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It's mind-blowing how little attention this extraordinary statement has received. It's briefly mentioned in a couple news articles, but this MSNBC opinion piece is the only extended discussion of it I've seen: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 9 hours ago • 72 comments

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 153 comments

I would say he follows her around like a puppy dog but so far he has survived.

submitted 11 hours ago • 744 comments

Donald Trump wants you to forget that his first act in office was to pardon hundreds of violent thugs who beat cops.

submitted 9 hours ago • 59 comments

The coin-operated presidency. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5481...

submitted 9 hours ago • 266 comments

“.. Trump keeps claiming that all the wars that broke out under his predecessor .. would never have happened on his watch, because he .. is so strong and universally respected. Well, here is a close US ally, Bibi, ignoring Trump’s wishes ..” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 9 hours ago • 68 comments

There's a lot going on so you might have missed the fact that the Chinese hack into most of our major telecom companies was found to be much worse than publicly stated good thing a bunch of dipshits obliterated whatever was left of functional telecom oversight!

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

submitted 1 day ago • 904 comments

Palmer: Charges should be brought against each one of you AOC: Raising the prospect of charges against witnesses is a form of intimidation is it not? Palmer: I strike those words

submitted 1 day ago • 664 comments

I hope the war doesn't affect the military parade.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

submitted 1 day ago • 1078 comments

Newsom: "He's been a stone cold liar about what he said we talked about. He never discussed the National Guard. Period. Full stop. I would love to share with you what he actually talked about. It would send shivers up your spine."

submitted 1 day ago • 2054 comments

Use this image to deal 14d6 psychic damage to your economist friends

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Yesterday Bessent said the deadline for deals was flexible so today Lutnick it wasn't.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

As I've highlighted recently, don't look to US Treasuries for "safe haven"/"flight to quality" flows. Their yields barely budged after the Israeli attack on Iran. Instead, watch the price of gold (below) and silver. The flows are happening; they're just not headed to USTs as history would suggest.

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submitted 15 hours ago • 358 comments

1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. The anti-Robin Hood.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

“What Senator Alex Padilla did today was political theater.” --Kristi Noem, the Head of Costuming, Hair, and Makeup at Political Theater

submitted 1 day ago • 1684 comments

RFK Jr. spouted dangerous vaccine falsehoods on national TV. As a parent and infectious diseases doctor, I couldn't stay silent. Here's what the data actually shows. 🧵

submitted 21 hours ago • 27 comments

Trump withdrew the U.S. from the nuke deal Obama negotiated w/Iran. Iran then bumped up its uranium enrichment, leading to what happened last night and if you're a member of the media and not connecting these dots, you're not doing your job.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Since President Donald Trump returned to office in January, his administration has bombarded the U.S. Supreme Court with emergency requests seeking immediate intervention to free up his initiatives stymied by lower courts. The strategy is paying off.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Just released this free post. Its clear after statements by Rubio and Hegseth over the last few days that Putin has won. The US government is now operating under his almost total reflexive control. Trump has made the Russian narrative the US mindset. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 16 hours ago • 26 comments

Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Obama was president. Obama said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Biden was president. Biden said no and he didn’t. Netanyahu wanted to strike Iran when Trump is president. Trump said no and he did.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

(Reuters) - On the campaign trail, U.S. President Donald Trump promised to end the world's hottest conflicts and usher in global peace, but nearly five months in, with Israel attacking Iran and bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine unabated, those hopes are in shambles. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 15 hours ago • 50 comments

“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.” @cbsaustin @velez_tx

submitted 15 hours ago • 1822 comments

Another story in the Guardian that should have been in an American paper …. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone. If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

submitted 1 day ago • 809 comments

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

submitted 1 day ago • 693 comments

A few key points: - Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety - He identified himself as a Senator - Right before this happened Noem literally said she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its elected leadership

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, reacting to Senator Padilla being handcuffed and forcibly removed from Kristi Noem’s press conference: “I’ve seen that one clip. It’s horrible. It is shocking at every level. It’s not the America I know.”

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

DHS is also lying about him being repeatedly told to back away. The video shows the men who pushed him don’t even open their mouths, they just grab him and get them out of the room without saying a word.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

Alex Padilla — a sitting U.S. Senator — was just assaulted for asking a question on behalf of his constituents. He was literally doing his job, posing no threat other than exposing the lies of this administration. 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way: "If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Senator Alex Padilla is one of the most decent people I know. This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control. This must end now.

submitted 1 day ago • 553 comments

holy shit -- GOP Rep. Mike Turner tries to "help out" Hegseth by getting him to confirm that the Pentagon does not in fact have plans to take Greenland by force, but Hegseth instead more or less testifies that yep, they have devised plans for that

submitted 1 day ago • 632 comments

This is a US Senator, one of two representing nearly 40 million people from nation's most productive, populous, and tax paying state, being physically roughed up by goons at behest of deranged president and out of control cabinet secretary. HEY GOP SENATORS. You'll swallow even this?

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

The strategy is to do your Constitutionally-approved job and make them stop you. Make them show the world that they violate the Constitution. Make them show where they draw the lines and how they want to exercise power.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

It's a real bad day for democracy: - Law enforcement forcibly removes U.S. Senator from a Cabinet member's press conference - SecDef refuses to promise to abide by court rulings - SecHome uses language of occupation and liberation to describe domestic law enforcement tasks This is coup behavior

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 200 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 358 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 174 comments

Disguised, regressive tax revenue, of course. 🤡

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

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

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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. 🧵👇

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