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    The media framing of Gluesenkamp Perez’s support is typically very inaccurate.

    She may be able to carve out incumbency by appealing to working class “moderates”. But the media, consisting far too often of somewhat over-educated, younger, or more affluent older whites, tend to misunderstand the leanings and motivations of these working class “moderate” voters because they honestly don’t know any of them.

    These voters are most certainly not the mythical “socially progressive, fiscally conservative” voters that media white people conceive. And I think the support patterns for Gluesenkamp Perez illustrate that. She doesn’t do well with the more rural parts of her district where church attendance, racism, early pregnancy, traditional family structure, and very low levels of educational acheivement dominate. But it’s a mistake to think that working class always equals “rural” and “uneducated”. Of course we shouldn’t really be surprised if graduates of Reed don’t get that the person who fixes their Subaru is not a high school drop out who fucks their cousin.

    Call it “Blue Dog” or call it anything you like. But don’t mistakenly assume that these voters want abortion bans, school vouchers, school prayer, and massive cuts to public health, and public assistance. A lot of them voted for Gluesenkamp Perez because the image of a successful woman running a growing business in a trade dominated by men is something they recognize as familiar to them and comforting, even if the media don’t normally see it. And you won’t find these voters on a dairy farm or in a mega church. You’ll find them in suburbs raising non trad families working in hospitality, food service, transportation, and manufacturing. A bunch of them are women with their own businesses. A bunch of them are non-white.

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    Yesterday ICE Fat Asses put about a dozen men on a flight destined for South Sudan, a country in a civil war, in direct defiance of a binding federal court order they had just received.
    Today the judge in the case issued an order to ICE to notify all the agency personnel involved that they are now subject to criminal contempt charges.

    The $45,000 bonus won’t be nearly enough.

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    In today’s unhealthy news,

    UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in bonuses to help slash hospital transfers for ailing residents – part of a series of cost-cutting tactics that has saved the company millions, but at times risked residents’ health, a Guardian investigation has found.

    Those secret bonuses have been paid out as part of a UnitedHealth program that stations the company’s own medical teams in nursing homes and pushes them to cut care expenses for residents covered by the insurance giant.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/21/unitedhealth-nursing-homes-payments-hospital-transfers

    United Health is an utterly corrupt corporation. Hopefully they’ll be sued into oblivion. Criminal charges would be nice, too, but Trump’s DoJ is too busy bringing bogus felony charges against Democrats who push their way through crowds to go after real criminals.

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    @1 “A bunch of them are non-white.”

    This is exactly why Fat Hitler is deporting non-whites and importing whites. It’s about political power. When he’s not busy stealing from his supporters, he’s building up the white supremacy power base and tearing down the progressive one.

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    By the way, when did pushing your way through a crowd become a felony? It didn’t except in the wild imaginings of Pam Bondi and Alina Habba. If Rep. McIver is guilty of a crime, so is every American who ever attended a sporting event, concert, or rode a New York subway.

    I hope they’re having fun with their attorney licenses while they still have them.

  6. 6

    5,
    As previously mentioned in these comments, the federal felony charge requires a finding of fact that “serious bodily harm” resulted.

    We will all very quickly get used to regarding prosecutions brought by this DOJ as the sad jokes in bad taste that they are.

  7. 7

    Today’s stock market selloff is directly related to the GOP’s profligate spending on non-essentials like Trump’s “Star Wars” and mass deportations, and its irresponsible tax cuts for highly profitable corporations and very rich people.

    Stocks sold off on Wednesday, pressured by a sharp spike higher in Treasury yields as traders grew worried that a new U.S. budget bill could put even more stress on the country’s already large deficit.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

    Practice tip: You can’t keep cutting revenues and increasing spending and expect deficits to shrink, even if you’re raising taxes on the working and middle classes with tariffs.

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    Today’s stock market selloff is directly related to the GOP’s profligate spending on non-essentials like Trump’s “Star Wars” and mass deportations, and its irresponsible tax cuts for highly profitable corporations and very rich people.

    Stocks sold off on Wednesday, pressured by a sharp spike higher in Treasury yields as traders grew worried that a new U.S. budget bill could put even more stress on the country’s already large deficit.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/20/stock-market-today-live-updates.html

    Practice tip: You can’t keep cutting revenues and increasing spending and expect deficits to shrink, even if you’re raising taxes on the working and middle classes with tariffs.

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    Target came clean and in a filing today admitted boycott over their rollback and DEI policies are the primary cause of a 3 1/2% drop in revenue over same period last year.

