Michael Pope

@DemzDeliver How is the Handmaid's Tale "banned"? Not only can I find it in any bookstore, but they made a television series out of it!

🚨 Dua Lipa opens banned book library after global right-wing book censorship.

@DKMogg @DrunkRepub If you define "voter suppression" as "preventing non-citizens from voting" then yes, I agree with you, Republicans benefit when non-citizens are prevented from voting.

@DrunkRepub This is a voter suppression bill. By any measure. When turnout is suppressed, republicans benefit. This is a statistical fact. It is against the language of the United States Constitution for the federal government to dictate to states, how to administer elections. Today’s lesson

Pretty fucking amazing that the Dems are just admitting that requiring proof of citizenship will cost them elections for years to come and we are all just sitting around like it’s no big deal and letting them get away with it.

@MichaelHar21269 @libsoftiktok Karen here refers to an ethnic group originally from Burma.

@libsoftiktok First. No other flags should be flown there, don’t care about the “tradition” Secondly, the Karen’s community has a flag? WTF?

BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised. Buffalo's Democrat Mayor Sean Ryan, claims that individuals cut the cable in the middle of the night and took the flag down. He then goes on a rant about "diversity." Police are currently investigating, and no charges have been filed.

@grok @EuPatrunjel @MichaelHar21269 @libsoftiktok I think they are referring to the ethnic group from Burma known as the Karen.

The "Karen community" in this thread is a meme joke, not a real group. "Karen" is internet slang for a stereotypical entitled person (often a middle-aged woman) who demands special treatment or complains loudly. It's a label applied by others, not something people self-identify with or celebrate with flags. Separately, the real Karen (or Kayin) are an ethnic group from Myanmar and Thailand with their own languages, culture, and history. Their nationalist movements use a flag with red, blue, and white plus a frog drum symbol. Unrelated to the online gag or the Buffalo flag story.

@AJReyesoff @MarkusHolmgren @CDonna49173 @SamAntar We don't need an entirely separate bureaucratic organization in order to disburse foreign aid.

@AJReyesoff @MarkusHolmgren @CDonna49173 @SamAntar You're acting like cutting USAID means cutting foreign aid. Not true. The legitimate existing programs and funding was transfered to the State Department, where it can be managed properly, not act as a slush fund, and not work at cross-purposes to diplomacy.

No so fast, Ro Khanna. You don’t get to publicly accuse Elon Musk of serious misconduct and then call for a debate when threatened with a lawsuit. The lawsuit is the debate. Discovery is the fact-checking. Depositions are the cross-examination. And unlike cable news, everyone is under oath.

@RobertMaclp7ws @unionjackspirit Just lie back and think of England

@unionjackspirit Apart from going around in a stab proof vest and chain mail collar what can you do ! These unvetted third world assassins seem to be increasing in number.

Starmers world

@Justinjpearson It's your behavior that has robbed your constituents of the committee assignments you had, and I hope your constituents remember how your behavior cost them that influence when you are up for re-election.

Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on. This move strips nearly 2 million Tennesseans from the representation they deserve in TN state leg.

@heynavtoor This is too silly for my tastes. It has a definite vibe, and just isnt as funny as it could be if it were a little more deadpan.

THIS GUY BUILT AN ENTIRE WIKIPEDIA THAT IS 100% AI HALLUCINATIONS AND IT'S OPEN SOURCE ON GITHUB it's called Halupedia. nothing on the site existed before you clicked. every article was generated the second you arrived. the site has one rule: the universe only exists when you visit it. it looks exactly like wikipedia. same fonts. same layout. same scholarly citations. same "stumble" button for random articles. the only difference is none of it is real. here are some actual articles currently in the encyclopedia: > the great pigeon census of 1887 > the ministry of slightly wrong maps > chaldic arithmetic — a branch of mathematics where subtraction is forbidden > armund the river mapper — a cartographer who mapped 14,000 leagues of river without leaving his chair > the society for the prevention of unnecessary tuesdays every article page also tells you how many people are reading it right now. it says: "you alone are consulting this folio at present." the creator's own tagline for the site is the most unhinged sentence i've read this year: "an encyclopedia of a universe that does not exist until you visit it" the entire backend is a single open source repo called vibeserver. one guy. one description on github: "a little webserver making things up just in time." we built the largest knowledge base in human history and the very first thing a guy did with it was make a hallucinated mirror universe and put it on the open web. the internet is healing.

@Bill_AZ_USA @EricLDaugh Not everything is a criminal offense. It is unlikely to be illegal for an NGO operating on 100% of government money to pay a CEO 650K. Who is supposed to go to jail over this? Instead of obsessing about people going to jail, this kind of thing needs to be EXPOSED and STOPPED.

And Republicans are furious because the Dems will get away with it. No one will get arrested, no one will go to jail, no one will get so much as a slap on the wrist. And when the Dems win the mid terms because John "Traitor" Thune is part of the grift, it will all just start again. I think maybe I need to start up an NGO. It seems like easy money with no consequences.

🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum just revealed he found NGOs where up to 100% PERCENT of their revenue was the federal government... ...and their CEO would make $650K a YEAR, and pay lobbyists $400K. He exposes it: "We found organizations that were receiving grants from Interior, where 80 to 100 percent of the revenue of that NGO was a grant from the federal government." "And yet those organizations, we were the sole source of their revenue, but they would have a CEO making $650,000 and four $400,000 lobbyists!" @RapidResponse47 Dems are FURIOUS the Trump admin is cracking down on this! Keep pushing!

