Gas Bandit's Political Thread V: The Vampire Likes Bats

GasBandit

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Right now, 3 democrat-held house seats are empty because of deaths that occurred within the last 3 months. If the Democrat party wasn't fighting tooth and nail against passing the torch, this bill would have failed.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Anonymous voting in the House, as in some countries, most definitely has its own set of issues... But it's also in many ways great for moving power from the executive to the legislative branch.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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  1. Booz Allen Hamilton cuts 2,500 jobs as Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency spending reductions force federal contractors to restructure operations and eliminate thousands of positions.
  2. Trump funding freeze forces Planned Parenthood to close eight health clinics in Minnesota and Iowa, shuttering the state’s only Planned Parenthood abortion facility and laying off 66 employees.
  3. GOP agriculture chairs tell Kennedy’s health commission to “adhere to sound science” after report links widely-used pesticides to chronic disease, marking first Republican pushback against Trump’s health and human services secretary.
  4. Judge halts Trump’s retaliation against Harvard for defying political demands, blocking administration from cutting off enrollment for 7,000 international students days before graduation.
  5. Trump deregulates nuclear industry with “total reform” of independent Nuclear Regulatory Commission, cutting staff and fast-tracking reactor approvals for AI data centers and defense facilities.



    The working cooling towers at Three Mile Island are emitting water vapor. The dormant cooling towers are from Unit 2, which was permanently damaged in the 1979 accident. Image courtesy of Constellation Energy.
  6. Trump cuts National Security Council staff in half and embeds loyalists to transform the independent policy-making body into a rubber stamp for predetermined White House decisions.
  7. Hegseth bans reporters from Pentagon areas previously accessible to press, citing national security after leaks revealed his Signal discussions of military strikes and planned Musk briefing on China war plans.
  8. Federal judge orders Trump administration to return third improperly deported immigrant after officials falsely claimed Guatemalan native was asked about torture fears before deportation to Mexico.
  9. Homeland Security Secretary Noem posts “Suck it” on social media after migrants dismiss lawsuit challenging their transfer to Guantánamo Bay detention center.
  10. Justice Department sues four NJ cities for sanctuary policies that “obstruct” immigration enforcement, claiming they violate federal immigration law in escalating legal war against municipalities.
  11. ICE asks border shelters to house migrants while FEMA investigates same organizations for potential felony smuggling violations, forcing nonprofits into legal limbo over humanitarian aid.
  12. Disney puts 45 Venezuelan workers on leave after Supreme Court allows Trump to strip their temporary protected status, exposing 350,000 Venezuelans to potential deportation.
  13. Privacy groups sue Trump administration over USDA demand for personal data of 42 million SNAP recipients, including names, addresses and Social Security numbers from five years of records.
  14. Supreme Court pauses transparency lawsuit against DOGE after watchdog groups seek to depose Musk’s staff about the secretive operations behind massive federal workforce cuts.
  15. Judge denies Trump administration’s request to stay ruling that blocked DOGE from shutting down U.S. Institute of Peace, declaring the March takeover and firings “null and void.”
  16. Judge blocks Trump’s retaliation against Jenner & Block after other law firms “threw in the towel” and agreed to provide $100 million in free legal services to avoid executive orders.
  17. San Diego airport suffered technical glitches affecting weather data and runway lighting before fatal Cessna crash that killed music agent Dave Shapiro and five others, investigators reveal.
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Minnesota Supreme Court Rules Women Can Completely Bare Their Breasts In Public

The Minnesota Supreme Court decided that women completely exposing their breasts in public is legally acceptable.The ruling in the case State of Minnesota v. Plancarte revolved around Eloisa Rubi Plancarte, who had exposed herself in a police officer’s presence by revealing her bare breasts. The...
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Julie Quist of the Child Protection League wrote, “Activist judges like these appointed by Governor Walz are accomplices in Walz’s war on our children, [and] allowing women to bare breasts on the beaches, on the streets, and at grocery stores erodes children’s natural sense of modesty that serves as a safe sexual boundary. This ruling is an overt attack on their innocence and their minds, making them far more vulnerable to sexual exploitation.”
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Julie, dearest, do you know what breasts do? if women were forbidden from ever baring their breasts to children, these children would STARVE.
Also, it's Minnesota. The act of baring one's breasts in public should be self-limiting, given MN's climate.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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  1. Record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the past year as Trump’s return to office drove the highest quarterly surge in more than two decades.
  2. EPA confirms it is drafting plan to eliminate all greenhouse gas limits on coal and natural gas power plants, claiming U.S. emissions don’t contribute significantly to climate change.
  3. Trump delivers campaign-style speech to West Point graduates while wearing MAGA hat, boasting about eliminating military diversity programs and comparing cadets to male models.
  4. DOGE appointee at Interior Department orders staff to stop filling vacant positions, prompting career official to tell employees to “ignore the email from HR” as buyouts and early retirements eliminate over 10% of workforce.
  5. Eric Trump establishes nonprofit to manage Trump’s presidential library project with $37 million seed money from Meta and ABC settlements plus incoming $400 million Boeing 747 gift from Qatar.
  6. Army report shows faulty antenna placement caused military to lose contact with helicopter for 20 seconds on May 1, forcing two commercial jets to abort landings at DC’s National Airport.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Come to Belgium! We have armadillos!

We do not have living armadillos. Stuffed animals only. Valid at select locations only.
Still welcome though
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mikerc said:
Really? Don't get me wrong, fleeing America, good plan. But fleeing to Britain of all countries?
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Language and stuff I guess
 
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