JD Vance: "Fighting fraud in DC is a little bit like fishing in a barrel with a nuclear weapon. Every day my staff brings me new reports of the ways you're being defrauded. You should not be able to steal from all of you and give it to fraudsters."
(I edited the legible radio chatter out of this but I wish I didn't have to, because it's the hardcore dispatch guy going "Yeah, we've got your back" as we race onto the highway behind the Wagoneer. My neighbors make me strong)
WATCH: Jeffrey Goldberg explaining what he was sent by Hegseth accidentally… followed by Hegseth furiously denying it.
If you can’t tell who is lying here, please come play poker with us — and bring a lot of cash! 🙃
#America rushing to see how we can go from the smartest to the dumbest the fastest.
What is the point of court orders if these agencies can just defy them?
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
@rbreich.bsky.social:
“For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13.
For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26.
Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency.
It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.”
Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)
Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike.
Don’t let up.
Keep making noise.
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Mindset reset:
Right now, brave Ukrainians are defending their land & loved ones, at the cost of their sanity, limbs & lives. It’s an existential fight for their democracy & way of life.
If the Russians lose, they go home. If the Ukrainians lose, they will be overrun & destroyed.
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
"There are 60,000 voters who did everything they're supposed to do, and my opponent wants their ballots to be tossed."
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs sat down with @marcelias.bsky.social to explain what's happening in the state Supreme Court race. Watch the full interview.
For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators.
Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.