– New bike lanes in Belltown.
– Maybe I am just a cynical asshole,* but if the police gave one of my friends a random act of kindness citation, they would never hear the end of it.
– Hearing about Travis Decker is so depressing. Fuck that guy.
– Contact your legislator or member of Congress.
* “just” is the only thing contested here.
What’s next?
Iran’s parliament just voted to withdraw from their IAEA cooperation agreements and begin efforts to build a thermonuclear device that can be fitted to their existing arsenal of medium range balistic missiles capable of reaching to 2000 km.
Attorney General Pam Bondi just testified under oath that she is unaware that DHS law enforcement personnel are wearing disguises and concealing their identities during immigration enforcement operations.
@ 1
“existing arsenal”? I didn’t think Iran had any left.
That range should scare the shit out of Iraq and Jordan. Israel, not so much.
Anyhoo, nice to see QoS McHillbilly parroting something other than #TeslaTakedown propaganda.
President Trump’s press conference at NATO.
Remember all those unscripted one-hour press conferences our last president held? Good times, good times.
Also unserious:
• AOC
• Welfare Queen YLB.
Democrats fume at “unserious” Trump impeachment vote
Alabama’s homicide rate is three times that of NYC.
@ 6
Alabama does have its issues. Among them:
A little Johns Hopkins data to go with your year-old tweet, McHillbilly.
Donald Trump, NATO press conference, today.
TRAVIS DECKER: If I can’t have my kids, neither can my ex! I’ll show her some real pain! Take this, bitch!
Yeah, fuck him. He’s probably dead. I hope so, it’ll save us taxpayers a lot of money. As a child killer, he wouldn’t last long in prison anyway, and he surely knew that. I think he ran into the woods and blew his brains out. That’s why they can’t find him. Dead fugitives don’t need food or shelter, and don’t leave a heat signature.
@3 “Israel, not so much.”
Yeah, if you watched the videos embedded in news stories or on YouTube, you saw that Israel shot down most of Iran’s missiles and only a few got through and blew up buildings in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. So what’s the big deal if a couple of nuclear warheads get through the missile defenses?
@4 When did Trump ever follow a script?
Presented with one comment:
Chuck Schumer has seemed weak this year, politically speaking. Clownish at times, and with increasing frequency. Is he the best Democrats can do?
@5 I agree impeachment is futile. Republicans are long past having the patriotism, loyalty to the Constitution, and belief in American principles and democracy to remove a president who is a convicted felon, a pathological liar, shamelessly corrupt, a chronic lawbreaker, a would-be autocrat, and is pervasively incompetent. After all, he’s their president, and they were deficient by supporting and electing him, so nothing can be expected from them. And you’re one of ’em.
@8 The difference between you and me is you believe everything Trump says and I believe nothing he says. We can’t both be right.
@ 14
The difference between you and me is …
One of us is lying about claiming to be a millionaire, and the other has no need to make the claim.
@5
So what we’re seeing is now Democrats are only willing to criticize AOC anonymously.
Maybe it’s how she got the likely next York Mehr through the primary.
Solid Parody Account
(Note: AIPAC put a lot into getting Cuomo through)
@15 “One of us is lying about claiming to be a millionaire, and the other has no need to make the claim.”
I agree, but you have the identities backwards.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5368582-judge-blocks-trump-union-bargaining/
It’s not surprising that a former businessman with a mobster mentality who routinely stiffed vendors and creditors, made breaking contracts into an art form, and is anti-worker to the bone is unilaterally tearing up union contracts. But it goes much deeper. This administration’s lawlessness is pervasive.
All presidents have legal advisers. Under other presidents, their job is to advise the president where the legal boundaries are, so he doesn’t do things that are illegal. This president is different. He tries to tear down the boundaries by doing stuff that’s blatantly illegal, and this administration’s lawyers see their job as defending his lawbreaking in court, and suffering loss after loss (which isn’t exactly career enhancing). And those in executive positions, who participate in the lawbreaking and rights denials, put their licenses at risk.
Aaaaaaaaaaand
Israeli Air Force conducts a targeted assassination inside Iran.
Something something cease-fire
Texas has the strictest anti-abortion enforcement in the country. Health care providers won’t even provide life-saving abortions. Consequently, Texas exports more pregnant women to out-of-state abortion clinics than any other state.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5368919-texas-travel-abortion-access-study/
Texas has the strictest anti-abortion enforcement in the country. Health care providers won’t even provide life-saving abortions. Consequently, Texas exports more pregnant women to out-of-state abortion clinics than any other state.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5368919-texas-travel-abortion-access-study/
In today’s major headlines,
It simply doesn’t matter what these guys think, or what they say. The nuclear materials were either hit or they weren’t. The only damage that counts is the actual damage. Their opinions, and their spin, isn’t worth a wad of used toilet paper, especially considering their willful ignorance of facts, their antagonism toward real intelligence, and their propensity to lie.
Israel’s vaunted military capabilities took down Iran’s internet access for all of 12 days.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5368827-iran-internet-connection-restored/
If you ask me, military “solutions” are overrated.
Trump’s and Hegseth’s response to intelligence reports suggesting they failed to take out Iran’s nuclear capability is to look for who leaked the embarrassing intelligence reports.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5368255-trump-hegseth-iran-leak/
@ 24
If you ask me, military “solutions” are overrated.
