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Floating around with mum!

I oppose name-calling, but how long does it take people to note the intense irony of Trump calling out an individual as a “liar,” a “fraud,” or “scum”? In the long term, the Trump name will be synonymous with the names he dishes out.

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.

Trump is looking forwarding to politicking at the Pope’s funeral?? Abhorrent. MAGA folks, “WWJD?”

They’re not “deporting” people, they’re kidnapping them and sending them to foreign prisons. Concentration camps. They’re paying these countries to imprison humans. It’s human trafficking.

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me

How very base Trump is, spewing any idea that comes to his hate-filled mind when he wakes up or can’t sleep. Thank God people are beginning to see. You might call it …. the base energizing the electorate.

Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.

Sunday show Trumpers’ script re tariffs: “We are pummeled by other countries!” Um, if this is such a horrible reality, why didn’t Trump address during his first administration?

Has anyone else noticed that Trump’s physiognomy is changing? He’s beginning to look like an SNL parody of himself. Very Dorian Grey! Eerie!

Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)

Lutnick just announced employment will “leap” starting today. You betcha! Folks will need 2nd jobs to cover prices increased by tariffs.

Antarctica Tariffs Announced It's about time those deadbeat slackers started pulling their weight... 🐧 💰 🐧 💰 🐧 💰

Appalled by law firms capitulating. Threats based on personal revenge aren’t protected by immunity. If DT announced he’d pull SecLevs on all lawyers who refused to cut off their index and middle fingers (thereby preventing them from making peace sign), would DT be immune?

Hold that name, DT! Trump team must have missed the book. Literary genius George Saunders’ 2022 book titled “Liberation Day” includes story of an elder describing how Americans lost their fundamental freedoms by making small concessions to an authoritarian gov’t.

We obeyed the law. We followed the science. We told the truth. With gratitude, Brian King’s parting words as he is placed on administrative leave from FDA-CTP @altfda.altgov.info

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

We deserved some good news!

Educators, law firms and others are being targeted and threatened for FOLLOWING THE LAW! The election — won on slim margin — didn’t give DT free rein to change est’d law. His vendettas are motivated by personal revenge and hatred. They must be resisted lest chaos grow an even wider path.

Sad for democracy, and also sad on human level, where Musk offers million-dollar jackpots for “voting” like a kid who brings candy to grade school in the hopes that might buy friends.

Bravo.

This is how it's done. A strong and principled response by WilmerHale to the illegal Executive Order attack - a form of attempted government intimidation declared unconstitutional by a federal judge. This is how to guard the rule of law.

This is painful, and saddening, and embarrassing. I feel like we're losing a member of the family - and for no good reason other than that some Americans wanted another season of the worst reality TV show in history.

If Waltz and others completely disclaim knowledge of Goldberg, how do they know enough to slime him? We must begin asking bullies simple questions like “oh, to what Goldberg articles or work are you referring when you say he’s the worst journalist ?” Bullies wither in light of day.

Waiting for Karoline to take off her shoe 👠 and bang it on podium.

Read the book he wrote himse... errrr.. a shadow writer wrote in his name:

We can never abandon the fight, there are too many of us that see and understand the importance of the moment. It is time for us to unite and fight as one. Never give up.

The first rule of Trumpism is to never apologize or admit wrongdoing. That’s why he’s not firing anyone or even entertaining the idea anybody around him did something wrong.

I know it bothers you as much as it does me that journalism as an institution can’t process that what it’s seeing on a daily basis is evil people doing evil sh*t Not incompetence, not naivete, not negligence, not mispeaking, not mixups, not miscommunications: straight-up evil people doing evil sh*t

Whatever happened to the "5 things " DoGe emails ? Talked to someone really smart who just left gov, who said all the emails bounced back as inbox full. Already forgotten Typical Ready Fire Aim

“In Lancaster County, which went for Mr. Trump last year by 16 points, Democrats flipped a state Senate seat that the GOP had occupied for decades.” A straw in the wind? www.wsj.com/opinion/lanc...

Ut oh. Consider content of the “attack” meeting. It’s blatantly about foreign “war” activity …. action by Admin w/out notice to Congress under War Powers Act. Never bought into a conspiracy theory, but these are strange times. Could Trump partisan purposely have added journalist to divert focus?

Pam Bondi so offended by peaceful Tesla protests. Did she express similar concerns January 6, 2021?

“Frivolous” is for courts to decide, not DT. Let him file suit if he feels something was frivolous. Of course, then he will be subject to discovery on the underlying claims.

On the other hand …. Maybe the best resistance is to watch these clowns continue on their present course and let the Republicans impeach him.

Whether suits filed against Trump were “frivolous” (as he claims) can be adjudicated in court under well-established rules. Of course then he’d be subject to discovery of evidence on the claims he calls frivolous. Small wonder he’s trying to do by executive fiat. See him for what he is, folks.

Trump’s suggesting USA could join British Commonwealth if invited by King Charles. Er, do you think he’s aware of the revolution?

Just in case anyone needs it

Don’t dance a hater’s dance. Keep things simple when DT & cultists spew chaos. If they avoid concepts like Rule of Law & Due Process, ask Qs like: “What should compel us to follow Trump but not Courts?” Smile when you ask. They implode when we keep it simple.

Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.

Er, on social security …. Why the focus on benefit cuts rather than on DT’s promise of no taxes on benefits?

5pm ET, hearing on Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act and the defiance of court order. The public can listen by telephone. Let the number of callers show we are paying attention.

Attorneys aren’t permitted to participate in crime. Any lawyer who acted in defiance of a judicial directive — including those who “simply winked” — should be referred to ABA’s disciplinary committee. Due process must be followed, of course. Let’s hear from all. But MAGA nonsense must stop!

DT’s latest rant that Biden’s pardons aren’t valid bcz signed by autopen? Hmmm … maybe we should reverse all R budget votes that were transmitted electronically?

Dems lack strategy AND finesse right now. If a yes vote on budget truly was required to stem dictatorial power, why not vote “yes under coercion” or some such, to support message this package is entirely DT’s baby? (Yes, you’d have to vote in person from the floor to register objection.)