Tim Swan

When the Dems take the house they need to unravel these deals. What ever happened to anti-trust in this country?

trump says he has brought on a "turnaround for the ages" and he's not wrong

NEW: President Trump's appointment of Jared Kushner as special peace envoy means Kushner will need to disclose his financial interests and triggers much needed oversight of potential conflicts of interest as he negotiates with Iran, Ukraine, Russia and Israel. 🧵

Because of the partial government shutdown, DHS has limited travel spending to such an extent that FEMA staff can't travel in and out of disaster relief areas. Meanwhile, DHS also wants to spend $70 million on this luxury jet for Kristi Noem's travel.

Trump has never said anything as critical about Vladimir Putin or any Russian war criminal as he did today about the majority on the US Supreme Court.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

Is there a better piece of clothing than longjohns in the winter?

"Senator Chuck Grassley, a lifelong Iowan, has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee since 1981, when he was first sworn into the U.S. Senate." www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/chair He questioned and voted on every single justice on the U.S. Supreme Court during their confirmation hearings.

In one (endless) year Donald Trump has turned America from the envy of much of the world to a laughingstock. It’s sad to see us lose our leadership on so many important things.

I would like to know how my prior colleagues, who have chosen to pursue leadership positions under this charlatan, justify ordering agents to break their oaths of office and open investigations on people simply for exercising their legal rights. Good luck gazing in the mirror when this is all over.

Kristi Noem: dog-killer weirdo Greg Bovino: Napoleon complex & Nazi cos-player. Stephen Miller: Self-hating Jew Tom Homan: reminds you of your politically moronic uncle so you may give him a pass ( but don’t) Pam Bondi: dumb lawyer with really disgusting daddy issues Donald Trump: life-long racist

It really doesn't matter how much camouflage, body armor, masking, and how many weapons that ICE, DPS, BP have, they're still damaged humans, anti-American, and cowards and they will not cow the American people.

Apple CEO TIm Cook went to the White House the evening after Alex Pretti was murdered and took selfies with Trump and the serial sexual abuser who directed the Melania film. No spine. No soul. And your fucking iOS updates are ass.

If you’re a veteran and you think it’s fine that ICE murdered an ICU nurse for the VA, you may want to get professional help.

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."

What is happening in this country is the result of seeds sown during the Reagan administration. He started us down this road of rampant mistrust in government, out of control capitalism, and coarsened public discourse.

It's really too bad the United States Congress no longer exists.

Man, I bet the NRA is going to be furious when they hear that jack-booted thugs from the federal government executed a law-abiding citizen for exercising his Second Amendment right to carry a handgun. Any second now, I'm sure. He was a white guy, if that helps? Hello? NRA?

DOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.

All those people downtown yesterday, no ICE involvement, and not one incident. ICE shows up in a neighborhood and now another Minnesotan is dead. It's pretty obvious who the violent outside agitators are.

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

What the Trump admin is doing with ICE in Minnesota has absolutely nothing to do with immigration. If they were really mostly concerned with “illegal” immigrants, they’d be in Texas, which has more than 10 times as many immigrants. This is pure political punishment for a blue state.

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

I grew up thinking America was the greatest country on earth. In just 5 years of Donald Trump, I question whether we were ever even good. It's truly distressing.

So, if I'm reading this right: 4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer, and 6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow. (HT @benjaminkabak.com)

At the rate we're going, Larry Ellison is going to have Paramount Pictures put out a prestige drama about the valiant officers who tracked down Anne Frank

As Drumpf becomes increasingly deranged let's not forget that we wouldn't be here if not for Mitch McConnell and the Supreme Court. They enabled this.

The Trump administration depends on stupid and ill-informed people.

This story needs to be everywhere. Every news outlet every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse. Shout it at your neighbors. Scream it at your colleagues. This is murder.

“I’m tempted to close by denouncing Trump’s hubris. But hubris implies a certain grandeur of purpose. Trump has no great ambitions to shape a better world or a better hemisphere. With him, it’s all boasting and bullying and lying, greed and narcissism and vanity.” www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-and...

Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK: He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial. C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

This would be an excellent moment for politicians to stop demonizing universities.

FBI Director Kash Patel: "When you attack our nation's capital, you attack the very being of our way of life. This FBI and this DOJ stand here to tell you we will always refute it and combat it." Donald Trump pardoned over 1,500 rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol...

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women". Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.

1. This is not what fog of war means. 2. There is no war 3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over 4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.

A million times spot on.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.