You do realize, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, that restoration of internet access was part of the cease-fire agreement. Don’t you?
To get the internet back, Iran had to lay down what is left of its weaponry.
Oh. One more thing. Musk helped Iran get back on track.
You can thank DJT47 later.
@ 24, 26
Let us not forget that part of the loss of internet connectivity in Iran during the brief war was because Iran itself cut off access, in order to prevent citizens from organizing to attempt an overthrow of the Iranian government.
Iran had done this at least twice in the recent past.
So yes, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit, Iran is now allowing its own citizens to talk to each other again.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/trump-iran-intelligence-report-nato.html
It doesn’t fucking matter what Trump says. The airstrikes either destroyed Iran’s nuclear program or they didn’t. I’m not saying I know the answer; all I’m saying is words can’t change reality.
Donnie is now running around and declaring war on “leakers“ and insisting he No longer has to share intelligence information with Congress.
‘For there is only one branch of government me Donald. But you can call me your highness or your worshipfulness or Lord perv’
It’s simply adorable listening to Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s desperation as he hopes against hope that Iran can still threaten the fortunes of the West, and the existence of Israel.
A more profound innate weakness than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s is rarely seen.
@30 You haven’t been reading my posts. I don’t want Iran to have a nuclear bomb, and I want regime change. I’m against repressive dictatorship in Iran and the U.S.
My concern is what it takes, how Trump is going about it, and whether he succeeds or fails. It takes a stupid person or a liar to read that the way you do.
@1
Tell us you don’t know the difference between a nuclear weapon and a thermonuclear weapon without telling us.
@ 32
McHillbilly declares his ignorance of many issues on a quite-regular basis. It’s really something.
A mediator has proposed that an intentional coverup of Boxcheck Momala’s political incompetence during a CBS interview should cost the network $20 million.
Also unserious:
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/feb/16/our-principles-pac/anti-trump-ad-says-he-backed-impeaching-bush/
lmao.. it probably didn’t need a diaper back then.. but then.. maybe it did.. It was a brighter shade of orange as well.
Was Bruce Fein serious?
Fein’s rationale for impeachment is that the Constitution must be protected from people like Bush and Cheney who try to usurp powers not intended by the framers. Impeachment is one of the main tools within the Constitution to balance the powers of the president and ensure he does not become a virtual king. Impeachment isn’t about removing the president, it’s about removing the precedent, so that these powers are not abused by future occupants of the White House…
https://www.nevadaappeal.com/news/2007/aug/03/the-case-for-impeaching-bush-and-cheney/
lmao.. a bonzo guy no less.
This is ugly shit:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emil-bove-doj-whistleblower_n_685ad3d0e4b0124a7193e4a7
And pants shitter should be impeached for it. It’s the freek’s policy.
Nowhere fast
a CBS interview should cost the network $20 million.
Small price to pay for enabling a merger to benefit rich people.
https://wgme.com/news/nation-world/trumps-lawsuit-against-cbs-hits-snag-demands-soar-amid-paramount-merger-talks
2 billion dollar deal I hear.. repukes will minimize the taxes on that deal and widbee dumbfuck will fellate up and down and all over that.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-18/trump-endorses-paramount-merger-with-david-ellisons-skydance
$3m a year contract holding CNBC Anchor Jor Kernan is really shaking off the shocking loss of Cuomo in stride.
Sounds like something the American Taliban would and will do.
What’s your problem with it?
Conservatism vs. liberalism boiled down to one screen capture.
@40 too funnee.. a degenerate instahack post that’ll I never click on..
but we can guess hovering over the url.. repuke hack jennings fellating pants shitter over some unflattering take on leftist christian cornel west who even puddy dumbass had warm words for – the christian and black church/experience part, not the politics.
yawwn.. ignored.
Switzerland’s national womens’ soccer team lost 7-1 to a team of 14 year-old boys.
The Swiss Football Association tried to bury the result but one of the victorious pubescents posted video on Tik Tok. For a little while, but not now.
Didn’t somebody just say that Chuck Schumer is looking weak?
That was one prescient dude:
I”m sure AOC makes a lot of men weak in the knees, but that’s when they’re dreaming of fucking her, not worrying about losing to her in a party primary race.
Stiffen up, Chuck. Weak is not a good look.
Switzerland’s national womens’ soccer team lost
More practice..
He wants to remind everyone to drink some water and stay out of the heat.
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/washington/20006/current-weather/327659?lang=en-us&partner=web_mozilla_adc
High of 100F, “real feel” 112F..
Watts up with that?
All of us at HA understands the projecting, moldering, old widbee dumbfuck has a strong “weakness” for performative bombing raids.
Here’s an interesting wrongful conviction case. A North Carolina man who served 27 years in prison for murder is being released because police investigators withheld evidence supporting his alibi that he was in another state at the time of the murder.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5369912-man-who-spent-27-years-in-prison-going-home-after-murder-conviction-overturned-im-innocent
No one should ever assume cops are honest. Their priority is clearing cases, not investigation integrity. Of course, some are more dishonest than others, but you can’t trust any of them. They are not your friends.
