Quote :

"So this is a little crazy. The CFPB is asking a judge to let it return $ to a mortgage lender it sued for discriminating against black borrowers, and dismiss all of the claims in the case. The kicker: The suit was originally brought by Trump's own CFPB director in 2020. Here's how @ddayen described the suit in 2023. Townstone Financial did much of its marketing via an in-house podcast where they called Chicago's South Side a "war zone" full of "hoodlums" — thus sending a pretty clear message to Black borrower's in the area."

https://twitter.com/JHWeissmann/status/1905007255797547353

3/26/2025 9:23:22 PM

If you’re (still) an ally of the US, at this point, why the f would you even consider sharing any sensitive information with this administration? They obviously can’t be trusted with it. This is going to do more than just hurt the Trump administration domestically.

3/27/2025 1:20:38 AM

Not disagreeing, but its not like they are going to go running to china, russia, etc

3/27/2025 1:27:07 AM

On purpose

3/27/2025 11:05:55 AM

and just like that, the Signal thing is ancient history

[Edited on April 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM. Reason : poof]

4/1/2025 6:30:32 PM

Yeah, but what about Hillary's emails and Hunter's laptop?!

4/1/2025 8:22:13 PM

Wrong tropes

4/1/2025 9:26:52 PM

Quote :

"A Justice Department attorney who struggled in court on Friday to explain the Trump administration's deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on administrative leave, a department official says. At the hearing, the government attorney, Erez Reuveni, expressed frustration over not having information the judge was seeking in the case of the deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and made clear he had was not getting much help from his superiors. Abrego Garcia “should not have been removed,” he said, adding that he didn't know why Garcia was ever arrested. “I am also frustrated that I also have no answers for you on a lot of these questions,” he said. Attorney General Pam Bondi (pictured) said in a statement following the news that Reuveni had been placed on leave, “At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States. Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences.”"

There's too much absurd to keep track of.

4/7/2025 9:55:11 AM

Consciences NOT allowed in this administration!

If you ever listen to your conscience, then you can GTFO!

4/7/2025 12:44:30 PM

There's a certain ugliness a lot of these officials have. Dishonesty, lies. They revel in it. You can feel it roll off of them



We took politicians TRYING to be presentable for granted, that's at least a sign that they have some standards.

4/7/2025 12:56:34 PM

She fugly!

4/7/2025 8:23:50 PM

US Justice Dept disbands crypto enforcement team, citing Trump order

4/8/2025 3:03:39 PM

Quote :

"and just like that, the Signal thing is ancient history"

It really is incredible, isn't it? To get away from the bad press for one thing, do something worse, and then do something worse, and then again and again.

btw^this follows Trump pardoning a crypto firm and saving them from paying a fine of over a 100 million dollars

4/8/2025 3:05:29 PM

https://youtu.be/vmfYpxqRJX0

I think that this is a pretty indicative clip.

This isn't an old school "boys will be boys". It's artificial. It's unnatural. it's the new psuedo-intellectual mental illness revolution

and I say this as someone

they try to put a smile on the face of everything, it really reminds you of those cult like videos where they're getting interviewed and they have a glossy smile on their face no matter what you tell them. It's freaky

4/8/2025 4:53:36 PM

You can tell a lot about a person from the way they speak.

Now, of course, Trump's cabinet is inferior in their class, education, and qualifications, but even beyond that, when they speak, you always know they're lying or trying to mislead (be it for good or bad) from the little pauses/hesitation (Hegseth), the intonation (particularly Bondi, Vance), among other things versus let's say the Harvard guys speaking up on the news lately - they're just being honest, and so they can speak clearly. They don't have to think to hide anything

4/17/2025 2:05:40 PM

Plus they are actually smart.

4/17/2025 8:26:09 PM

So reports today the letter to Harvard was a mistake

The irs has had 3 acting directors this week (lol)

And bessent and lutnick had to run to the Oval Office when Navarro stepped out for another meeting to convince trump to pause the worst tariffs, last week

Theyre really as incompetent as they seem. The courts I don’t think are ready for this… they really need to hold some people for contempt to at least send the message to everyone else to stop dicking around

4/18/2025 11:01:58 PM

What a clown shoes administration

Quote :

"“It was malpractice on the side of Harvard’s lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks,” said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. “Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign.” … The letter “was signed by three federal officials, placed on official letterhead, was sent from the email inbox of a senior federal official and was sent on April 11 as promised,” Harvard said in a statement on Friday. “Recipients of such correspondence from the U.S. government — even when it contains sweeping demands that are astonishing in their overreach — do not question its authenticity or seriousness.” The statement added: “It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say. But even if the letter was a mistake, the actions the government took this week have real-life consequences” on students and employees and “the standing of American higher education in the world.”"

