“It went from judges getting pizzas, to then judges’ children getting pizzas, to then judges getting pizzas or their children getting pizzas that they didn’t order in my murdered son’s name,” Salas said. […] “We know the first is, ‘I know where you live.’ Second is, ‘We know where your children live.’ And the third now is, ‘Do you want to end up like Judge Salas? Do you want to end up like Daniel?’”

White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly said that Trump had been “laser-focused on delivering peace around the world

Really? Because that really hasn’t been coming across.

and stopping bad actors from doing harm to Americans and our allies.”

… what allies?

On Tuesday, Fetterman said that the New York magazine article was built on “one source” with “a couple anonymous sources,” describing it as a “hit piece from a very left publication.”

Countdown to Fetterman switching parties in 3 … 2 …

It’s real easy, Joe. Just stop voting for his bullshit. As long as you’re enabling him and his fascist regime, no, we’re not going to accept you.

“We are working with other countries to say, ‘We want to send you some of the most despicable human beings,’” he said

Gee, I can’t imagine why countries aren’t just lining up to accept people … /S

Or, you know high prices from low quality, slow food. I was fine paying cheap prices for food that was low quality and cheap, but I’m not paying chain restaurant prices for low quality, slow food.

agriculture is facing another looming financial challenge with the recently announced SHIPS Act […] with Chinese-made vessels calling U.S. ports to be charged port fees of upwards of $1.5 million starting in the fall.

Ugh, I hate this reality so much … :(

Oh very nice - your cousin should be very happy!

It’s not very widespread so that risk is low - there’s literally like 400 cases right now, in a nation of 340,000,000. But if you do happen to run across someone infectious, there’s a pretty good chance of catching it. There’s really no downside to getting a booster, so I’d say yes to the booster.

Something else to consider - and I don’t know how the vaccines played out in your country - I’ve that in the US, everyone born in or before 1957 is presumed to be immune. Americans vaccinated between 1957 and ?1969? should get a booster because the vaccine the US was using at the time was less effective. And they’re recommending that Americans vaccinated before 1990 consider getting a booster, because they had thought that one shot provided lifetime immunity, but it turns out that you needed a second shot as well. So if the vaccination program where you lived might have had one of those issues, you might consider a booster as well.

Robespierre was killed by the Revolution.

The vast majority of offers are said to come from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration. […] A department spokesperson told Politico […] that employees who perform critical safety work are exempt. “Our teams are layered with redundancies to ensure efficiency initiatives will not compromise safety,”

Really? Cause that’s really not the image they’ve been projecting.

"It feels like it’s intended to tell us we’re being dramatic or that we’re not professional enough to go through turmoil and remain detached and completely calm. It feels out of touch,” an anonymous employee said

Ri-ight. Because when I think of hysterical federal employees, the first group that comes to my mind is the FAA…

You forgot increases in travel expenses so that he can line his heavily inflated golf club coffers with lovely taxpayer lucre.

I wouldn’t mind then backing the incumbents, if the incumbents had any fucking spine to stand up to the Republicans.

“Neutrality” is just (very thin) cover for supporting the status quo, when what we need is a complete change.

She testified that death threats against her increased after an editorial with an error said her PAC had contributed to political rhetoric that enabled an atmosphere of violence.The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict. A judge and a different jury had reached the same conclusion about Palin’s defamation claims in 2022

Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, if it only took a couple hours to decide.

Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise […] was wounded in 2017 when a man […] opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice. […] In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona […] Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.

Yeah, I remember those ads. They claimed they weren’t rifle sighting cross hairs but some other thing instead. That denial had about as much plausibility as all the other Republican denials.

The Times corrected the article less than 14 hours after it was published, saying it had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and that it had “incorrectly described” the map.

A) that sounds like a pretty quick retraction, and B) that sounds like they stated there was a proven link when there wasn’t. However the Republicans and their enablers have been pumping up stochastic terrorism for decades, so while there may not have been a proven link between their rhetoric and that specific incident, it falls very directly under the definition of stochastic terrorism.

Palin testified Monday that death threats against her increased and her spirits fell after the editorial was published.

Good.

That’s what it looks like when someone with certain types of plastic surgery ages.

The administration was not only keeping the AP out of the press pool — the daily rotating group of reporters who get access to Trump in tight spaces that cannot accommodate the entire press corps — but removing the permanent “wire service” spot as well. That means there will no longer be a spot guaranteed for one of the wire services: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.

The first agencies he targeted were all the ones investigating his companies or limiting his companies: DoD was trying to limit exposure through SpaceX due to Musk’s multiple conversations with Putin; the NLRB was investigating both SpaceX and Tesla; the EEOC was suing Tesla; DoT was investigating Tesla over both Smart Summoning and “Full-Self Driving” accidents; the FAA called for both ‘radical reform’ and Musk’s firing at SpaceX after repeated launch violations; the FEC was investigating him for repeated elections violations; DoJ had an open lawsuit over SpaceX hiring practices (now dismissed, and anti-Tesla actions are now “domestic terrorism”); the SEC had an open complaint of his Xitter takeover; the FDA was limiting his ability to pay around with NeuraLink; the EPA has repeatedly fined bitch SpaceX and Tesla; he’s been pressuring NASA to retire the ISS and to use SpaceX for Mars exploration instead of their own craft; and the CFPB had limited his plans for a Xitter-based electronic payment system.

While they haven’t always received a lot of press coverage, he’s sent his goons after every single one of those agencies.

I think gutting the government and sowing chaos is part of his goal (he’s fully bought into Zuckerberg’s “move fast and break things” mindset), but he went after specific agencies pretty quickly.

Recession is decreasing domestic tourism and fascism is killing international tourism. I doubt we’ll need the hotel workers for long.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” […] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

Oh, at least one

“It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

Riiiiight. That’s what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they’re snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can’t find them, and sending into a death camp that’s not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.