(not) jethro. 🗯️

Insane amount of corruption.

@seanmack1025 You can be both untrained and still murdering people by policy.

Remember police agents are supposed to be trained professionals who don’t shoot first and think about it later. Ice agents are either not trained or killing people is policy.

I have a funny personal story about Lindsey Graham. In 2010, he voted against the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" despite overwhelming bipartisan support to overturn the ban on gay, lesbian, bisexual Americans serving openly in our military. (It passed and got signed.) In 2013, he voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would have provided protections against discrimination for LGBTQ Americans in the workplace. (Substantial bipartisan support in the Senate but the GOP-controlled House refused to take a vote on it.) In 2022, he voted against the Respect for Marriage Act despite bipartisan support for federalizing protections for same-sex marriage in case Obergefell got overturned. (The bill was passed and signed into law by President Biden). In fact, he pretty much opposed LGBTQ rights at every turn in his career, never offering anything in the way of sound legal reasoning to justify his opposition. A lot has been said about Mr. Graham's private life in the past few days. Some commentators say it's unfair to speculate over his sexual orientation, particularly in the wake of his death. I think it's rather unfair that this man spent his entire career making the lives of LGBTQ Americans much harder for no good reason. Just because it was politically convenient for him. It's been a rather fascinating exercise to watch many politicos and reporters share their fun and wistful anecdotes about Mr. Graham. He was so funny and so charming. That's nice. I'll always remember him as someone who viewed LGBTQ Americans as second-class citizens unworthy of equal treatment and dignity. Perhaps hypocritically so. Anyway... that's actually not a fun story but it is very personal.

Sounds familiar.

Wow, who saw this coming other than everyone? 😆

In case you were wondering, Hakeem Jeffries is not the leader we need for this moment.

For the record: cops aren't supposed to kill guilty people either.

@inqdragon2 Haruki Murakami.

My last question of the day: Who’s an author whose books you’ll always read?

What's the point of having a State Environmental Protection Agency if it's just going to do stuff like this?

We could have an ICE agency that didn't murder people if we wanted. Jus' sayin'.

@LiquidBarb Not yet. 😆

@ThomCrapper Have you found that uninhabited island yet???

It's the SAME doc who was at Butler; it's the SAME guy who was at every cognitive exam; it's the SAME doctor who is at every monthly hand-leeching session...

Define "remarkable."

NEW: Per court docket, the clerk has followed Judge Kathleen Williams's order to notify the state bar about today's ruling against the Trump slush fund and about Todd Blanche storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. When you open the trenches with all of this money that Republicans have now funneled to ICE without any oversight, you’re going to see abuses of power. That’s exactly what’s happening. Notice that we didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree of regularity when we froze ICE funding. And now that it’s been opened up again, we’re seeing multiple incidents.

And he will consider it the greatest legacy success story ever in the history of success stories. Total win!

MAGA is fucking delusional.

@frankdpi We expect our nation to not be built upon a foundation of cruelty. But it is, as long as Trump is at the helm.

If there is one thing Americans expect from their government, it is fairness. We tolerate much if we see the scale of justice is balanced and fair. There is no fairness in Trump's government. His thumb is always on the scale and he acts out of greed and retribution.

@LiquidBarb Stories coming out of LG's recent trip to Kyev are interesting though.

@ThomCrapper Eh…I think he just up & kicked…🤷‍♂️

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