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Well done, John Roberts. Well done.

Vote them out.

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

BREAKING: In a blistering order, Judge Hinderaker details how the Trump admin only has done anything in the case of Ahmed Soliman when ordered to do so. As such, he now orders DOJ to address each of the 11 steps he sees as being needed to bring Soliman back to the U.S.

Surprising exactly zero people, "forgive my youthful indescretions committed at age 53" guy recently sponsored a law to get 15-year-olds tried as adults. nashvillebanner.com/2024/07/15/n...

JD Vance is friends with Curtis Yarvin and Peter Thiel

The "dead voters" rumor reminds me to let you all know that: (1) we've seen A LOT of these same rumors before; and (2) you can play our interactive Bingo game to learn more about how these common tropes feed into "rigged election" rumors: bingo.cip.uw.edu

I’m going to start a thread on our election work today. Today, we’ll be publishing a deep dive into Alaska rumors & following the DOJ’s latest efforts (in WA) to craft an illusion of widespread non-citizen voting, using arrests, press releases & threats to states as “pseudo events” to grab attention

Losing an election is not grounds for asylum. apnews.com/article/braz...

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

US government says hackers are now exploiting critical PHP web bugs

The Paxtons’ blind trust invested $600K in a convicted fraudster’s new company. Experts say the trust wasn’t truly blind as the Paxtons reported losses from it on their taxes. Angela Paxton also sat on an affiliate’s advisory board for several years. with @texastribune.org

Whiteness backfires. The economy tanks. Everyone gets mad. Votes for Dems. Then economy grows. Everyone benefits. White people see Black people doing well, think they see a crime. They vote for whiteness. Whiteness backfires. The economy tanks …

I think this pattern explains 2024 more than anything else does. The economy was growing fast. Everyone was benefiting. But that included Black people. That was wrong. The Dems had to be punished.

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

There's so much else wrong with this stupid lawsuit but on this specific point: despite being "busy" with "lives" and "jobs," Alaskans were able to spell M-U-R-K-O-W-S-K-I when they reelected her to the Senate as a write-in candidate in 2010 after she lost the GOP primary.

No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

So hard to pick a favorite part of this article. Pretending that sending unsolicited dick pics at 53 was a “youthful indiscretion” is good, but don’t sleep on the argument that his wife forgave him for subjecting other women to unwanted nude photos so everyone else should too

This seems like a fair observation.

There's this box outside a public library in NoVa that I grin at whenever I visit. It's called a puppy library.

"So, in Alaska, if Peltola wins, her victory is inherently suspect and must be investigated. And in Minnesota, if Flanagan bests Tafoya, her victory is inherently suspect b/c Trump has declared that Tafoya can’t lose, period, unless Dems cheat. This is the long, stupid shadow of the 2020 election."

“Only one of these two unlikeable men can be correct here. Unsurprisingly, it’s the one with a functioning brain.” open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...

a new Northwestern study found that "smart" TV makers often still spy on you even when you opt out. Vizio was particularly bad; completely ignoring opt out requests despite being fined $2.2 by the FTC in 2017 and a $17 million class action: watchingthewatchers.github.io/watchingthew...

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life,” released 50 years ago, had a simple message, Anna Holmes writes: “To express love for America requires not only celebrating it with fireworks and flags but also acknowledging its missteps and failings.”

🏛️ TODAY AT 4 P.M. ET: A judge will hear Trump's extraordinary request to stop California from counting 20k mail ballots — one day after the 9th Circuit rejected the DOJ's attempt to bypass him. Stay tuned as a ruling is expected shortly after the hearing. Background: https://demdock.com/4srTlR6

17. Most of them are from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Colombia and Venezuela. As many as 80 percent of them do not have a criminal record. More than 500 US citizens, most of them Hispanic, have been detained by ICE.

BREAKING: 174 bipartisan former judges are calling on the 8th Circuit to toss DOJ’s misconduct complaint against the Minnesota judges DOJ wants them investigated & some barred from DHS cases, all for saying ICE violated 210 court orders @democracydefendersfund.org is proud to stand w/ them👇 -TN

Another story impossible to imagine in any other administration: the president's son goes hunting with a Russian criminal who is part of Putin's security entourage

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

As I see it, his initiative is synodality writ small, but writ in a way that is also accessible for people in dioceses and parishes all over the world. And, as St. John Paul II said, "Affective collegiality precedes effective collegiality."

Consequences at the speed of Artificial intelligence!

The religious leaders regret meeting with Trump after what they said was blatant manipulation. trib.al/UU0XsQG

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

negotiations are important in their own right. Even if they do not lead to a lasting peace,the process itself is an opportunity to resolve urgent humanitarian issues. If,of course,the human dimension is a priority for the negotiators. But it is entirely obvious that neither Witkoff nor #Kushner

CBS deleted this post and reposted it admitting that their original one was misleading. And the misleading post from CBS was intentionally misleading, not an innocent mistake. CBS continues to lose credibility.

A party of performative morons disinterested in policy.

You have to admit that the entire Bolsonaro family under house arrest in the same house would be a hell of a sitcom.

Wow. Shocking that such a stand-up guy like El Mango Grande wouldn't keep his word, isn't it? Number of swing House districts Donald Trump pledged back in early September to visit before the midterms = 35 Number he has visited = 0 #SirLiesALot

"Nobody asks Mike Rogers why he’s part of a party where leaders seem so willing to impose their faith on society."

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Maybe we should call farm subsidies "handouts" so his brain's neurons finally make the connection.

The truest thing JD Vance has said in a long, long time.

The speed with which so many execs cozied up to this authoritarian says more about their revealed preferences than long term strategic thinking. They saw a chance for what they saw as a "business friendly" autocrat and oligarchic consolidation and jumped at it.

Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.