I sort of try to understand a lot.
But, no. I don’t understand those 4 Democratic Muthaphuckas who voted for the SAVE Act.
I don’t give two shyts about what kind of district they’re in.
I will donate to any primary opponent against them.
the SAVE Act is not only Voter Suppression on Steroids..
IT’S A MUTHAPHUCKIN’ POLL TAX
Archangel Gabriel 🎗️ (@Moalusi__Thabo) posted at 0:56 PM on Thu, Apr 10, 2025:
I don’t understand why 4 Democrats voted for this https://t.co/PzUEuCnyqV
(https://x.com/Moalusi__Thabo/status/1910391336894947337?t=N1qwetsVcAU8OZWH8I85aw&s=03)
You Should’ve Said Nicer Things About Joe Biden (@What46HasDone) posted at 4:34 PM on Thu, Apr 10, 2025:
The SAVE Act should be defeated because voter suppression is bad, but I can’t help like feeling that if it actually passed, it’d be a major self own to Republicans.You want to pass a bill that favors people with passports and unmarried women? …okay!
(https://x.com/What46HasDone/status/1910446202325180757?t=Q0JRamAWDy5BN35B-XaDNQ&s=03)
Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) posted at 4:41 PM on Thu, Apr 10, 2025:
Forcing people to pay $130 for a passport in order to vote is just a Jim Crow poll tax by another name.It is blatantly unconstitutional.
(https://x.com/TristanSnell/status/1910448162591981987?t=H-_Hr_fiZnm5196v6L98_g&s=03)
Brian Baez (@MentallyDivine) posted at 11:05 AM on Thu, Apr 10, 2025:
Republicans are currently voting to end free and fair elections by passing the SAVE ACT… https://t.co/Dz1vla9u8u
(https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/1910363522115961251?t=TrH6XUMXXLrn25UKTUZh2A&s=03)
scha·den·freu·de (@BlisterPearl) posted at 6:45 PM on Fri, Apr 11, 2025:
If I had to reregister to vote, post SAVE Act, I’d need:
a $25 copy of my birth certificate,
a $5 copy of my name change,
a $3 copy of my marriage license,
and an $89 drivers license.OR a $165 passport.
Not only is it a poll tax, it’s also a pink tax.
(https://x.com/BlisterPearl/status/1910841652106703012?t=GyQ_zZZDHtWHNP5gZ5Ivcw&s=03)
a moron from Tennessee
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Rep. Tim Burchett on medical research at universities: “They want to destroy this country. The research stops when the money stops. That’s bull. We ought to put it out in the private sector … and we find out that a majority of their students aren’t even American citizens? … it’s a disloyalty to our country.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1913306556705239281
Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney
JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.
https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1913318861593628727
May Mr. Garcia come home soon 🙏🏽
Art Candee 🍿🥤
@ArtCandee
Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post is even calling out Leon Munsk and Tesla for allegedly speeding up the cars’ odometers so they fall out of warranty faster.
Seems like they really are trying to distance themselves from him.
https://x.com/ArtCandee/status/1913225973627080730
Sean Taj
@TajSean
May 2020 had 51 shipments blank sailings. Over 80 so far in April 2025. COVID will look like good times.
7:54 PM · Apr 17, 2025
https://x.com/TajSean/status/1913033422978625988
Craig Fuller 🛩🚛🚂⚓️
@FreightAlley
Many truckers I’ve spoken with don’t realize how quickly container volumes have collapsed.
Starting in May, port freight out of California will be almost eliminated.
Its going to be a bloodbath in dray, followed by intermodal, and then a collapse in I-20 & I-40 trucking.
https://x.com/FreightAlley/status/1913035787634901263
You Should’ve Said Nicer Things About Joe Biden
@What46HasDone
It can’t be overstated how important it was that Chris Van Hollen got to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Before that, nobody had been able to even confirm he was alive, let alone be in contact with him. Before that meeting, he had every reason to believe that he was stuck to live out the rest of his life in that prison, with no hope. Now he knows that he has an army behind him fighting to free him. And he brings that hope back with him not only for himself, but for the others there who have been kidnapped and wrongly imprisoned by our government.
