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Hegseth did what we all expected: risk U.S. security. This happens when an incompetent, psychotic leader purposefully staffs a cabinet with incompetent people so he can “look good” by comparison AND blame them for ensuing national tragedies. Their only “job” is praising Dear Leader. That’s it.

* HASSETT: THE AFFORDABILITY CRISIS IS A MYTH @bloomberg.com

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

When the next US Congress investigates corruption, Trump's oil-deal-of-the-century with Alejandro Betancourt, the face of Venezuelan corruption, should be top of its list. Two kleptocracies working together. Brilliant essay by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Remains possibly the worst spokesperson for anything, at any time

"I won Minnesota three times, but they didn't give me the Victories."

There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

"Whatever dark power Trump has that has enabled him to become president twice while being quite literally one of the most morally despicable human beings on Earth, it’s not easily duplicated by your average Republican candidate for Senate, House, or governor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

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.

HHS wants a new Medicare code that pays doctors extra only when they attribute a patient’s symptoms to a vaccine. Vaccine critics say doctors are paid to push vaccines. We aren’t. Under this code, we’d be paid to blame them. My new piece in @cidrap.bsky.social: www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

EL-SAYED: I get that the President takes personal offense to my first name. He doesn't mind as much when it's the Saudis who are funding his son-in-law's private equity. Doesn't seem to mind as much when it's the Qataris who are giving them a $400 million private jet…

Ramaswamy may have pulled his horrible ad featuring Amy Acton's mother, but it doesn’t erase that he publicly punished Acton for the horrible cards she was dealt, which is parents who provided an unsafe, unstable home. His moral compass does not exist and he’s unfit to lead Ohio.

Trump Unleashes Racist Tirade That should be the headline in every newspaper.

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

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🚧 FUTURE VOTING ROADBLOCKS: This is the last election before Florida’s state version of the sweeping anti-voting SAVE America Act goes into effect. Starting in 2027, voters in Florida will be required to prove their citizenship status or lose their right to register to vote and cast a ballot.

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Talarico: You want to know why they are spending $200 million against me? Because I don’t take their corporate PAC money and I never will. I don’t work for them. I work for you. When we flip this seat in Texas, I’m going to vote to ban corporate PACs so billionaires can’t buy our elections.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

dad's telling us to grow up

Obama was really on fire bsky.app/profile/atru...

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) lawsuit to preemptively block certification of the results in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race if the Republican loses is pure bunk, according to a growing chorus of legal experts, democracy advocates and politicians. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The level of hatred and harassment that Trump is directing at Ilhan Omar is appalling. He's inciting some disturbed person to commit violence against her. The entire Republican Party already has blood on its hands, and it's eager for more.

Unusual Machines—where Don Jr. is an adviser—just annouced it got a $16.9M order from Powerus—a drone firm backed by Don Jr. and Eric. 🤝🏻

I’m glad Congress isn’t alive to see this.

Trump ran for president to give himself immunity from his many crimes, increase his net worth exponentially by obscenely profiting off the presidency, and ensure that he could get away with cheating on his taxes in the past, present and future. Oh, and to build a ballroom.

All these so-called “independent” Republicans will go right back to voting for Johnson as speaker, confirm every Trump nominee, vote with Trump on everything, and continue doing zero oversight on his corrupt regime. A vote for any one of them is a vote to continue all of that.

We literally have the largest bike-touring event in the world which has been an annual summer state tradition for FIFTY YEARS. There's a giant exhibit in the state historical museum about it. This is comical.

Donald Trump is a sexual predator. He took the side of the Cornell 7 & now of the abusers of Ohio Gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Amy Acton who was removed with her sibling from her mother's custody & stepfather who r@ped her. Republicans are pedophile protectors. Vote blue! bsky.app/profile/male...

Q: Do you think it's right for the richest man in the world to have so much power over what goes on in a war because Russia and Ukraine? TRUMP: Well, I don't think he does. First of all, he's a very good person. He's not gonna do anything wrong. Elon will never do anything wrong.

Has a pool reporter ever stood up on behalf of their colleagues when this happens?

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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Trump: "I settled 8 raging wars or soon to be wars, and we're close to ending 2 more" (One is the war he started)

And stupidity. They forgot stupidity

I believe we can have a secure border and a clear pathway to citizenship and we can do it without a rogue, illegal agency like ICE.

A strong woman standing up for another strong woman in the face of an amoral man is a wonderful sight.

Threatening physical harm or injury against members of Congress because of their performance of their duties is a felony under US law, 18 USC § 351. Elon Musk could easily be prosecuted for what he has done. But he won't be. After all, the US government is in his pocket

For claiming to know nothing about lowlife Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad targeting Amy Acton’s childhood trauma — Trump sure seems to know a lot about it “I know nothing about it, but I hear the mother went very rogue on the daughter… And I think the mother is a witness to things also, so who knows?”

Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

🇺🇸👀 Hillary Clinton: I continue to believe that Putin has things on Trump. I continue to believe that he is holding photos, videos, whatever it might be. When we finally see all the Epstein files, I think even the people who supported Trump are going to be shocked by what it shows about Trump.

Translation: If the government turns on him, he's finished.

Expanding the Court is the moderate position

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Trump on his rallies: "I have 15,000 people, and I'm disappointed. We have 30,000." (Trump has not had anything close to 15,000 at his recent rallies, let alone twice that)