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

You mean the ones he was forced to hire back the next day?

His actions have been to have every communication channel he has yell at Dems for shutting down the government and try to bully his way out of the mess his party created. Seems to me like anybody who says this is all going according to some plan is assigning competence to these fascists they have not earned.

Except this “oh the shut down is good for us actually” nonsense has been the Republicans’ script since this thing started. Fact is everything they’re doing now is stuff they wanted to do before the shutdown anyway.

You believe what Trump says?

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)

The CIA probably only found out this was going to be publicly confirmed when they saw news stories about Trump running his mouth, both because the White House is being run like Lord of the Flies and because the CIA are a bunch of dumbasses who are actually shit at predicting what governments might do and basically only excel at giving money and weapons to the worst people on the planet

Memphis Safe Task Force

Dipshit totalitarians’ gift for unintended irony is a really durable bit throughout history

This is funny, but just to keep things somewhat accurate the article says

The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.

[Ital. added]

This means multiple people who are “need to know” on this are frustrated enough with the situation that they’re leaking it to NYT, but the fact that that’s happening is just more evidence for the same basic conclusion - they’re a bunch of morons.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/xmgJp

I don’t think there’s any good reason we can’t do both of those things at the same time, but even if it goes exactly like you describe at least trying to pursue justice will be an improvement over the last administration

1. That doesn’t make any sense, either they blame both equally or they blame Dems more, there’s no room for overlap between those two positions with how the questions and possible answers were phrased

2. Even if that did make sense (which it does not), combine blame both equally with blame Republicans and you’d get even further over 50%, because 39 is a bigger number than 33

If 33 was bigger than 39 the answer would be “yes,” but it’s not so - no

Yeah, this is a complicated one. Based on the information we have I think the jury made the correct call here because the investigation was a mess and the prosecution just didn’t make a convincing case, but we should know what happened to this child, whether it was an accident or a crime, and we probably never will because he was born to a poor family and everyone he depended on, from his parents and caregivers through child welfare and the police and prosecutors, did a bad job looking out for him, because we just don’t make any kind of resources easily available to kids in poverty in this country. Ultimately what I can say for sure is this was a tragedy that could and should have been prevented.

I maintain that popular opinion will find a way to express itself, whether that’s through free and fair elections or some less orderly way

doesn’t understand my fellow countryman anymore.

I think they’re heavily propagandized, but basically decent if you can actually get them to see reality. Take this set of findings from the full poll link as an example

• More Americans say they have no confidence at all in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) than say they have a great deal of confidence (38% vs. 26%)

• Two-thirds (67%) of Americans think that while making arrests, ICE officers should be required to wear uniforms; 18% say they shouldn’t be required to

• About half (52%) of Americans say ICE officers should not be allowed to wear masks that hide their identities while making arrests and 35% say they should

• Views on anti-ICE protests are split: 40% believe they have mostly been peaceful and 39% believe they have mostly been violent

Like, those first three bullet points tell me large majorities want the right things, but that last one shows that lots of them are living in worlds of disinformation

e; Also, I can find a ton of headlines talking about how the percentage that blame Dems for the shutdown and that blame the GOP moved up and down a few points respectively, but I haven’t seen any headlines focusing specifically on 2/3 of Americans saying ICE officers should be required to wear uniforms

And yet you cared enough about it to share your opinion, curious

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.

Nah, I don’t think that’s quite right, it’s not like anybody’s ignoring how thoroughly evil these fuckers are, we can just also appreciate that they’re little bitch idiots to a comical degree who get intimidated by fuckin band kids

Like, to put it another way, US troops in world war 2 constantly made fun of Nazis while also shooting at them and such. They’re not mutually exclusive trains of thought, if anything they reinforce each other.

Why are serious journalists even calling this a cease-fire anymore? Just because Israel says it is? Even though they keep opening fire on people?