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Build a wall and make Desantis pay for it

Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and newspaper articles — yet not once over the countless allegations of child rape. That silence says everything.

Timeline cleanser: Ashley Biden shared a warm Biden family Easter photo from California—simple reminder of what normal looks like.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

New Mexico Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury reported that she reviewed the Epstein files and Donald Trump is named repeatedly and is tagged in a discussion of his rape of at least one 13 year old child. #OpDeathEaters

This deserves an independent inquiry, including into the MAGA troll farms used to threaten victims, their supporters and others (lawyers, politicians, investigators) who go near this case. #OpDeathEaters #3E

THIS IS WHAT HE IS HIDING.

I have now read a few dozen different takes from Republicans on last night’s election results and none of them have concluded that Trump is responsible for it in any way. Lots of lots of other takes and theories, but none of them include accountability for their infallible hero.

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

While Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are puffing themselves up in front of the U.S. military leaders at Quantico, I would like to remind everyone of an important historical detail: “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

“JUST DANCE” VANCE SAYS HE DOESN’T GIVE A S**T ABOUT KILLING PEOPLE WITHOUT A TRIAL OR DUE PROCESS. JD, ACTING LIKE A BLOODTHIRSTY PIRATE WONT MAKE MAGA LOVE YOU. THEY CANT STAND THE EYELINER! J/K IT’S YOUR PERSONALITY. EVEN RAND “BIG PERMA” PAUL THINKS YOU’RE A LOSER! SOFA KING SAD!

New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."

If releasing the Epstein list would end your presidency, then your presidency needs to end.

After the DOGE purge, reality is setting in. It turns out, workers are actually needed. The FAA just announced plans to hire at least 8,900 air traffic controllers. The National Weather Service is bringing on hundreds of new staff, just months after losing more than 500 people.

Republicans: Raising tariffs won't raise prices because everyone in the supply chain will eat those costs before they get to the consumer. Also Republicans: You can't raise taxes on corporations because they'll pass those costs on to the consumer.

Why did I send this letter to the Chief Justice? So he’d understand the full scenario that just touched the Judicial Conference (the administrative body of judges that oversees the operations of the Judicial Branch), which he convenes and chairs. 🧵

From this month's edition of The Onion.

Less than five years after urging rioters to "kill" police, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Justice Department. Police bodycam footage introduced at the trial of Jared Wise showed him berating officers on Jan. 6 and yelling "kill 'em." www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

This has been a long pattern - look it up 👇 Clinton in 1992 rebuilt the economy after George H.W. Bush ran it into recession. Obama in 2009 rebuilt the economy after George W. Bush ran it into recession. Biden in 2020 rebuilt our economy over 4 years after Trump left the economy in ruins.

Law firms, universities, media companies, and now banks. If people don’t understand what’s happening to our country, it’s because they don’t want to.

FYI: the inspector general that released the shoddy report on Epstein’s jail video is the same one that “lost” the whistleblower complaint against Emil Bove, and is one of only two IGs Trump didn’t fire. He was recently moved to the Federal Reserve.

Anyone else see a pattern here? 👀

This proves five things: 1. The protests in LA were peaceful 2. The National Guard and Marines were unnecessary 3. ICE officers lie 4. DHS stats on ICE agent assaults are overblown 5. You can not, in fact, indict a ham sandwich if you have no case www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Phillip: He denied being briefed on the files, which he was. He denied knowing Prince Andrew, despite pictures of them together, including at mar-a-lago. And he denied being on Epstein's plane when he had many times.

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

NEW: Tomorrow’s front page of Scottish newspaper, The National.

Trump’s former criminal defense attorney meets with convicted sex trafficker to make deal after firing career prosecutor who put her in prison.

It's become clear that this administration is just a protracted war on anybody who's read a book without pictures in it. It's a miracle we're all still getting up and going to work every morning. The psychological drain is the point, and I'm increasingly grateful to the people who are still decent.

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There is literally always a tweet.

There's a bombshell story about New York City elites running a sex trafficking ring patronized by the president from New York City and other New York City elites but the New York City elites that run the New York Times say there's no story there so hey, it's all settled, ha ha, hey what's over there

“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts:

ICE just got a 265% detention funding boost. Palantir software is being used to create the federal government’s first national citizenship data bank. The Trump regime is attacking naturalized citizens and birthright citizenship. Be warned — Trump’s police state is here.

So, all of you right wing influencers can continue to screech about treason if you want, but remember that you’re defending an incoming administration official literally circumventing normal communication channels in order to conspire with a hostile foreign government.

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that." (ht: @ronxyz.bsky.social)

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect. @thedailyshow.com

27 different named women accused him of sex assault, he’s on video with Epstein where they are grossly leering at young women, Miss Teen USA contestants said he came in dressing room when they were naked, he bragged on the Access Hollywood tape about grabbing women. It’s obvious.

Hold on tight to those you love. 💕

New bombshell from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.

it's remarkably bleak that Trump has been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, including an allegation that was adjudicated and in which he was found liable for sexual assault, and yet the American public needs still MORE evidence of his depraved character and unfitness.

I mean this is a full on fucking cover up!