    Betty Lou bigot and her lovely white children are actually a loud but very tiny minority of shoppers.

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    Fuckabee is outraged that some (countries) are “blaming” Isreal. That was the sound bite on NPR, in an audio of Fuckabee. But that’s the keyword that I would challenge. Nobody is blaming Isreal for the war, or atleast I’m not but yet I can hold Isreal on their mission to exterminate all Palestinians from Gaza and steal their land.

    Fuck him. You exterminate one group and try to justify it then no group is safe, including Christians

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    When asked by NBC News … about the White House’s decision to admit white South Africans, Trump claimed that “a lot of people are very concerned with regard to South Africa.” “We take from many, many locations, if we feel there’s persecution or genocide going on,” Trump said.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/in-a-tense-meeting-trump-makes-the-south-african-president-watch-videos-promoting-baseless-claims-of-white-genocide.html

    Yeah, sure, Jan.

    #Gaza

  13. 13

    I would like to point out that Rep. McIver has not been indicted by a grand jury (and probably never will be). Rather, the charges against her are in the form of a “criminal complaint” filed with the magistrate of the U.S. District Court in New Jersey. What’s more, it’s signed by a DHS special agent, not a prosecutor or lawyer. That’s because no lawyer is going to risk their license by putting their name on this piece of shit. He didn’t sign it either; he attested to it “by telephone.” This is pure theater, see for yourself below, and it will be dismissed.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.569115/gov.uscourts.njd.569115.1.0.pdf

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.569115/gov.uscourts.njd.569115.1.0.pdf

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    I wish to point out that Rep. McIver has not been indicted by a grand jury (and never will be). Rather, the charge against her is in the form of a “criminal complaint” filed with the magistrate of the U.S. District Court in New Jersey. What’s more, it’s signed by a DHS special agent, not a prosecutor or lawyer. That’s because no lawyer will risk their license by putting their name on this piece of shit. The agent didn’t sign it either; he attested to it “by telephone.” This is political theater, see for yourself below, and it will be dismissed.

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.569115/gov.uscourts.njd.569115.1.0.pdf

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    In other news,

    A federal judge chided the Department of Justice (DOJ) during a Wednesday hearing where he agreed to dismiss a trespassing charge against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) that stemmed from his visit to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier this month alongside three Democratic members of Congress.

    U.S. District Judge Andre Espinosa said the arrest suggested a “worrisome misstep” by the New Jersey’s U.S. attorney’s office, noting the “apparent rush” in bringing the case that culminated in the government’s “embarrassing” retraction of the charge.

    He dismissed the complaint against Baraka with prejudice, meaning the charge cannot be brought again.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5312170-newark-mayor-baraka-charge-dismissed/

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    The Senate GOP is all-in on facilitating Trump’s corruption:

    Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) bill that takes aim at President Trump’s deal with Qatar to accept a luxury jet as a gift to serve as the next Air Force One.

    Schumer attempted to pass the measure, which would essentially bar the use of a foreign-owned aircraft as the presidential aircraft, via unanimous consent.

    “This gift is outrageous,” Schumer said on the floor, calling it the “largest foreign bribe in modern history.” “It is bribery in broad daylight. … This is about ensuring our national security and about not wasting taxpayer dollars on an utterly senseless deal.”

    “Donald Trump accepting this gift reeks of corruption and naked self-enrichment,” Schumer added, calling on the GOP to support it.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5312664-senate-republicans-block-schumer-qatari-jet-bill/

    Which they didn’t, because they love corruption, as long as it’s GOP corruption.

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    14,

    It might not be dismissed. They have time still. And this DOJ has proven itself reliable to toads and thugs in the ranks willing to trade away ALL of their credibility in a single throw (Emil Bove) that their legs are wide open and they are down to fuck.

    They just have to suborn perjury in an affidavit and before a grand jury. Then it’s off to the races. I still think their biggest hurdles are going to be intent and serious bodily injury.

    They’ll need one “eyewitness” to falsely claim she shouted “C’mon y’all! Let’s OFF these white pigs!”*. Then they’ll need an MD to testify that an “otherwise perfectly healthy” 340 lb, 43-year-old ICE Fat Ass who hasn’t seen his own penis in twenty years of donuts and farting in Chevy Suburbans is now “suddenly” crippled with ruptured anal fistulas from being bumped into.

    Easy peasy.

    *The fake “white genocide” isn’t strictly required for the true bill. But it’s definitely on brand.

