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  • Justice Department has lost thousands of staff, is asking former lawyers to return

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  • I hope the lawyers keep quitting and no one replaces them until this administration has been tossed in the trash. I worry that if lawyers with consciences don't come back, though, their positions will be filled by sycophants. I also worry that once the Democrats take back over they will be unwilling to fire the new right-wing sycophants.

  • This is the food distribution line at Nellis Air Force base in LasVegas.

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  • People enlist for a variety of reasons. I don't think that who the current president is typically has much impact on those decisions.

  • Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions

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  • What benefits does a shell like this have over bash and how hard is it to transition?

  • Medicaid chief’s claim $1bn is spent on healthcare for ‘illegal immigrants’ is false, say experts

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  • Even if true, $1B is nothing in the federal budget. The federal goverent spends $1.9T on heath care costs.

    The ICE budget is $37.5B. So, if it were true that $1B is being spent on health care for undocumented immigrants, one year of the ice budget could pay for it for nearly 40 years.

  • Back in 1993 Amtrak ran trial runs with European high-speed trains, Sweden's X2000 and Germany's ICE, here is a well made documentary about the event.

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  • It is so frustrating that we don't have high speed rail yet. The promises made to me as a kid were killed somewhere between the and now. I feel like Charlie Brown with a football...

  • MAGA supporter feeling gaslit

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  • They're also holding up shutdown negotiations by not passing anything new that the senate can work with. They're basically saying "do a clean CR or nothing".

  • MAGA supporter feeling gaslit

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  • While it isn't the full motive for the shutdown, part of the motive is likely avoiding release of the Epstine files. Currently, only one more "yes" vote is required in the House of Representatives to pass a resolution calling for the release of the files. There is a new member of the House who was elected in Arizona but she hasn't been sworn in yet. The Speaker of the House has been delaying swearing her in for two months and has essentially shut down the House to avoid the issue. In the mean time, this means that the House is doing literally nothing to end the ongoing government shutdown.

  • USA: Shoplifting Has Increased 93% Since 2019; 45 % of Shoplifters are Stealing Food

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  • Here is the actual report.

    I started reading it but am out of time for now. I'm fairly sure that the 93% number is number of known shoplifting incidents and is unrelated to the value of the items. I'd need to read more to be sure.

    I do wonder whether the dollar numbers are inflation adjusted or not. I'm sure that info is in the report.

  • ICE Is Now Wandering the Streets, Scanning People's Faces to Check If They're Citizens

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  • I don't get something here. How do they have a facial recognition database that is accurate enough to even begin to attempt this? Yes, most Americans have some form of photo ID but many of those IDs don't require updating the photo more than once every 10 years. Also, not everyone has a ohoto ID. How can they possibly think this database is good enough to use for determining who should be arrested?

    Beyond that, ICE has stated that they are trusting the database even over actual documentation. They say the database doesn't lie, even if you have documentation saying otherwise...

  • Some White House ballroom contractors go underground

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  • I'm not trying to be snarky, actually wondering. What sources do you approve of?

    And now I'm going to go research the independent because I had no idea about their relationships.

  • Mike Waltz cut off in middle of UN speech: ‘It is not a Signal chat’

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  • How does this idiot still have a job after the signal chat debockle?

  • Hispanics’ support of Trump plunges since he started second term

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  • Maybe show them this... The supreme court is considering whether to hear a case that could be used to reverse it's gay marriage decision from 2015.

  • The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme - Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.

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  • This is true almost everywhere in the US.

  • another "snap bad" post

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  • I always see "did not find"

  • US admiral overseeing strikes against boats off Venezuela to step down

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  • So, escalation it is, then. I'm guessing this guy was the voice of relative calm and had pushed back on too many times.

  • Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

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  • I mean, have they won any special elections since they took over the government? It seems like a lot of elections are flipping but maybe that's selection bias.

  • Republican ousted by Democrat in shock election defeat

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  • Have Republicans won anything recently?

  • Trump Fumes as Protesters Spoil His Big Moment

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  • Can we ban the Daily Beast? They are nothing but clickbait. Their headlines are always hyperbole.

    In this case, some protesters interrupted Trump's speech. He stood quietly, waited for the protesters to be escorted out, then pursed his lips and said "That was very efficient ... Now, back to Steve (the man he was praising before the interruption."

    I don't like Trump. He should be in prison for many reasons. We don't need lies and hyperbole polluting the narrative. He does enough awful things without making shit up.

    Fuck the Daily Beast. They're as bad as anything on the right.

  • Blue states should put $15 minimum wage on the ballot and ban voter purges 180 days from the election

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  • People have been pushing for a $15 minimum wage since 2012. At this point, due to inflation since 2012, that number should be about $21.

    That said, adjusted for inflation, the federal minimum wage has never been above $15 in 2025 dollars. It came close in the 60's. The current inflation adjusted minimum wage is getting close to the lowest it has ever been since it was first enacted.