A political office that hires a felon rapist with a serious child sex trafficking ring orbiting around him, deserves less than no respect. It requires our disrespect.
He doesn't do what is right, honorable, or expected, especially if it makes him "look bad," like when he skipped the 100th anniversary of D-Day on France because the rain would mess up his hair.
He doesn't deserve respect, deference or acceptance.
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."
WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.
She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.
Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.
While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...
McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.
And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.
That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
AYMAN: Can you tell me where Iran killed thousands of Americans in America?
ANNA PAULINA LUNA: I said they are responsible for thousands of Americans being killed
AYMAN: Where?
LUNA: Are you serious right now?
AYMAN: It seems like you don't want to have a good faith conversation
New reporting from the Miami Herald on how Epstein used his power, money, & influence to “infiltrate the justice system.”
I do a deep dive into this incredible article, including eyebrow-raising relationships between the prosecutors and Epstein’s criminal defense team.
youtu.be/tYdj-JwxJjo?...
the fact the president of the united states is even thinking about asserting emergency powers to disrupt an election - just a few years after he incited an armed coup attempt - should be the top issue. but the media mostly shrugs and the opposition doesnt focus on it.
We will force a vote on Rep. Thomas Massie and my bipartisan resolution to stop Trump from launching an illegal war in Iran next week. This perhaps will be the most consequential vote in Congress on war or peace since the Iraq war vote in 2002.
It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.
HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.
A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org. Follow along ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The regime thinks it’s done with the Epstein scandal. They better think again, because we are NOT backing down.
Remind your representatives that we will not stop until they release ALL of the files
Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones.
I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below.
www.404media.co/the-governme...
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.
For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2069...
Today, former Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton, will testify before House Oversight as a part of that committee's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. Bill Clinton testifies tomorrow.
Both she & her husband insisted that their testimony be provided in a public hearing, but Rep. James Comer refused.
“It’s no longer a political calculus. It’s a moral and legal and Constitutional obligation of Congress to [impeach]. It would be a violation of the oath of office for a member of Congress not to push for impeachment when it is possible.”
The only people showing disdain to American citizens is this fascist regime that is kidnapping brown American citizens in the street and working to illegally denaturalized their citizenship!
Portuguese neurologist Egas Moniz invented the lobotomy and won the Nobel Prize in medicine before the negative effects of the radical brain surgery were fully known. Now Donald Trump is giving our entire nation a lobotomy, and he wants the Nobel Prize for it, too.
I’m in DC for tonight's State of the Union. Floridians are hurting, costs are through the roof, corruption is out of control, and politicians like Ashley Moody will just sit there and clap like things are going just fine. I won’t stand for it.
Hines: I handled human trafficking cases all over Southeast Michigan. I believe survivors deserve justice, no matter who the accused is. Accountability cannot depend on whether someone is powerful, wealthy, or politically connected.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Rep. Massie: “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”
The best thing the Democrats could do tonight is to loudly tell Trump to “fuck off” because it’s how most of this country feels — and their job is to literally REPRESENT us.
Of all Presidementia's prior State-of-the-Unions I've not watched in the past, tonight's State-of-the-Union is the State-of-the-Union I'm not watching the most. 🍊🚫
Sen. Tammy Duckworth will... not be at SOTU.
"America deserves better than this president and the bullshit he's going to say tonight," she says. "I refuse to attend Trump's address this evening bc I'm not interested in sitting there & watching Republicans stroke his fragile ego for hours on end."
Rubin: There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI are missing. We can also confirm that that woman is the same person who accused Donald Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
here's today's post: "none of this shit is popular" — and all of it is fucked up.
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“The system sucks. This job sucks.” Even Trump’s own lawyers are begging to be held in contempt just to get away from him. EMBARRASSING. 📉🤦♂️ www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/this-great...