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me: mom, what was I like as a little girl? my mom (completely fucking braindead): hey alexa describe a human kid or something

Blanche: "Trump is not trying to take over a state election in any way, shape or form. What we're trying to do is make it make it clear that if it is obvious after the election that confusion led to an improper and illegal result, that the Alaskan system should be able to address that."

TRUMP: We gave nothing in exchange for Stephen. We never give anything in exchange for hostages. TRUMP LITERALLY MOMENTS LATER: If I implemented sanctions on Russia, Steven wouldn't be coming out right now.

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

Russia was never a hoax

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

Trump posted that Putin and Zelenskyy agreed to a deal this morning for a cease fire on energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy is asked about it and says: “That’s news to me.”

Endless corruption.

Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.

NEW: The Georgia State Election board is requesting Justice Department "intervention" ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The board sent request letters to Todd Blanche, Harmeet Dhillon, and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Docs obtained by @lawfaremedia.org: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Jared Kushner's private equity company is the largest shareholder in an Israeli firm with Israeli military links, a CNN investigation has found. He is also negotiating a deal for Gaza. New reporting from CNN's Katie Polglase, Allegra Goodwin, and Majlie de Puy Kamp edition.cnn.com/2026/10/01/u...

I think we all saw that coming

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway

They are playing in our faces

This is undoubtedly another act of sabotage specifically requested by a foreign adversary in a conservation with a Trump family member about a financial transaction. There's no explanation for this other than "Trump was paid to do it."

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

“Briefly detained” = beat half to death

This is particularly crazy when you see how many NFL venues are scheduled to host Kanye West, a guy who literally released a song about Hitler. Including two of the stadiums who threatened Sheeran! But he didn’t say anything good about Palestinians so it’s fine.

Kick him out now, shun him from all meetings

Lots of good options but...

Transparently bullshit political talking points have real-world consequences www.the-express.com/news/us-news...

The federal law that makes this illegal basically says “it’s illegal” and nothing else. Congress should amend it to say that any U.S. currency featuring living people isn’t legal tender.

If there’s even a small issue with a single ballot-like a woman changed her name upon getting married-the USPS system could disenfranchise 10,000 voters Allegedly, the point of this is to stop cheats. But there haven’t been anywhere near 10,000 cases of fraud in the entire history of mail in voting

You know who else has compared COVID to 9/11? Greg Gutfeld. Neil Cavuto. Donald Trump. (And thanks to @johnknefel.bsky.social who put this list together via www.mediamatters.org/cbs/embracin...)

I would like ask JD Vance about Pierre Damas Bel.

Not a new take. Just one worth re-emphasizing: Republicans don’t oppose government-run health care based on the notion that it won’t work. They oppose government-run health care because they know it will work. Therefore, it will work for *those* people. That’s why they politically oppose it.

I dunno much about Maness or Anderson but Schlicter is a straight-up fascist who wants to among other things "use the law to ensure blue submission" and "imprison dissenters" to achieve the aim, "force them to be like us."

All the money in the world can’t make up for the crippling loss of leadership caused by Hegseth’s purges. Trump and Hegseth may be buying more hardware, but they are endangering the apolitical professionalism—the operating system--that made the U.S. military the envy of the world. wapo.st/4gFl3Ey

Underappreciated: US farmland *already substantially produces energy, not food*, and does so very inefficiently. Corn ethanol (~40% of all US corn) requires about 100 times more land per vehicle-mile driven than solar photovoltaics -> electric vehicles. Shifting corn to solar *would free up land*.

1/2 His son is serving America aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. His father..19 years in the U.S., a work permit, no criminal record was arrested by ICE while waiting for him to come home. THIS is Trump’s America. #USDemocracy #RisingBlue apnews.com/article/uss-...

What the admiral says. US corporate media obsess over the handful of Democratic socialists running for Democratic nominations. They ignore the substantially larger number of military veterans who are filling the lists of Democratic candidates across the country.

Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic

I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.

A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

Fondly recalling all those Patriot Act/FISA debates where surveillance apologists would roll their eyes at mention of Hoover-era abuses: You clearly don’t understand all the institutional reforms that would render such a thing impossible in the modern day.

*Stares in abortion restrictions intended to make the care inaccessible without technically banning it*

Among U.S. patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, renal cell carcinoma, and metastatic melanoma alone, in a single year, mRNA immunotherapies avert over 49,000 deaths. 🧪 The corresponding economic value is $75.6 billion. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anyone else getting a lot of right wing suggestions on Facebook the last few days?

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...