There have been hundreds, if not thousands, verified cases of wrongful convictions in the U.S. That’s not a large number, in percentage terms, considering there are millions of criminal cases. But these cases do demonstrate glaring faults in policing, on top of all the other things wrong with American policing.
Typically, wrongful convictions are remedied with a monetary settlement, often in a low amount, or nothing at all. Hardly ever do the cops responsible for them suffer any consequences. If cops who hide exculpatory evidence or commit perjury went to prison, maybe there’d be less of this.
@ 45
If cops who hide exculpatory evidence or commit perjury went to prison, maybe there’d be less of this.
Also not in prison: members of The Biden Crime Family.
Wonderful things, presidential pardons.
Still open: the Strait of Hormuz.
Liberal pussies in WI demand House districts created by Democrat governor be redrawn.
Liberal justices tell them to fuck off:
Wisconsin is trending more blue but also losing residents; its Department of Administration projects a loss of 200,000 state residents by 2050. After the 2030 census WI will probably have one less congressional seat.
DOCTOR Jill’s former aide refuses to testify to Congress about how FLOTUS ran the country for 3 1/2 years.
Wonderful things, subpoenas.
7,
The racist Nazi Fucktard brags that Alabama MAGATs deny police protection and timely ER services to people of color.
Here’s some light reading for your amusement.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982937-marylandtfrmot062425/
Story and synopsis here.
Of course Iran’s nuclear sites were obliterated, depending on how you define “obliterated.”
By the way, I don’t think they can verify or prove that no dogs were harmed. Depending, of course, on how you define “dog.”
@46 “Also not in prison: members of The Biden Crime Family.”
Because a little thing called credible evidence of a crime is absent. Personally, I wouldn’t mind watching Bondi prosecute the Bidens and then losing her license for the numerous ethical violations that would entail. It would be Biden’s final service to the nation at the end of a long public career. But it’s unnecessary because she’s already under investigation by the Florida bar for other alleged ethical violations.
Doc loves war because there’s no due process on a battlefield.
Hey Boob, is this anything like what Iran did, blocking internet service.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143485829
And maybe they did it for the reason you say or maybe they did it for intelligence reasons.
Alabama Republican.
How about the crime rate of The Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus?
Various center right people continue to take last night’s results well.
Note, Kargman has several books, TV shows and Films on her IMDB page AND is married to a Venture Capitalist who now runs an mobile advertising behemoth. In 2021 the Kargman’s filed suit against a neighbor over a renovation that took longer than anticipated with Jill Kargman being quoted, ““is more reminiscent of Detroit circa the 1980s than Manhattan’s Upper East Side today.”
Why Pam Bondi is a Trump ass-kisser who should be impeached for facilitating his corrupt influence peddling:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uT3nYGzz3RQ
Oh, I know what doc’s going to say, Trump merely duped the foreign buyers of his meme coins into thinking they were buying influence. Yeah, Hunter Biden, too, for a lot less money.
Why Pam Bondi is a Trump ass-kisser who should be impeached for facilitating his corrupt influence peddling:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uT3nYGzz3RQ
Oh, I know what doc’s going to say, Trump merely duped the foreign buyers of his meme coins into thinking they were buying influence. Yeah, Hunter Biden, too, for a lot less money.
The government was forced today to release an AI Generated image of a bald JayDee Vance because THAT was the Anti-American content on his cell phone after they forced a Norwegian tourist to unlock his phone and they denied him entry.
In, “Hey we’re incompetent” defense and NOT policing memes, Immigrations says it was because the 21 year old tourist’s name matches James Bond actor Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) who is 59 because of the actor’s admitted past drug use.
Donnie shocked shocked that other countries actually prosecute criminals, And uh, sitting in a comfy chair and watching a video feed is definitely like Bastogne, December 1944 or Ypres May 1915.
Rest in Peace, first Mariner.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45584932/diego-segui-starting-pitcher-mariners-first-game-dies
His son was playing for the Mariners when they played their last game at the ballpark at 201 King Street. He also played for the short lived team that played at the old minor league park nestled between Rainier Ave and (then)Empire Way.
@ 60
The government was forced today to release an AI Generated image of a bald JayDee Vance …
Are you sure? The government was forced?
That photo didn’t just show up in various newspapers because the deportee made it public, like in this photo?
And are you sure it was the photo, and not the drug use the deportee admitted to, that resulted in the refusal of his entry into the US?
Or, perhaps, was it the reason the deportee was provided, in writing, by CBP?
You’re an especially gullible motherfucker, Thoughtcrime.
@ 60, 63
Dude shows up at Customs with 50 Norwegian crowns (about five bucks US) in his pocket and claims he’s a tourist, with a return ticket in two months.
You don’t show up planning “to visit friends in New York” with five bucks in your pocket.
@64
I have showed up at MANY border checkpoints with very little cash.
I could explain to you how bankcards work and how they calculate exchange rates and how the rate is in almost all cases favorable over “cash exchange” kiosks if you like.
And then I can explain that a picture of a person holding a wooden pipe is not “admission of drug use” any more than owning a gargoyle ashtray is proof of religious affiliation.
And then I can explain that cops lie. A lot.
