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Many journalists call me. Some are good in the MSM. They know who they are. But, the White House Correspondents Dinner is a mental masturbatory circle jerk. 1st amendment my ass. The media has failed us —these folks are celebrating “journalism” while canceling comedians to keep Trump happy.

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing *children with cancer* i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

Has Trump demanded to name the next pope yet?

I'd add District 9.

When I report on something coming from the WH, I say “allegedly”. Why? Not because I’m not “validating”, because they lie. Because there, the right hand doesn’t know what the left one is doing and they change their opinion 24/7 I will say allegedly. Don’t like it? Watch MSM - they are always “sure”

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Felon Trump has vociferously targeted the news media as enemies for a decade. While they continue to root for him and sanewash everything he says, they'll be next in his lawless round ups and sweeps.

The definition of basic journalism is now "unauthorized disclosure" because Pam Bondi is an idiot.

NEWS via ABC “The Justice Department has rescinded a policy implemented during the Biden Administration that restricted prosecutors from seizing reporters’ records in criminal investigations, according to an internal memo obtained by ABC News.”

I appreciate what this is trying to do but I doubt that he peacefully leaves at the end of his term and I doubt that the rest of the governmental infrastructure can survive until we find out and I don't think "we have to survive 3.5 years and then we'll be fine" is correct politically or morally

I was denied permission to host a roundtable at the Puget Sound VA to hear from women veterans about their health care. I have NEVER been outright denied from having open & honest conversations with VA—until this administration. I'm demanding an answer from VA Secretary, Doug Collins.

After Judge Xinis ordered discovery to take place in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's case, his lawyers today have filed a letter to the Court requesting a conference/hearing due to the Trump Administration's "failure to comply with [the] Court's orders." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Pete Hegseth orders DoorDash. A dozen drivers show up.

i know correlation is not causation, but vance is not beating the antichrist allegations

The best part of this pod is every single minute.

New post: Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social covers Iowa's troubling school chaplain bill and the Christian nationalist agenda for public schools. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/04/18/i...

Can't decide which contempt-like hearing to attend this morning. Trump Adm's alleged defiance of Judge McFadden's order to stop punishing AP's free speech (at 10:30), or its alleged defiance of Judge Jackson/DC Cir orders re dismantling CFPB (at 11).

The 5th Circuit just gutted the FCC’s enforcement authority, declaring that its in-house adjudications are unconstitutional. FCC can’t file enforcement proceedings in federal court, so this decision neuters its power to impose civil penalties for lawbreaking. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

Our plan to give Russia what it wants continues unabated

The President of the United States is utterly out of control and possibly out of his mind, and only the Supreme Court of the United States can deliver the absolutely vicious permanent slapdown this moment requires. If that does not happen, the options for Americans appear to dwindle precipitously.

Why is this not an automatic hard pass by scotus?

Gee, I've no idea how we got here and also I'm afraid so let's all comply.

I was just thinking: there's roughly as much public evidence that Karoline Leavitt is a member of MS-13 as there is for Abrego Garcia.

🚨Here is Judge Boasberg's opinion finding that he has probable cause that the government in CRIMINAL contempt for defying his orders on March 15: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I can’t believe that Concrete Shoes Tony is threatening to change the terms of the very favorable deal that I negotiated with the mob www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

Dan Caldwell is fired from the Pentagon for leaking inconvenient information that threatened to embarrass Donald Trump. Pete Hegseth is *not* fired from the Pentagon for leaking top secret military information that threatened the lives of our pilots overseas. #TrumpPriorities

HAPPENING NOW: At the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis is set to begin a hearing on the government’s efforts – or lack thereof – to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident who was wrongly removed to El Salvador. Follow along for updates ⬇️

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

I want to emphasize one point here: Mahdawi was called into this naturalization interview 3 months late, only after heightened attacks by Zionist groups calling for his deportation. When he arrived to do his citizenship interview, he was arrested by ICE

Make Habeas Corpus Real: You Have Garcia’s Body, President Bukele. Now Bring Him Home, Hopefully Alive and Well.

When you stop checking for your all time twitter favorite and then randomly stumble across them!

It's small potatoes in the scheme of things but not sure it makes any sense for legal reporters to ask lawyers at firms that have caved to Trump for any expert analysis on litigation involving the administration.

"If you don't stand up and fight now, if you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late," Eric Holder tells Rachel Maddow. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

Best Pitchbot ever .