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OBAMA: "Trump is focused on enriching himself & his family/friends. A Venezuelan billionaire wanted a pardon, so he paid a Trump lawyers $50 million — and lo & behold! The pardon falls out of the sky... We’ve never seen a president straight-up grifting on your dime like this."

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

Absolutely 👇

Imagine if, in 1939, FDR backed Hitler and Nazi Germany. That's the equivalent of what Trump is doing now.

For you youngs who weren't alive for this: Understand that the Chicks were an early rollout of the far right intimidation that we see targeting judges, members of Congress, and ICE protestors now.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Democrats need to run hard against Elon Musk. They need to warn the public that the world's richest man is spending $276 million to attempt a hostile takeover of our government.

School shootings happen this often because Republican politicians think gun worship is good for their careers.

Watching news unfolding about a school shooting in Bend, Oregon. Heartsick that our country faces this over and over and over. Vote out every fucking Republican now and forever. May they rot in hell for their chronic failure to address this issue. This only happens in America.

100% this.

This is psychosis. He is profoundly mentally ill. He is not fit to be in any position of power over anyone or anything. He should not control nuclear weapons.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

Josh Turek: We need to have campaign finance reform to get dark money out of politics. I want to sponsor a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. We can have oligarchy or we can have democracy. We can't have both.

This is our country. And we must vote. While we still can. Daily pledge. Now and forever. Never. Vote. Republican. Ever. Again. Period. For any race. At any level.

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

"He is not here to help. He’s distant, angry, a figure of nothing but venom & vengeance. He walks toward the viewer like a serial killer stalking his prey, his face a mask of contempt & barely-contained rage. His visage in this ad is glowering, almost a parody of a dictator trying to inspire terror"

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”

Jack Smith is professional, admirable and unflappable. His motivations are unimpeachable. His adherence to the Rule of Law is steadfast and refreshing. He has zero political rhetoric. He shows no personal or professional sensitivity. He communicates accurately. He would be an ideal attorney general.

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

Oregon has voted by mail for 25 years, under both Democrat and Republican administrations. Despite Trump’s attempts to interfere in mail-in voting, the Supreme Court made it clear: there will be no changes to mail-in voting this year. #orpol #oregonelections

Should be reposted every month....

“POTUS is attempting to deflect and obfuscate from his own precarious health, the disastrous war in Iran and his damage to the global economy.” noelcasler.substack.com/p/in-a-senti...

We will vote to rebuke him so decisively no president will dare such abuses again for centuries.

While the world burns, and you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become the royal family’s wealth. Because it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook.

Insurance companies take your premiums every month, then do whatever they can to deny the care that you need. The system is rigged everywhere you turn, and I’m ready to take it on.

The Illusion of the "Mighty" Bigot. The reason flag-waving groups consume so much of your mental space is that they are designed to look terrifyingly powerful. Fascism relies on theatre, flags, uniforms, loud chants, and aggressive postures, to make individual, deeply

MAGA really is the last dying gasp of the Confederacy. Tune in tonight and look at the RNC convention. They really are just old, white, angry people afraid they're somehow going to suffer the same kind of oppression they've inflicted on minorities for 2 Centuries.

Dean: He spent billions of your tax dollars wrecking the White House and building monuments to himself. He will be remembered for rot and rubble

Things aren't falling apart because people suddenly started caring too much or demanding equality. Everything is breaking down because a handful of ruthless billionaires hijacked our governments, gutted public services, and turned the entire system into a rigged piggy bank for themselves.

Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

RFKjr has no medical degree and zero science background. He cannot even recite the scientific method. He should not be entrusted with overseeing the healthcare of a single individual, let alone a whole nation.

If all income in excess of $400,000 were subject to the Social Security payroll tax, Social Security’s solvency would be guaranteed forever. We could also expand Social Security benefits. There’s no reason even to consider reducing Social Security benefits or raising the age of eligibility.

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The corruption driving the Trump presidency is a civic emergency. Congress has a responsibility to confront it directly and to crush it as quickly as possible. We, Democrats, will not rest until we restore the rule of law.

CBS fired the team that made 60 Minutes must-watch TV. Now that team is reportedly building a $50M rival, with the same reporters, the same producers, the same rigor. You don’t get to keep the brand if you let the talent walk.

To be absolutely clear, the Democrats don’t just need to win in November. They need to defeat this Republican poison overwhelmingly. Anything less will convince these hateful thugs that their cause continues to be righteous.

Being a firefighter has given me a front row seat to the collapse of the middle class.