DHS posted the image across various social media today in response to The Independent reporting (forced) “FACT CHECK. Claims that Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry because of a meme are unequivocally FALSE,” Homeland Security posted on Facebook. “TRUTH: Mikkelsen was refused entry into the U.S. for his admitted drug use. Only those who respect our laws and follow our rules will be welcomed into our country.”
It appears CBP doesn’t want Norwegian hippies wandering America’s byways. I remember when “Europe on $5 a day” was a thing.
Hmmmmmm…..
Pay no attention to the cars that son’t work behind the curtain.
The state has paid $825,000 to a woman struck by a rubber bullet fired by a State Patrol officer during the 2020 George Floyd protests in Seattle.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/woman-hit-with-rubber-bullet-during-seattle-protest-settles-lawsuit/
A Washington Trailblazer has passed away. Will Craven, former mayor of Roslyn.
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/washingtons-first-black-mayor-passes-away-86/N4STKYH6PRDDDAHTR5FAMHWCSY/?utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=trueanthem&utm_source=facebook
First learned about him in a book on ghost towns of the Pacific Northwest, although Roslyn isn’t really a ghost town. Craven was mayor during the period between Roslyn’s coal Minnie’s closed, and the town becoming Cicely, Alaska.
Heterosexuals have this world so fucked up beyond the Neanderthals killing the bitches
@61
Israel has annihilated Palestinians, it is genocide.
Their cease fire with Iran is a sign of weakness. A sign that people on the fence would turn against them.
They haven’t achieved their goal of eliminating an enemy. Iran still exists as of now. It can’t be over, only a temporary reprieve.
Nothing was gained, just a setback for Iran and a cowering Israel.
Once Kegseth tells me what the damage is I’ll be sold. There’s no bias in this administration, no yes men!
While you were asleep, illegal settlers in the West Bank attacked a Palestinian village setting homes on fire.
Eventually IOF soldiers arrived and shot and killed at least three Palestinians trying to put out the fires.
Kegseth is unhappy with the coverage of his ‘big boom make large noise’ moment.
Pete, this isn’t your Little League team making the playoffs. No one owes you a trophy.
Thte Young Republican Club of New York is taking things very well posting to their socials media…
*Actually it doesn’t and in a specific case from New York the act was deemed ‘unenforcible’ as a violation of BOTH the First and Fourteenth Amendments by a federal court. The act attempts to outlaw ‘membership’ in the American Communist Party, which barely exists and does not include Mr. Mamdani.
Seems like it will be more than a few months before Iran is up and running with nuke programs again.
This is why the initial – quickly leaked – intel assessment was made with “low confidence”.
If there’s a radiation leak at the site(s) it will complicate even getting in to look around.
Cry more, libs.
@76
Not wanting to wait, Dumbfuck goes with ‘Free Beacon” to characterize what the IAEA statement means.
So….the research facilities for further enrichment and nuclear weapons development….weren’t targeted? And there is low level radiation which isn’t consistent with the Enriched Uranium still being there during the strike?
Quietly removed from advertising and marketing material on “Trump Mobile”…’Made in the USA.’
They were hoping no one would notice that a bare bones TEMU Android clone is less than what they say it is like they were selling a University Degree or a Steak or some Vodka or Bottle Water….
Making it’s way around conservative media for about the 16th time, the Cuban immigrant seeing Costco for the first time and amazed at how massive it is.
“Tell Zorhan (sic) that people who’ve lived under communism know what it’s like!”
Cool. Can we take him to a doctor’s office? How about the Pharmacy in that Costco? How about having him sit in on a week of Louisiana high school?
Pootie must a Mike Lee pee tape:
US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill
Republican Senator Mike Lee has introduced a bill to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, which comes after a two-day alliance summit in The Hague.
In reference to the alliance’s acronym, the Utah lawmaker introduced the Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act to take the U.S. out from the bloc, which he said had “run its course” as he accused its European members of “making American taxpayers pick up the check for decades.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-to-withdraw-from-nato-under-republican-bill/ar-AA1Hs5DX?ocid=BingNewsVerp
lmao.. wwbs.. what would bonzo say?
So. much. winning.
@ 77
So….the research facilities for further enrichment and nuclear weapons development….weren’t targeted?
Yes, that is correct.
In addition to the illegal weapons-production nuclear program, Iran has energy-generating nuclear reactors that are operated by Russian citizen nuclear engineers and scientists under an IAEA-approved agreement between Iran and Russia. The fuel rods for these reactors are manufactured in Russia, imported for use in the reactors, and the spent fuel rods are then exported to Russia for disposal, all under the IAEA’s oversight. This enables Iran to benefit from nuclear energy while preventing Iran from repurposing the spent nuclear fuel for weapons development. All above board and to my knowledge not a point of disagreement.
So the US hit the weapons-production nuclear facilities and left the Russian-operated energy-generating nuclear sites alone.
You are welcome.
The US economy shrank much faster in the first quarter than previously reported
Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of economic output, registered an annualized rate of -0.5% from January through March. Spending in the first quarter grew at a rate of just 0.5%, down from 1.2% in an earlier estimate. That’s the weakest rate in more than four years. New data showed that unemployed Americans are having an increasingly harder time finding work. US Merchandise-Trade Deficit Unexpectedly Widens on Exports Drop
Voting for republicans destroys the economy. Voting for Democrats improves the economy.
