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That is the language of a coup. Not a democracy.

In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

The Bullwark just posted this from Padilla's staff, that's Senator Padilla on the ground.

Disguised, regressive tax revenue, of course. 🤡

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

It adds 2.4 trillion dollars to the national debt Thank you for your attention to this matter.

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

Incredible reporting. As part of the deal to send peeps to Salvadoran gulag, USG stayed silent on Bukele’s peeps stealing US aid money, which they sent to MS-13 as pay offs to gang leaders as part of the show of fighting crime — & the US has also agreed to return gang leaders from US custody. WUT

HHS Secretary Kennedy, after firing every member of key CDC vaccine advisory panel, appoints eight new members, including critics of mRNA technology. www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/r...

The one country with a "trade deal" is optimistic about a trade deal.

"Auto-Parts Bankruptcy Is the First Big Casualty of Tariff War" www.wsj.com/articles/aut... Marelli has 80k workers worldwide - about the same amount as all US Iron & Steel mills COMBINED

just perfect

References on Fox News live programming, Monday, June 9. "debt": 5 "deficit": 5 "Medicaid": 1 "trans": 25 "Biden": 42

This is — and I cannot stress this enough — a real government website right now. It is hosted on the Department of Commerce website (the Department of Commerce has no immigration functions whatsoever that I am aware of).

This is real.

Plaskett to Bessent: "Excuse me. Let me get something straight with you. I've seen you interrupt everyone. When you come to someone's house, you respect their rules. And in this house, we don't interrupt individuals. And you're not going to interrupt my time."

Please do not let anyone show this to Jake Tapper.

A remarkable and brave story about how POTUS’s rally at Bragg was staged, and the lines it eroded. Thank you @stevenbeynon.bsky.social @ktoropin.bsky.social www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Next week, I'm kicking off my statewide "McMorrow on Tap Brewery Tour" – stopping by local breweries across Michigan. Come grab a beer! I wanna know what’s on your mind. and what a New American Dream means to you. Sign-up forms for our first four events are in the replies ⬇️

Without comment. Keep hammering this.

Sanchez to Bessent: "Please don't interrupt me during my time. I know I'm a woman."

SEWELL: The last question that I was asked to ask you is when will hit the debt ceiling? BESSENT: I want to congratulate you. You have a very sophisticated constituency to ask questions like this SEWELL: With all due respect, just because you're poor doesn't mean you're ignorant

Real world: - Trump team trying to create a Reichstag moment. - Trump telling military audience that LA is hellhole full of "animals" - Officials in Calif trying both to calm things down, and stand up PUNDIT world: - Is it smart politics? - Is Gavin running? - Doesn't Trump look strong!

Fulbright board members are resigning “rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we believe are impermissible under the law, compromise U.S. national interests and integrity, and undermine the mission" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

Maybe they really were ICE officers. Or maybe they were a band of vigilantes, arbitrarily snatching brown-looking people off the street. All eyes are now on LA, but secret police are descending upon smaller towns nationwide too. Masked and armed, they refuse to show IDs or warrants. wapo.st/4kIGFke

BEYER: Isn't this embarrassing? BESSENT: You seem not to have seen the economic data. GDP growth has been quite substantial BEYER: GDP growth is half what it was last year, sir BESSENT: Job growth is solid BEYER: Job growth is a third what it was last year, sir

LOL -- Bessent now says that Trump will likely extend the pause on his tariffs past the July 90 day deadline

"There have been more than 30 incidents of police violence against journalists as of Tuesday, including 20 injuries, at least five of which required emergency room or urgent care visits..."

HUGE MEDIA NEWS: POLITICO is launching a new spin-off publication, POLITICO Weimar! If you sign up now, each morning you can get its “Reich Chancellery Playbook” newsletter delivered to your inbox as a bonus!!

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

It's funny because Hegseth bent over backwards to pretend they were renaming them after non-Confederates but Trump just went and blurted out the game. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

Counterpoint: Robert E. Lee was a treasonous loser who gladly slaughtered his fellow Americans in defense of slavery while being a mildly above average military tactician. He should’ve been hanged in Lexington.

Perhaps the country shouldn't be run by people living in an absolute fever dream that has no relationship with reality

Dissolving ACIP is an absolute mistake. We need accurate information—not fringe theories—guiding government recommendations on which vaccines to give which people.

On May 30, a team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health got the word: Funding for their vaccine development program will end next year.

Helen Chu is the hero who revealed that—contra daily briefings from the White House—COVID was spreading widely in the community in the US by late February 2020..

As the US Army celebrates it 250th birthday, Trump is celebrating the enemy that tried to defeat it.

The Soviets lost the Cold War, but now Trump is surrendering to them 35 yrs later. The Confederate traitors lost the Civil War, but now Trump is surrendering to them 160 yrs later. The only flag Trump and MAGA should fly is a white one.

Last thing for today: domestic mil deployments are incredibly expensive and one of the most sig things Congress can do right now to reassert itself is to not fund the inevitable request for addtl approps that will be needed for this $134M+ deployment.

Turns out what Mr. MyPillow says on camera is quite different than what he says under oath, and his supporters are finally learning the truth. Mike Lindell never had evidence of election fraud or vote tampering, and he had to admit it when under oath in court.

@pelosi.house.gov: "On January 6th...we begged the president of the United States to send in the National Guard. He would not do it...And yet, in a contra-constitutional way, he has sent the National Guard into California. Something is very wrong with this picture."

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.