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    @17

    We know he doesn’t read and he only watches one channel. What he’s got is a tail hold to invite Elon, which he absolutely believes that the poor whites in South Africa are oppressed and they need our rescuing.

    “It’s not fair that we can’t make them work in our emerald mines for pennies a day anymore. that’s like the holocaust.”

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    @20 They’ll have her arrested when a crucial House vote comes up where they don’t have all their own ducklings in line so they need to render a Democrat or two incommunicado for a few hours.

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    Sound Transit did a drag test of a light rail train over the Homer Hadley Bridge. That is the start of testing for the 2 Line in Downtown Seattle. Will be interesting that the last two stations on the 2 Line to open are Mercer Island and Judkins Park.

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    22,
    Perhaps. But they only have 30 days to bring forth a true bill before the complaint becomes vacated by statute.

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    This doesn’t help innocent Palestinians at all.

    Two staff members of Israel’s Embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot dead outside the district’s Capital Jewish Museum … law enforcement officials briefed on the shooting told NBC News a man pacing outside the museum opened fire, hitting a man and a woman. The man shouted “Free Palestine” while he was being arrested, three senior law enforcement officials said.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/shooting-dc-jewish-museum-rcna208427

    And it’s red meat for Trumpers.

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    Sorry Elon, while you were making a shitty SUV with peel away panels, rusting body parts and less cargo capacity than a Minivan Volvo was making a semi.

    The European market for whatever you eventually get to market in that space is effectively closed.

    Upstart American company run by a fascist with incredibly poor quality reputation or the European and world leader in long haul truck sales.

    40 minute charge from 20% to 80%. Almost like they knew the EU required break time for commercial drivers every 300 miles is 45 minutes.

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    A bunch of people will get executed to this, probably shot to pieces with naval guns:

    A ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea’s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship’s launch that the country’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, described as a “criminal act”.

    Kim was present when the 5,000-tonne destroyer appeared to go off balance during its launch in the eastern port city of Chongjin on Wednesday. The tipping caused damage to sections of the hull, the state-run KCNA news agency said on Thursday. …

    Blaming “inexperienced command and operational carelessness” during the launch, the news agency said the incident left “some sections of the warship’s bottom crushed”. Officials found responsible for the debacle would be “dealt with at the plenary meeting of the party central committee” in June, Kim said.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/22/north-korea-kim-jong-un-warship-destroyer-accident

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    The House passed the GOP budget and tax bill with no votes to spare, 215-214.

    The bill — titled the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” adopting Trump’s slogan for the measure — extends the tax cuts enacted by the president in 2017; boosts funding for border, deportation, and national defense priorities; imposes reforms, like beefed-up work requirements, on Medicaid that are projected to result in millions of low-income individuals losing health insurance; rolls back green energy tax incentives; and increases the debt limit by $4 trillion, among many other provisions.

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5313198-house-passes-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

    I hope Republicans are real proud of this, when it bites them in the ass. Of course, it still has to pass the Senate, where changes are likely …

  34. 34

    @32. Don’t worry, to protect whiteness, the apartheid state Republicans will be going after the brown tax cheats next.

  35. 35

    Will the owners of the Kent beverage manufacturing company also go to jail for hiring illegals?

  36. 36

    You can no more change the mind of a trumper that republicans are wrong and democrats are better, than you can change the mind of a Evangelical that Christianity is wrong and they should follow Islam because it’s better.

  37. 37

    Michigan voted for MAGA, now their unemployment rate is soaring from 4.4% to 5.5%.
    Michigan now has the second highest unemployment rate in the country.

    Voting for Republicans caused this.

  38. 38

    Why is the IRS chasing immigrants instead of tax cheaters?

    And of course, they will go after targeted business that aren’t leaning conservative or falling in line with policies that they demand be abided by.

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    Will the owners of the Kent beverage manufacturing company also go to jail for hiring illegals?

    Why put them in jail, when you can try to put them out of business? This isn’t about abiding by the law, it’s about pain and suffering so you give in to their demands.

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    BYD moved ahead of Tesla in Europe for the first time last month despite sales headwinds from import restrictions and tariffs. Those headwinds disappear once the company completes building two new factories in Hungary and Turkey.

    #TeslaTakedown is working.

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    Hee hee

    Trump Invites WNBA Fans Who Yelled Slurs At Angel Reese To White House

    theonion.com

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    @33 Based on this article, it appears the half dozen or so GOP senators opposed to the House bill won’t allow steep Medicaid cuts that threaten rural health care, so it appears that either they’ll have to pare back spending, give up some tax cuts, or deficits will explode even further.

