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“deeply saddened” is the new “thoughts and prayers.”
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
RKF Jr. is a dangerous man who is determined to abuse his authority to act on truly terrifying conspiracy theories and disinformation—leaving us unprepared for the next deadly pandemic and snuffing out potential cures while he’s at it. My full statement.
The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.
The President of Portugal said that Trump is a Russian asset “He functions as an asset,” Rebelo de Sousa calmly explained his reasoning.
Absolutely. But some people, for some reason, don’t whip the egg whites and the undercook the waffles. Why remains a mystery.
They are superior to pancakes only if you whip the egg whites and the fold them into the batter and then cook the waffles for four minutes.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
You give him too much credit. The truth is that he is a willful liar who clearly believes that we are all stupid, ignorant of history and 100% gullible.
For example, here's a brief summary of WWII's "negotiation". My lord, this man is a fucking idiot.
Who are you going to believe? Ghislaine Maxwell or the judge and jury who convicted her along with the many witnesses who testified about her crimes under oath
What an idiot. He is willfully ignorant of history. Both Germany and Japan surrendered to the Allies unconditionally at the end of World War II, following the Allied policy of demanding complete capitulation. Members of the Trump regime lie with a hint of conscience.
File under “I love the smell of rancid fruit jam filling in the morning.”
And that “bleat” on Truth Social will be an early exhibit in the shareholders’ action.
Trump keeps begging for the Peace Prize. It might be appropriate to remind him that Neville Chamberlain was never awarded the Peace Prize. There is a very good reason for that. Don’t reward people who reward aggressors.
It is time for a shareholder suit challenging this giveaway of massive value.
"The United States paid nothing for these Shares" so the US just seized 10% of a private corporation. Very Constitution. Much Democracy.
Jackson, Mississippi, has a significantly higher murder rate than Washington, D.C. While Jackson is often cited as a city with an exceptionally high murder rate, Washington, D.C. has a rate that is much lower and closer to the national average. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
No lies told here.
If true, even the U.S. Supreme Court, under Snyder v. United States, would admit that amounts to bribery.
When a government is run by conspiracy theorists who know that their supporters will believe anything they say, that government can justify doing anything. Those citizens we just rounded up with no due process? It’s ok, they were Soros-funded antifa terrorists linked to Venezuelan gangs.
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
Another appropriate retort would involve Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971).
"“I ain’t ever bought no prostitutes. I ain’t never raped nobody. I ain’t never paid anybody off. None of that stuff,” said G, a resident from one of the photographed tents. “He’s much more of a criminal than I am”" streetsensemedia.org/article/home...
The American Taliban laid bare.
On that stage you have a convicted felon, you have an FBI Director who pled the Fifth in a grand jury investigation, you have a SecDef who had to pledge to sobriety to get confirmed, and you have a US Atty who helped saddle her former employer with an $800 million settlement.
Pritzker: "It's cheating. Donald Trump is a cheater. He cheats on his wives. He cheats at golf. And now he's trying to cheat the American people out of their votes."
America under Trump rewards aggression by Putin. This is a betrayal of our values.
The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.
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Corruption out in the open, not even trying to hide it. And the U.S. Supreme Court makes it impossible to prosecute such bribery absent a recorded message stating , “If you would delay the rule, we will give you a cool $5 million.”
President Obama: “We got Osama bin Laden.” President Biden: “We got Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s replacement.” Donald Trump: “We got Felipe the fruit picker in Florida.”
That is just Trump’s opening position. He will later say it’s okay to count the undocumented but we can’t count them when apportioning Congressional seats. Or allocation federal funds.
The Library of Congress got caught quietly altering its online display of the Constitution, removing Sections 9 and 10 of Article I. Trump's least favorite sections which guarantees the right to challenge unlawful detention and requires the government to justify confinement.
There is simply not enough to say about how bad this is. Not only will we miss out on cures for infections & things like pancreatic cancer, the US will fall behind in science, tech, economy, and while other countries will take this over it will still be slowed/delayed. It’s a national security risk!
