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9 years! Wow, that fast. No wonder that he’s got no time left to create a health care plan.

I have zero sympathy for anyone involved in this grotesque farce. When you travel all the way to DC to go to the home of the most infamous fascist in US history and get ushered into his office alongside a videographer and photographer, you know *exactly* what vile game you're playing. Disgraceful.

Well, well, well…. An analysis of voter registration records reveals Republican operative Scott Presler had 3 out-of-state voters use his Pennsylvania address to vote in the 2024 election. This is what voter fraud looks like.

Couple things. Obviously worried that he’ll flail and try to seize voting machines or otherwise try to prevent people from voting. Also extremely worried about what Iran and Yemen look like post-election. He’s trying to hold off, but they’re laying the groundwork for a big escalation.

Donald has no problem pronouncing the names of people who give him lots of money. He won't even make fun of your name with crass, racist jokes.

They are more concerned with whether it felt accurate to readers rather than whether it was accurate.

In my Stop the Presses newsletter a few months ago, I used a hurricane metaphor to explain why it’s wrong for major media to report on Trump’s authoritarian symptoms but not diagnose the disease. www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-media-...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 482. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.

Treasury counselor admits there's no plan to fund Trump's $5,000 checks to 245 million Americans. finance.yahoo.com/economy/poli...

Abandoning Ukraine will be a stain on the United States for the rest of time

Did James Talarico tell his grandmother that he thought he might be gay? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Has James Talarico been in a 15 year mentor-protégé relationship with gay billionaire Peter Thiel? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Did James Talarico pose in drag? Oh, no! That was JD Vance!

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"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

"Their aim was... to trivialize voting so much that it became a short-sighted and fun social trend. Their votes were like toys." Read more from LP's Oscar Robshaw: https://bit.ly/4hQkyIb

Trump: "If Republicans get in power, you're going to end up in a depression. These people are incompetent"

Ben Meiselas: And here's a compilation of Trump saying many times that if any country bought oil from Russia, he would go after them...

Trump’s fixation on California isn’t just about mail-in voting, Marc Elias says. “California represents perhaps the greatest existential threat to Donald Trump in the midterm elections.” Want to know the full story? We’ll send it to your inbox for free: https://demdock.com/4rWJYbC

🚨 THIS AGED HORRIBLY: Pete Hegseth attacked reports of additional American deaths in Trump's Iran war. Now the Pentagon has raised the official death toll to 21. Ben Meiselas zeroes in on Hegseth's choice of words: “They claim we're not in a war.”

It’s long past time for the U.S. to get a new president.

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

Trump has claimed that states are “merely an ‘agent’ for the federal government” and they must do what the president tells them. “Almost nothing in that statement is correct as a matter of law,” Marc Elias says. Keep an eye on the people trying to rewrite the rules: https://demdock.com/4rSKLdE

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

This official Department of Defense account is posting nods to the death cult QAnon

Artificial Intelligence.

Trump: "We will not be attacking Iran at any time prior to the Midterm Elections"

So Donald is making it clear: his pointless war with Iran is tied *solely* to domestic politics—and has nothing to do with Iran having a nuclear weapon. I thought he wasn’t supposed to say that part out loud.

This is one of the rare occasions where Democrats shouldn't push back on what Trump is saying. Read more from LP's Oscar Robshaw here: https://bit.ly/4AT62bv

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Trump on his meeting with Gold Star families: "I invited them out to check out the new helipad, check out the new ballroom, and check out the new helicopter"

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

Trump ends his mumbly, low energy speech and then YMCA starts blaring as he waits for applause that never really comes

Fox News gave Dennis Hastert, whom a federal judge called a “serial child molester,” a warm “In Memoriam” sendoff.

DR OZ: We went grocery shopping. Butter in America -- it's about a buck for a stick INGRAHAM: Where are you shopping? It's not a buck. It's like $4

Trump: "But the word 'refineries,' where's Russia's uhhhh rouesing a lot of refineries because of Ukraine. That has to do with a lot of the uh diesel that you're see. Where ours is being. Think of it."

How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.

JUST FILED: The Comeback Kids: Jack Smith’s Legal Team Scores Series of Recent Victories macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/the-comeba...

So we needed to start another war in Middle East because of a fictitious claim that a country possessed a weapon of mass destruction? At least we’ve never made that mistake before. bsky.app/profile/atru...

The most Republican thing ever is to claim you suddenly care about affordability by giving a speech at a yacht club.

A new public poll dropped in Florida today showing the Senate race is tied 47-47. We can do this people. Let’s put the people first for once. LINK to Angie Nixon Campaign.

An ambitious narcissist megalomaniacal right-wing Christian nationalist fanatic with a drinking problem and a history of erratic and reckless behavior who hates rules of engagement in charge of the most powerful military in the history of the world. What could go wrong? bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Anatomy of a screw-up The Eric Schmitt incident …. Just filed ===> youtu.be/PrzsEZERfvU?...

The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.

Easy. Stupid people doing stupid things for an audience of one stupid man.

Again, gas prices spiked in 2022-23 because Russia invaded Ukraine which caused a major disruption in global supply. Then they came down. Biden didn’t cause it. Gas prices rose in 2026 due solely to the stupidity of Trump who started a war in the Middle East.

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.