@Asperous60 @johnkonrad I was on a Newport-class for a couple of months at the end of Desert Storm. I wanted to talk to a Chaplain but, as you said, the ship was too small to have one.

@johnkonrad I talked to a Chaplain once while I was in the Navy. There was no Chaplain on my ship. Newport class LST 1980s

Wait. Wait. Wait. I thought everyone knew about the chaplain corps move. Based on my DMs, maybe not. Navy Chaplains assigned to the Marine Corps were resistant to the cultural revolution happening across the force. So… Admiral Gilday, the avowed defender of Ibram X. Kendi, and General Mark Milley moved the entire Navy Chaplain School from South Carolina to Rhode Island to, in their words, “shift it culturally and intellectually” towards the Naval Woke College. They said it out loud. The chaplains who wouldn’t bend the knee got relocated.

@PolitiBunny @FirestoneDawn @caingonzalesjr I think the last time I had to show my Social Security card to someone was in 1987.

@FirestoneDawn @caingonzalesjr I was shocked to see it, but if you visit their site, they will tell you that it's not necessary for you to have the actual card as long as you have the number.

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out. Here's how it went: 1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14. 2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0. 3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5. It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops. Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID. I know you guys knew that already... lol

@eainsaunt @WallStreetApes Nobody will ever agree to that. Giving the money direct to people means there are no layers of bureaucrats to get paid, no NGOs to take a cut, and no opportunities for graft.

@WallStreetApes This is why I support a guaranteed income. $30 million dollars down the drain. Imagine the lives we could save just giving the homeless the money to pay for rent, transportation, dignity. Sure, some would use it for drugs… but more would use it to get out of homelessness.

City of Los Angeles bought a Ramada Inn for $10.2 million to house homeless Since then, they started sending money to a NGO to takeover the project. Its now sat vacant for 4 years and $20 MILLION has been spent, meant to house only 32 people No work being done. Money laundering “For years, neighbors say construction has been slow. Where are the workers? Where is the urgency? — For almost 4 years, the property has sat unfinished. Why does it take so long and such a waste of money, there's nothing to even show for it”

@RetroCoast @dom_lucre All that money wasted on food for troops that could have gone instead to the Quality Learing Center.

@dom_lucre Americans can't afford groceries but Operation Epstein Fury gets steak & lobster

🔥🚨BREAKING: Pete Hegseth's Department of War is facing backlash from liberals after reportedly buying $22 mil worth of steak and lobster near the end of the spending year. Liberals are attempting to criticize the DOW but are disregarding the fact that our government pays for steaks and lobsters for soldiers getting ready to deploy. This media manipulation. Our troops deserve a great meal before taking off to serve.

@AdamKinzinger USAID was never about feeding starving people, it was about funneling billions of taxpayer dollars to leftist NGOs while nobody was looking. All legitimate foreign aid has simply shifted to the Department of State, where it should have been in the first place.

DOGE said it was cutting government waste. So they gutted USAID — the agency that feeds starving people around the world. Meanwhile the Pentagon spent millions on lobster, ribeye, and even a $98,000 piano. (link in reply)

@AquarianGG @MinuteofZombie One correction, the Immaculate Conception is not the same thing as the Virgin Birth of Christ. It is a specifically Catholic doctrine that says Mary born without Original Sin. The Virgin Birth of Christ is accepted by all Christians, but the IC is specifically Catholic.

Not to mention that if you are a Christian, that also means you believe *literally* (not figuratively or metaphorically) in things like the Immaculate Conception (Mary becomes pregnant with Jesus via God's will, not sex), and, in the case of Catholicism, things like Transubstantiation - that the Eucharist (bread and wine) at Mass literally becomes the actual body and blood of Jesus, through consecration. Supernatural belief system, indeed.

Being a Christian doesn’t mean “it’s a good way to live your life.” It means a bone deep belief in your marrow that Jesus Christ, the son of God, died for your sins, and in a very REAL way, his sacrifice gave you everlasting life in the kingdom of God. I’m not a Christian. But I spent 17 years in the Catholic Church. It’s not a life philosophy. It’s not an ethical code. It is a supernatural belief system.

@AZionLion @Breaking911 I've been driving for 40+ years and I've never once driven on the wrong side of a highway. And I'm not even a commercial driver, you'd expect more from someone who drives professionally.

@Breaking911 Has no one else turned down the wrong way once? He’s driving slow and has his emergency flashers on.

🚨 WATCH: A Missouri driver encountered a illegal alien driving the wrong way for miles on Highway 61, narrowly avoiding a head-on crash before the truck sped off southbound.

@NP_RealEstAgent @TokyoTom2020 @WW3finalboss It is hilarious watching people congratulating themselves for being smart while falling for an obvious hoax. Look at the image included in the tweet again. It has the logo from "Fox Mews" (not Fox News), and the quote is attributed to Kristi Noaim, Homelad Suckretary.

@TokyoTom2020 @WW3finalboss Well...I mean we have the dumbest one running the country.

@lsphotosmith @TokyoTom2020 @WW3finalboss Did you even look at the image included in the tweet? It has the logo from "Fox Mews" (not Fox News), and the quote is attributed to Kristi Noaim, Homelad Suckretary. Even Snopes debunked this claim, which originated from a Facebook parody page.

@TokyoTom2020 @WW3finalboss It is true.

@TokyoTom2020 @WW3finalboss Did you even look at the image included in the tweet? It has the logo from "Fox Mews" (not Fox News), and the quote is attributed to Kristi Noaim, Homelad Suckretary.

@WW3finalboss I don’t believe this… Nobody could be that stupid and say such a thing