If experience teaches us anything, it is that the Trump people know everything about violating the Hatch Act.
For Trump, the incompetent Alina Habba wasn't enough. Now he has named a one year "baby lawyer" with a checkered past to be the head of the United States Office of Special Counsel.
“The reason for the move is listed as a “lesser security transfer” (code 308), which is completely inappropriate for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences. ‘This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before.’” open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
Clearly, simple arithmetic is not Trump’s strong suit.
New, from me: Trump just fired the head of the BLS, accusing her of rigging data. The reality is that by shooting the messenger reporting on the negative effects of his economic policies, Trump pushed America further into banana republic territory. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-shoo...
Read every word of this article and let it sink in that the President, DNI, DCIA, FBI Director, numerous Republican Senators, and most MAGA influencers are knowingly spreading Russian disinformation in order to harm the IC and distract from the President's close relationship with a child rapist.
Meiselas: You had Lawrence Taylor, a registered sex offender who r*ped a 16-year-old, featured by Trump at the WH as he announced his initiative for kids...He's not hiding that he's ok hanging w sexual predators that target underage girls. How is what I just said not leading every freaking newscast?
Ludwig II of Bavaria at least used some imagination.
Musk shows the result of hanging with Trump too long.
Remind me of all the times Trump insulted or made grossly disparaging remarks about judges……
What? Trump got played again? That, or Trump lied again? Why would I suspect that it is the latter?
As well as display the Trump regime’s hostility to Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), the Supreme Court decision holding that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction.
But of course Trump enlists others to help him cheat. In golf and in everything else.
Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️
Welcome to America; where our president is publicly saying nice things about, giving immunity to, and suggesting a possible pardon for a well-connected child sex trafficker. But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.
Qatar's gift to Donald Trump of a luxury jet for his post-presidential use will cost taxpayers almost $1 billion in carefully concealed Pentagon funds. That's money straight from your taxes to Trump's personal benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...
The Trump admin is making a deal with one of the worst convicted child sex traffickers in history to protect Trump.
For those rightwing mouthpieces desperately trying to claim that a DeMoCrAt JuDgE blocked the release of Maxwell's grand jury testimony, the reason that Trump & Bondi sought the release of the grand jury testimony is expressly because they KNEW that the judge DOESN'T have the authority to unseal it.
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
1/ DO NOT MISS @annamerlan.bsky.social & @kieraevebutler.bsky.social's deep dive into how RFK Jr is taking his fight against vaccines to trying to get rid of the vaccine injury court, without which there will not be new & better vaccines developed. It's diabolical www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"American officials and academics who, like me, lived in Hungary...would often tell ourselves stories to explain this submissiveness: that docility is rooted in Hungary’s oppressive communist past, that its democracy was simply too young to withstand a strongman. Then I returned to the US...."
But the two things he wouldn't do were 1) knowingly lie to a judge and 2) defy a court order. Those are incredibly low bars to get over...pretty much the definition of what your most basic obligations as a lawyer are...and for abiding by those obligations he was fired by Trump's DOJ.
Just a reminder that in a 2020 court filing, the Justice Department referred to Ghislaine Maxwell's "willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
An SEC investigation into Justin Sun's business practices was paused after he invested $75 million into President Donald Trump's cryptocurrency platform.
He buried her on his golf course so he could claim a property tax exemption available for cemeteries.
Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.
It looks like Trump is repeatedly “flipping the bird” to the viewer.
He had to start paying for at least some of the ridiculous tax cuts passed in 1981.
The President, who owns a crypto company and personally profits from it, is using his official position to pressure Congress to vote for a bill that will personally make him more money and shield him from accountability. This is what a corrupt oligarchy looks like.
I touched on this dynamic when I wrote about the right's unhinged reactions to Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents: Judges typically LOVE explaining in detail why they are right and their opponents are wrong. So when judges won't explain themselves, it's a pretty good sign that they are full of shit!
