ABC: Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as AG? MASSIE: I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi. She wasn't confident enough to engage in anything but name calling in a hearing. So no, I don't. She was responsible for the document production.

Somehow, all the programs that help the majority of Americans are decried as “wasteful spending,” but the ones that help billionaires aren’t… Funny how that works.

Obama: "The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous ... the sort of behavior that we've seen in authoritarian countries and we've seen in dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

The Year of the Pissed Off Voter. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Other countries can do it, why can’t we? www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Q: "Do you still have confidence in Pam Bondi as Attorney General?" Rep. Thomas Massie: "I don't think Pam Bondi has confidence in Pam Bondi…No, I don't have confidence in her. She hasn't gotten any sort of accountability there at DOJ."

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

To Trump and GOP, if they win the election it was fair, if they lose it was fraud.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

The problem for democracy is that it will not survive three more years of such a system. We cannot hold free and fair elections if judges blindly accept the word of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel’s minions. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-...

This is significant. Canada is the only non-European country to sign on to a program that allows access for low-interest loans for the joint procurement of military gear and weapons. It gives Canadian companies access to bid on European projects. #byebyemoncowboy www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Over in Hell, the billionaires are fighting with each other over who hung out with Epstein more. 🍿

Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution. Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If you have to travel to Detroit - take the tunnel. Do not give Trump's oligarch friends any money. Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge. Take the tunnel. Better yet don't travel to the States at all. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Thou shalt not let an 80-year-old pedophile and his pedophile friends steal yet another election so they can continue to rape children free from consequence.

Live Nation/Ticketmaster is a monopoly, which is why it can get away with awful service, charging exorbitant prices, and tacking on fees as high as 75% of the ticket. Biden sued to break it up. But after intense lobbying from MAGA world lawyers, Trump's regime seems set to cut a sweetheart deal.

NATO announced a major shift today, removing the U.S. from command of all 3 operational-level Joint Force Commands, the four-star headquarters leading in crises and war. "For the first time since NATO’s founding, every major operational command will now be led by European officers." Thom Hartmann

Your tax dollars paid for another Trump golf trip this morning. Trump left Mar-a-Lago (Spanish name by the way) at 9:07 AM and arrived at his nearby golf club at 9:14 AM. He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day." -Alice Morse Earle

To the first responders and teachers in Tumbler Ridge who acted immediately to help those in need — you are the best of Canada.

#PedoProtector's #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

The Trump Administration & Its Lackeys Can't Escape the Epstein Connection The Epstein documents reveal more disturbing allegations of rape, trafficking, torture & a eugenics worldview where Epstein sought to impregnate his victims to seed the future of humanity. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

“Anyone knows you shouldn’t align yourself with Trump regime in ANY form! If you send a foot soldier to go down to DC on bended knee and he comes back with ‘he loves you - he’ll only beat you when you’re bad!’” 🇨🇦 Jamil Jivani and CPC screwed up BIGLY 👀 🔗 youtu.be/GzeIja4wW4Q?si…

Rogan questioned why names of “powerful billionaire guys,” like retail billionaire Les Wexner, were redacted in files released by the Justice Department.

So this is "wild revelation" no. 1. Is Donald Trump's concern that the Noem-Lewandowski relationship is (a) consensual? (b) between legal adults? or (c) both (a) and (b)? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Sanders: The other day, Trump said, “We are living in the best economy in the history of the world.” Well, he’s right — for him and his billionaire friends, he’s exactly right. But not for ordinary Americans.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

given education polarization and MAGA's reliance on low propensity voters, something like the SAVE Act would almost certainly backfire on republicans (i'm reasonably sure senate republicans understand this too)

One of the better ideas I’ve seen. Scott Galloway with his “Resist and Unsubscribe. Resistandunsubscribe.com

Reuters Exclusive: The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from USAID, the former U.S. foreign aid agency, to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul cut thousands of federal jobs.

"Conway struck [an] urgent tone: 'We are facing a president who does not care about the rule of law …. He has to go. We cannot last three more years of this. It’s either him or us. It’s America or Trump.”

Cartoon by Nick Anderson

Donald Trump is playing politics yet again with your money. His decision to block funding rightfully coming to our state comes at a real cost to our economy. Illinois is fighting this lawless action by Trump's DOT in court.

The corruption of this administration is beyond understanding. Would not want to be on the side supporting them.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

🚨BREAKING: Voting rights groups filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging Ohio’s sweeping new voter purge law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

today on my blog, I wrote an op-ed about the history of lynching, and why its extrajudicial nature is so aptly documented by Black journalists like Georgia Fort and Black activists like Nekima Levy-Armstrong the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/on-lynchings...

Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet. An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social