When There Are NINE

A game changer for me:

@carmilith That’s like, 97% of the continental US. Checks out.

i have such contempt for everything north of I-10 just despicable and low class

Just for frame of reference, this is the behavior of a sitting member of Congress on the foreign affairs and armed services committees

Journos have no fucking idea how much money Jared has been grifting from foreign nations. Intelligence agencies do, but they are waiting for the right moment to twist the knife. Since 2018, he has been grifting and strong-arming Gulf nations as Donny's official back door man.

@FixinYourUglies Glad to hear it! You’ve had enough of the other kind lately LOL. #LifeInBalance?

I’m just feeling really good today. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Boomcha forever.

Alt: The lesson will repeat … until learned

@brollbenny That’s gotta feel good!! Congrats!!

Ya boy just won a Hermes Gold award for one of my projects.

These are both amazingly good news!!!

@FixinYourUglies @mean_toe “legal for a price”

@mean_toe They throw enough money at it and no one does anything.

This is huge. I also see how rich people get away with the most heinous shit

They didn't just pardon them. They're erasing the convictions entirely. Not...you're guilty but forgiven. But...the guilty verdicts never should have happened. There's a difference. And it matters enormously for what comes next. JackHopkinsNow.com

Notice how Christian nationalists suddenly believe in the separation of church and state when Bishop Mariann Budde asks the president to be merciful, when the Pope asks the president to be peaceful, and when anyone suggests that the government should take better care of the poor.

Popes condemning war. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God” - Matthew 5:9

They always want to reap massive profits & shift losses to small investors & taxpayers (y’all forgot “too big to fail” already?)

Days after the president blasted the Pope as “weak on Crime,” his own DOJ moved to dismiss criminal cases against individuals convicted of conspiring to use force to prevent the peaceful transfer of power. Some of the conduct for which Rhodes was convicted:

One of them is sincere, one of them is performing.

If our Christianity causes us to defend the president rather than the poor, the powerless, the sick, the hungry, the homeless, and the immigrant, that’s when we know we are following someone other than Jesus.

140 police officers were beaten. With flagpoles. Batons. Baseball bats. Four died. Today the Justice Department erased the convictions of the men who organized it. And called it justice.

Great news from the court on the Renee Good investigation. Her family may get some justice. "The government hid every piece of evidence from the killing of Renee Good. A federal judge just said hand it over. Renee Good was shot and killed by ICE agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 in Minneapolis. She was sitting in her car. She was an American citizen. A poet. A mother. She committed no crime. And for three months, the federal government has refused to release a single piece of evidence about how she died. They removed Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension from the investigation. They blocked state investigators from accessing any materials. They refused to identify Ross publicly until news outlets did their own investigations. A high-ranking White House official personally overruled ICE's own initial agreement to cooperate with a use-of-force investigation. They didn't just cover it up. They built a wall around the cover-up. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan tore a hole in that wall. He ordered federal prosecutors to turn over Ross's complete personnel and training files, all statements Ross made in the 60 minutes before and during the shooting, witness statements, body-worn camera footage, cell phone data, medical records related to Ross's fitness for duty, and DHS and ICE use-of-force policies. They have three weeks. "This judge is effectively doing the investigation that the United States has turned its back on," said Shauna Kieffer, a defense attorney in Minneapolis. The order came through a side door. Ross was involved in a separate violent incident last June where he attempted to arrest a man during a traffic stop and was dragged by the car. That man was convicted of assault. His defense attorney argued that evidence from the Good killing could reveal a pattern of reckless behavior by Ross that's relevant to sentencing. The judge agreed. If Ross's conduct is found to have contributed to the earlier incident, the court could reduce the convicted man's sentence below the guideline range. Meaning the evidence about how Ross killed Renee Good could prove that Ross himself was the problem all along. The state of Minnesota, led by Attorney General Keith Ellison, is also suing the Trump administration for blocking the state's own investigation into the shooting. The federal government fought every attempt to get this evidence into the open. A judge just overruled them. The body camera footage exists. The witness statements exist. The truth about what happened to Renee Good exists. And it's coming out."

Israel's abuse of the memory of the Holocaust to seek to justify its own present day atrocities, even including genocide, is an abomination The lesson of the Holocaust must not only be, "Never Again for the Jews" The lesson of the Holocaust must be, "Never Again for Anyone"

I almost posted something identical yesterday. I went down the soda aisle and in that moment just decided I couldn’t afford Diet Coke anymore. And it’s not that I don’t have $9, but the cost vs value just doesn’t math anymore. Grocery prices are a full blown crisis at this point, and I’d really like to see some congressional action on price gouging. Because starving people living in the same country where grocery conglomerates are posting record profits is not a sustainable model. The greed has gone too far. Time to rein it in.