Michelle Reyf 🔥

So, this is bad.

If one of the scariest things you’ve ever seen is a tax on a second home that you don’t live in that’s worth over $5 million, then you’ve lived a very privileged life.

The Trump budget is historic.   For the first time in recent history, the government would spend a larger share of its annual budget on defense than on domestic programs.   @Morning_Joe

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Today, JD Vance said Pope Leo has bad theology. It brought to mind something David Bentley Hart said years ago 👇 "Most Americans think of themselves as Christians, but the only religion in America that ever flourished was America. And it twists everything into its own image ... the American religion, which is about civil order, prosperity, capitalism, a moral code that is not premised on forgiveness so much as upon judgement." And in the same paragraph, on converts 👇 "[L]ike converts everywhere, to everything, the version of the religion to which they converted they cling to more fiercely than people who were born Orthodox. For them it's an ideology they've adopted, so it must be pure. And because they're evangelicals, that also means simplified, inflexible and cruel."

The American people would be better off if we randomly picked 535 random American citizens to run Congress each year. That’s how corrupt, owned, perverted and worthless Congress is. Facts.

It’s outrageous that a tiny number of absolutely revolting trash human beings can impose this upon tens of millions of people.

Trump's budget manages to be $361 billion larger than last year's despite cutting $300 billion in social programs and other public investments. Reason: Trump wants record funding for war and policing.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941. Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control. Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action. Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power." Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.

🚨 MAMDANI: “The wealth of a median white household in the city is more than $200,000, while that of a black household is less than $20,000 … We are reckoning with the long history of racism here and starting to act upon a framework that puts equity right at the center of it.”

I just can't believe the guy who attacked his own capital would be this crazy.

Long lines, chaos, and stress at the airport. Time to send in renowned de-escalation experts, ICE.

We live in a country where for the past 3 years all of our political and media elites, plus top Jewish groups, have been focused on the alleged antisemitism of the anti Israel left, meanwhile over on the right:

Eight weeks of paid leave for every new parent = $10 billion Covering community college tuition for every student = $10.9 billion

Sounds like a guy you made up. Every Marxist-Leninist I know wants the state to stop people peeing on the subway, they’re just educated enough to know that the correct way a state should do this is by creating a better spot for them to pee in and not by sending cops to kill them

BREAKING: ICE Whistleblower Ryan Schwank just blew the whistle on Donald Trump’s ICE and their illegal actions. “I watched ICE dismantle the training program… classes that teach the Constitution, our legal system, firearms training, the use of force, lawful arrests, proper detention, and the limits of officers authority. ICE is teaching cadets to violate the Constitution and they were attempting to cloak it in secrecy by demanding that I lie about it.”

Mamdani: I want to be clear: $5.4 billion is still a very steep mountain to climb. There are two paths we can take — one that offers long-term stability, and a second that would bring significant pain, which we deeply hope to avoid. The first path repairs the structural imbalance between the city and the state. We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million a year, and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations. For far too long, New Yorkers have given far more to the state than we have received in return. It is time to end the drain. If we cannot pursue this first path, we will be forced onto a much more damaging path of last resort — one where we use the only tools at the city’s disposal: raising property taxes and raiding our reserves. This second path is painful. We will continue to work with Albany to avoid it. The first path delivers the structural change we need to recalibrate the relationship between the city and the state. As we know, New Yorkers contribute 54.5% of state revenue but receive only 40.5% back. At the same time, New York City’s share of the state’s GDP has grown by nearly 10% since 2010. That imbalance is untenable. Once again, I am calling on Albany to end the drain. There is no third option of failing to balance the budget. By law, ever since the fiscal crisis of the 1970s — which placed the city on the brink of bankruptcy — New York City has been required to balance its budget. We will do so. If we cannot pursue the first path, the only remaining option is the second. At the heart of this path is a property tax increase. This would effectively be a tax on working- and middle-class New Yorkers, whose median income is $122,000. The second path also requires us to raid our reserves. It would mean withdrawing $980 million from the city’s Rainy Day Fund in fiscal year 2026 and $229 million from the Retiree Health Benefit Trust in fiscal year 2027. These steps have been taken before, but only in moments of extraordinary external crisis — Mayor Bloomberg’s response to the 2008 financial collapse and Mayor de Blasio’s response to the revenue shortfall caused by the pandemic. We do not want to turn to such drastic measures to balance our budget.

ICE is now the largest law enforcement agency in the country and ICE detention is slated to triple in size, matching the scale of Japanese internment.