I've always said that my goal in life is to never to do anything to cause @rtraister.bsky.social to write a scathing article about me. This is the opposite of that.
BASH: One of the things that's happening is there's a push to start students down a trade school track as early as elementary school. Is that too early?
LINDA McMAHON: I don't think so
BASH: But elementary school?
McMAHON: I think you can have some introduction of skilled trades in elementary
For some people, realizing we don't know what we're doing might be a source of humility. For others, it is an incentive to be the loudest voice projecting certainty.
An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
Trump: "Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, 'I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company' ... somebody said that's not very American. I said, 'No, I think it's very American, actually.' And I've done that with other deals."
Ossoff: "Just think, 250 years on, what the Founders would see if they visited us today. *crowd groans* But wait -- they would see that slavery had been abolished. They would see that Americans without land, and then women, and then the descendants of slaves had secured voting rights ... "
"provided aid and comfort [sic] the Enemy" is language taken from the Constitution's definition of treason. Is Trump really saying that a Senator voting against him on a matter of war is technically a crime punishable by death? trumpstruth.org/statuses/39501
FOX NEWS: Is your vote for Kavanaugh troublesome for you now that Roe v Wade was overturned?
SUSAN COLLINS: Let me make clear that I disagreed with the Supreme Court, but the fact is that whether Justice Kavanaugh was confirmed or not, Roe v Wade would've been overturned
I don't understand how JD Vance can say this when a group of countries, including the United States, DID successfully negotiate a treaty with Iran just 10 years ago.
When you see the story
about how the world
now has its first trillionaire,
and when you see the story
about how laboratories
in Congo have run out
of supplies to test for Ebola,
it is important to understand
that in many ways
these are the same story.
George W. Bush made it to Yankee Stadium during the 2001 World Series, weeks after 9/11, and created a powerful moment that amplified the atmosphere in the city and didn't prioritize his appearance above thousands of regular fans. So it can be done. Trump is just choosing not to.
Many of the Americans who landed on the beaches on D-Day were immigrants and the children of immigrants. The "America First" xenophobes who supported the Nazis hated them.
BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them?
HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.
There is a very important symbolic reason that the inauguration of a US President is on the steps of the Capitol and not a military bunker in the White House. It means that the role of the President, first and foremost, is to enforce the laws passed by Congress.
Markwayne Mullin: "If CBP isn't there processing international flights, then those individuals when the airlines land won't be permitted into the United States. If things don't change, we're gonna have to make this step pretty quick."
Brooke Rollins: "As we've moved about 4 million off SNAP, we don't have the exact data of how much of that is fraud, how much of that is people moving into the American dream and off of welfare."
Tillis on Trump's taxpayer-funded insurrectionist slush fund: "There's no way we're gonna be in a position to fund $1.5 billion for an anti-fraud division when we've got this bogus payout pot for punks. Whoever did it should be fired."
My favorite #BarneyFrank memory #2 was "point of parliamentary inquiry! Will I be out of order if I call the gentlemen from Iowa a fool and a liar?" House chair pro tempore: "yes, you will be out of order." Rep. Frank "then I will not call him a fool and a liar!"
“We have a man who is doing a great job, I’ll tell you. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, he kept me out of jail.”
This is not even accurate. Blanche represented Trump in the hush money case. Trump was convicted of multiple felonies.
Donald Trump says America needs a $1.7 billion slush fund to redistribute taxpayer money to pro-Trump felons, including financial criminals and January 6th rioters. His political opponents disagree.