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This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

This 💩 writes itself 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Trump: "Can you imagine standing here 15 years ago and talking about the transgender mutilization? Everybody would say 'this politician is crazy'"

Catholic Bishops, from a church notorious for raping children without consent, prays with a president also notorious for raping children without consent, get touchy about the White House posting a video of the event [checks notes] without consent.

Complete desperation to A) create chaos and B) extra judicial messaging - so he can gish gallop about election fraud at his white Christian nationalist rallies. Elections Clause provides states administer, Congress handles oversight.

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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.

“007, his name is Elon and he has redirected the world satellites to assist a rogue fascist Russian premier”

Billionaire oligarch endangering civilians by slowing communication satellites sounds like a James Bond plot

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

988,000 people bought into Trump’s crypto scam. Maybe start there.

Imagine thinking you're a messenger for Jesus Christ and that his message was "do not help the weak and less fortunate"

“No big deal because it’s not me.”

Funny how Donald just gave his complete and total endorsement to Benjamin Netanyahu, the man who tricked Trump into going to war with Iran, which sent fuel costs soaring and may cost Trump control of Congress. But Donald is smart like that.

Fair Q

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

Donald has no problem pronouncing the names of people who give him lots of money. He won't even make fun of your name with crass, racist jokes.

The job of academia is to increase knowledge, while the premise of conservatism is that knowledge is bad. So it is not surprising that we find few conservatives in academia.

The Constitution blocks that by making the amendment process too hard.

Worse still -- the fundamental flaw of the Constitution -- is their failure to recognize even the best systems for checking power getting captured eventually. Because that's powerful people do! They fucking wreck things. The only way to deal with that is to continually update those systems.

Trump’s worldview is that it is good for evil to prevail and wrong for the righteous to resist.

People are claiming that Elon Musk messed with Starlink in Ukraine because Trump asked him. I think a more likely reason is that Ukraine damaging Russian data centers embarrassed Elon by showing how many of his Twitter followers are nonexistent and how much traffic on Twitter is driven by bots.

Republican politicians are *obsessed* with schoolchildren coming home a different gender because of pro-trans teachers, WHICH NEVER HAPPENS. But they are completely indifferent to schoolchildren not coming home *at all* because of guns, WHICH HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!

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Clear takeaway: If you don't want the US government (under Trump, or anyone else in the future) or Elon Musk personally to surprise you by cutting satellite internet access you thought you had secured, the only way is to not use anything made by SpaceX. Otherwise, the risk will always be there.

How about Natalie Harp for Press Secretary? If Marco Rubio can be SecState, NatSec Advisor, Archivist, USAID Director, and Viceroy of Venezuela without really doing any of it, why couldn't Harp be PressSec, in addition to dementia nurse, ego fluffer, travel companion, and social media manager?

Up to now, the polls have under-estimated Trump's popularity, because voters have not been willing to admit they like him. But now, the polls likely are over-estimating his popularity, because his voters are not willing to admit they are abandoning him. If so, look for a real election wipeout.

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

Pretty clear that Trump/Hegseth are doing everything they can to force Ukraine to surrender to Putin by withholding all US assistance while actively helping fund the Russian war machine to kill as many civilians as possible including kids. What a dark, evil chapter in US history.

Remarkable outcome in Fox News' latest poll: 88% of U.S. voters say they are extremely or very concerned about corruption in government, beating every other issue including inflation www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

“We’ll think of something.”

Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

Trump: "I have some very severe problems"

Can we please not nominate another “neutral” attorney general in 2029? Go scorched earth.

read that sentence. it is a description of political persecution. anyone giving this the time of day as a serious legal case is a fool.

The absolute flood of leaks about this case is maybe an indication that people inside govt aren’t feeling too great about it

Authoritarian regime grabs electronic communication devices of prominent opposition member. Since it’s highly unlikely there is anything on her phone about immigration paperwork from 30 years ago we can assume this just became a fishing expedition.

The federal government is going after Ilhan Omar only because of her race, gender, religion, and party, openly admitting they have no probable cause and aim to manufacture something. Worse because she’s a sitting member of Congress. That makes it an attack on her constituents and US democracy too.

Trump: "I didn't go to Congress. Remember Sleepy Joe? 'Oh, if they would give me approval in Congress!' You're not gonna get approval. You just do it. You're the president."

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

We need to report more figures in daily life as percentages of net worth rather than raw numbers. We should also levy fines the same way. A $250 speeding ticket may be fully 2.5% of a poor person's net worth. It would also be equivalent to fining Elon Musk $2.5 billion.

Trump is the drunk who sits by himself at the end of the bar, insulting everyone until he is finally kicked out.

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

GOP Rep. Tom Kean disappeared for 4 months & missed dozens of votes then finally surfaced, read a 5 minute speech saying he was at a mental health facility, refused to take questions from the press, and MAGA supports his reelection. But the Talarico hoax is career ending.

I would love, absolutely love, at least one prominent contender for the Dem POTUS nomination in 2028 to start threatening this now. "Trump is right that lying on immigration forms is a serious offense. Here are the people my DOJ will investigate on Day 1: Musk, Melania, etc." Put fear in them NOW.

Just another thing that disqualifies him for the democratic nomination

The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)