Republicans want to deport the young progressive US Citizen who just won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary and has not broken any laws so is guilty of thoughtcrimes apparently.
>> Dude hasn’t even won the race yet, and Republicans are terrified.
Uninformed asswipe @ 83
That’s the weakest rate in more than four years.
Imports by definition are a subtraction from the GDP calculation.
Businesses accelerated imports to avoid the tariffs that began in April. That boosted imports in 2025 Q1, which were a drag on GDP.
What this means is that GDP growth will spike in Q2, and you’ll have to eat a crap sandwich as conservatives celebrate.
But enjoy this morning’s misunderstanding of what the reported GDP figures are, because you have so little else to be happy about. Even if in this case your happiness is misplaced and will be short-lived.
We’ve already got one Welfare Queen YLB commenting here. Try to be a little more cerebral and a little less reactionary.
@ 84
… Republicans are terrified
So are wise Democrats. You’ll have to wait until November to see how it turns out, but Alaska’s 2010 Senate race or Lieberman’s 2006 Connecticus Senate race should give you a hint of how NYC Mayoral race might turn out.
@85
“Because the macro is not favorable please ignore it and look at a micro data point.”
I have read your term paper and generously given it a D
Also, if tariffs are the answer, why all that ‘rush’ importing? I mean WE know the answer but I’d like to hear it from you. In 700 words or more, who ultimately pays tariffs, are tarriffs inflationary AND what is the effect on consumer prices of tariffs?
In the latest abortion from SCOTUS, the majority (all conservatives) maintain
in it’s plain original language drafted by Congress ‘individual’ is really ‘State Legislature’ and “any agency etc’ is really ‘some agencies’.
Expect them to find how naming a cliinic directly in legislation is in fact NOT a bill of attainder in the remaining suita directly by Planned Parenthood in future rulings.
Vacuous groomed child bride at the podium:
Judicial, Executive, Legislative. If you had attended a real middle school, high school, or college you’d have heard of that.
Good morning.
Today Kenneth Chesebro, a NY lawyer who orchestrated the fake electors scheme in a half dozen states at the behest of failed candidate Donald J. Trump, and who pleaded guilty to state charges related to that scheme in Georgia in 2023, was disbarred from the practice of law in New York state. In exchange for his cooperation and guilty plea Chesebro received a suspended sentence and a nominal monetary fine. The criminal case, including a felony indictment against the current president, is still pending in Georgia.
The GOP is trying to pass a highly controversial budget bill without Democratic votes despite their very narrow majority. Not surprisingly, the bill is being held up by disputes within their own caucus. Bringing even a few Democrats on board would forces far greater compromises on the GOP’s spending cut orthodoxy. The solution to deficits is obvious, America isn’t paying enough taxes, but departing from their faith-based tax cut religion, which is responsible for exploding deficits and so much debt, is impossible for them. It would be like turning away from retributive Christianity to New Testament teachings; which would mean, among other things, an end to capital punishment. So they’re stuck wrangling among themselves over which of them will get slaughtered like pigs in the midterms, depending on who has to give up their career-saving modifications to the bill. Will it be more SALT and more taxes on billionaires? Or less Medicaid and less taxes on tips? I see no reason for Democrats to help them with these issues. They should stick to more taxes on the rich and no Medicaid cuts.
Since Fat Hitler took office there has been a +14 point swing in support for the legalization of undocumented immigrants residing within the United States, from 50% to 64%.
Tommy Tuberville’s latest stupid utterance is
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5371057-tuberville-senate-parliamentarian-medicaid/
But even Thune isn’t having Tommy Tubes’ nonsense:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5371008-thune-senate-parliamentarian-medicaid/
The essence of the parliamentarian’s determinations is that Republicans have snuck provisions that violate the Byrd Rule into their budget and tax bill, and allowing these to go through the reconciliation process would effectively suspend the filibuster rule on an array of non-fiscal policy issues.
Thune’s reasoning is that if Republicans violate the Byrd Rule, then Democrats will, too. Tommy Numbskull’s reasoning is, well, he doesn’t have any. Being endowed with the mental capacity of a dog, he only reacts to food and being petted.
@85 yawwwn.. always wrong wing bullshit..
GDP measures domestic production of final goods and services. ..in nearly every quarter since 1976, net exports (X − M) have been negative (see the graph below and Table 1), which seems to imply that trade reduces domestic output and growth…
This can influence people’s perspective on trade. This essay explains that the imports variable (M) corrects for the value of imports that have already been counted as personal consumption (C), gross private investment (I), or government purchases (G). And remember, the purchase of domestic goods and services should increase GDP, but the purchase of imported goods and services should have no direct impact on GDP.
https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/page-one-economics/2018/09/04/how-do-imports-affect-gdp
If you want colleges to function as political indoctrination camps, you’ll need your own accreditation body, because academic-based ones won’t accredit you.
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5371204-southern-public-universities-accreditation-panel/
Since Fat Hitler took office there has been a 14 point swing in support for the legalization of undocumented immigrants residing within the United States, from 50% to 64%.
That was a gimmee.. Predictably, there’s no labor to bring in a harvest so magat farmers squeal and whine.
