Dick Polman

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We have to be ready for Trump's sabotage before & after the election. Not just lies about fraud & efforts to seize ballots, but also Russian interference, possibly including "instigating civil unrest..that result in potentially violent action," Frank Figliuzzi says. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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This week a white nationalist tried to assassinate a member of Congress and you probably didn’t even hear about it—and a reminder that being an elementary school student in the US is more deadly than being an ICE officer: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/three-shoo...

MAGA meathead logic: El-Sayed, the Michigan Dem Senate candidate and epidemiologist with advanced medical degrees, is not a real doctor. But Trump’s latest blonde propagandist who never passed the bar, is a real lawyer.

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Have you guys noticed that Republicans who were a rubber stamp for Trump for the last decade are now suddenly pretending to be defenders of democracy? Amazingly, Senator Thom Tillis is finding his courage right around the time his book tour is launched. How brave! Read my take at the link below ⬇️

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My latest, which puts much of the blame for our benighted era where it belongs.

Had a great chat with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about my new book, "How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." We agree: The Trump-Russia scandal is no hoax. Check it out. Learn more about the book (or order it) at HowRussiaWon.com

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I discuss the mountain of First Amendment case law that prevents President Trump's attempt to punish journalists (ban them from the White House) because he doesn't like their reporting. Plus a good statement by Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich, president of White House Correspondents' Association.

This is an R+6 district that @fiftyplusone.news currently has at an 88% chance of a GOP hold. Possible that GOP internal polling is even worse than the public polling.

Florida Republican tries to save her seat by ... running ads against Trump

Two posts I’m expecting from Trump: I’m glad Obama’s dog is dead. Obama’s dog died like a dog.

My newest. The hustle never ends.

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🎶” And the parting on the left / Is now a parting on the right…”🎶 -The Who

Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social

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EHTTTS, again. (Everything he touches...)

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My take (from Monday) on Lindsey's legacy.

My new piece: Justice at last for E. Jean Carroll.

My new piece, intended as satire. But how can you tell anymore?

Wrote this a year ago, on a trip to Normandy. Apt re-post for the holiday.

Some people are shocked that Trump is stealing $1.8 billion of *our* money to enrich his goons. How can anyone be shocked? I wrote in Dec. '24 that "Anyone who's still in denial about what awaits us should be indicted for failure of imagination." I'm re-upping that warning for what awaits us still.

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The second point cannot be emphasized enough. Guiliani put the command center in WTC against the advice of experts, and as a result of his horny incompetence, the city's command center was obliterated in the worst terrorist attack on NYC and its response suffered. But he got good photos so...

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Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.

No powerful person in my lifetime has degraded American discourse and vilified, dehumanized and demonized those who disagree with him more than Donald Trump. He and his sycophants are blaming the left for the world they themselves built, and their complaints should not be given a moment's credence.

My latest, on the aborted White House Correspondents dinner. Welcome to what the rest of us feel and fear.

Convicted criminal with 34 felonies saying he’s strong on crime, that’s funny.

It should go without saying that, just because some bad people want to criminally do harm to other bad people, that does not mean that any of the bad people are not, in fact, bad people.

Don’t let last night’s attack be weaponized into silence. Speaking truth to power and demanding accountability from our leaders isn’t dangerous rhetoric, it’s the foundation of democracy. We can condemn violence and also demand accountability from our leaders.

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

unrelenting

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

Just leaving this right here. #25thAmendment

Trump is about to hit REM on camera during an Oval Office event. It's just incredible.

My latest. Trump has created an opening for Dems that's wider than the Strait of Hormuz.

"[Trump's] destroying his own base. He's destroying his own credibility. He's destroying his own power. And even though that means he's more dangerous, because he's going to be more desperate, I think we can see a path—a difficult path—but a path that can be traversed with great determination."