Yet more of the levers slipping into the hands of the few.
Yet more of the levers slipping into the hands of the few.
NEWS: There is a weekend hearing going on right now before Judge Chutkan, due to imminent risks of these people being re-deported from Ghana to their home countries.
I have no words for this.
Today’s update from Weirdo HQ.
What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?
John Bolton: “The historical verdict on Trump will be devastating. It’s rare to see one person being so destructive. He’s more like a vandal warlord than a constructive president. That’s what history will judge him on very severely.”
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!! –GTC
MANY PEOPLE FROM COUNTRYS ALL OVER THE WORLD, INCLUDING THE MOON, WHICH IS A PART OF MARS (WHO KNEW THERE WERE SO MANY COUNTREYS!!), HAVE BEEN CALLING ME TO SAY, SIR, ON "TWEET LIKE DERANGED AUTHORITARIAN FRAUDSTER TRUMP" DAY—"DAFT" DAY—WE SHOULD HAVE PRIZES FOR THE BEST #DAFTDAY TWEETS!!
I was wrong about Trump before I was right about Trump.
Wrong again JD
On that day, a rump Nazi government led by Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz was holed up in a naval academy gym on the Baltic coast, the Soviet flag had been raised over the Reichstag, Hitler had been dead for a week, and German forces controlled only the tiniest bit of ... Germany.
If he is removed to Uganda, Americans of good faith should take up a collection to set Mr. Abrego Garcia and his family up comfortably in a free Western country that will take them, where, frankly, they may well better off than we. We owe them that much.
It's beyond outrageous what Trump has done to Kilmar Abrego Garcia. And it's all because he became the most prominent illustration of how the amoral, sadistic, lawless, mendacious, and authoritarian thugs who today control our federal government seek to destroy our constitutional order. ...
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"This Israeli government is committing suicide, homicide and fratricide. "It is destroying Israel’s standing in the world, it is killing Gazan civilians with seemingly no regard for innocent human life, and it is tearing apart Israeli society and world ...
"Everybody else in the entire world ... (is) watching out there, because they understand history, and they're seeing what happened with Franco ... they're seeing what happened with Hitler — this is how it's done. ... It's time for Americans to wake up. This is serious."
"It's going to be dangerous if the financial markets perceive that Donald Trump, of all people, the most erratic man on the planet, is in charge of monetary policy."
It's high time for us to consider that we Americans owe our Constitution and democratic heritage far more than our fortunes and sacred honor.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
"For those people out there who ... say, 'Well, I just don't like those people either' ... You could be next. ... This is not about any one individual, this is about our rights as Americans, and our right to have a justice system where choices about prosecuting are made without fear or favor."
I filed a FOIA like this days ago. My assumption is that others were doing the same thing. The more the merrier.
Trump’s gripe about revisions in the jobs report is how he played the 2020 election. Jobs numbers come in after initial report is released. They are added/subtracted from the report. Just like claiming victory on Election Day & complaining when rest of the ballots are counted.
I asked my kids which country they'd want to visit. My son: Egypt My daughter: Turkey My youngest daughter: Taco Bell My youngest daughter is currently my favorite due to her practical, cost-effective preferences.
Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊
I’m sorry but I really have to stand up for myself and independent media here. Everyone is crediting Ken Delanian for the Maxwell sex offender waiver story, but I was hours ahead of him. Hours. Independent media is important.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten claimed Friday that constituents hate President Donald Trump's Big Beautiful Bill so much that the issue is threatening to eat lawmakers alive this summer.
Is it any surprise that when a dismal jobs report comes out, which every credible economist predicted because of his tariff policies, Trump blames the people who compile the data?
The stakes arising from Trumpers' assault on Harvard are high, not only for that institution, but also for universities generally. Those stakes have only grown since I wrote this piece in April, including because of Columbia's recent, and deeply problematic, "deal."
NEW: Here's a new scandal bigger than the Epstein mess. Trump's top intel officer is fabricating evidence so his DOJ can investigate & prosecute Obama & his aides w/ possible show trials—as Trump says, "Whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people.” link.motherjones.com/public/40858...