4/18/2025 11:29:35 PM

This would be a major scandal if it wasn’t for everything else

Quote :

"“There is a complete meltdown in the building, and this is really reflecting on the secretary’s leadership,” the source said. “Pete Hegseth has surrounded himself with some people who don’t have his interests at heart.” "

https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2671803413/

4/19/2025 12:54:19 AM

Has this been posted

4/20/2025 9:29:45 PM

He's a drunken frat boy who wants to show off

4/20/2025 9:36:14 PM

Apparently he created the chat in January in anticipation of showing off

4/21/2025 12:05:36 AM

Who would have thought this guy would be unfit to be Secretary of Defense? There's no way anybody could have seen this coming. That's why nobody raised any concerns when he was nominated and appointed.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department

The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense

4/21/2025 1:30:32 PM

Quote :

"He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!"

4/21/2025 9:37:23 PM

Calling Hegseth a frat boy is pretty insulting to frats

He's just a fucking idiot

4/21/2025 10:07:20 PM

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/national-suicide-hotline-lgbtq-youth-cuts-rfk-jr-hhs/

evil fucks

4/22/2025 5:22:58 PM

But remember, thinking that these actions will cause people to die is hysterics.

[Edited on April 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM. Reason : Come defend your takes]

4/22/2025 8:11:43 PM

If my dad did these kind of things when he was in the air force, he'd have been let go by now

4/22/2025 8:37:35 PM

This “report anti Christian bias” order seems very sinister somehow

None of this is remotely normal…

4/22/2025 8:43:45 PM

Especially because Trump is not a Christian.

4/23/2025 7:37:27 AM

He has since denied this, probably after being roasted by his bros

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-orders-makeup-studio-installed-pentagon/

4/24/2025 3:55:19 PM

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/usda-withdraws-a-plan-to-limit-salmonella-levels-in-raw-poultry/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_seattle-news

Quote :

"USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry"

4/24/2025 9:58:06 PM

^^ bro is hot, love his hair

4/25/2025 2:24:04 AM

^^Didn’t you know? What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger!

4/25/2025 9:00:46 AM

FBI arrests Milwaukee Judge

4/26/2025 1:25:01 AM

FBI = cabinet in this goofy ass world

4/26/2025 1:31:46 AM

Well, it's clubbed into all the DOJ crap

4/26/2025 5:52:26 AM

https://www.latintimes.com/rfk-jr-end-godsend-narcan-program-that-helped-reduce-overdose-deaths-despite-his-past-heroin-581846

4/29/2025 10:05:23 PM

^ I can't even....

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/30/nx-s1-5381159/hegseth-signal-investigation-block-republicans

Quote :

"The Republican majority in the House of Representatives has blocked an inquiry into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of the encrypted messaging app Signal. Hegseth shared sensitive details about military operations conducted against Houthis in Yemen in March in two different group chats – including one that involved his wife, brother and personal lawyer. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., told Morning Edition that Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans blocked any inquiry resolutions into the matter because they know Hegseth and his actions are "indefensible." Smith filed a resolution of inquiry, which allows a member of the House to force an investigation even when they're in the minority. Sponsor Message President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Feb. 26. POLITICS Trump thinks Hegseth will 'get it together' amid Pentagon staff chaos "They are so afraid of this issue, they can't defend it, that they don't want to talk about it," Smith said. "And they will go to extraordinary process lengths to try to prevent Congress from doing its job of exercising oversight over the Pentagon." Speaker Johnson said before the Tuesday vote that it was meant to prevent "nonsensical waste of our time," and that the majority was using House rules "to prevent political hijinks and political stunts." Smith spoke to NPR's Steve Inskeep about his blocked resolution and current limits on congressional oversight. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Interview highlights Steve Inskeep: What did House Republicans do yesterday when you tried to use your power to force an investigation? Rep. Adam Smith: They passed a rule basically to shut off resolutions of inquiry to not allow them, which basically frustrates the democratic process. And there's a theme there in terms of what the Trump administration has been doing all over the place, changing the rules, not allowing open public discussion in the normal democratic process to take place. And I guess there's substance and there is this process here. And the substance is they are so afraid of this issue, they can't defend it, that they don't want to talk about it. And they will go to extraordinary process lengths to try to prevent Congress from doing its job of exercising oversight over the Pentagon. And as you know from the signal story, Secretary Hegseth really needs oversight, given his use of sensitive information in a way that is incredibly dangerous. Inskeep: Now, there are two ways to look at this, I suppose, and one is in an institutional sense, there is Congress. You're separate from the executive branch. You're supposed to give oversight. You're supposed to defend your institution. And I think that's what you're saying you're trying to do. But let me ask about another thing. There's also the House majority, and they try to run things as much as possible. You've been in Congress a long time, including when Democrats were in the majority. Have Democrats welcomed Republican demands for investigations in the past? Smith: We've never welcomed them. But there are rules put in place so that the minority can be heard. That's part of a representative democracy – not to get in the whole Founding Fathers Constitution thing. But that was one thing they really wanted to make sure. The majority controls and in the end they will probably win if they have the votes. But you want to make sure that minority voices are heard. That's part of having a representative democracy. It's part of having people have a voice in their government. You want to allow for those debates, even if in the end you lose the vote. And what Republicans are doing now is they're trying to shut off even the discussion and the debate. And actually the reconciliation process was interesting. We marked up in the Armed Services Committee yesterday to your previous story. Now in the Armed Services Committee, they gave us an extra $150 billion. So we're spending money not cutting it. But we on the minority side raised a whole series of amendments about what happened with signal gate and what takes out this doing. Republicans just didn't say anything. They just voted them all down. They refused to even speak one time to defend the secretary, I guess, because they know he's indefensible. So they want to shut down the debate and not have the conversation. And that is really important because forget how you feel about the issue. We're America. We're a representative government. We're supposed to have the opportunity to have debate, discussion, and they are trying to shut that down. Inskeep: I just want to remember again, the majority tries to run things and the majority that is connected with the president is going to try to protect the president to some extent. But would you make the argument that, in this case, in this year, Congress is effectively neutering itself, going farther than a majority normally would to shut down debate and avoid their own institutional job to be a check on the president? Smith: A hundred percent. This is unprecedented. At the end of the day, we'll have the vote if they want to vote the way they vote. They win, that's great. But what they're trying to do is they're trying to shut down the debate. They don't want to have the conversation. And again, I will submit it's like they know that they cannot defend Pete Hegseth. So they just want to make the entire issue go away and not allow people to talk about it. And everybody ought to be concerned about that. NPR disclosure: Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, chairs the board of the Signal Foundation. Julie Depenbrock and Nia Dumas produced the radio version of this story."

