David Waldman

David Waldman

@kagrox.bsky.social

Heard of the Nuclear Option? Know how it works? You’re welcome! https://www.cnn.com/2013/11/22/politics/nuclear-option-background/index.html Kagro in the Morning #KITM Livestream, M-F, 9-11 AM ET: http://netroots-main-1.stream.creek.fm:8000/stream

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Mark Jacob
@markjacob.bsky.social

Abdul El-Sayed's "weird friends" didn't beat up 100+ cops while trashing the U.S. Capitol. JD Vance's "weird friends" did.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Is El-Sayed a jihadist like President Trump said yesterday? JD VANCE: Well look, he certainly has a lot of weird friends

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

He tries to make his wife carry sauerkraut in her purse. It’s not like he’s reached some pinnacle of civilization.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

They’re robbing restaurants from hospital ships, then taking over the airports and forcing the transgender on kids who use litter boxes in school.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Probably the headline they hoped MAGA would see, actually. Really more of an alleged list than a list of alleged noncitizens. But MAGA will see this as judicial "bias" and "overreach."

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Reuters: US APPEALS COURT DENIES TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S REQUEST TO STOP CALIFORNIA FROM COUNTING MAIL BALLOTS FROM ALLEGED NONCITIZENS

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

The modeling industry impresarios were all team rapists, and they each copied the visa and passport revocation game from one another. “Perv-A-Lago” was never just a joke.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

If Ivanka ever goes to therapy to discuss her father signing her up with John Casablancas, the Secret Service is gonna have to put her on a watch list.

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

The Secret Service is guarding a fortified rape palace at taxpayer expense. It’s not just the décor that evokes Saddam Hussein and family.

David Waldman@kagrox.bsky.social

The modeling industry impresarios were all team rapists, and they each copied the visa and passport revocation game from one another. “Perv-A-Lago” was never just a joke.

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Telephone Makes Threats Against Elected Official

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social

Rewrite every headline about an AI doing something illegal as the owners of the AI doing something illegal. Strict liability could end this madness.

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James Hell Brooks
@kleinman.bsky.social

Very funny that Jones is mad about a vote drop that decreased Lula's margin because he doesn't understand that in most of the rest of the world the right wing party is blue and the left wing party is red.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social

Quelle surprise 🇧🇷

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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social

that is, effectively, the logical endpoint of unitary executive theory

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

the DOJ is basically acting as if the president’s delusions are true

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

stevevladeck.com259. DOJ’s Preemptive Election InterferenceThe Trump administration's California and Alaska suits are losers. But it’ll be hard to remedy the distrust in election results they seem intended to sow.
David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

I mean, he WENT. But still.

union person@junlper.beer

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

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union person
@junlper.beer

pretty clear evidence that republicans in the US losing any election going forward are going to always beg for a coup if they lose. lots of people will have to go to jail

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Wasn’t the Albanian hotel deal also hit with allegations of forged documents? Boy, you forge a couple of Electoral College votes and get away with it, and then I guess you just can’t stop.

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Here is some of our coverage of this failed hotel project in Serbia that led to protests against Vucic.... www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/u...

nytimes.comTrump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery (Gift Article)Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel.
David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Well then, I’m gonna take his house.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Everyone knows your bench press PR is what makes you American, Gramps.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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digby
@digby56.bsky.social

There you have it.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

We may just be headed for the New Dark Ages, ruled by bandit warlords.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social

This administration is just a Mad Libs filled in by the dumbest human beings on the planet. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Not supposed to be any Bennys there, either. But it looks like there are a few Non-Binary Children of the American Revolution photobombing the pic.

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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Like, don’t spend any time explaining why this isn’t true or doesn’t matter even if it was. He thinks he discovered the word “groceries.”

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king
@raxkingisdead.bsky.social

excuse me ‘obama’ but our nation’s proudest and most toothless yokels think of the cheesecake factory as a sort of high end golden corral which fyi means a lot in their culture. i know this because a lot of them used to janitor for my young republicans meetings at yale

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

What I’m saying is, you’re all suckers and you live like slobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Somalia -- 98% of the people here now from Somalia don't work. They don't have to work because they steal so much. They all have a Mercedes Benz. Low IQ and they live better than you do."

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Charles Ghoul-ba 🎃 ✡️
@charlesgaba.com

Dearborn voted for this. Literally. Amazing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump pushes gutter racism: "The guy in Michigan is pretty bad too -- Mohammed, as I call him ... if you have any question about somebody from that part of the world's name, just call him 'Mohammed,' you'll be right 64% of the time."

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Borders it on the other side.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social

They somehow tracked Acton’s birth mom down, found her living in a car with her cats, in a church parking lot, and took her to a video shoot to make vague accusations about her daughter, who she hadn’t seen in 40+ years, being a liar. Borders on elder abuse.

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

Death rattle voice is back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

"She's standing right there. Margo, you're not going to have to worry about it" -- Trump tells his assistant Margo Martin that she will get a pardon from him

David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social

It was probably the last thing to cross Ceaușescu’s mind.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

A lot of dictatorships try to make these kind of arrangements when things go south. Important to remember there are other kinds of criminal, civil and reputational accountability pardons can’t touch. And if you’re pardoned you have no 5th amendment rights.

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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social

no matter how sure you are that these guys have broken a whole bunch of laws, you aren't nearly as certain as they are

Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social

“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.