Tanja McConnor

How about YOU and all Democrats taking the threat of both trump and musk seriously? Don't be a 'good German' No Dem should confirm anyone, vote 'yes' on any Republican bills, or be friendly with any of these FASCISTS. NOW is not the time to play by the rules. It's your last chance to #SaveAmerica

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Darline Graham on the passage of her bill named after her brother: "This legislation tells Russia's customers that the United States of America will not sit by while they fund Putin's assault." Tonight, Trump decided to waive the sanctions.

New from me: I unpack what happened at the Jack Smith hearing, and offer a theory of what the hell Senator Eric Schmitt thought he was doing. And yes, an inability to tell the difference between the Hawks and Hawkeyes really did seem to be a big part of it. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Sen. Eric Schmitt is an international laughingstock. He’s up for reelection in 2028, so we’ll have to work on him later.

Please pray for my community here in Idaho, especially Twin Falls and the families of those who were killed and injured in the mass shooting. Please speak out for common sense gun reform so that we don’t have to keep living through perpetual gun violence like this. Lord, have mercy.

120,000 Americans are shot every year. 44,000 Americans die by gun violence every year. This is a crisis that we could easily end, but continue to justify as an “acceptable loss” in order to feed America’s rabid obsession with firearms - a fervor manufactured and fueled by the NRA.

This is another step towards a one-party state: only give government grants to your political friends www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

"What no one in this room wants to admit is Trump has helped all of you. He couldn’t sell steaks, vodka, water, college ties or Eric but he's helped you. He’s helped you sell your papers, your books & your TV. You helped create this monster & now you’re profiting off of him" Michelle Wolf #WHCD 2018

Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre's brother Sky Roberts says Todd Blanche showed a "complete lack of humanity" toward survivors, recalling Blanche telling him: "Virginia is not here. Your sister's not here to provide that testimony," despite evidence Giuffre provided implicating Prince Andrew.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

Ossoff: "We restore checks and balances by winning this election overwhelmingly"

Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

Rep. Himes: "The president was setting the basis for him to turn around on election night and say, 'I warned you that the Chinese were doing x, y, and z. It happened tonight. I'm deploying federal officers from DHS to 7 states. They will be seizing ballot boxes.'"

Breaking News from The Halfway Post: BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.

It appears Grok killed the schoolchildren in Iran, in tandem with a US military under Pete Hegseth who DGAF. Remember when Anthropic said 'No' to Hegseth's demand that they allow the DoD to use Claude to kill autonomously, with no human oversight? Check out this timeline:

📌The James Comey prosecution is authoritarian, anti-American, and dangerous as hell. Also, none of this would have come to pass if not for James Comey's recklessness putting his thumb on the scale for Trump in 2016 to prevent the woman from being elected.

the Clinton white house was attacked for "refusing to release" how many movies he watched a week but when the Trump white house refuses to release his medical support it "breaks from precedent"

BREAKING: California Governor Gavin Newsom is signing new legislation to strengthen protections against election interference, intimidation, and unauthorized law enforcement activity ahead of the June 2 statewide primary. 1/

The claim that AI will be used to boost productivity and improve everyone's lives would have just a little bit more credibility if the big tech companies weren't already using AI exactly as every knows they will, which is to fire people and extract more work from those remaining.

Thomas Massie: “Today is the six month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” video courtesy @acyn.bsky.social

Senate Republicans Find Theirs, Won’t Fund Trump’s www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Trump is literally out here saying random words and calling it a commencement address. Get a load of this gibberish.

Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” cuts Medicaid by $1 trillion. Here is what that means in plain English. It means a Maryland mom caring full-time for her disabled 28-year-old son loses $18,000 a year.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Tough break for the Trump Ballroom Senate Parliamentarian rules the $1 billion project will require 60 votes for approval, per Senate Budget Cmte Democrats Very very steep climb

Breaking: The Senate Parliamentarian just advised that the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom will be subject to a 60-vote threshold if it remains in Republicans' bill.

There it is. The Senate parliamentarian rules the $1 billion for Trump's ballroom in the GOP's budget reconciliation bill violates the rules + is subject to 60 votes vs 51. Via budget committee Dems:

This is some major trolling by Xi Look at the chairs. Xi is in the booster chair and Trump at the kids table. They fuck with him real hard. #China #Beijing #Xi #Trump #StateVisit #TrumpTariff #EpsteinFiles #Cnn #BBC

it's amazing how Trump, at nearly 80 years old, comes across as a guy who has never had real friends and is desperate for human connection. he thinks he's buddies with President Xi!

THE ENTIRE TRUMP CRIME FAMILY HAS GLOBALLY MONETIZED THE PRESIDENCY

"I don’t even know where you get this stuff," Patel said. Probably from The Atlantic? You know, that story we were all talking? The one where you threatened to sue the reporter over, but she doubled down with a piece about your "branded bourbon"? Does any of that remotely ring a bell, rummy?

It's second nature for Republicans like Kash Patel to commit character assassination. They think everyone must be as awful as them, but hardly anyone is.

If FBI Director Patel wants to pass out branded bourbon or pop bottles in a locker room, he should stick to podcasting. This is a serious job & I don't believe the American people can count on him. Patel should never have been confirmed. He should resign or be fired.

Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.

Uncle Clyburn for the win! 😤💪🏾 He led this effort. Stop telling me democrats aren’t fighting back!!! And damn sure stop telling me he needs to retire. So far he’s the only politician of any age or race that has beat the GQP since the ratchet ass SCOTUS VRA RULING! www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Please father your sons

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

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Rachel Maddow is laying out the long history of Trump being a despicable racist. All I can say is, it's about fucking time.

Rachel Maddow is talking about Trump’s efforts “to get rid of the multiracial democracy that our Constitution is supposed to protect. It is a war on Black America. The fight to save it is looking like it’s going to be the fight of all of our lives.”

The president demands election results be thrown out so Republicans win more seats

Congratulations to the University of Minnesota. You have a real star on your faculty.

Democrats support a national gerrymandering ban. Republicans would be wise to support it before this gets even uglier.

‘F around and find out’ is still the Democrats’ position on redistricting and is even more so our position after the SCOTUS ruling. Hakeem Jeffries is talking about a scenario when Illinois, Maryland, Colorado, and New York are totally blue. We could get 52 seats in California.

WOW. Thanks to Trump’s war in Iran, Americans will spend $500+ million more JUST TODAY at the pump than they did prior to the war!

Y’all don’t know how despucable these folks are. www.al.com/politics/202...