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Bennet runs out of patience with RFK Jr and yells at him that "I'm asking the questions on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership! That's what this conversation is about."
It’s impossible to have any respect for most of the Republican Party
Bill Cassidy gets RFK to agree that Trump should get a Nobel Prize for COVID vaccine, but then asks how that's consistent with RFK's statements about the vax. Pretty smart approach.
I’m gonna need a meme of Kennedy’s daughter’s smug smile. Is her face frozen?
The regime's response to the Epstein press conference was telling and not surprising.
RFK Jr. calls himself a protector of children. That’s a rich claim coming from someone who flew on Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet on multiple occasions.
Rep. Massie dropped a bomb: Billionaire John Paulson, top GOP donor, bankroller of the Speaker, and Trump’s campaign, is in Epstein’s black book. This is why they’re terrified of a full release. The truth won’t just expose Epstein. It will expose the powerful who enabled him.
omg it's finally happening occasionally former judges speak out about the Supreme Court but I have long wished current judges would do so a sitting judge saying it is "inexcusable" that "sweeping rulings arrive with breathtaking speed but minimal explanation" feels like an important door opening
"Long the envy of the world for its capabilities and expertise, the CDC finds itself no longer able to advocate for what its scientists believe the best available research shows." This is very bad!
As a sexual abuse survivor, I need to talk about my anger. I'm so angry about the government not stopping Epstein when they had the opportunity, causing hundreds more girls to fall prey to him because of inaction. I'm enraged about the cover up. And I'm furious about lack of care for young girls.
Rand Paul: "It might be ironic if in the end the protectionist flavor of the day - the tariffs we're putting on - brought together our enemies & ultimately led to the collapse of the reserve currency of the world... if you put a 50% tariff on Indian goods, India will become closer to China & Russia"
The guy that ordered 8 fighter jets to perform a low altitude fly-over in an effort to drown out Epstein survivors is the same guy who wants you to believe he's innocent.
You're either on the side of Epstein, Maxwell, and Donald Trump, along with lies, cover-ups, sex traffickers, and abusers. OR You back survivors, truth, accountability, and WANT TO RELEASE ALL OF THE EPSTEIN FILES. This isn't hard. It's one or the other. You cannot be both.
JB Pritzker can always lose weight. Ted Cruz will always be an asshole. FO #Wolverpeen.
In his first term, McMaster recalls, “Trump would say ‘outlandish’ things like, ‘Why don’t we just bomb the drugs?’” Now we’re in Trump’s second term, and we’re bombing random boats in the open seas that might or might not be carrying drugs. www.cnn.com/2024/08/25/p...
really appreciate that JB Pritzker's response to Ted Cruz saying 'you're fat' was like 'and you're a sorry excuse for a public servant, so.'
Yes and I honestly didn’t think it could.
it's all just getting stupider isn't it
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Ossoff: "It's been extraordinary to see the Speaker of the House reduced to lying in order to cover up sex crimes"
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Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
Remarkable: Trump's losses in court are suddenly piling up in a big way. *court just invalidated his nixing of Harvard funds *use of Alien Enemies Act blocked *tariffs ruled illegal What's really becoming clear is that his entire agenda rests on extraordinary abuses of power.
A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."
Massie: Politically, it’s really bad for Republicans. They should just have this vote and put it behind them. 80% of Republicans support releasing these files. So, they are at odds with our base right now—particularly the Maga base.
Ouch SCOTUS
As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.
Amazing, unusually direct rebuke to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh from Judge Burroughs. She is, of course, entirely correct.
Rand Paul: "The reason we have trials & we don't automatically assume guilt is what if we make a mistake and they happen to be people fleeing the Venezuelan dictator? ... off our coast it isn't our policy just to blow people up ... even the worst people in our country, they still get a trial."
The Trump administration will appeal, and we will learn the limits of SCOTUS Calvinball. Proof that some gears in this old constitutional engineering are churning.
McGovern: "You guys think you work for Trump ... Let me repeat -- every single Republican on the Rules Committee voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every single one. We heard last night that all Republicans want full transparency. But that's just not true."
All the Democrats and 4 Republicans have signed a bill to release the Epstein files if 2 more Republicans sign the Government has to release them Donald Trump is screaming that anyone who signs is a traitor and he will destroy them. Is that the behaviour of an innocent person?
Gotta love Moskowitz!! He’s given Comer so many sleepless nights.😊
Trump spends oodles of $$ for an absurd military flyover to silence victims of Epstein’s and Maxwell’s awful crimes as he protects the perpetrators of those crimes.
Isn’t that how Saudi’s Arabia tracked Khashoggi? Sounds dangerous which is how they like to operate. Scary stuff.
Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
Trump threatening members of Congress not to sign the Epstein files discharge petition saying it would be a “hostile act” against him is definitely something an innocent person would do. And scheduling a military flyover in the middle of the survivor press conference is also totally normal behavior.
That Pritzker presser? Unreal. A sitting governor saying, flat out, the Union is coming apart and his state is being invaded by an authoritarian regime. This is a whole new level of crisis.