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
This is one of the biggest and most brazen con jobs in US political history. She is purposefully creating fake evidence for a fake case. This shows the US intelligence community is being led by a liar and charlatan. That’s a threat to national security. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Absolutely surreal to watch White House reporters ask Leavitt questions about tariffs moments after she and Gabbard used this briefing to baselessly accuse Obama of crimes punishable by death. We’re a sick joke of a country.
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Meiselas: First off—people who are alpha don’t go around calling themselves alpha. Look, where I grew up, my dad would say: Being a man means standing by your word. Being a man means you push back against the bully, and you uplift people. You don’t punch down at marginalized communities.
Now thats a real New Yorker! nypost.com/2025/07/19/u...
My Statement on the United States Prisoner Trade with Venezuela and El Salvador:
Neguse: "Can you point me to the article about Qatar offering President Biden a plane last year? I guess I missed that."
Powell certainly understands Navarro is full of BS
Peter Navarro laying the groundwork to blame Fed Chair Powell for a slumping economy: “He doesn’t understand Trumpnomics. He doesn’t understand the supply side aspects of tax cuts and deregulation. And he doesn’t have clue about tariffs.”
@renoraines1.bsky.social
BREAKING: Gavin Newsom has just torched Trump, Stephen Miller and the whole administration. 🔥 It comes after armored vehicles and armed federal agents stormed MacArthur Park in LA today. EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.
One of the central achievements of the Affordable Care Act was to *raise* the Medicaid eligibility threshold to 133% of the federal poverty level—because everyone understood that there are plenty of folks who couldn't otherwise afford health care even though they're just over that (arbitrary) line.
Karma. She's quick. Here's looking at you, Murkowski.
One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.
Trump regularly lies. He disregards intelligence. So how can anything he says about the Iran attack be trusted? My latest: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
You can only destroy U by causing it undergo fission. You could break a 450kg mass into tiny pieces and mix it with dirt and rocks so it couldn’t be used in bombs but it is still U.
Geology, aka reality, did not bend the knee to Donnie and petite.
The White House has distributed this statement from the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission that say Fordo is "inoperable." The Americans are believed to have hit Fordo's ventilation system and power supply, and that would render it inoperable. But inoperable is not the same as destroyed.
The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!
Reading is fundamental!
Is it really ’better’ for her family if they have to drive through miles of slums in their bullet proof limos to go from their palace to the airport? That’s the way it is in many 3rd world countries which is what she and the Donnie are trying to turn the US into.
Dean to McMahon on shuttering of the Dept of Ed: "I was a state legislator. That's called 'shift and shaft.' I've spoken with the gov of PA. They can't pick up the tab anymore for the education of our students...why are you in this job at all if you don't have dedication to the future of our kids?"
A tale in 3 Acts Act 1 USG provides hearsay affidavit claiming ICE official asked migrant if he was afraid of torture in Mexico before deporting him Act 2 Court orders deposition by ICE official with personal knowledge Act 3 DOJ cancels eve before deposition. Says can't find any such ICE official
It seems to me that this administration will keep firing intelligence analysts until they can find one who will lie to justify the regime disappearing perceived enemies to foreign torture dungeons.
Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"
It might have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Come on. You know why they didn’t go into the potential harm to lots of, particularly black and brown, people. There is no majority on the court that will be swayed by appeals to protecting the right and welfare of “those people”; quite the opposite, in fact.
I didn’t hear about the effect of NOT having a nationwide injunction in this case on actual people.The SG spoke about harm to govt. The atty for the state AGs spoke about institutional harms to the states. But neither he nor the CASA atty spoke abt actual people or about the racial dimensions here.
…to the SCOTUS. Oh & btw you’ll oppose class certification. This was the basis for the statement (which I thought first came from Justice Kagan) that the SG wants to play “catch me if you can.” Justice Jackson’s having none of it. Justice Thomas only asked about history, specifically 1789.
