing for supporting the people with autism and integrating them into society. If Elon Musk wasn't the richest man in the world he would have a tough time holding a job.
So you are in the 10% who don't have one of the conditions and are not willing to lie to your medical provider about quitting smoking 20 years ago?
It is not like a health care professional is going to argue with you to deny you a vaccination.
Republican prayer have been pretty effect at making sure that Americans retain their right to commit mass killings.
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The law takes Democratic candidates off the ballots altogether. This is something the Federal government did to the communist party. The rational used isn't any different from the rhetoric Republicans are using to paint the Democrats as a threat to the government.
These people are losing their fucking minds over the DC National Guard wandering around DC. This happens so often in Black neighborhoods that it is routine.
They honestly believe that Black people in the USA are some sort of unified entity. Target wanted to meet with the leaders of the 'Black community'. The idea that they can apply martial law or a civil war against the 'Black community' sits on top of decades of racism that have warped their reality.
I'm thankful Don took the time to make this case in such a methodical fashion. I found it very convincing.
According to the CDC it is 25% of the US adult population. Obesity applies 40% of the US population. Some of the conditions are overlapping in individuals, but likely some 90% of the population has one or more of the conditions.
According to the CDC the rate is about 25%. Those would be people who said 'no' to the question of do you do physical activity outside of work.
Realistically, a Dr isn't able to determine whether you exercise regularly or not.
Realistically, nearly 100% of the US population would fall on that list. 40% of adults in the US meet the obesity criteria alone. Some 8% of the population has asthma. 20% of the population smoke.
You really have to wonder why people would stay in 'Democrat run cities' for the last 50 years if crime is so bad. If crime in DC is so bad then why is DC in the top 10 most expensive housing markets in the USA? None of what they are saying squares with reality.
You cannot begin to imagine what the USG has planned behind the goal of eliminating autism. Consider the genetic component alone. What would the resulting regulations be to reduce autism past through genes?
There is no way to show that some regulation actually resulted in reducing autism. This idea that something 'causes' autism means the we won't be able to determine if any regulatory action actually had any impact.
What sort of regulations will rise from a determination that autism is a genetic condition? Not disputing your claim here, but consider where this leads.
If a Democratic public official pushes back outside of the legal system then that forms the basis for claiming the Democratic Party is a an extremist organization that needs to be outlawed. This is a well followed strategy.
No. It is a plot against Democrats to destroy the opposition party. Republicans will allow elections but they will find some way to outlaw the Democratic Party. A FL legislator filed a bill to do just that. Stephen Miller and other are laying the groundwork. www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill...
This is a military occupation. Trump is attacking Democratic strongholds in the same manner an invading military would attempt to take and hold important strategic locations.
Maryland can possibly deploy National Guard to the borders of DC to protect Maryland residents from operations that may spill over into MD. This isn't different from DC deploying DC NG on Jan 6 to protect the citizens of DC from Trump attackers.
THIS IS AMERICA 🇺🇸 A mom runs to find her child after a school shooting because Republicans ran to protect the NRA.
It wasn't the scrapping of deminimis it was just plain mal-administration. DLH points out that the USG didn't provide guidance on how to comply. This isn't backlash this is simply that the USG didn't do what needed to be done to implement the EO.
The Dickey Amendment banned the CDC from researching anything that would support gun control. Researchers at the CDC have broadly just stayed away from research that could end their career.
Maybe. The best PR strategy is to end the controversy as quickly as possible. Speaking from a pure business management perspective they did the correct thing here. They took steps to minimize damage to the brand. The entire effort was a management failure.
We can go back and forth with the protests photos. That really doesn't prove that people are more or less content under one form of governance or another.
Yes, something like that. Most likely the US Park Service contracted with a company to do the cleanup. At a minimum, this point to the federal government gross mismanagement of pretty basic functions. None of this is on DC, so to use DC NG deployed for a DC crime in a US National Park is f'd up.
People need to stop and look at the big picture here. The National Guard meets one weekend a month and two weeks a year. That really isn't enough time to train specialized units to do what LE already do. People who work day jobs are not going the basis of Trump death squads.
When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault
MAJOR BREAKING: Trump orders the Washington Commanders to immediately change its name to the Washington Trumps or he will bar them from the upcoming season and block construction of new stadium. And Mexico is gonna pay for the rebrand.
They seem to be working in US National Parks not DC. Cleaning up the mall or US Capitol complex isn't on the city of DC to handle.
The DC National Guard seems to be picking up trash in national parks around DC. That is the job of the US Park Service or whoever they contracted to do the work. Somewhere in there is a lot of maladministration.
Crime rates correlate to the number of police reporting crime. Rural areas have less instances of crime because there just are not as many police going around attempting to justify their existance.
States will have to figure out how to fill in for the CDC.
"Duffy said the federal government can do a better job managing ..." It wasn't long ago that Republicans were claiming that the federal government sucks at everything.
