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It took five armed Secret Service agents to protect JD Vance from a cat meme account. The woman behind it is now suing the White House, and her lawyers filed with cat puns. Meet Amanda McGonigle, 37, of Massachusetts. When Vance's old "childless cat ladies" insult went viral during the 2024 campaign, she started an Instagram account called CatsOnACouch. Cat pictures. Relentless mockery of the Vice President. A stated mission to troll him every single day and rack up more followers than he has. Nearly 2 million followers later, she's about a million short of that goal. On May 14, Vance flew to Bangor, Maine, to tout his anti-fraud task force. McGonigle registered to attend like any member of the public. She followed every instruction the White House sent. She received confirmation from Vance's own office. The event materials carried the White House seal. Then came the airport line. Five armed agents approached. They knew her name. They pulled her out, turned away her friend for good measure, informed her the event was suddenly "private," and told her: "We know where you stand." That sentence is now Exhibit A in a federal lawsuit. Sit with the picture for a second. The agency that exists to stop assassins has apparently been assigned to monitor a cat account. The ACLU of Maine filed suit Tuesday, naming the Executive Office of the President and the Secret Service. The complaint calls it what it is. Viewpoint discrimination. First Amendment retaliation. A taxpayer-funded public event, closed to one citizen because of her jokes. The ask: a federal order barring them from ever blacklisting her again. The ACLU's lawyers, understanding the assignment, wrote that her posts are "purr-tected speech," and the puns did not stop there. McGonigle isn't blinking either. She noted it's well within her rights to say "I think JD Vance is an unlikeable idiot." The Secret Service declined to comment. The White House didn't respond at all. Here's why it matters beyond the comedy. The administration has a pattern of using federal power against its critics, and this is what that pattern looks like at street level: armed agents, a watchlist with a cat lady's name on it, a public event that turns "private" the moment someone who laughed at the Vice President shows up. A government that deploys the Secret Service against memes is not a government that feels secure. And no joke is too small for it to punish. One more thing. Vance coined "childless cat ladies." He built his own nemesis with his own mouth. She was a million followers short of catching him when they pulled her out of that line. The Secret Service may have just closed the gap for her.

America's Secret Police in action. Time to ID that guy who let his mask slip.

@RepJackKimble Here’s the truth

@HalfwayPost McConnell brain dead? So you're saying nothing's changed. OK.

BREAKING: Nurses at Mitch McConnell's hospital bedside say they've yelled into his ears, "There's a Black president trying to fill a Supreme Court vacancy!" and he didn't stir at all.

@amylcris Maybe before the '24 election. Each one of those needs an asterisk* and a note about how this administration has affected it for the worse.

🔴🔴🔴 It will remain that way as long as we can stop these Democrats/socialists/communists from destroying everything we have worked to protect.

If a nurse gives a Senator $50 to vote for Medicare for All, it's illegal. But Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, spent $45 million to get Trump elected. So Trump is helping his family control: CBS CNN TikTok HBO TNT MTV BET And more That’s a corrupt campaign finance system.

Are we great yet?

@Altanon @krassenstein Check out Cluster B Personality Disorders from the DSM-V. Includes narcissistic, antisocial, histrionic, and borderline personality disorders.

BREAKING: Trump just said that he wants to give himself a Presidential Medal of Honor. WTF is wrong with this man? He should give himself a prison sentence instead.

Apparently @elonmusk finds it embarrassing that his own Grok Baby called him the number one source of misinformation on X So please don’t share this to far and wide 🙏

The Trump administration just killed a federal program that hundreds of small farmers relied on to survive, and the damage is already landing. The program paid farmers full market price for their crops, then routed that fresh food to food banks and the families who needed it.  In California alone, it supported roughly 870 farms across more than 50 counties, moved 23 million pounds of food, and put over $60 million directly into local economies. For many, it was the most reliable buyer they had. Then the White House pulled the plug, right as farmers were buying seeds for spring. Contracts already in motion were canceled mid-delivery. Three years of funding these growers had planned around vanished overnight. Without those federal dollars, the future is more uncertain than ever for these farms and the millions of hungry families they feed.  That is the pattern. Slash a program that feeds seniors and supports farmers, save almost nothing, and call it winning. kqed.org/news/12088977/…

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing. Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees. The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in. Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal. The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion. This is your tax money. It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close. We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. google.com/url?q=https://…

@deadhedave @AntiTrumpCanada @ElviraS12511632 What do you mean "almost"? 🤨

@AntiTrumpCanada @ElviraS12511632 The main act.

