Postcards from America (4.14.26)

Postcards from America (4.14.26)

“In the rush to build the next big thing, women’s safety is not being overlooked; it’s being traded.”

“As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

“It appears that Respondents arrested a chronically ill, 70-year-old woman, who came to this country to avoid religious persecution and applied for asylum, who has lived here peacefully for 26 years and complied with all check-in requirements and other conditions of release, who has no known criminal record and poses no threat to anyone …then kept her in detention for months without sufficient medical care—and they do not have any argument to offer to even try to justify these actions.”

“Mississippi’s former welfare director John Davis cited his need to maintain a friendship with Teddy DiBiase Jr. as he ordered nonprofit operator Christi Webb to dole out welfare dollars to the retired pro-wrestler under contracts he never fulfilled, she testified in federal court.”

” Two years ago, a court in Florida threw out Michael Flynn’s malicious prosecution lawsuit seeking $50 million from the US government. Yesterday, the government agreed to settle it anyway, handing $1.25 million in taxpayer dollars to the former national security advisor.”

“Security detail for President Donald Trump’s budget chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is being paid for by what’s left in funding for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID.”

Lot rent at a College Station manufactured home community has more than doubled in 14 months, forcing some longtime residents to consider leaving homes they’ve owned for years.”

They are squeezing everybody in this park to death.”

“Surveys have found that 19% of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and 37% of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction.”

“In total, the DOJ quietly closed more than 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of President Donald Trump’s administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs, and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.”

“During a hearing, U.S. District Judge Alfred H. Bennett questioned why the settlement had no compensation for those who were harmed and grilled a federal prosecutor over $20 million devoted to police and immigration enforcement.”

“Three other women who spoke with CNN also alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by the Democratic congressman – including Swalwell sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos.”

“Swalwell’s resignation is unlikely to affect the balance of power in Congress, after Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), who admitted earlier this year to having an affair with a staffer, also said on Monday he will resign.”

“A Christian author who wrote against LGBTQ+ rights, faces rape and sexual battery charges in Greene County involving victims as young as 10.”

“The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as ‘Nazi heaven.'”

“He also faced tough questions for agreeing with a podcast host who assailed Jews for claiming ‘special victim status’ after the Holocaust.”

“God is a Construct. Cute Girls are Real.”

There are more pink slime fake news websites in the U.S. than there are local news outlets.”

So what is the Avignon papacy and why does it matter?

Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers.”

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