However current h2-a visas are slavery and a labor rights nightmare. If the magat asswipes like baldy Miller have free reign that bullshit will be the gold standard for “legalization”.
That will have to change with vigorous enforcement of strict bans on abusive labor conditions, harsh penalties for wage theft and decent access to health care for workers and their families.
The TACO trade is on!
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/trump-trade-tariffs-deadline.html
@74 Also, it isn’t the press’s job to wave flags. Their job is to scrutinize, and criticize where warranted, government officials, policies, and actions. He’s confusing independent journalism with his PR office.
Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough “ASAP,” hours after she delivered a major ruling against a Republican proposal
I heard she also removed the ugly repuke magat shit of hamstringing the courts from carrying out contempt citations.
No place in a budget reconciliation bill.
@76 “Cry more, libs.”
You somehow seem to think we want Iran to have the Bomb, which shows how much your mind has deteriorated from the combination of alcohol consumption and HA trolling.
@79 No one disputes that communism is a tenth-rate economic system characterized by low productivity, poor quality goods, and chronic shortages. What conservatives can’t get through their thick skulls is that we liberals are capitalists, too.
@85 What’s there to celebrate? If you average Q1 and Q2 growth to account for the pre-tariff import surge, you’ll see it conforms to the broader trendline of slowing economic growth. Are conservatives dumb enough to celebrate slowing growth?
Now in theory Trump’s tax cuts, if enacted, should stimulate growth; and they probably will for a while. But rising deficits will push up interest rates, which act as a drag on growth. Trump’s policies also are inflationary, which will create another drag on growth. So it seems unlikely the growth picture will improve over the next couple years.
You’re not wrong @85, but you’re not telling the whole story.
@86 I just looked the latest polling in the NYC mayor’s race. Currently, Adams (16%) Sliwa (19%) = Mamdani (35%), so one of them would have to drop out for the other to be competitive. I don’t see Adams being reelected with his baggage, so Sliwa is the only real alternative to Mamdani; Walden at 5% isn’t a factor. With Adams in the race, Sliwa likely would have to get 75% to 80% of the undecideds to edge out Mamdani.
Of course, I’m not making any predictions, because a lot can change, but right now it looks like Adams has worn out his welcome with NYC voters and Mamdani has the advantage. As for whether anyone should be “terrified” at that prospect, I think for the average New Yorker as for people elsewhere in the U.S., ICE is more terrifying right now and not just to immigrants because they’re roughing up citizens, too.
@90 Do Trump’s bidding, lose your license to practice law.
Pam, Kash, Alina, and U.S. attorneys, are you paying attention?
We go now to the story of Mandana Kashanian, 64. In 1979 overstayed her student visa and applied for asylum . You might remember something happened in Iran in December of 1978 causing many families with money and means to flee. (Side note, including my high school Jr
Prom Date ‘Shaby’ Bezhadpour and her family, she now breeds horses in a Red State. Ironic.)
The application was denied but has been allowed to stay under the condition that she never get arrested and shows up regularly for INS check in which she has never missed.
Now she got grabbed off the street and tossed in an unmarked pick up in front of witnesses which is weird because they had her address and could have dropped in at any time but waited to do the cloak and dagger…’That’s HER. she just came out. She’s on the MOVE!”
I’m sure it was a long con after almost 50 years she was planning on giving the nuclear designs to the Mulluhs. Uranium in her handbag. Flux capacitor.
See @96
“US plans to initiate Abrego Garcia removal proceedings, prosecutors say”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5371827-us-plans-to-initiate-abrego-garcia-removal-proceedings-prosecutors-say/
Prosecutors Say Government Plans To Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia To A Country That’s Not El Salvador
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/prosecutors-say-government-plans-to-deport-kilmar-abrego-garcia-to-a-country-thats-not-el-salvador_n_685d945ee4b0bb5044ff924a
Which is fine. Great to see they’re finally following the process. This was never about whether Abrego Garcia stays or goes. If the Trump regime is now prepared to respect due process and comply with court rulings in his case, we’ve won an important victory for the rule of law. That’s all we ever wanted.
@105 Give cops a quota, this is what you get. Writing tickets for trivial infractions. And ICE seizing green card holders a jaywalking ticket or possessing marijuana 20 years ago. (Is there a shortage of illegals?)
ICE agents have been mandated to arrest 3,000 people a day. This is Vietnam body count all over again. When everything is based on body county, it doesn’t matter who you kill, civilian or armed guerilla, they’re all VC for body count purposes.
The ICE quota is faintly reminiscent of the Red Terror:
They filled the gulags with randomly arrested people (as described in Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago”.)
Trump’s ICE blitz will be remembered by history in the same vein as the Palmer raids, Japanese-American internments, and Red Scare witch hunts, only far larger in scale.
O wow.. that “anti-semitic” Harvard put this out:
A study published via the Harvard Dataverse reveals that Israel has “disappeared” at least 377,000 Palestinians since the start of its genocidal campaign against the Gaza Strip in 2023.
And what Harvard member of Hamas authored this study?