A source in the Epstein meeting with the survivors and Speaker Johnson told me that powerhouse attorney Sigrid McCawley informed him that there would be the names of other men who trafficked her clients in the DOJ's Epstein files
Rep. Robert Garcia: "The Attorney General herself has said that President Trump is in the Epstein files."
Rep. Dan Goldman: "This is a coverup. This is a massive cover up...Donald Trump was hot to trot and Kash Patel and Dan Bongino were leading the charge to release the Epstein files. Now, all of a sudden, they don't want them released. They are trying to hide something."
The folks at Fox thought they would make Proud Boys expert and journalist @andybcampbell.bsky.social look bad by republishing a statement he made about the Proud Boys and ICE. He makes a good point - extremists often hide their faces in public.
Some folks are spending a crazy amount of time, energy and focus attacking moderate leftwing influencers. We are currently living through a fascist takeover. 🤷🏼♀️
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
read the whole thread, but my reaction goes to the essence of pluralism: dayenu -- "that should be enough" the Exodus story is universal, not sectarian
Thank you. People need to stop pretending we cannot foresee where this is all headed.
once again tapping the sign
100 VICTIMS is astounding. Even more astounding, that's less than 10% of Epstein and Maxwell's victims.
Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere. You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."
Journalists, this is how you handle Bobby Brainworm in an interview. Have your receipts and use them.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Pritzker is doing two things here that are smart. One, he's describing this forcefully and unapologetically and in his own terms, not adopting the Admin/media frame. Two, he's making clear that he will blame the Admin for any violence or disorder sparked by their invasion of his state.
I just signed Rep. Massie’s discharge position to force a vote on the Epstein Files. If Speaker Johnson wants to block it, he has a fight on his hands–and a lot of explaining to do.
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Trump has sent Texas military personnel to within 20 minutes of my parents as part of a plan to invade Illinois with another state's National Guard. What the literal F.
/3 Also, it should be obvious, but in case not: this illustrates that the aims of the anti-trans movement are legitimizing violence against trans people as well as against anyone who doesn’t present like Bobby and Cindy Brady.
That's what the fucking Nazis said. Didn't save them, either.
CHARLIE SYKES (@sykescharlie.bsky.social): Trump has tapped into this really visceral hatred of the other and the desire to inflict pain and suffering on them. That is one of the ugliest aspects of his presence in our politics, and we saw that with the "Mass Deportation Now!" signs.
Generous and gracious. How refreshing.
I’m glad @emptywheel.bsky.social wrote this. I’ve been watching Noem in recent weeks and wondering if Kilmar Abrego had an actionable slander claim against her? It seems like she has no proof for any of her slurs.
We’ve spent more time talking about nonexistent crime in 🇺🇸 cities in the last month, even as we’ve totally erased actual political violence from the National Conversation™️. Hard to overstate how disheartening & deeply unserious this has been.
Add in that the MN shooter might have been preventable if FBI and DHS hadn't refocused their domestic terrorism policing, and FBI didn't even MENTION the terrorist attack at CDC.
Interesting. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
In 1979 my first car was a 67 Mustang. I loved that car!
Republicans did something similar in Kansas a few years ago when we had the abortion vote. Thankfully, democrats were very vocal in making people aware.
JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns
He didn’t know about the the CDC decision on COVID shots until the announcement, even though he led division on vaccination & respiratory disease He kept asking to see the justifying evidence, or hear from experts who supported the move RFK’s team kept saying no www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
When 9 former CDC directors are ringing alarm bells about RFK and his dangerous policies, all of America must listen and act
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
Extraordinary thread about an extraordinary hearing, prompted by the Trump DHS trying to sneak hundreds of unaccompanied children out of the country to Guatemala on a holiday weekend. The government’s lawyer is sure it’s all legal, but needs 5 days to explain how. By @annabower.bsky.social
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
💯%. I've come to accept how morally depraved Donald Trump is. But I'll never get over how blindingly imbecilic he is. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
Kansas USA I think I’ve followed you for over a year. I’m began following you for updates on Ukraine because I care about what is happening and I want the USA to continue it’s support. I will always support Ukraine and oppose Russia’s horrific attack.
Gen Mark Hertling: I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Psaki: Comer was a little slow to move forward with the subpoenas, at least in my view. Moskowitz: That’s actually his regular speed. He’s just a little slow in general.
Just in time for Taco Tuesday
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
And my MAGA family won’t bat an eye. I don’t want to even try to predict what Trump will do next.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
This is just sickening to read. This is absolutely nuts.
He’s just repulsive in so many ways.
Ah yes, the famous Biden census of 2020… when Donald Trump was President.
The GOP is preparing to change Senate rules to make it easier to adopt Trump’s agenda and confirm nominees. Good thing Manchin and Sinema “preserved democracy” with their performative bullshit. Dems have to quit holding themselves to standards the GOP won’t meet.
Kellogg was sidelined specifically because he’s a better negotiator. They aren’t actually trying to end this war.
“When I call Kennedy a ‘dangerous crank,’ I'm not saying that as an insult or as hyperbole, but honestly as the most economical way of describing the man's views,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on RFK Jr.
Trump is such a childish low life.
They are very good at this.