TerryL

Pelosi on Trump's flirtation with taking Greenland: "This road leads to Putin."

Also: I don't see how any intelligent and lucid person could watch this press conference and conclude that the president of the United States has anywhere near sufficient cognitive ability to properly execute the duties of his office.

Alex Wagner and Tim Miller explore how Trump's excuses collapse into a contradictory mess when you read the Epstein emails.

Did you know Trump's ballroom is being funded in part by undisclosed contributions from secret donors? Do you think congressional Republicans care? ICYMI @cheetah.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-whit...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom: I will not raise my children to think Donald Trump is an acceptable American leader. He is a con artist, a predator, a malignant narcissist, and the worst president in our nation's history.

Obama: The weird videos of a U.S. President with a crown on his head flying a fighter jet and dumping poop on protesting citizens… All of that is designed to distract you from the fact that your situation has not gotten better.

Mockler: I’m 23 years old, and Gen Zers have spent all of our formative years living in a political system that’s purely dysfunctional. People in my generation see the president posting memes online rather than actually negotiating with the other side.

"For five weeks they haven't worked, they're getting paid, they're not having town halls....I assume a lot of them are getting some Netflix time in." @timmiller.bsky.social on congressional Republicans' shutdown vacation:

Goldman: The notion that Tom Homan does official consulting business by receiving $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag is preposterous. And the fact that they closed that investigation while charging Jim Comey and Tish James with bogus charges at Trump’s direction is completely destroying the DOJ.

@crampell.bsky.social asks @gtconway.bsky.social if he's worried he's next on Trump's retribution list: "No. Let him try."

Scenes from a #nokings protest in Paris

This group of #NoKings protesters in Old Town Alexandria ripped the GOP for calling the rallies anti-American: “They think they’re the only patriotic ones”

@gtconway.bsky.social’s corgi Clyde debuts on The Weeknight, ahead of his appearance at Saturday's No Kings protest.

Katy Tur: Is Marjorie Taylor Greene "an effective voice for the Democrats at this point?” @timmiller.bsky.social: “Absolutely. I've got no notes for her.”

Q: "Have [the Qataris] changed their behavior from 2017 when you accused them of funding terrorism?" Trump: "I don't know. In 2017, I didn't really know them very well."

Tim Miller on his recent interview with Barstool's KFC about how only "absolute batshit crazy" people want masked ICE agents kidnapping random gardeners:

Now you know

God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power. How Dems can beat Trump on the shutdown, in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

A week after her win in Arizona, @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social still has not been sworn in by Speaker Johnson

“This country’s always been the country that gave people a chance . . . we wanted the best of everybody. It just seems like now, especially with this administration, it’s become almost, Not you, not you"

The son of a migrant farmworker, he can hit a bullseye from a mile out with a long-range rifle—and he’s getting Democrats’ hopes up.

Senior Trump administration health officials spent days devising the delicate rollout of new guidance suggesting a possible link between autism and the usage of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. But their careful plotting could not account for one key variable: https://cnn.it/46i8lYj

@timmiller.bsky.social on Trump attacks on free speech: “It's a good sign that we've seen some pushback from within his coalition on this.”

"At some point, there is some dark comedy in this - just how incompetent Kash Patel is - on the other hand, it's fucking serious." @timmiller.bsky.social talks the FBI's incompetence and much more with @eringloriaryan.bsky.social in today's Bulwark Podcast:

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Today we had a chance to stand with the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in uniform. Ashli Babbitt is not that. She is a traitor. She will be a traitor. She died a traitor."

We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)

NEWS: Trump fundraises on his desire to "Get to Heaven," Trump cuts pediatric brain cancer research funding, Trump advances plan to create Department of War, and Epstein's birthday book heading to Congress. All the news you missed today: open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

"If you’re horny for a full, deep dive into Trump’s bullshit, then I’m your guy. Because here’s the reality about tariffs, the deficit, and the CBO report."

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook is not backing down after Donald Trump’s very public attempt to fire her, announcing today that she will challenge the president in court. Tune in to The Weeknight at 7PM ET for the latest.

“Do you believe this garbage?” @kristygreenberg.bsky.social responds to the DOJ's Ghislaine Maxwell interview

The early morning raid on John Bolton's house was meant to send a message. Not to Bolton, but to the rest of us: If you are not nice to President Trump, he will bring the full force of the state down upon your life. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

I am licensed to open carry sandwiches

is this okay then 🤣

"If you want to have a coup against the constitutional order, you want to control the capital city. And if he has control of the policing in the city of Washington...Who's gonna tell him to leave the White House?" @gtconway.bsky.social joins @jvl.bsky.social:

Please ask the next Republican office holder you see …”why are the small tax breaks for working folks temporary and the tax breaks for billionaires permanent?”

Not even the most enthusiastic research proponent would argue that there aren’t plenty of ways to make the system more efficient. But the Trump administration is making crude, hasty cuts that are wreaking absolute havoc.

President Donald Trump made some false claims to the press while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House, including a long-debunked claim that the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in wartime aid. | Fact check: cnn.it/45VzqQH

This is absolutely perfect.

Great time to launch a ‘Biden is senile and screwed over the country’ book tour.

Trump didn’t write this. You can always tell because 1. It appears written by someone literate 2. No CAPS

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "People feel the economic strain right away...but when you layer on top of that not just one but many stories of wild incompetence...that's where you get the total sense that no one has their hands on the wheel."