The Political Thread

[Barry Poppins]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/trump-police-consent-decrees.html

The Trump administration moved on Wednesday to scrap proposed agreements for federal oversight of police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, as part of a broader abandonment of efforts by previous administrations to overhaul local law enforcement across the United States.

Justice Department officials said they planned to drop cases filed after incidents of police violence against Black people in Minneapolis and Louisville, Ky., and to close investigations into departments in Phoenix, Ariz., Trenton, N.J., Memphis, Tenn., Mount Vernon, N.Y., Oklahoma City, as well as the Louisiana State Police.

In those cities, Justice Department officials said, they were retracting Biden-era findings that police departments had violated the constitutional rights of residents, declaring those findings to be misguided.

The announcement came four days before the fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police. That act of violence, caught on video, inspired national outrage and worldwide protests against police violence targeting Black Americans.

What a shocker, Trump allies with racist police departments

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

Damn almost 1000 pages in this thread leggo

 

[Chris]

Damn almost 1000 pages in this thread leggo

What's your candidate for overall worst post of all time in here?

 

[Mitch Buchannon]

What's your candidate for overall worst post of all time in here?

most of them

 

[Comrade Khan]

For me was probably any of the pro Wade Roe being overturned folks who.were celebrating ppl losing their civil rights

 

[Chris]

If I send a link to some gay porn, would that mean I endorse it?

Someone who wants to marry a balloon isn't a protected class. Not everything is a protected class.

Found some good uns

 

[Comrade Khan]

ah some of our finest and brightest right there

 

[Barry Poppins]

Don't forget you know who consistently denying that Trump ever committed any crimes, Mr. Libertarian "I only care about Capitalism, not my rights"

 

[Chris]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/21/israel-gaza-aid-blockade-un/

About 90 trucks carrying flour, baby food and nutritional supplements entered the Gaza Strip late Wednesday, local officials said, the first tranche of aid to reach the besieged territory in more than two months.

The trucks finally departed the Kerem Shalom crossing after a days-long delay, which the United Nations said was the result of insecurity along the single route Israel had approved for distribution.

“Israeli authorities had only allowed our teams to go through one area that was highly congested, that we felt was insecure and where we felt looting was highly likely to take place,” U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at a briefing Wednesday afternoon.

 

[Swamps]

Don't forget you know who consistently denying that Trump ever committed any crimes, Mr. Libertarian "I only care about Capitalism, not my rights"

 

[Barry Poppins]

 

[Barry Poppins]

Trump's boot can't taste that fantastic.

 

[Samoa Looch]

Trump's boot can't taste that fantastic.

Some people like them that way

 

[Chris]

A hilarious side story in the world of shit that I cant help but keep following

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

After Bruce Springsteen opened a tour of England last week with a denunciation of President Trump, the president taunted Mr. Springsteen on social media and wrote that he “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT” until he returns to the United States.

Mr. Springsteen, undeterred, released a six-track EP this week which begins with his remarks that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

The new EP, “Land of Hope & Dreams,” offers a mix of songs and Mr. Springsteen’s pointed political remarks from his May 14 concert in Manchester, England.

 

[Comrade Khan]

A hilarious side story in the world of shit that I cant help but keep following

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/arts/music/bruce-springsteen-e-street-band-ep-trump.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

After Bruce Springsteen opened a tour of England last week with a denunciation of President Trump, the president taunted Mr. Springsteen on social media and wrote that he “ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT” until he returns to the United States.

Mr. Springsteen, undeterred, released a six-track EP this week which begins with his remarks that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration.”

The new EP, “Land of Hope & Dreams,” offers a mix of songs and Mr. Springsteen’s pointed political remarks from his May 14 concert in Manchester, England.

I saw a quote that Bondi said it's illegal to call yourself the boss unless you're the president