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Cake day: June 3rd, 2025

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  • Donald Trump has a certain degree of immunity for official acts only. The people who work for him do not. The only thing protecting any of them right now, is the fact that he’s still in office. Once he’s out, everyone who committed crimes on his behalf, are all going to be charged.

    And even he is open to prosecution for anything that can be proven to have been committed for purely personal gain (which is almost everything he does).

    You may not remember this, but every single one of the lawyers who did his dirty work after the 2020 election, to try and flip the results…have all been found guilty of crimes and misdemeanors…and had their law licenses taken away. This shit does have consequences. Trump himself is just really good at gaming the system, thanks to the fact that he has so much money to burn on his own defense. But even that will only go so far.



  • “If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.

    “There is every reason to expect that if the shutdown lingers, the court below will not command the government to tap these funds again in December to support Snap – blowing a bigger hole in the budget for the child nutrition programs.”

    This is absolute bullshit. Those funds have already been allocated by Congress in the 2023 Farm Bill. The money is already authorized for use for the next few years. They don’t need to “find it” somewhere else, or “get it back” at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.

    The only reason these benefits would be held up for any reason during a government shut down, is if the staff in charge of distributing that money are not currently working. That’s what the $6 billion emergency fund is for. Paying the federal employees needed to make sure that money gets to its pre-authorized destination.




  • Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) posted on X that it would unduly benefit health insurance companies to blindly extend the subsidies: “Another year of insane profits at the expense of consumers and American taxpayers,” he wrote.

    So…offloading that burden directly onto consumers is somehow better? This entire line of reasoning does absolutely nothing to solve the problem, it just shifts it from being a “we” problem, to a “you” problem.

    If they really had an issue with private insurers making obscene profits, they’d implement universal healthcare and cut the insurance industry out of the equation completely.