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@davidrlurie.com @PN: "The false notion that Trump was not fully committed to Putin also allowed many R supporters of Ukraine to justify looking the other way...Now that the Trump/Putin alliance has been indelibly formalized, denial is no longer a remotely reasonable option." 🧾 t2m.co/5XNjuHq

Reporters need to start responding: "No, you did not inherit higher prices, Mr. Trump. And, no, you have not brought those prices down. Why are you being so brazenly dishonest to the American people? You think they never visit stores and gas stations?"

We squander our allies, our economy, our men & women in uniform, and Trump does not even have the respect to tell US why? Too much coverage gets lost in weeds of the fiasco, but the bottom line is that this war is insane, absolutely bonkers. And everyone responsible for it should be held to account.

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.

Gold Star families made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. It should go without saying that they deserve every benefit they're entitled to. What the White House is doing by not even acknowledging Americans who died in the line of duty is unacceptable.

NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...

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I always think Hassett is the stupidest, most dishonest person in the administration. Until Hegseth opens his mouth. Then RFK, Jr. finds a mic. Then Sean Duffy appears in my feed. Then Lutnick speaks. But only till Markwayne talks. Then I remember: NO ONE is a stupid and dishonest as Trump himself.

I used this analogy the other day, Trump every day acts more like Jim Jones. And he's got aides willing to kill for him.

The NYT ran an article in April raising questions about Trump’s mental status, quoting people calling him “clearly insane,” “an extremely sick person,” “unhinged,” “out of control,” “batshit crazy,” and “a genocidal lunatic.” Then they never mentioned it again. presswatchers.org/2026/04/new-...

The illegal boat strikes began exactly one year ago today. The boat strikes weren’t really about stopping drugs. They were about testing for compliance to see who would obey illegal orders & purge objectors. Trump was normalizing his ability to smite anyone—like the angry God of the Old Testament.🧵

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

JD Vance’s public position, core to his vision for the country, is that JD Vance’s wife and kids aren’t real Americans, that they are by definition lesser than any white “heritage American,” and the govt should treat them and anyone like them as second class. Why wouldn’t that be a campaign issue?

Hegseth is systematically destroying and dismantling the greatest military force in the world. Another great day for Putin and Xi.

It genuinely breaks my brain that a third of the country can look at Trump, a guy who is basically a walking, breathing fraud and the most shameless liar in history, and somehow buy what he’s selling while he picks their pockets in broad daylight.

We're deep into Mad King territory here and yet there will still be people on the Sunday shows today pretending that the president isn't a mentally deranged despot

Just another thing that Democratic leaders should talk about every day but don't. Why doesn't the DNC make a chart with annual job growth blue vs red president and plaster it everywhere?

If voters do not viscerally grasp the breadth and severity of the problems Trump has caused, they may not understand the urgency and scale of what it will take to fix them. presswatchers.org/2026/08/norm...

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Wtf. Kushner is part of a kleptocratic clan and cuts deal with corrupt autocrats around the globe. He is unvetted, unconfirmed. He has no official government position. Don’t legitimize him.

The NY Times writes that “Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.” As if it’s just a run of bad luck instead of an ongoing con job against the American people.

🧵You can't talk about Natalie Harp w/o talking about how strange she is. This isn't making fun of physique or bearing. It's about obsessive/creepy behavior. And it matters on policy. As a former Republican media consultant, I can tell you that this attack is astonishingly effective w/the public...

1/ On January 19, 2025, a mob stormed a courthouse in Seoul to stop a judge from arresting South Korea's president. It looked spontaneous. It wasn't. That mob was 50 years in the making, and part of the money and training behind it traces back to the US. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

It costs nothing to say “hell yeah, we’re gonna fight for national healthcare.” “Hell yeah, we’re getting rid Trump’s Gestapo.” “Hell yeah, we’re gonna do XYZ.” Or to pivot every question about progressive candidates being “too extreme” to “have you seen what this GOP has done/wants?!”

The right's attempts to turn empathy into a negative have to be fought hard.

“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people. 1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is. cc: @MarshaBlackburn

Donald Trump’s stupidity has no limits. He has lost a war that did not need to be fought. He has wrecked the economy, and he has guaranteed that his party will be swept out of power in November. It takes an absolute moron to cause so many disasters at home and abroad.

Every media outlet lazily quotes Trump that cities are war zones, but won't publish actual facts.

Trump has proven he is not restrained by norms or laws so the idea that any serious news outlet would report that what Trump says is a 'joke' is truly mind boggling. Mark's done a good job here of reminding us just how serious Trump's 'jokes' are. open.substack.com/pub/stopthep...

Insane that this can happen, not only is not being investigated by Congress, the press largely turns its head and corporate executives pay the bribes.

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

This shows the gap between GOP & Dem. messaging. The Republicans NEVER stop pressing their false narratives. They bang the drums over & over. The Dems make their case & move on. They should have been non-stop pummeling Trump for Covid (and 1/6) for years, never letting anyone forget these sins.

Fun fact about the national debt: it matters exclusively when a Democrat is president

It wasn't just "politics" when CBS execs pressured their reporters to insert lies in their coverage after federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti. It was a morally repugnant attempt to whitewash state terrorism and murder. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Grifters preying on the weak-minded leaving a wake of destruction as they count their cash.

Trying to appease liars who seek your destruction for ideological reasons does not, in fact, make them stop trying to destroy you. Abandoning your values to chase after people who oppose you at their very core does not make anyone else trust you more. The results—unsurprisingly—are the opposite.

Republicans do things TO people, not FOR people.

What I would add to @jamellebouie.net's column is that the right has characterized nearly every advance of the compensatory state--whether proposed or enacted--since the New Deal as "socialism." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/o...

The entire GOP strategy for decades is to mindlessly repeat bad faith accusations, it doesn't matter what Dems do or say. Why Dems don't recognize this and fight back in like fashion is one of the most puzzling questions of our time.

Always get a kick out of people who, after all this time, are still penning articles and posting things like, "This is going to get a lot worse unless the Trump Administration changes course." My dude. They're not there to make things work. They're there to steal. Open your fucking eyes.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.