11:24 PM · Apr 17, 2025
https://x.com/What46HasDone/status/1913086142024470848
Brian Baez (@MentallyDivine) posted at 3:26 PM on Wed, Apr 16, 2025:
EXPLOSIVE: Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen PULLED UP to El Salvador to see what is going on with the Maryland Man illegally deported there…THIS IS WHAT HE FOUND! https://t.co/gw4qk2NIZE
(https://x.com/MentallyDivine/status/1912603481283703290?t=dinQzxCYbPtT4mIlFgZ3Uw&s=03)
That RFK Jr speech was straight eugenics
Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) posted at 1:08 PM on Wed, Apr 16, 2025:
This is vile and not true. Vast majority of autistic people do all these things. In fact, a big part of the “increase” in autism rates is just better diagnosis of verbal, communicative autistic people who previously went unidentified.
RFK barely sees autistic people as human.
(https://x.com/fawfulfan/status/1912568916569661939?t=b2I4OFFP3uDJGNpl804tvQ&s=03)
Even The Mighty Fall
Greed Brings Down The DeSantis Empire
Rick Wilson
Apr 17
I want to take you back to my home state for a moment for an object lesson that may give you a little heart in these dark days.
In Tallahassee’s dark and dismal swamp (I’m exercising some literary license here; we’re in the paradisical humidity, blue skies, and low-80s days right now), a story is unfolding about how corrupt, seemingly untouchable, and impervious autocrats are brought low by their greed and arrogance.
Ron DeSantis (R-Boulevard of Broken Dreams) and his wife, Casey McBeth DeSantis were, just two years ago, the all-powerful political enterprise of Florida. For the Florida Legislature, he was the power center of all power centers: Florida’s enormous (and enormously wealthy) lobbying class, elected officials at every level. He was the kingmaker, the all-powerful political colossus bestride the state’s every issue. Billionaires flooded him with money. Reporters gushed over his soaring intellect.
Ron and his team’s high-handed arrogance was grudgingly spoken of behind closed doors, but never to their faces. They were contemptuous of the press on a good day. They used their campaign and the Republican Party of Florida as their piggy bank. They’ve used the state jet for over 650 trips since the beginning of 2023.
Further, the DeSantii were surrounded by an online amen chorus of trolls, bots, and freakshow screechers who, for a time, made the most red-in-tooth-and-claw Very Online MAGA types look tame by comparison. Even Tucker Carlson called them “…the nastiest, the stupidest, and the most zero-sum people I’ve ever seen.”
DeSantis, we were confidently and constantly reminded, was DeFuture.
Yes, the cringe is very, very real.
His campaign against Trump in 2024 was always doomed, but its failure didn’t cool his ambitions.
Why do I bring up the crashout of the DeSantis family’s political fortunes?
The Tallahassee rumor machine is in white-hot overdrive because the story breaking now isn’t just generic corruption. We’re fine with that in the era of GOP supermajorities in Florida.
Florida’s corruption is less campaign donations of the usual transactional sort, and more layers upon layers of interlocking hand-washing, cash-and-property trades, jobs for wives and girlfriends, private jet rides, yachts, favors, sexual indulgences, and so much damn money.
The Florida GOP long ago declared war on transparency, accountability, and basic decency and instead opted for a system of governance that’s equal parts Byzantine backroom deal, Ottoman harem intrigue, and Banana Republic coupon redemption scheme. At the center of it all, Ron DeSantis sat like a latter-day Sultan, dispensing favors and cash to his loyal janissaries while the rest of the state burned like a latter-day Constantinople.
Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) posted at 6:04 AM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
Any self-respecting Treasury Secretary would resign rather have the Department be complicit in the weaponization of the IRS against a political adversary of the President. Harvard will endure and it is far, far from perfect, but if this directive is not withdrawn, the
(https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1912824530352955496?t=QDxXousqhZkDzWJwsdlfow&s=03)
Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) posted at 6:04 AM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
.@SecScottBessent is derelict with respect to what may be his most important duty—maintaining law-based rights respecting our tax collection system. DOGE violating privacy rules, evisceration of enforcement capacity, politicization of leadership and now political intrusion into
(https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1912824532496265424?t=meCMnztRD_kezRJPFcT0pA&s=03)
https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1912824532496265424?t=meCMnztRD_kezRJPFcT0pA&s=19
Lawrence H. Summers (@LHSummers) posted at 6:04 AM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
George Shultz met his test by facing down President Richard Nixon when his staff tried to interfere with the IRS. Tragic that @SecScottBessent has not protected the IRS.
(https://x.com/LHSummers/status/1912824536178770401?t=1IZ9cr1ZaCq-O6uTVmV6Iw&s=03)
Yahoo News (@YahooNews) posted at 1:24 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
The Department of Homeland Security is demanding “detailed records” on Harvard University’s student visa holders, according to a statement from the department. https://t.co/SQpNfqXnCF
(https://x.com/YahooNews/status/1912935184892129644?t=zjU5_ET2CeMp9UyGk0_nCA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 8:20 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
COLLINS: Do you believe it would be legal to send Americans to foreign prisons?
HOMAN: That’s a question for Pam Bondi https://t.co/v8GYRv0VDz
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1913039790070448456?t=Ribi0sXxTgFAbKnHHhgyvQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 7:34 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
Goldman: “Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates”
https://t.co/Os7spzc3vL
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1913028291407090056?t=0Mv0z6eZsSw_V5oKT7DF1Q&s=03)
I want this muthaphucka arrested by The Hague.
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 8:18 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
Homan: I mean, the El Salvadorian president made it clear he’s not going to release him. So again, I’m going to go back to doj. They’re going to fight this out in the courts. I’m not a part of that. I’m not an attorney https://t.co/G6cH8s0Jkk
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1913039499292295222?t=Ttt8eUbXJjX0Y-7-B9eZoQ&s=03)
Because, it was always a muthaphuckin’ SCAM
Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) posted at 6:06 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
It’s pretty insane that DOGE is already voluntarily lowering its guidance by -97% and it’s not even Easter yet.
One of the biggest failures in political history.
And it was *so* obvious both ex ante and ex post. https://t.co/pJFGOJ2697
(https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1913006079241314799?t=L2OYcRC0mlo9GDuA9yguaQ&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 8:22 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
Senator Van Hollen saying this earlier is likely why he got to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Smart move to say this to the press. https://t.co/8QMpwdKuMT
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1913040416611455142?t=2ZBRZ52P4mrzMYWcDQYtFg&s=03)
Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) posted at 7:59 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return. https://t.co/U9y2gZpxCb
(https://x.com/ChrisVanHollen/status/1913034619710034094?t=OVq-T-107QUg28N4pYnMpQ&s=03)
Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) posted at 8:30 PM on Wed, Apr 16, 2025:
Donald Trump’s nominee to run the IRS, Representative Billy Long, just had a six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors, all of whom happen to have tax issues with the IRS. https://t.co/mb2Vcz6Rap
(https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1912680089730359408?t=1J5p5tHUKC1lNZrjuB9KwQ&s=03)
FactPost (@factpostnews) posted at 4:51 PM on Wed, Apr 16, 2025:
Trump complains that he ‘can’t even go after’ elected officials on the January 6 committee because they were pardoned https://t.co/GmBRqokiEF
(https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1912624841863188518?t=ruDzNolbG9_1wlIR1_xnMw&s=03)
The Wisconsin state Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Tony Evers does, in fact, have the power to increase school funding for the next four hundred years. From the AP:
Evers’s partial veto in 2023 increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.
Evers told lawmakers at the time that his partial veto was intended to give school districts increases in funding “in perpetuity.”
