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Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

These guys are traitors.....I really don't know any other word that can capture the savage assault Trumpworld has unleashed against our democracy, NATO, and the West.

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If we had actual journalists in this country, this would have been reported as a story.

L - Tom Emmer in 2024 on the House subpoenaing Hunter Biden. R - Tom Emmer today on why the House shouldn’t investigate Don Jr: He’s a private citizen.

Trump, who loves to FALSELY claim that Democrats are Communists, is the one who's rolling out the red carpet for an actual COMMUNIST! #XiJinpingIsACommunist

Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."

This is after China porch-pirated the military’s f-35 parts delivery

Life comes at you fast

yeah, you've kicked millions off food stamps and half our food is poisoned, so we're shitting our brains out

Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

Since 1981, Democratic presidents have overseen the creation of 3 times as many private-sector jobs as their Republican counterparts. Excluding Reagan, the net private-sector job growth of the past 3 GOP presidents is zero.

BREAKING: Jimmy Kimmel says his interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will NOT air on ABC due to threats from Trump’s FCC. The interview will instead be posted to YouTube.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Reminder - the White House already has enormous entertaining spaces, ones that can host many hundreds of people and that have been sufficient for Presidents for generations. Am w/Graff here - Trump's manic desire for this illegal, unnecessary "ballroom" suggests dark, illiberal aspirations.

The grift will not stop til he and the entire bloody lot of grifters are extracted, then banned from ever holding a governmental position again. This once great nation has never witnessed an entire admin with such brazen corruption & utter incompetence. They all must be held to account.

Murphy: "Literally in my other ear I'm listening to Ted Cruz on another network explain why this mission is so essential to destroy the nuclear program. I may have to walk over there and tell him the admin is now briefing that getting rid of the nuclear program has nothing to do with this mission."

Midterm message:

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

So if I’m understanding this sequence correctly, from Thanksgiving to Christmas 2012, Elon Musk was essentially pestering registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to throw him a wild party on the island.

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Wow, someone was allowed to mention the Network State in the New York Times opinion section. I believe this is a first. Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse. gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

If congressional Democrats were capable of understanding their role as an opposition beyond the narrow confines of their legislative roles, they could realize that you can actually leverage public opinion to demand an end to ICE operations without actually needing to pass a bill

The First Lady was paid $40 million by Amazon for a documentary about her, the documentary bears her name, she and her husband, the president, are hosting the documentary premiere at the Trump Kennedy Center, a building her husband simply slapped his name on. Arrogance beyond measure. All unearned.

Trump announced today that he was going to keep housing prices up, sued the US taxpayers for $10B, threatened Canada, made a few dozen posts about how he won in 2020, posted about prosecuting Obama for treason, then went to a movie about his wife that Bezos spent $75 million on.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

NOT GOOD ENOUGH

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

CNN interviews the 'woman in the pink jacket,' aka Stella Carlson: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...

So that's now two members of Congress, both black, assaulted by overtly racist Trumpists over the span of a few days.

The $40 million that Bezos paid for the Melanie propaganda film would cover the cost of about 200 journalists for a year.

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

I guess he just got lucky.