No. ICE was already plenty funded from last summer’s bill, which is why they’re still on the streets and in the airports. The Democrats were (supposedly) fighting for restrictions on ICE: no masks, warrants required, limits on use of force, etc. Once again, they got absolutely none of the things that they were supposedly fighting for.

The Republicans, however, get to claim they’ve “ended” the shutdown, and have also gotten pretty much everything they wanted.

Israel is approximately the size and population of New Jersey.

It’s going to be even worse with the war with Iran. Here is a wonderful, detailed article on the various impacts the war is going to or is likely to have on various food supplies.

Here’s the animated one; here’s the Lego one. And the first one on this page is (afaik) their most recent.

I hope he saw that animated “explanation” video Iran did (not the Lego one, the shorter animated one) because, while it’s probably too complicated for him to understand, that’s the closest “briefing” I’ve ever seen to his level of stupidity.

Aside from what everyone else’s already mentioned, there’s the whole hassle of setting up a new device - debloating, tweaking the settings, etc. Why go through the pain of adjusting to a new device when the old one works just fine?

Malone claimed on social media that [HHS] had disbanded [the vaccine advisory board] and planned to completely reconstitute it. But soon after, Malone retracted his claim, saying it was a miscommunication and that disbanding ACIP was merely one of the “options being considered.” [A] HHS spokesperson […] then released a statement to media pointing to Malone’s retraction and adding, “Unless officially announced by us, any assertions about what we are doing next is baseless speculation.” Malone [said] that Nixon’s response was what led to his departure. “After Andrew trashing me with the press, I am done with the CDC and ACIP,” Malone said in a text message Tuesday morning. “That was the last straw.”

Sounds like he thought he could say anything and that it would magically happen, and he didn’t like being called out on his bullshit.

“Suffice to say I do not like drama, and have better things to do,” he added. […] “Hundreds of hours of uncompensated labor, incredible hate from many quarters, hostile press, internal bickering, weaponized leaking, sabotage—I have better things to do,” he said.

I’m delighted that he should go off and pursue these “better things”, lol.

Nowhere near as infuriating as when they finally speak up … after they’ve left office :(

Funny how the price has gone from 200m to 300m and now 400m - gee, I wonder where that money has come from and disappeared to.

which he aims to complete by 2028.

So he has to live with the noise of construction for three and a half years and gets to enjoy it for maybe 2-3 months? Not the actions of a person who’s planning on voluntarily leaving office.

It must be scary, living in a world where you’re constantly confronted by the fact that people exist who are “not like you”.

Both of them relish stolen glory.

… I think I shall start disregarding you, disregardable. Goodbye.

Might’ve only had to be on the registry for a few years?

Anyway, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050706062151/http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-molest01.html

If she wants to win, she needs to be out there today pushing back against the regime. Instead, there’s crickets. That’s a “No” vote from me.

We should pretty much assume that all age verification efforts either currently are feeding into surveillance efforts, or will be bought out by surveillance companies.

The guy before me said what she did “was pretty fucked up”; I’m saying there are multiple sides to this story, and we know pretty much none of them. I’m saying that she stayed with him for 20+ years and there’s must’ve been a reason she left when she did.

Back in 2001? I lived in semi-rural Maryland and our grocery stores were open till 10, or midnight if you wanted to drive to the nearest “big town”, and there was a 24-hour Walmart about 45 minutes away. I can’t speak to Kmart - there wasn’t one in my area - but I wouldn’t be surprised if her stores stayed open later as well.

Edit: also, regardless of normal store hours, this was a couple weeks before Christmas, so extended hours could definitely be in play.

I’m wondering what the husband was like.

[some brain-damaged speaker for the Kennedy Center said] “The Democrats have been calling artists urging them to cancel and attacking the Center non-stop.”

Uhh, no, we haven’t.

[And also added] “Commonsense Democrats must speak up before this violence takes a life.”

Someone needs to send them that analysis of where almost all the political violence in the US originates from.

first reported by Fox News

Of course it was …

The USPP Major Crimes Unit is reviewing security footage and investigating

Does the Major Crimes Unit not have, y’know, some actual major crimes to investigate?

TIL - thank you!

Also, Dumas based D’Artagnan from The Three Musketeers and it’s sequels (the last of which was The Man in the Iron Mask) on an account of the life of Charles de Batz de Castelmore D’Atagnan, later Captain in the Musketeers and also for a time Governor of Lille.