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This was three months ago.

I took this video on January 13th, 2021... 1 week after the insurrection on January 6th. Crazy how maga republicans didn't think this was the final straw to supporting the mad man ....

Federal spending is *up* under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

The credibility of the US government is completely shot. Gone. Annihilated. Nobody anywhere in the world can believe a single word that comes out of this Administration. Ever.

boosting because good and we need more good

If you abduct someone and send them involuntarily and without recourse to a country where they've never lived to be imprisoned, that isn't deportation, it's human trafficking

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman. by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. Pam Bondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it.

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

There’s a lesson here for every Big Law firm, university and media company if they care to learn it.

Supreme Court to decide if Trump can exile people to overseas gulags “by mistake” and then leave them there to rot forever www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Heads up!

Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.

The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

August 2024

Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.

Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.

The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...

75 percent.

In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.

If folks had voted for the Black lady who wanted to tax the rich and give everyone else a tax cut, we wouldn’t be having this problem. This guy nails it. 🔥

The White House has just released a new official statement as the economy crashes: “The President won his second round matchup of the Senior Club Championship today in Jupiter, FL, and advances to the Championship Round tomorrow.”