Justice Barrett asked in the slow, steady voice you use when your child tells you he’s going to burn the house down & kill everyone in it, whether that was REALLY what he said. The SG stood by it until the 5th time Barrett asked the same question (rephrased), then he caught on & reversed himself. 5/
…seeking to protect their children’s citizenship rights. Until the SG admitted that if the plaintiff went the class action route he would challenge it. Later he said if plaintiff one-by-one brought indiv case & prevailed in circuit courts, the Admin would not obey the decision…Yup he said it. 4/
You all should know by now I criticize Republicans and Democrats, and have no problem calling out Dem leadership and Biden. However, the media obsessing over Biden's age while ignoring Trump is literally falling asleep during meetings and is the oldest man to be President is infuriating.
Thank elo
“.. It's one thing to lose track of one airplane because you can't communicate with them, but to lose track of ALL of the airplanes .. “.. they still had radar coverage, but that's like watching a car crash happen and not be able to do anything about it.” www.denver7.com/news/investi...
If only they had a grant to research and improve this kind of technology. If only we had a scientist/doctor running HHS.
The only people who don’t want good weather info out there are the polluters screwing up the weather who prefer we don’t know.
Pat Murphy is about to personally fight Tobias Myers if he doesn’t start throwing strikes like he did last year but I bet he’d be a lot happier with someone doing that at 99-103mph instead of 89-93mph
Osama bin Donnie substack.com/@marcmurphy/...
I didn’t want this to happen. I voted for the smart black lady.
Due process is how a democracy decides if you are being falsely accused or if really did violate the law. In an autocracy guilt or innocence don’t matter, only who your friends are.
This hasn't gotten enough attention. Very effective questioning by Rep. @crow.house.gov in span of 3 mins 1. exposes how Hegseth endangered servicemembers' lives 2. shows that a scandal upon the scandal is the failure to take responsibility Crow is a U.S. Army veteran (Bronze Star Medal)
Let’s all RUCKUS at rubio’s
HB 1 as proposed is a blank check for universal school vouchers. We must support our local public schools, not create unlimited entitlement programs for the extremely wealthy. This is the time to stand together. #txlege
Talk about waste, fraud & abuse. Kennedy NOT A DOCTOR will have this NOT A DOCTOR person run studies that have already been debunked by actual scientists. This harms our children. They have no shame
Lock Hegseth up; still some choice cells available intel Salvador
@Television news organizations may believe that avoiding a term like Gulf of Mexico is a fairly harmless concession. But … cute linguistic gymnastics amount to a surrender. Words are the front lines of truth, and once they’re ceded, it becomes far easier for strongmen like Trump to shape reality.”
…while 9% said they’d need the market to go to zero, replaced with shells for currency and a hunter-gatherer economy before they’d raise concerns.
Dodg-ee boys pulled the wrong plug again
BOLDUAN: Target and Best Buy said last week that prices are going up in direct relation to the tariffs. Is that a good thing for your constituents? MALLIOTAKIS: I mean, but the tariffs, but, ut, shh ...
The UN approved a resolution for an International Day of Hope. It was approved 161 to 1. The only country to vote no? America -- under orders by Donald Trump.
Maybe his district is made up billionairs, or maybe he hasn't actually spoken to anyone in his district... Or maybe DOGE is eating the fraud and the waste, because he saw it on tiktok...
Ahem: "Two polls found public ambivalence about DOGE, and four showed opposition against it outpacing support. We did not find polls that showed overwhelming support for DOGE" www.statesman.com/story/news/p...
Auchincloss to Rep. Tony Gonzalez after Gonzalez touts the popularity of DOGE: "Is it popular to cut healthcare for the 40% of kids in this country who rely on Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for people who don't need tax cuts?
They do seem like inconsistent positions, but the attacks on teachers was really about dismantling public schools to get taxpayer dollars for home schoolers and private charter schools run by charlatans.
May I suggest that the Democratic Party look to Matt Drudge for messaging advice.
From Politico, Europe, 10 days ago, America is no longer an ally of France:
If you don't want Americans to be sent off to fight in a war like you did then you should help fund Ukraine's defense. I fucking hate the gaslighting bullshit from Republicans. They lie as easy as they breathe.
Auchincloss: "Zelenskyy flew to Washington, but he walked into the Kremlin."
We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.