4/30/2025 11:37:35 AM

https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/

Quote :

" RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department."

4/30/2025 7:19:47 PM

https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/

5/1/2025 1:00:39 AM

these clowns have truly ruined our country

I hope it ends as poorly for them as it will for the rest of us

5/1/2025 11:48:34 AM

Stephen Miller is a ghoul, and I’d never admit this IRL, but I kinda secretly admire his staying power in the Trump admin. The guy just isn’t working with the typical toolset Trump cabinet members have. He doesn’t have central casting/Fox News Desk good looks. He doesn’t have an endless supply of cash to raise his position via strategic $Trump coin purchases. He’s not even really that good at crafting legislation or wordsmithing bigotry into speeches. The guy just rolls up his sleeves everyday and, I assume, just glazes Trump all day with flattery. It’s working? They just keep giving him more responsibility. He was Deputy Chief of Staff and now is being considered for National Security Advisor? I mean damn.

5/12/2025 1:03:56 PM

Rfk swimming in feces?

5/12/2025 11:33:48 PM

^^
Yeah he’s fascinating in a way. I’ve long said trump protects him more than his own kids.

He’s definitely the voice of trumps domestic policy, as a lifelong proud racist

5/13/2025 12:16:44 AM

^^^Bald Grima Wormtongue. Hope he meets a similar fate to what happened in the books.

5/13/2025 3:45:27 PM

^^I’d considered he was a major source of the actual hard policy or was wordsmithing some of the edgy bigotry the Trump admin is utilizing, but I’m not convinced he’s the epicenter of all that, only that he has a better handle on it better than the other cabinet clowns.

^Exactly. I’ve never read LOTR but the movies don’t really suggest how Grima got Theoden’s ear to begin with. It looks like Grima’s breath stinks. Why is Theoden hanging with that loser?



The other Cabinet member I’ve probably wasted too many thoughts on is Marco Rubio. How do you go from “very serious, foreign policy centric, Republican” to defending current MAGA foreign policy (I point to foreign policy because it is the policy area that is just so glaring a break from his former positions).It’s not even compromising so much as a complete personality break. The way he pouts on the couch during those tense Oval Office exchanges with Zelensky and other world leaders. It’s bizarre shit and people don’t talk about it enough (although there is plenty of bizarre shit to discuss these days).

5/14/2025 8:10:49 AM

I think that Marco Rubio, given his history in politics, gives an air of legitimacy to this administration that it otherwise would not have. Behind the scenes, it is well known that Witkoff is really running the show at the state department. Rubio has to know that as long as he sits there with his mouth shut, and nods in agreement, he is probably safe. As soon as he tries to actually do the right thing in terms of foreign policy, or otherwise speak up against what foreign policy is being run out of the Oval Office, he is gone.

5/14/2025 9:20:55 AM

Still, do the right thing, coward!

5/14/2025 12:11:44 PM

Quote :

"RFK Jr refuses to say if he would vaccinate his children today for measles, then adds, "I don't think people should medical advice from me.""

5/14/2025 1:47:08 PM