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A) they didn't want to lose any money; and b) they know there's about to be a lot more poor people.

A former official in the government's Office of Management and Budget denounced a temporary pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government as "a massive fraud" carried out by its not-yet-confirmed director Russell Vought.

Topher Spiro, who served as associate director of health care programs under former president Joe Biden, flagged the two-page document signed by the executive agency's acting director, Matthew Vaeth, as legally questionable and highly suspicious.

"I have no doubt that OMB lawyers would believe this is illegal," Spiro posted on X. "I know Matt Vaeth. This memo reads like a hostage note written directly by Russ Vought, who is not confirmed."

It means that's a serious answer, and a serious recommendation. And I agree that you should read that book.

After the union filed the election petition, workers at the Philadelphia store were given free snacks

(A) Snacks won't pay my rent. (B) I'm sure they're whatever snacks Amazon could get at the cheapest wholesale prices.

Nah, I'm holding out for H5N9.

Sadly,

Putra said ICE expects the number of criminal warrants to increase as federal prosecutors begin accepting more cases. The bulk of those warrants will probably involve illegal re-entry,

I don't think this is so much as them intending to meet Trump's goal for the sake of reaching that goal. I think it's more that they were former Soviet countries next to a Russia that's very interested in regaining their former empire; they're small and vulnerable and they know that Trump will do whatever Putin tells him to do, so there's no protection from the US; and the EU hasn't really taken advantage of the time since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to increase their overall defenses. That last point means that supplies are going to be difficult to come by to resist a long, determined effort by Putin to annex their countries.

The 5% military spending is a reflection of that reality, a prod to other EU and NATO countries to increase their spending, and a notice to Putin that they intend to resist.

the deportations of immigrants and the sudden labor shortage caused by it

I think you meant, "the round up of suspected immigrants (but we're not real careful about that), followed by the simultaneous difficulties of returning them to their homelands and national labor shortages; then the increasing "tax burden" of feeding and housing the immigrants with the continuing labor shortage leading to the "obvious and natural solution" of having the people awaiting deportation work in those understaffed jobs.

Which, if you know any history, is how Germany ended up with concentration camps.

Yeah, you just want people to look at your hand-drawn dick pics.

You can see the original photo: open here, then search for horseshoe.

Fediversal.

He's still pissed that he couldn't flush documents down the shitter.