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On 4/26/2025 at 6:17 PM, austingirl said:

This exact scenario happened to me, but it was 14 years ago so I was able to have the D and C. If someone had told me I had to wait another week, after confirming that the baby had died, I would have lost my absolute mind and then traveled to another state to take care of it. This is not only dangerous but terribly, terribly cruel.

 

I feel bad for her because you can tell she long since left the ideology(pink hair and arm sleeve out front shoulda told ya). This right here is reason 234 of why we are vacating this state. I cannot and will not watch my daughter suffer like this.

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Posted (edited)
19 hours ago, Underdog said:

Already on it… 

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Are the shoes in your avatar curling shoes?   I just always thought you were a dandy. -respectfully

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9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


None of the “anti-authoritarian libertarian” types are actually against an authoritarian government. They only have a problem with a hypothetical authoritarian government that acts against “real Americans” (good conservative white folks). That government can crush as many minorities and liberals as it wants, and they won’t have a single problem with it.
“I’m a libertarian” may be the biggest political lie of the last 50 years. I haven’t seen a one who has the slightest concern about a right wing authoritarian government.

This is absolutely dead on.

 

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6 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

We'll see how performative it is.

A weird amount of suggestions that local and state control of law enforcement will be stripped away and placed under federal control.

Some of the language like "best practices" is emblematic of performative everywhere it's used.  The epitome of a nonce phrase.

As we have observed, the major federal tool for local law enforcement is money.  So we'll probably get more MRAPs and Stingers and other weapons in the hands of local cops.  That's not good, but probably doesn't change much.

Also, the budget gon' 'splode.

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1 hour ago, locodos said:

Are the shoes in your avatar curling shoes?   I just always thought you were a dandy. -respectfully

Yes, there are "curling" shoes.   Curling is awesome and ton of fun to do.

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1 minute ago, elfenix said:

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Man, Admiral Adama is just about the farthest character away from Donald Trump I could think of. BSG got real weird in the back half but it holds up pretty well

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Posted
9 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

Authoritarian scat munchers are in no way libertarians. 

Of course not.

Weren't they a band in Austin in the mid 90's?

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Lulz

Amazon to start telling customers how much of the price is due to tariffs and Klan Barbie is freaking out calling it a “hostile and political act.”

 

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10 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Lulz

Amazon to start telling customers how much of the price is due to tariffs and Klan Barbie is freaking out calling it a “hostile and political act.”

 

To the cult, every negative consequence of Trump's regime is the result of a conspiracy by his enemies.

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17 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Lulz

Amazon to start telling customers how much of the price is due to tariffs and Klan Barbie is freaking out calling it a “hostile and political act.”

 

Free speech is really important unless of course it is saying bad things about Trump. 

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This seems bad. I don't subscribe to this one so I don't have the entire post.

https://www.leefang.com/p/speaker-johnson-plans-vote-to-curb

Speaker Johnson Plans Vote to Curb Congressional Oversight of Trump, Musk

Congress will vote on new rules to shut down its own investigative powers of the executive branch.

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The House of Representatives will vote on Tuesday for a change in rules that will prevent lawmakers requesting disclosures from the Trump administration.

The shift, quietly released last night by Republican leaders, will shut down so-called “Resolutions of Inquiry” – a congressional tool for demanding factual information or documents in the possession of the president or from a cabinet secretary – through September 30th.

The rules reclassify legislative days to prevent the enactment of the investigative resolutions:

Resolutions of inquiry have existed since the very first Congress to seek answers from the executive branch. If passed in the committee of jurisdiction, the resolution gains “privileged” status and goes directly to a full vote before the entire chamber.

In recent weeks, a number of these investigative resolutions have been introduced. One such resolution demands documents about Elon Musk's status as a special government employee and to disclose information about his potential conflicts of interest. Another resolution requests information about whether DOGE is using artificial intelligence to identify cuts and impose layoff decisions in the federal government.

Rep. Adam Smith, D-Washington State, sponsored a resolution to produce answers on the so-called “Signalgate” controversy, including the extent to which the administration uses the messaging app to discuss national security matters.

The attempt to shut down the resolution of inquiry process outside of an emergency appears to be without precedent.

“Speaker Johnson is trying to blind Congress and take away one of the only tools where the majority of Representatives, unfiltered by party leadership, can conduct oversight,” said Sean Vitka of Demand Progress, a watchdog group.

Vitka's organization notes that the Signalgate resolution only requires just two members of House Armed Services Committee Republican lawmakers to pass. Gaining two GOP lawmakers on the committee would force a full House floor vote by the end of next week.

The rules that govern the procedures for such inquiries were first adopted in 1879. Any member, regardless of party or seniority, can propose an inquiry and resolutions may pass on a simple-majority vote.

During the 1970s, the resolutions became a vital tool for lawmakers to obtain information about the ongoing Vietnam War. In more recent House members have proposed inquiries related to the 2008 bank bailouts, immigration data, and nuclear safety records, among other issues.