The report was written by Israeli professor Yaakov Garb, who used data-driven analysis and spatial mapping to show how the Israeli army’s siege of Gaza and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in the enclave have led to a serious drop in its population.
https://thecradle.co/articles/harvard-linked-study-finds-israel-disappeared-nearly-400000-palestinians-in-gaza-half-of-them-children-report
Asked to comment, the kreepee dumbfuck of widbee babbled, “filthy, self-hating Joo!”
Lots of people, like half of them kids, under that rubble. It’s a lot dead. It’s a genocide.
@ 91
Not surprisingly, the bill is being held up by disputes within their own caucus.
Not surprisingly, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has forgotten completely about Senators Manchin and Sinema.
When this bill is rammed through and forced down Democrats’ collective throats, they should recall with memories better than Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit’s that they have Harry Reid to thank for their misery.
You were warned, in no uncertain terms.
The Nazi Fucktard’s rhetorical shtick is making less and less sense every day.
To avoid authoritarian fascism, Democrats “should have been more like Republicans” as Republicans are aggressively drifting toward an authoritarian fascist police state that even supports compulsory abortions based upon racial characteristics.
Sure. Sure.
@110 Manchin and Sinema wouldn’t support this bill. Neither will several GOP senators; they’ve said so. In the House, MAGA Mike is trying to pass extreme legislation that harms his own members and their constituents with a tiny 3-vote majority, testing Republican unity beyond its limits. Negotiating with Democrats isn’t an option because he’d have to pare down tax cuts and give up on gutting Medicaid. He’s reaching for a feat of Lego engineering that even a 10-year-old kid couldn’t accomplish.
Polls show Americans don’t want to pay for billionaire tax relief with Medicaid cuts. Wall Street doesn’t want exploding deficits. Appeasing the public, CEOs, and Wall Street requires a compromise that spares most Medicaid, lets some previous tax cuts expire, freezes defense spending, and doesn’t fund Trump’s trillion-dollar mass deportation program.
Instead, the GOP will gift America millions of uninsured, who’ll face crushing medical debts; rural hospital and clinic closures, and elderly people being evicted from nursing homes; expanding deficits pushing up interest rates, and Treasury bond sales starving capital markets. All because of Republican tax cut dogma and misplaced spending priorities.
Vote Republican and this is what you’ll get.
Whiskey Pete is drunk on the job again. Even worse, he’s a belligerent drunk …
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TMUnyzllryw
After posting twats celebrating the assassination of a Democratic State Lawmaker by Republican Christian Nationalist,
And not content to get hammered on his plan to sell off Public Land,
Mike Lee is back with a ‘pull out of NATO’ bill.
Republicans are unserious about governing.
111
Yo McDipshit, you still trying to figure the difference between a nuclear weapon and a thermonuclear weapon?
We have people that can teach you…..
One of Boob’s Heterosexual friends with the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-execution-thomas-lee-gudinas-f90c9b20ca78a95551e45b3db044c25d
The current administration certainly makes it appealing to come home.
The Biden Crime Family was unable to do this because of the dirt on them that China has.
Tesla Sales dropped another 28% from the previous month in Europe. Chinese EVs outsold Tesla by almost 3-1 for the month.
@ 108
Trump’s ICE blitz will be remembered by history …
as necessary to prove that illegals don’t do the jobs that Americans won’t do, they do the jobs that Americans won’t do for shit pay.
Without enough illegals, employers raise wages and employ Americans. We are seeing this already.
118
Careful what you wish for……
Doesn’t help that Tesla hasn’t introduced a new model for years.
117,
Foxcon Wisconsin anyone?
Think you’re safe from ICE because you were born in the USA? Think ICE doesn’t fuck with U.S. citizens? Better watch this video, because NO ONE is safe anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwhqMXkWJaY
Hey Doctor Dumbfuck, have you picked a country you want to go to? Not that you’ll be given a choice. Go ahead, tell them you’re a citizen, see what that gets you. Living close to a border as you do, before long you’ll wish we still had rule of law and due process in this country.
@115 What does comment #111 have to do with nuclear weapons?
Looks like we have a new troll who can’t stay on topic.
123
Go take a nap Rabbit….you obviously keep up about as well as Biden.
I’m just trying to help educate McIdiot.
@117 I’m not against that, but prepare for higher prices. Americans won’t work for Chinese wages, and there won’t be any immigrants here to fill those jobs at $2 an hour.
@119 “employers raise wages and employ Americans”
Is that so?
Ted Cruz got the welcome he deserved at Yankee Stadium tonight.
Posting link nukes the post for whatever reason.
“Remember when Trump called your wife Ugly? Fuck You!”
@124 You’re old tech, Mike. Nobody uses cryogenic deuterium anymore.
“FACT CHECK. Claims that Mads Mikkelsen was denied entry because of a meme are unequivocally FALSE,” Homeland Security posted on Facebook. “TRUTH: Mikkelsen was refused entry into the U.S. for his admitted drug use. Only those who respect our laws and follow our rules will be welcomed into our country.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/06/26/jd-vance-meme-norwegian-tourist-denied-entry-us-phone-search-ohio/84369477007/
Turns out the “admitted drug use” was smoking weed twice, once in Germany, and once in New Mexico.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eEz_oVNhak
I’m sure everyone has noticed by now that ICE is using trivial offenses as excuses to deport legal residents and green card holders. No one is fooled by this. ALL immigrants are being targeted, including those who have legal residency or green cards, are law-abiding, who’ve lived and worked here for years, are married to U.S. citizens, have U.S. born children, and served in the U.S. military. The policy isn’t deporting criminals, or illegals, it’s ethnic cleansing. Why else are they attacking birthright citizenship and preparing for mass denaturalizations?
