Todd Blanche is making clear that the entire purpose of this prosecution is to influence voters during an election. There is no law enforcement angle to it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Q: The typical practice is DOJ doesn't usually release charges this close to an election. Even though Ms Lucas isn't on the ballot, her daughter is. Can you speak to the timing?
BLANCHE: The 60 day or 90 day practice is not in writing. That's not part of the justice manual. There's nothing improper
Mike Rogers was just caught on tape talking about how he wanted to make sure that there were retired cops who could intimidate voters in the city of Detroit.
We deserve the right to vote. People have fought and died for that right. No more election deniers.
Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."
We have to think about collapsing Trump poll numbers and Rs turning on him the same way we'd think about finally being able to corner a rabid raccoon in your garage. Good news: he's out of options. Bad news: he's a rabid raccoon.
😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event
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Even within our own crowd, Hillary Clinton can be a somewhat polarizing figure... Say what you want, but she was sadly prescient about two main points:
1. Trump would indeed become "Putin's puppet" and bend to his every wish.
2. Trump supporters are indeed as deplorable as they come.
Spot-on.
Talarico: Elon wants our land. He's already trying to buy one of our beautiful state parks down in South Texas. He wants our water for these AI data centers.
And he wants his very own personal United States senator — and that's what he thinks he can get with Ken Paxton.
Ukraine has the right to self-determination, just as any sovereign nation does, and they should not be obligated to honor any peace plans that are drawn up without their participation.
Zelenskyy says that "Starlink is still limited, but secretary [Rubio] told me that he will work with his team on this to unblock this. God bless, it will be done."
Edward Gorsuch was killed when the people he sought to reenslave fought back. The Christiana Resistance centers their agency: they organized, defended one another, and refused to surrender their freedom. And it bears remembering that the nonmyelinated folk helped.
Yes, white allies participated too
The Anne Frank reference is unmistakable. Why must American persecution borrow European imagery to become recognizable? We have slavery, family separation, and fugitive slave raids. Remember the Christiana Resistance of 1851. Ask Neil Gorsuch (SCOTUS) about his family’s connection.
Tuberville: "Zelensky will play hardball, but you know what? He's not even a player in the game. Putin, President Trump, and the people on our side will make the final decision about Ukraine's future."
Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar.
“The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”
Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen.
This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest.
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DEMOCRATS: "We're worried that voters are so distracted by the high costs of food and gas that they won't pay attention to the colossal corruption."
DONALD TRUMP: "Hold my Diet Coke."
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Pete has been in our government. He is also a war veteran.
I'd like to hear Pete's ideas on a straight line effective assault on Shitler & his regime.
Unchecked leadership with dangerous past views shouldn't dictate our military or safety. Rewarding misconduct with power puts everyone at risk. We need accountability, not rolling back basic protections. Justice for the Cornell Jane Doe. #IAmJaneDoe
All because the Americans re-elected a reality show con man who had been convicted of fraud and rape and had been impeached twice and possibly participated in a pedophilia conspiracy. Anything but electing a competent black woman.
Asking Marsha Blackburn how she’d stop rural hospital closures is like asking a lifeguard who watched 18 people go under for swimming tips.
On her watch, 18 rural Tennessee hospitals closed or stopped inpatient care and now we lead the nation per capita in closures.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests.
LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.”
“We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”
NEW: META comms guy claims the takedown of the No Kings Instagram account during the largest early vote action in history was a simple error. I call BS. I’ll be speaking with @ezralevin.bsky.social at 4:20 PT (in 20 minutes) on Substack. Join the conversation: muellershewrote.com
Yikes. An embarrassing moment for Sen. Dan Sullivan.
Sullivan falsely accuses Mary Peltola of getting debate questions beforehand because she is doing a better job than him.
Peltola then drops the hammer: “I’m prepared!”