What an ungracious piece of … garbage: Melania Trump declined an offer to head to the White House Wednesday and meet with Jill Biden, citing the Biden administration’s raid on Mar-a-Lago as part of the federal government’s investigation into classified documents. “She ain’t going,” a source familiar with Melania’s decision told The Post. “Jill Biden’s husband authorized the FBI snooping through her underwear drawer. The Bidens are disgusting,” the source said. “Jill Biden isn’t someone Melania needs to meet,” the source added. BY the way, Trump’s anything but gracious, but we knew that. That fucker wouldn’t give Biden a transition, wouldn’t meet with him and wouldn’t come to his inauguration. I feel like throwing up. I cannot see how this is useful for anything. I can only assume that this is some kind of Christian ethic that I don’t understand.
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Was the Fat Catfish ever really there at all?
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Oh. My. God. When I heard this I thought it was a joke. It is not a joke. Trump nominating Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz and Tusli Gabbard is nothing more than a gauntlet thrown in America’s face: “waddaya gonna do about it?” Those on Trump’s enemies list should probably be looking for legal representation right away. Matt Gaetz will have no interest in doing anything but prosecuting them. Update — About those recess appointments: If Johnson and Thune must agree in order to stop Trump from doing this, I think he will do it. There is no universe in which Johnson doesn’t do what Trump wants whether Thune wants to resist or not. Fasten yout seatbelts.
Chris Hayes has this one right. Nobody should think they have the “one true analysis” of the election or the “one true path” going forward. Shit happens.
What Carl Linneaus can teach us about animal appetites.
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They’re going to go after all of them: One of Trump’s Day One executive actions is expected to be an order on so-called interior enforcement, arresting and detaining immigrants in the U.S. illegally, the sources said. Trump intends to scrap Biden administration guidance that prioritized people with serious criminal records for deportation and limited enforcement against non-criminals, they said. The Trump order would call for deportations to prioritize people charged with felonies and people who have exhausted their legal avenues to remain, but would not restrict officers from picking up other potentially deportable immigrants. An estimated 1.4 million immigrants in the U.S. have final deportation orders, according to ICE, a group that will be a focus for the incoming Trump administration. “A federal judge said, ‘You must go home,’ and they didn’t,” Homan told Fox News on Monday. Certain groups – such as international students who support Palestinian militant group Hamas and have violated the terms of their student visas – could also be listed as a priority, two of the sources said.
I don’t know about you but this strikes me as very bad. Remember this is the guy who pardoned war criminals in his first administration and overruled the military chain of command to do it. He has expressly said that he wants to use the military to shoot protesters and round up immigrants. If we are depending on the military to resist illegal orders I’m not sure there will be any left to do it: The Trump transition team is considering a draft executive order that establishes a “warrior board” of retired senior military personnel with the power to review three- and four-star officers and to recommend removals of any deemed unfit for leadership. If Donald Trump approves the order, it could fast-track the removal of generals and admirals found to be “lacking in requisite leadership qualities,” according to a draft of the order reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. But it could also create a chilling effect on top military officers, given the president-elect’s past vow to fire “woke generals,” referring to officers seen as promoting diversity in the ranks at the expense of military readiness.
It’s me, that woman you barely remember from your tenth-grade homeroom who keeps turning up on your Facebook page like a cold sore. Before the election, I mainly posted wine o’clock memes and pictures of my grandbabies; I never publicly declared who I was voting for. But I can say it loudly and proudly now: I voted for Trump. And I’m tired of all the fearmongering I’m seeing from libs like you.
It’s been over a week since Harris conceded, and you’re still ranting and sharing gloom-and-doom articles. People are too focused on the negative! Trump will make inflation vanish completely. He’ll bring down the price of eggs and gas, and we’ll have more money in our pockets to buy cheap fast fashion made in Chinese sweatshops. Those tariffs he promised are going to work wonders.
Booming political gambling markets are poised to win big under a Trump administration, despite mounting concerns about the dangers of wagering on American democracy.
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To ensure Drupal’s stability and independence, the project is managed through a well-established, transparent governance system. Dries Buytaert, the Founder and Project Lead, helped design a model that distributes power and prevents any single person or entity — even himself — from making unilateral decisions that could alter the project unexpectedly. The independent Drupal Association oversees Drupal.org and other key infrastructure, free from commercial pressures. This approach ensures that Drupal.org is reliable and creates a fair playing field for all contributors, embodying true open-source leadership.
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From guerrilla fighter to revered leader, Hassan Nasrallah’s journey has left an indelible mark on Lebanon and the wider world, a legacy only strengthened by his recent assassination.
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It’s been a week since the election of Donald Trump and the shock is just now beginning to wear off. The ritual Democratic self-flagellation is calming a bit as most people finally take a breath and recognize that while the result was a terrible disappointment it was anything but a landslide for Donald Trump, nor was it a crushing rebuke of the Democratic party. As Philip Bump of The Washington Post points out in this preliminary analysis: “Trump’s popular-vote victory will likely end up as the smallest since 2000. It is due, in part, to fewer people voting. Exit polls are imperfect, but they suggest where each party gained and lost votes since 2020…What we can say, though, is that this was not an electoral landslide, but a narrowly contested race in which Trump is likely to have benefited as much from who didn’t turn out to vote for his candidacy than who did turn out to vote for him. Right now, the first order of business is to shake off the defeat and confront the challenge of Donald Trump’s ghastly agenda. As we have seen in the last few days it’s shaping up to be both more chaotic and more extreme than even in 2016.