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“I don’t know why the president decided to do this, [but] I think the outcome was exactly the right outcome,” Jeffries said in an interview with CNN.

The remarks are a stark contrast from Jeffries’s criticisms of the scores of other pardons Trump has offered — mostly to his political allies — throughout his second term. Jeffries, joined by most Democrats in his caucus, has bashed those reprieves as both an affront to the nation’s criminal justice system and more evidence that the Trump administration is the most “corrupt” in the country’s history.

But in the case of Cuellar, the Democratic leader has taken a softer approach. And Wednesday, following Trump’s pardon, Jeffries questioned the legitimacy of the corruption charges against him.

“Listen, the reality is [that] this indictment was very thin to begin with, in my view,” Jeffries told CNN. “The charges were eventually going to be dismissed — if not at the trial court level [then] by the Supreme Court, as they’ve repeatedly done in instances just like this.”

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I mean, fair, I definitely would be interested in more information about this if anyone has it, but the description fits, it seems like the exact sort of dick move this administration would pull, and its probably going to be impossible to get any more information soon besides just the loose descriptions we have, so I’d say it’s more likely than not that this is HC smoke until more information becomes available.

No, I just don’t think we should be dumping our prisoners on any other countries, Venezuela or El Salvador or anywhere else

That said, in terms of bad stuff we’ve done to El Salvador specifically, we have propped up super brutal right wing governments there for decades specifically because it’s the northern most South American country and DC wants them to be a choke point where every wouldbe migrant from the area can get kidnapped and brutalized far enough away from the US that our journalists won’t ever notice. Like, CECOT never would have been built without US security aid.

an El Salvadoran prison.

I appreciate the sentiment, but we’ve done enough to that country already, and it’s not like this one lacks for prison cells

After Bovino threw the can, the Star-Tribune wrote, “plumes of green and gray smoke burst over the crowd,” causing protesters and observers to flee the scene.

That is probably not normal tear gas (which is bad enough), it’s likely HC smoke which is extremely carcinogenic (arc).

If there is any justice for any of this someday there’s going to be a massive settlement and taxpayers are going to be paying for cancer and hospice treatment for thousands of people affected by this in a couple of decades.

e; There was a good step by step guide for disarming these somewhere that I can’t find right now, but if memory serves it was 1. Approach with leaf blower to direct smoke away from you, 2. Drop a traffic cone over the grenade to contain its smoke a bit more, 3. Dump a mixture of water and baking soda into the cone and drown the grenade.

e2; We don’t have definitive information that this is what it looks like for sure yet, so I added the two italicized words.

Most Democrats are conservatives.

Yeah.

We only have like two progressives in Congress (Bernie, Warren).

They’re great, but I think we could definitely add some names to that list if you include the House. Off the top of my head there’s also AOC, Ilhan Omar, Pramila Jayapal, Mark Pocan, and Shri Thanedar.

Nah, Newsom is a total weather vane who only believes what the last consultant told him, but I will take that in a heartbeat over Kelly’s consistent immigrant bashing and DHS worship (arc)

So when Trump feels like he needs another distraction from the Epstein files or just decides to throw a narcissistic hissy fit and starts attacking NATO again will they just keep giving him more of Greenland?

Because rich weirdos keep throwing him money. The average member of the public is better than the rich weirdos, but we have to keep dealing with rich weirdos shit because rich.

In endorsing a bill that would carry forward a huge spike in funding to ICE, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, acknowledged it excludes most of the ICE reforms Democrats have demanded since the Jan. 7 shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis. But a shutdown or a short-term spending patch, she argued, would be worse.

“A continuing resolution will jettison the guardrails we have secured while ceding authority to President Trump, Stephen Miller, and [DHS] Secretary [Kristi] Noem,” she said Tuesday morning.

New regulatory guardrails aren’t going to even slow down ICE a little bit, we already have a mountain of examples of them ignoring their current regulations and lying about their conduct constantly. The only thing that will restrain them is denying them the resources they need to carry out their campaign of oppression.

What’s really frustrating tho is I’m sure Rep DeLauro knows all of that already and she’s just trying to push this bullshit through anyway.

As of August 2025, “RNS has identified at least 10 instances of apparent immigration enforcement activity conducted by ICE or other federal agents on or immediately near church grounds since Trump’s inauguration.” (archived)

Getting blown up by a missile fired for stupid reasons is pretty hard to come back from in a literal sense

Extremely NYC moment tbh

Surprising that the military can be forced to do anything

History books are gonna stick people and movements into categories whether they actively espouse the labels themselves or not, but tbf not reading history books because “we’re not like those other countries” is about as American as it gets, so rock on

“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.

“We aren’t bad guys, sometimes we bring toys to the children we are imprisoning” I couldn’t fucking satirize how stupidly evil you dipshits are any better if I tried holy fuck

“I no longer [sound of US missile destroying boat off the coast of Venezuela,] feel an obligation to think purely [sound of US guns murdering survivors] of Peace”

In a statement, a spokesperson for DHS denied the attorneys’ claims, adding that all detainees “have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers.”

“The facts are illegal aliens in detention have access to phones they can use to contact their families and lawyers. …

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“If ICE is trying to say, ‘Oh, it’s fine, you can just have your client call you and you can talk and discuss their case over the phone,’ that’s absolutely unacceptable from an attorney-client standpoint. [Federal authorities] can and likely are listening in to those phone calls.”

They already drop the jury and make the “judge” an executive branch employee for immigration “trials,” spying on defense counsel is like kneecapping the Washington Generals point guard

For legal reasons I find the depicted scene relatable only in a metaphorical sense

Thank you for symbolically resonant content!