I heard on NPR a story about an American shoe business that made their shoes in Tawain. About ten years ago he brought his business back to the states. And now he’s planning to invest here in another plan. Making shoes is very laborious.
He explained that a factory in tawain that isn’t automated has 800 workers.
He said the new plant that he plans to use will need only 25 of the 800 people as an automated one he plans to open.
Imagine how many shoe manufacturers there are and the demand of shoes just in America.
Imagine the many tens of thousands of workers that will be replaced by automation.
It’s the only way he can bring more business back to the US.
Not knocking the 25 jobs created just not sure tariffs will bring back the jnumber of jobs that people think will be created. 16,00 jobs in Taiwan equate to 500 here, not considering the secondary jobs created.
128
Everyone take note: on this 26th day of June, 2025 the rabbit figured out how to use Google.
Also note that he has no clue about what he is referencing.
DOGE, robotaxis that run over pedestrian mannequins in road tests, rockets that explode on the pad, and now this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/26/spacex-crane-collapse-in-texas-being-investigated-by-osha.html
Can’t Elon do anything right?
@131 Oh look! HA has a rocket scientist!
I don’t suppose it occurs to you that if I can Google it, Elijah can too, so what does he need you for?
For that matter, what do any of us need you for?
If you’re not angry yet, you should be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfVq6qfE-C0
ICE agents can’t enter a home without a judicial warrant. An administrative warrant isn’t sufficient. It’s hard to tell whether ICE had a proper judicial warrant to break into Arnoldo Robles home, but forcibly enter his home they did.
Thirty ICE agents in SWAT gear smashed windows, flew a drone inside, threw in flashbangs, and entered with drawn guns. They handcuffed Robles’ two American teenage sons, even though ICE does not have authority to detain or arrest citizens unless they assault officers or are in the act of committing immigration-related crimes. Being the child of an illegal immigrant is not a crime.
Arnoldo Robles is not a cartel member, a drug dealer, or murderer. The crimes that got him taken down by a 30-man ICE SWAT team were (1) a 2023 DUI for which he was on probation, and (2) reentering the U.S. after being deported.
It is time for American citizens to realize that ICE is a law unto itself and they are perfectly willing to disregard constitutional rights. Unless ICE is brought to heel, and held accountable for behavior like this, no one in our country will be safe.
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/federal-agents-broke-windows-handcuffed-teens-in-oceanside-immigration-operation/3855483/
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ufKjxTJItM4
Elmo just fired his top Tesla VP for North America and Europe.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2025/06/26/elon-musk-has-fired-one-of-his-top-tesla-lieutenants/
Getting sued for non payment of basic stuff like utilities and jettisoning the top ranks of key personnel while sales are plummeting and “the future of the company” is failing embarrassingly before the eyes of the world on TikTok.
#TeslaTskedown has already worked
@ 120
Doesn’t help that Tesla hasn’t introduced a new model for years.
Well, there’s the truck…
@ 135
@ 135
The crimes that got him taken down by a 30-man ICE SWAT team were (1) a 2023 DUI for which he was on probation, and (2) reentering the U.S. after being deported.
Let’s look at that DUI a little more carefully, shall we?
A father of two with a single DUI doesn’t get this much time in jail. So he was either in custody for nearly a year and sentenced to time served, which makes one wonder what it is we are not being told that resulted in his continued imprisonment, or there’s something else that resulted in a longer sentence and we are not being told what that is.
That something likely explains the flash bangs and the 30 ICE personnel.
Say, how come G-clown isn’t complaining about the financial markets today?
BREAKING: S&P 500 hits a new all-time high.
“So, are we back to being a Trump economy or are we still in Biden’s economy. Asking for a friend. “
Core inflation rate rose to 2.7% in May, more than expected, Fed’s preferred gauge shows
Excluding food and energy, core PCE posted respective readings of 0.2% and 2.7%, compared with estimates for 0.1% and 2.6%.
Consumer spending and income showed further signs of weakening. Spending fell 0.1% for the month, while personal income declined 0.4%.
Fox host: “Q1 GDP final read was -0.5%. We were expecting a loss of 0.2% for Q1 GDP.
This is the first negative read that we’ve actually clocked since Q1 of 2022.”
A combination of inflation and tariffs is reducing real disposable income, while surging government spending that benefits only a narrow group contributes little to broad economic growth. Together, these forces are enabling a contracting real economy, even as short-term stock market gains mask the underlying weakness.
US economy shrunk faster than expected, new data shows
GDP contracted by 0.5 percent on an annualized basis,surprising economists, 0.3 percentage points lower than the last measurement from the Commerce Department.
Economists were expecting the number to stay the same at a 0.2 percent contraction.
Together with private investment, first-quarter spending was 0.6 percentage point lower than the previous estimate.
Dollar Tree to raise prices to $1.50
The end times are upon us