Once again, Trump brags about passing a dementia test. What a country.
Donny, you must be so relieved. Now that you claim credit for “God in the public square,” tell us again about the Seventh Commandment. You know, the one that says, “Thou shall not commit adultery".
Way to go, Trump. I haven’t had an electric bill in 18 years, thanks to roof-top solar. And I haven’t spent a penny for gasoline for my car in five and a half years, thanks to my EV. And my Excel spreadsheet confirms the upfront costs of the solar was fully recovered in just under six years.
Americans’ electricity bills are predicted to rise by as much as 18% over the next decade, thanks to cuts to clean energy production in Trump’s big, ugly bill. Red states are likely to see the biggest increases. Trump put his Big Oil donors over his own voters.
It seems Mark Twain had his character uses “No Irish need apply,” as used in his classic, “Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral.” But maybe that’s just a California Gold Rush variant. But still one of my Mark Twain favorites. That and “The Awful German Language.” americanliterature.com/author/mark-...
Boy, Trump is looking old.
I think the term was, “No Irish need apply.”
Yep, you’re right. After all, jail cells on wheels weren’t called “Paddywagons” for nothin’.
Late breaking news:Trump, who believes in 18th Century economics, announces he believes in 18th Century military defenses, that oceans protect the U.S. from threats and that his advisors haven’t informed him of the existence of airplanes and missiles.
It appears that NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is not very satisfied with the measures announced by Trump in “support” of Ukraine. He’s right. Pretty thin gruel.
The only upset from this is that it will trigger broad based, much overdue immigration reform. And an end to Trump.
This is the consequences when we chose the wrong direction.
AI Hallucinations have really taken off. “Al” no longer means “Artificial Intelligence,” but instead it means “Aggressive Ignorance.”
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“Today it’s migrants - and tomorrow it’s you or me, or Rosie O’ Donnell. The federal government of the U.S.A. is essentially being stripped for parts by a gang of hooligans and miscreants pretending to be the good guys.”
Trump has said he wants to change the name of the Department of Defense back to the War Department. He simply likes the 19th Century more than reality, as displayed by his tariff policy.
The Hague, actually. Nuremberg would have no jurisdiction.
It is very sad that every foreign leader believes that when dealing with Trump it is imperative to demean themselves by obnoxiously flattering Trump.
I often see this comparison of glaciers on Svalbard posted without attribution. It’s from a whole series comparing photos taken by the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1928 and by Christian Åslund, a Stockholm-based photographer, in 2002. See the others here: www.christian.se/global-warmi...
If Trump says he doesn’t know who ordered it, there is a very HIGH probability that was himself.
"The bill includes the most aggressive assault on climate action of any legislation in history. In fact, it represents a profound shift in policy. Trump and Republicans are not just ignoring climate change — they’re actually trying to make it worse." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Combined with the development described in the below article will lead to very bad results: www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
President Trump has now become the defender-in-chief of current and former world leaders who are facing criminal charges. First, Benjamin Netanyahu; and now the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.
This is, emphatically, not the way it’s supposed to work. And I guess here’s where I should remind everyone that the global economy is captive to the every whim of a man who doesn’t understand how the global economy works
RFK Jr. believes that freedom TO refuse vaccines is more important than the country’s freedom FROM vaccine-preventable disease. He is a cancer that is metastasizing throughout HHS and the entire United States. The cancer needs to be removed or the patient will die. Congress, do your job.
Early reports indicate the beleaguered NWS did its job. It was Texas officials who seem to have failed to properly warn the public. There is a 4+ hour gap between the NWS alert & the first Texas govt alert. Read this from local TV news outlet KXAN: www.kxan.com/investigatio...
This is yet another example of the Washington Post’s adoption of “both sides” as a journalistic standard. The Earth is a sphere. But there are those who argue that it is flat. Who are we to say who is right?”
“It turned out, I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list. How did Bongino find out about this private friendship? I honestly don’t know. … I faced a choice: get demoted or resign.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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