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XXVIII 1. The President shall be subject to the Laws of the United States. 2. The President shall be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. 3. The President shall not have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States.

Markwayne Mullin’s colleagues know he’s unfit to be DHS Secretary.

Incredible sanewashing from Bloomberg of Trump’s plan to attack a NATO ally in order to steal their resources. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump demanding $230M from the DOJ Bondi runs as if it’s Trump’s firm creates “potential ethical conflicts,”according to @nytimes.com. Is there anything Trump could do that nyt would consider an unqualified ethical conflict, not just a potential conflict?

Astounding that after electing Adams and during Trump’s 2nd term many NYC dems apparently think their next mayor should be their own corrupt, covid-mismanaging sex pest who owes his career to his father.

It’d be nice if we had a congress willing to hold the executive branch accountable for stuff like this instead of just accepting gross incompetence from the people responsible for US national security. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Very weird that 60 minutes is doing a ride-along piece at the US Canada border when only 43lbs of fentanyl and <24K illegal crossings occurred at the US/Canada border last year. 21K lbs of fentanyl and 1.5M illegal crossings occurred at the US/Mexico border last year.

All of the alternative ways to oppose Trump that @schumer.senate.gov is proposing in this All In interview conveniently don’t involve him or senate dems doing anything.

Schumer is afraid of a shutdown bc he doesn’t know how it will end. He fears what he can’t predict so he capitulates instead. It’s just cowardice It shldn’t be hard for congressional dems to use all their power to oppose the corrupt neo-nazis looting our government Dems need a new Minority Leader.

Elon Musk openly attempting to steal a $2.4B FAA contract bc he knows Pam Bondi will not prosecute the blatant corruption is one of the most corrosive things he has done so far. They are malignant. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump and Vance are an existential threat to Ukraine, the Baltic states, Taiwan and all of the free world. The US is not, yet. Right now, it’s a two person problem.

Zelensky has been dealing with Trump for years. He knows Trump works for Putin & cannot be trusted. 5.5yrs ago:

This stuff from democrats is unacceptable. Unequivocal opposition to the unelected nazi billionaire illegally ransacking the US government is the only morally & politically correct response to the last 4wks. Don’t respect him. Don’t work w him. Do everything possible to stop him.

This kind of savvy thinking has led to a lot of suffering for vulnerable ppl over the last decade. “Let Reps nominate Trump, it’ll backfire” “Let Reps overturn Roe, it’ll backfire” “Let Reps cut medicaid, it’ll backfire” Don’t let Republicans do things that hurt people. Try to stop them.

Eventually congress or some judge is going to have to get tired of being so blatantly & routinely lied to like this, right? www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

This is good and important for USAID. www.c-span.org/event/news-c...

@schatz.bsky.social is doing a good job of conveying the stakes of what’s happening at USAUD and in the executive branch writ large. Events like this press conference outside of USAID should be happening more frequently.

As of February 2, 2025, there’s only really one senior official in the US government who wants 25% tariffs on Canada. And there’s only one senior US official who wants to annex Canada and Greenland. That makes these problems relatively easy to solve now. But soon there may be more than one.

The USAID story is getting much more attention than any of the other stuff Musk has been doing for the last 2wks bc John Vorhees didn’t resign when Musk demanded unauthorized access to USAID records. He refused them access & forced them to put him on leave. More gov officials shld standup to Musk.

Trump has spent the last 10 days preparing to use his presidency for a massive bribery scheme. The grift will be unprecedented 1/17: Launch a meme coin 1/27: Freeze all federal aid & require all federal agencies to assign responsibility & oversight of financial aid to a senior political appointee

Ads for online betting sites should be regulated like tobacco advertising.

The Jan 6 pardons ensure Trump will have a violent militia willing to act extrajudicially at his order available to him throughout his presidency. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Trump Elon admin is led by fascists, but, at least for now, most Americans do not want fascism. Hopefully after today, elected dems will recognize this & do everything they can to oppose the admin. No dems should be voting for enabling legislation like the Laken Riley Act shorturl.at/GFlWU

Glad Smith learned from Mueller and cut out the ambiguity in his report.

@ayman.msnbc.com Trump didn’t suggest we “drink bleach” for Covid. He suggested ppl may “inject disinfectant,” which is bad enough. No need to misstate what he actually said.

@amandafrost.bsky.social Is this correct? If a non-citizen has a child w a citizen, seems like the child would be a citizen under the proposal as described. Their children and children’s children would only be non-citizens if both parents aren’t citizens, right?

Should be targeting but will they call it?

Judging by the reaction to the murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, maybe it’s time for the US to stop forcing people under 65 to access healthcare exclusively through private companies that prioritize profits. Maybe it’s time to at least offer a public option on the exchanges.

How is @bsky.app going to repay investors and fund its growth? Have they found a viable alternative to advertising dominant monetization? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...