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The speed with which Congress not having the power of the purse, law and the Constitution be damned, has been normalized by the press is the most terrifying thing to me.

Trump either does not know that this obviously doctored photo of M S 1 3 on the knuckles is false, or he is insisting that something that is obviously false is in fact true:

Jesus Christ. You can't say "It's contested." You can't say "Agree to disagree." You can't say "Let's move on." You have to say, "Mr. President, that is a lie." If it means he never talks to you again or yells at your boss, THAT'S FINE. What have you lost? More "opportunities" like this one?

Off the scale dangerous.

Too many Democrats (and anti-Trump Republicans) are acting like they're lookouts in the fire tower when they're actually supposed to be the goddamn firefighters! @schumer.senate.gov stop pointing at the fire, and go put it out!!

@jeffschultzatl.bsky.social Sneaky tidbit in the lede of this email from The Athletic. You're out of retirement?!

Everyone else can figure out how to vote against this fuck except us. :(

Trump and his stooges don't know / don't care that much of MAGA territory is served almost exclusively by stores like Walmart, Dollar General, Fred's, etc., and that most of the boxes on their trucks are marked 'Made in China.' Will they abandon him when shelves are empty, or keep blaming the libs?

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Hard to believe we've found a modern Western country worse at dealing with trans rights than our own. Congrats, UK!

- He hasn’t accepted that he’s a lame duck - The process, whatever its outcome, is an extended news event that will inform and influence American voters - It would give the Senate Democrats another chance to try making it a real trial of the facts -It’s the only remedy the Constitution affords us

This photo tells you everything you need to know about the cable news ecosystem in the United States. It is the perfect distillation of the moment. That Jumbo Elliott, by the way, is the former tackle for the New York Giants.

✅ Sending people to foreign prisons without due process ✅ Turning over large swaths of the federal government to an unelected billionaire ✅ Selling access to the presidency to the highest bidder ✅ A historically unpopular presidency The AP:

Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”

They skipped censure, impeachment, recall, and went straight to arrest! Locking up judges who checked executive branch abuse of power, which is not only legal, it's their sworn duty. Meanwhile, Justice Thomas is actively taking bribes, with *zero* accountability.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table Today, they are arresting judges Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress

44% of Americans now believe they will be WORSE OFF financially in a year (due mainly to Trump's tariffs) We've never seen anything like this before. Not even in the Great Recession or stagflation era (31% thought they would be worse off in 1 yr in early 1980) via Uof Michigan Survey of Consumers

Arresting judges for “interfering” is another line crossed deep into the field of fascism. Not sure how the alarm can be sounded any louder.

Jfc

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Rights are not - have never been - a zero-sum game in which including the minority subtracts from the majority. Please take a few minutes to read this excellent debunking of a whitewash attempt to protect the majority.

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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives got mad because they thought women were having babies to get cash