Kelli Valerio

After seeing so many elites—in business, media, politics, more—eagerly jump on board with Trumpism fascism, or weakly acquiesce to it, the public is craving leaders who act like this awfulness is serious and bad. Yes, the public. The real public. A majority of the people, not only right-wing volk.

It’s insane that Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Act to sanction countries buying Russian oil, just to turn around and buy Russian oil himself

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

There’s a grim irony in the fact that the poster that sealed Melekhin’s fate included the words, "All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." He was referring to Putin’s Russia. He could have been referring to, you know.

Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.

Why is this so so so scary? Less generals (the professionals), more GIs (as in cannon fodder, like the ones dying as a result of a failed war), and the entire enterprise under ..... this???? newrepublic.com/post/215992/...

"We take no pleasure in being right, but the concerns raised by Ms Pike proved to be true: difficult vein access, blown veins, degraded pentobarbital, no emergency medical care available when things inevitably go wrong, all under a protocol that remains veiled in secrecy."

This is horrific. Horrific for its barbarism, but also utterly unsurprising that a political party that can't win wars, can't control gas prices, can't bring down grocery prices and can't stop basic preventable diseases also can't kill prisoners correctly.

The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.

BREAKING: The execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee's first of a woman in 200 years, was halted by a court an hour before it was set to take place.

The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.

"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social

Why is Trump getting applause during and after his stupid UN speech?? Ugh!

Holy crap. Plump just openly told the UN council that we’re taking Venezuela and Cuba. The delegation from Cuba just got up and walked out. Here’s the live link. Plump’s speech starts at 31.27. To say it’s alarming is an understatement.

Have to read Kevin Fixler's great story of course about how Idaho Sen. Jim Risch tried to reroute flights away from where he lives www.idahostatesman.com/news/politic...

Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

Trump and Hegseth are withholding the accurate number of casualties from Trump's War with Iran. Officials inside of DOD have stated there are at least 22 US service members who have died fighting Trump's Illegal War with Iran.

The Pentagon has not disclosed the deaths of at least four additional service members who have died in the Middle East amid the ongoing war with Iran. https://www.washingtonsun.com/defense/pentagon-service-members-deaths-washington-post-report

TEXAS REPUBLICANS DID IT —63 DAYS BEFORE ELECTION DAY Tarrant County, they voted 3–2 to close 92 Election Day polling locations, cutting the number from 316 to 224. More than 100 people showed up to speak out before the vote. Republicans did it anyway. Closing nearly 30% of the polling places.

This is why you can't have healthcare. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-buy-robot-dogs-immigration-enforcement-rcna594897

Millions of Americans may not receive their mail ballots in time, or at all, because of a secretive, court-defying system being rushed into place by the Trump administration. Two months before the midterms. This isn't by chance. It's a blatant attempt to steal an election. Share this everywhere.

For a guy who screams “socialism” at every turn, Trump sure embraced state-run oil and shady deals when it meant seizing another country’s resources.

Dr. Alejandro Velasco, an expert on U.S. interventions in Latin America, talks about the U.S. oil deal with Venezuela: “You might have the impression that Venezuela is agreeing to it, but of course it’s agreeing to it only because it has zero leverage against the Trump administration.”

All US military commanders were against a US attack on Iran. They are still against expanding the war. This war is 100% a Hegseth Trump war. Our men and women who have lost their lives and have been wounded were totally unnecessary. thehill.com/newsletters/...

It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

“Non-concur”: The top military leaders formally tell Hegseth he should not extend Iran war operations as it risks our ability to defend US interests elsewhere: wapo.st/4wT23bL

USDA recalled 29,628 pounds of Argentine beef after it bypassed the required U.S. import reinspection. That safeguard exists for a reason. Expanding beef imports only works when every shipment meets our standards, not when regulators discover the failure after distribution.

Project 2025 analysts warn food insecurity will increase across the USA The policy blueprint—organized by the Heritage Foundation—outlines sweeping changes to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), school meals, and agricultural support programs

Trump’s portfolio moved up to $750 million in early 2026, but the public disclosure came months late. The penalty was $200, and the unanswered ethics question is much larger. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-por...

Change is coming to Texas! James Talarico is the man to end 30 years of one party rule in Texas and elect a Senator who is going to serve the PEOPLE and not billionaires or the mega-donors. End the CORRUPTION. Stop the GREED! Vote for James Talarico— #BlueWaveIn80Days

📌This AP picture today is worth a thousand ugly words ...

“As Trump has blown $1.8 billion on construction projects, he’s also been busy profiting off the presidency through stock purchases that reek of insider trading, foreign licensing deals, crypto sales, and even the stocking of Trump wine and cider in stores run by the Coast Guard.” Absurdly corrupt.

The Trump administration announced it would end Medicare Part D subsidies, raising healthcare costs on 11 million people, mostly seniors. He doesn’t give a damn about your grandma and grandpa.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Whereas, in the US, ~500,000 incarcerated people work prison jobs — often for pennies. CoreCivic alone made $3B in 2022 off prison labor, which Stanford estimates is 80–100% cheaper because wages are negligible.

A panel of advisers to the FDA, several of them sellers of experimental peptides, dismissed the concerns of the agency’s scientists on Thursday, voting in favor of allowing broad production of poorly understood peptide treatments. The votes were nonbinding, but they were a rebuke to FDA scientists.

Welp. "The advisory panel was recently overhauled, and many of the new members have ties to the peptide industry, leading to criticism about potential conflicts of interest."

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Folks seem surprised that Trump would lie about election interference while simultaneously releasing documents that prove he was lying. When you have followers who will regurgitate whatever you say regardless of the evidence, the truth doesn’t actually matter.

PSA: Last night wasn’t Trump telling you how the 2020 election was stolen, it was Trump showing you he very much plans to steal the 2026 election

Just a small reminder about the American Right's track record of "proving" voter fraud: Fox News settled the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million for claiming the company's voting machines "rigged" the 2020 presidential election against Trump. www.nbcnews.com/media/fox-ne...

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

A human rights lawyer fled China and came legally to the US , where he is applying for asylum and waiting for his case to be adjudicated. He was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE arrested him this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So the evil masterminds who supposedly rigged the election to defeat Trump in 2020 because he was a threat to the Deep State then let him win in 2024 and allowed his party to also win the senate and house?

Wtf?