The Legislature, along with the state’s largest business lobbying group Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, argued that the court should strike down Evers’ partial veto and declare it unconstitutional. They argued that the Evers veto was barred under a 1990 constitutional amendment adopted by voters that removed the ability to strike individual letters to make new words — known as the “Vanna White” veto, named the co-host of the game show Wheel of Fortune who flips letters to reveal word phrases.
Finding otherwise would give governors unlimited power to alter numbers in a budget bill, they argued.
But Evers countered that the “Vanna White” veto ban applies only to striking individual letters to create new words, not vetoing digits to create new numbers. Evers said that he was simply using the longstanding partial veto process allowed under the law.
The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) posted at 7:35 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
“Trump is dismantling federal cryptocurrency oversight while building a sprawling family crypto empire worth billions… The most flagrant exploitation of presidential authority in American history.”
https://t.co/h9Fky69jFM https://t.co/DsSrzdeXiu
(https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1913028517501018457?t=oj_ytjFZa0ppyan7vk-oGA&s=03)
Silvia Ramirez
@shoutthetruth2
Clooney being interviewed by Tapper is by design. Tapper’s been on a mission since the debate to tarnish President Biden’s legacy. Tapper’s coverage on Biden’s poor debate performance was/is obsessive. He covered Hillary’s email story the same way. He’s enabled Trump twice.
7:57 PM · Apr 16, 2025
https://x.com/shoutthetruth2/status/1912671719833170419
Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) posted at 7:21 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
Probably one the biggest economic blunders in history.
$500 million in 15 days means $12 billion a year in additional tax revenue.
Literal trillions in wealth destroyed, interest on the debt increased, the dollar weakened, businesses wiped out all over the world, literally every single country in the world antagonized… all for raising a yearly amount of taxes that can fund the US military budget for just 4 days.
(https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1913024966116970543?t=SP3PEN_Vu_G51hlC8UmMhA&s=03)
ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) posted at 1:40 AM on Fri, Apr 18, 2025:
The talented musicians of Chicago’s Black chamber music collective “D-Composed” are collaborating with acclaimed artist and South Side native Jamila Woods for a special free event on the West Side. https://t.co/AAjCHu3O4A
(https://x.com/ABC7Chicago/status/1913120321680388164?t=llDfNxFIjJfvlkAFAfCe-w&s=03)
Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) posted at 9:06 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
I did not have David Brooks quoting Marx (and/or Assata Shakur) on my Bingo card, but there it is…from his NYT piece today. That’s how bad you know things have gotten https://t.co/2V6wr3eZ3f
(https://x.com/timjacobwise/status/1913051482485854566?t=zJ8qVj-CvSJbyxm3rLpMOw&s=03)
Where?
Where in America is an American town or city being overrun by immigrants from the Congo?
Spell it out!
Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) posted at 2:18 PM on Thu, Apr 17, 2025:
BREAKING: In an unbelievable moment, the President of the United States said that “many, many people come from the Congo,” but admits that he doesn’t even know what the Congo is.
What an embarrassment to America.
https://t.co/PB032HwkZ1
(https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1912948859275182275?t=KP7n14f56EaCsqpSQx01MQ&s=03)
Star Wars (@starwars) posted at 4:46 AM on Fri, Apr 18, 2025:
Pedro Pascal, Sigourney Weaver, Jon Favreau and a few special friends came together to celebrate The Mandalorian and Grogu during Star Wars Celebration Japan.
The Mandalorian and Grogu comes to theaters May 22, 2026. https://t.co/DjJrV8laMw
(https://x.com/starwars/status/1913167349928390999?t=l3BI7m8h7MSNHchGkuAXbA&s=03)
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
🇯🇵 WATCH: “Their (tariffs) theory is a mess and there is no consistency. I hope you never give in to the American extortionists… if you give a mugger money, they’ll come back to mug us again. Watch the Roy Cohn documentary to understand Trump.”
Yeah, Japan gets it.
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1913210558028914703
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