    The bond and stock markets fired a warning shot across their bow this week about deficits.

    I have a suggestion: The country can’t afford the House bill’s spending of $150 billion for immigration enforcement, and another $150 billion for new Pentagon spending.

    Exempting tips from taxation is also a bad idea, because it will cost billions in revenue, and in addition, encourage employers to play games with wages in order to reclassify hourly pay as tips.

    They also ought to restore funding for IRS enforcement against wealthy tax cheaters, because that produces more revenue than it costs.

    Closing the gap between spending and revenue, which absolutely requires doing things on the revenue side, will lower interest rates which also will help reduce deficits.

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    The Medicaid program isn’t wasting hundreds of billions of dollars, and the House GOP’s math depends on cutting off tens of millions of lower income Americans from health care, and defunding rural hospitals and health clinics, many of which will close and leave their communities without health care. Around half a dozen GOP senators are saying they won’t vote for that. That number should be many more, but whatever.

    The House GOP’s scheme all along was to gut Medicaid, creating health care deserts and millions of uninsureds in the process, and the GOP Senate is saying “no” to that. Solving this impasse with bigger deficits will trigger a bond market revolt, raise interest rates, and push the economy into recession.

    To avoid that, House Republicans will have to take out the DHS and military spending increases, new tax cuts, and they also should take up Trump on his offer to accept restoration of the 39.6% marginal tax rate, which of course means nothing without IRS enforcement.

    There will still be a big debt increase, but Republicans can limit the damage in the financial markets and to the economy, and get the so-called “big, beautiful bill” through the Senate, by removing its most irresponsible elements.

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    Oh, and a couple more things on the spending side: The government shouldn’t spend a penny to acquire or refurbish that Qatar airplane, nor should one cent be spent to resettle Afrikaaner “refugees” in the U.S. — they should pay for that themselves, or through private donations.

  47. 47

    Boxcheck Momala was the last person in the room with that demented fuckstick of a president.

    She knew, and she said nothing, because she knew it was her only path to becoming a fuckstick of a president herself.

  48. 48

    @ 43

    I have a suggestion: The country can’t afford the House bill’s spending of $150 billion for immigration enforcement, and another $150 billion for new Pentagon spending.

    Any reason you didn’t suggest that Biden not spend $400B of the money of taxpayers like Welfare Queen YLB’s two fucked kids in order to hand cash to 20-somethings and 30-somethings that don’t need it, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit?

    We’ve recently ended four years of “Deficits don’t matter.” claims by your ilk. What changed?

  49. 49

    @48 Any reason why you’re not calling out Trump adding to the debt? The answer to your question is nothing’s changed. Deficits still don’t matter.

  50. 50

    More Republican incompetence:

    When North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong took up an agency budget bill approved by the legislature, he vetoed a couple of line items. At least, that was his intention Monday. Instead, he accidentally vetoed $35 million for the state’s housing budget.

    Now the state is figuring out how to deal with the unusual problem of a mistaken veto. “I have no recollection of anything like this happening in the 37 years I’ve been here,” John Bjornson, legislative council director, said Thursday. “So, yeah, I’d say it’s a little extraordinary.”

    Armstrong wasn’t the only governor to possibly flub a line-item veto this week. Late Wednesday, Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced that he would be striking about $47 million in funding and cash transfers over the next two years from budget bills passed last week by the Nebraska Legislature. Those cuts included about $12 million over two years for the Nebraska Supreme Court.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/north-dakota-governor-kelly-armstrong-mistakenly-vetoes-housing-budget-rcna208674

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    @43

    The no tax on tips is a feel good measure for Senators to take to the July 4th picnics (jokes on you that’s not a day off for wait staff) that won’t effect anything, really.

    Why?

    The measure is no tax on CASH tips, i.e. the tips that in the ubiquitous credit/debit card age aren’t getting reported anyway. Federally, and in most income tax states, a server is required to report their total tips OR a percentage of their sales as income whichever is greater. Three things come into play. A lot of tipping establishments under report their sales revenue. Cash tips are increasingly rare. Credit Card tips usually come damn close to hitting the percent threshold so the employee will report a small fraction of cash tips.

    Cash tips for most tipped people is “play money.” How do you spot a fellow server at your bar? They came in after 10:30pm and they are paying cash.

  52. 52

    Did you catch the bit where the House GOP slipped in clause that bans and retroactively nullifies injunction against the Executive branch.

    Neat trick but even the Roberts court isn’t going to let ALL their power be stripped. Thomas authors the dissent Because he’s got an RV trip planned and it’s just easier to not have to do any work at all.