Seems like the DHS is interfering with the practice of religion. Kind of hard to see how a court that determined that purchasing health insurance for employees is part of religious practice but feeding the hungry is not.
The logo is costly to execute in print. That impact everything from menus to letterhead to uniforms. It is a cost saving move. Same with cleaning up the decor in the stores. The cut back on the clutter reduces costs.
The blatant racism isn't even self-consistent. 'Gang bangers' would be young men who chose a life of crime and joined violent criminal enterprises. Yarvin then puts them on welfare and somehow thinks that Methodist ministers can control what the state uses the prison system to contain.
Seems like you didn't really think this through. For most of history authoritarian rule has been the norm. America broke with the norm by attempting government of, by and for the people.
Sure because the men whom the state normally puts in maximum security prisons can be put under the control of Methodist Ministries in Baltimore.
Ask the protestors in LA after the Rodney King verdict how content their lives are. You had to reach back to 1989 China.
Update: it got funny again
DJT: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the President of the United States.” This would have been considered a pretty shocking statement under any other circumstances.
China is under authoritarian rule and people there live out their lives in contentment. Authoritarianism has been the rule for much of history. The problem happens when the authoritarian breaks with the needs of the people. China has long been under authoritarian rule and American frequently visit.
People could just fucking stop dropping their trash on the ground in DC.
This is forced labor. Why can't Trump activate his supporters to come the DC to do beatification projects?
Yes, but the regime already has control over the USA capital. There is no utility in occupying DC. Trump is not able to do something now that he couldn't do before the military occupation.
Anything that activates different pathways in the brain help with concentration. Writing by hand works and so doing pushups.
Community policing attempts to create a trust base between the community and the law enforcement. The use of DEA LEO isn't consistent with the objectives of community policing. It is worthwhile understanding the damage they are doing to actual community policing efforts.
So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap
National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC
Trump has a bug up his ass about wind farms because of the battle he lost with Scotland. Every Trump policy has something to do with an issue that Trump has.
It isn't a coup. They already have control over the government.
Again, utility. The USG doesn't need to control Penn Station to cut off rail traffic on the east coast. Controlling passengers coming into DC by rail really does nothing for the USG. Possibly they can use that as a checkpoint but they can do that without taking control over the station.
What is the utility of controlling Penn Station. The people who come into DC by rail are either workers or visitors. Stopping passenger rail into or through DC does nothing WRT controlling the rest of the nation. It actually cripples the federal government ability to operate.
Again, that doesn't apply to DC since 287(g) applies to states not the DC. It doesn't make sense for the federal government to reach an agreement with the federal government to enforce federal law.
The President of the United States sat in the Oval Office and said "a lot of people are saying maybe we'd like a dictator" and that is not even a top story.
No. The limit is on how long they have to bring a charge in front of a grand jury. The statute of limitation applies to when the crime occurred.
We're at the stage of nightmarish fascism where John Roberts and his right wing colleagues allowed Ed "Big Balls" Coristine -- a kid with ties to criminal hackers -- live access to all Americans' social security data. www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/26/a...
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
It wasn't long ago that there was talk about eliminating GJ.
Yes, for a real study. This would have been in the late 60s, so I don't think the ethics were the same as today.
Yes, he absolutely needed the income. And it was more like incidentally observation. He kept a journal, but it sounded like it was about how the job changed him.
Cheesecake is neither cheese nor cake, so yes.
I just shaved an entire leg with the razor cap on. And now I go to work where I will dispense financial wisdom to youth and vulnerable adults.
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Troll.
No, Mr Robot who did not read the post. "Do Black people deserve to live in safety?" No. Because this is fucking America which has a long history of making sure that Black people do not live in safety.
Shippers did this because they were not given guidance on how to comply with the rules. This is about incompetence not that they don't want to do business with people in the USA.
Take a close look. The issue that these shippers have is that they don't know how to comply with the new rules. Had the USG simply put processes in place to collect the duties shippers would not have to punch out of the business.
A sociology professor told a story about him applying for an assembly line job when he was a grad student and getting rejected because they thought he was there to study them. He was trying to feed his family. He applied again and lied about his education. He then studied the people he worked with.
Actually I hope they continue to suck in thier presentation and we keep going round and round I was in a grand jury that did a no bill in this time server on a grand jury it exsist for time such as this
The Grand Jury is there to prevent prosecutors from abusing power. The 99% means that we have honest prosecutors. The fact they took this before 3 GJ means that we have a problem with prosecutors.
Ever notice that old white guys are allowed to speak uninterrupted? Ever see an old white guy get attacked by security for speaking out at a townhall meeting?
In Baltimore, violent crime spikes around the stadiums on game day. People who hate the city come into the city and fight with each other, then leave the city. The most dangerous place to be in Baltimore is at a O's game when they play the Yankees.
Republicans are chickenshits.