 

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13 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

See for instance our favority surly "libertarian" Ani.  Total right wing bootlicker.

I happened to catch (self proclaimed Libertarian) Jeff Ward shit talking how old and senile Joe Biden was a few days ago.  And was in the context of a sports take.  I couldn't change the channel faster.

You could freshen up your example of old and senile with the old senile guy currently destroying the country, but reasons

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11 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

We'll see how performative it is.

A weird amount of suggestions that local and state control of law enforcement will be stripped away and placed under federal control.

The right sells the notion that "sanctuary cities" harbor criminals of all types and don't prosecute for any crime.  And it sells like hot cakes. Defund the police was a horrible own goal by progressive with regards to branding and just fed into RW propaganda.

They will find a on off example during some protest this summer to increase the use of federal troops and law enforcement for local matters.

Logical next step in facism.

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6 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Defund the police was a horrible own goal by progressive with regards to branding and just fed into RW propaganda.

It was done by activists and shows the danger of just sidelining and ignoring the progressive wing to just do whatever. Because they will do whatever. They need to have their leaders in the Democrats so that they can have their energy directed in productive directions to actually achieve progressive ends.

Because "defund the police" was not an own goal in the sense that it was the result of a strategy that backfired. It was the result of no strategy. No leadership. So the void was filled.

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10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

At least Ward routinely shit talks Trump, something Ani will never do.  He remains curiously quiet.

The dangers of both siderism though....

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3 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

The dangers of both siderism though....

I don't mind people annoyed we elected such an old dude in 2020. It just drives me nuts then many of the same people elected an equally old dude in 2024.

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But I was told Republicans were against taxes.

 

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/04/29/congress/house-transportation-reconciliation-text-gas-tax-00315222?nname=playbook-pm&nid=0000015a-dd3e-d536-a37b-dd7fd8af0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fd-dd93-ad7f-f8fde5bf0000

 

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The House Transportation Committee early on Tuesday released draft text of its portion of the GOP’s sprawling domestic policy bill, which it plans to mark up Wednesday. The proposal includes $15 billion for upgrading various parts of the aviation system, as well as new fees on electric vehicles and a first-of-its-kind $20 annual fee on all other passenger vehicles.

 

 

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The new fee is intended to move the country away from the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, which has not been raised since 1993 and has had its buying power steadily eroded even as infrastructure spending has increased. But raising it, at least on the federal level, has been a political non-starter.

Lawmakers have toyed with the idea of moving instead to a system of charging people based on how many miles they drive, but that idea has privacy challenges and so far state-level pilot projects have not been nationalized.

 

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Besides the broad $20 levy, the proposal would impose an annual vehicle registration fee of $200 for electric vehicles and $100 for hybrid vehicles. The new user fees are estimated to provide $50 billion over the next decade, according to the committee.

The hybrid and EV registration fees would take effect immediately, and the fee on the other passenger vehicles would take effect in 2031, Transportation Chair Sam Graves (R-Mo.) said.

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

once again, did not have RS as being the bastion of political reporting in 2025, but here we are

 

reading that....

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

If they want to move away from a gasoline-based transportation tax, what is the justification for EV/Hybrid tax being 5x/10x ICE vehicle taxes, other than fuck the libs?

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29 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

yes, please, elect him pope. only he can save the catholic church. from the vatican, of course. hes' fixed everything here so he can go

 

 

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40 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

 

“Never heard of him. That’s Fake News probably Just liberal, woke……Oklahoma….uh, beautiful, Big tariffs will be cheap Eggs and gas! I also just informed my club that I won another Golf championship during Lunch today. Biden couldn’t smooth a sheet with a hot babe….I lost my Train of thought.”

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He simply must be driven from office in ‘26:

https://www.alternet.org/johnson-hegseth-cnn/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Apr.29.2025_7.55pm

 

Late Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN's Wolf Blitzer delivered some breaking news: House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), according to Blitzer, "is taking steps to change House rules" in a way that "would effectively block an investigation into the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth's use of the Signal chat app."

Hegseth's critics are calling for him to resign in response to reports that he discussed a U.S. military operation in Yemen in two separate conversations on the messaging program Signal — a platform that, critics say, is not secure enough for discussing sensitive or classified information. President Donald Trump's defense secretary is also drawing criticism over firings at the Pentagon.

Hegseth's problems, Raju noted, aren't Johnson's only reason for this move.

Raju told Blitzer, "And I just asked the speaker about this. He's done this now on multiple occasions — not just on this, but also, to deny efforts to target Trump on tariff policy. I asked him why he's protecting Donald Trump."

CNN aired a clip of Johnson saying, "No, we're using the rules of the House to prevent political hijinks and political stunts. And that's what the Democrats have. As I mentioned: no leader, no vision, no platform. All they have is obstruction

 

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