BREAKING: Lara Trump performs at Trump’s National State Fair. Witnesses say the goats absolutely fucking nailed it.

What was your favorite part of this National Day of Patriotism?

@OccupyDemocrats Excellent. It couldn't happen to a more deserving c- uh, individual. I don't care if it's unlikely to succeed. It's past time to call her out. Now do the rest of the cabinet.

BREAKING: Trump's Education Secretary Linda McMahon hit with HISTORIC first-ever impeachment for illegally dismantling the department she runs Linda McMahon — the former pro-wrestling executive Trump installed to run the Department of Education — is now facing the first impeachment of an Education Secretary in American history. And the reason is simple: she's accused of breaking federal law to destroy her own department. Oregon Democrat Suzanne Bonamici introduced articles of impeachment Thursday, accusing McMahon of "illegally transferring the operations of 6 offices under the Department of Education to other Federal agencies." Here's the core of it. The Department of Education was created by Congress in 1980. By law, only CONGRESS can shut it down. But McMahon — carrying out Trump's campaign promise to dismantle it — has been gutting the department piece by piece anyway, using backdoor "interagency agreements" to shove its programs over to Health and Human Services and the Labor Department. The problem? Many of those programs are LEGALLY REQUIRED to stay within the Education Department. McMahon doesn't have the authority to move them. She's doing it anyway. "McMahon has made it her mission to close down the Department of Education, something she does not have the right to do," Bonamici said on the House floor. And she made clear exactly who gets hurt: "Educators and parents, especially parents of students with DISABILITIES, are distraught and asking us to take action to stop these illegal transfers." That's the cruelty at the heart of this. The Education Department administers critical protections and funding for students with disabilities — kids who depend on federal oversight to get the education they're legally entitled to. McMahon is throwing that into chaos. McMahon's response was pure deflection, whining on X that Democrats think "an impeachable offense is working to improve student outcomes" before pivoting to her favorite culture-war obsession — attacking trans students, a focus of hers since day one. The impeachment is unlikely to succeed in the GOP-controlled House. But it draws a crucial line: a Cabinet official cannot simply IGNORE the law and unilaterally dismantle a department Congress created. A wrestling executive shouldn't get to bulldoze public education. Please like and share if you agree!

@GeorgeCrawIN @HalfwayPost Not fake, SATIRE 🙄 The definition is included in case you don't know it. "The use of irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues." - Oxford Languages

@HalfwayPost Operation Epstein Fury was not caused by Jared. So our Idiot In Chief never takes any responsibilities for his bad decisions and actions. As usual, those closet to him always get thrown underneath the bus. Guessing he will dump most of his cabinet before the end this term.

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly accusing Jared Kushner of “ruining his presidency” by tricking him into starting the Iran War.

@OurShallowState Kudos for the reference to Monty Python's Dead Parrot.

Former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov - once considered one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies and even a potential successor - accidentally slipped and fell out a window. He is no more. He has ceased to be. He is bereft of life. He has gone to meet his maker. He is an Ex-Russian Defense Minister.

Ossoff: There is this beautiful little island off of the Albanian coast. And Jared Kushner wants it. So, he took his Saudi billions and he decided he and Ivanka would buy the island and build a luxury resort, and like clockwork, just a few weeks after Trump wins a second term, Albania's PM grants Jared's company strategic investor status, permitting his expedited to help the American prince develop his new island. And it turns out that ordinary Albanians are not fans of this arrangement. There are massive protests. Tens of thousands of people in the streets. They are calling at the flamingo revolution. All sparked by opposition to Jared Kushner's land deal. Now Albania's anti-corruption police are getting ball. They froze a bank account controlled by two of Jared's investors, both Syrian billionaires Do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if you were not the president's son-in-law?

@AntiTrumpCanada Adding "colon-dwelling sycophants" and "fuckmuppet" to my lexicon. I leave you with "weasel-headed fuck-nugget" (thanks Scotland!) and "old gas station hot dog" for jfkjr because I appreciate you!

I’m so sick & fucking tired of watching videos of Trump colon-dwelling sycophants lying about whatever the fuck, while the droopy-faced fuckmuppet is fast asleep below them, slouched in his fucking chair. What a fucking clown show. Please make it stop.