  53. 53

    Wild filing

    SHIRA PERLMUTTER, Register of Copyrights and Director of the U.S.
    Copyright Office,
    U.S. Copyright Office
    101 Independence Avenue SE
    Washington, DC 20559
    Plaintiff,
    V.
    TODD BLANCHE, in his capacity as the person claiming to be acting Librarian of Congress,
    Library of Congress
    101 Independence Avenue SE
    Washington, DC 20559
    PAUL PERKINS, in his capacity as the person claiming to be the Register of Copyrights,
    U.S. Copyright Office
    101 Independence Avenue SE
    Washington, DC 20559

  54. 54

    In local news, Seattle city Council overturn the ethics rules that bar council members from voting on measures in which they have a direct financial stake. The next step that we all are coming, is to overturn renters protections as two members of the council on rental properties. Inequity move council president here Nelson cut the comments short and did not allow the two council people who voted against it to speak because they “aren’t on the committee that’s relevant“ And the council members needed to go to retirement for the UW president so no real tine for debate.

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    @52 Who’s gifting him the RV this time? Is it bigger and better than his last “free” RV?

  56. 56

    Notice how republicans went from “Harvard discriminates against Asians” to “Harvard is colluding with the Chinese!!” as soon as they won the election.

  57. 57

    @ 51

    Cash tips for most tipped people is “play money.” How do you spot a fellow server at your bar? They came in after 10:30pm and they are paying cash.

    Serious question: I try to tip in cash. But is it a problem if a couple of $20s or a $50 bill are dropped onto the signed CC receipt? Does that screw the back of the house staff? Does it cause more trouble than it’s worth, and I should just add it to the CC tab and get my 2% cash back?

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    And now for the case of Zachary Alam. He’s the Jan. 6 rioter who smashed the door panel that domestic terrorist Ashli Babbitt tried to climb through a few moments later. The federal judge who sentenced Alam to 8 years in prison described him as “one of the most violent and aggressive rioters.”

    But this chronic abuser of alcohol and drugs is back on the streets because Trump pardoned him. What’s he doing now? Robbing his neighbors. He was arrested two weeks ago for burglarizing an occupied dwelling in his hometown. Since this is a state crime, Trump can’t pardon him for this crime, so maybe he’ll stay locked up this time.

    https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/zachary-alam-arrest-may-20-2025

    Good going, Jan, for putting criminals back on the streets.

  61. 61

    @57

    Usually no. Unless you’ve worked in the industry it’s hard to understate the for lack of a better word ‘family’ of it. Are there shitty servers who screw back of house? Sure. But everyone knows how hard, physically, that job is. Do you sometimes not tip out to make rent, yes. Do you make it up as soon as you can, also yes.

    Do you not tip out the creep line cook who ‘brushes up’ against you or your fellow servers. You bet.

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    Defense contractor L3Harris Technologies will pay $62 million to settle allegations that it lied about the prices of equipment it sold to the U.S. military ….

    L3Harris was recently tapped to help modify a luxury Boeing
    747 jet from Qatar’s royal family that President Donald Trump wants to use as a new Air Force One ….

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-gift-jet-qatar-l3harris.html

    Hiring crooks for a crooked deal?

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    If you encounter cops, it’s important to remember they’re imperfect human beings susceptible to the same failings as everyone else. Sometimes they even lie, cheat, and steal V.A. benefits.

    That’s someone you definitely want to be the police witness in your DUI trial, because your lawyer will have no trouble demolishing his credibility, especially if you have veterans on your jury.

  67. 67

    Impact of the tax giveaway to the top 5%, on WA-02 including Widbey Island
    Estimated number of people to lose Health Insurance 41K
    Number of people to lose some or all SNAP Benefits 14K
    Number jobs to lost by elimination of Clean Tax Credits 800+

    Voting for Republicans caused this

  68. 68

    Seeing a lot less “cold” but some “boxcheck momala”..

    A majority of US companies say they will have to raise their prices to accommodate Donald Trump’s tariffs in the US, according to a new report.

    More than half (54%) of the US companies surveyed by insurance company Allianz said they will have to raise prices to accommodate the cost of the tariffs. Of the 4,500 companies across nine countries, including the US, UK and China, surveyed by Allianz only 22% said they can absorb the increased costs.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/trump-tariffs-prices-allianz-report

    My guess is we’ll see a lot less of the kreepshit vacuous troll while it molders in shame in widbee. Decades of klownservatic horseshit has brought it to this.

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