Thomas Massie calls out Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files

Trump has transformed the justice system into a Putin-style autocratic protection racket. The wealthy are not audited or investigated, if convicted they are pardoned. Political opponents are targeted. Unidentified masked agents grab people off the street, and protesters are shot.

Great news for Californians and anyone looking to cruise along one of our country's most scenic drives: Highway 1 is fully open! www.ksbw.com/article/high...

Trump: “It was my Great Honor to meet María Corina Machado, of Venezuela, today. She is a wonderful woman who has been through so much. María presented me with her Nobel Peace Prize for the work I have done. Such a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Thank you María!”

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

Breaking: Minnesota and Denmark enter into a mutual defense pact.

Just gobsmacked. The bully will just want your lunch money tomorrow.

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

The first numbers are in. Over 1 million fewer people have signed up for insurance on the ACA than at this time last year. This is Trump's premium hikes at work. In the wealthiest nation on earth, millions are being forced to go without health care. It's a moral tragedy.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

NYT: 3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

ALERT: Jack Smith will testify publicly at House Judiciary Cmte on Jan 22

TFTD: During Trump 1.0, should he reach for the nuclear codes, I wondered if one person in the room would willingly trade their life for the rest of the world. I no longer wonder about that. And no, that's not a good thing.

Statement from every living former fed chair and most former treasury sectys on DOJ's criminal fed probe: "This is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets with weak institutions, with highly negative consequences…It has no place in the United States open.substack.com/pub/jointsta...

BERNANKE/YELLEN/GREENSPAN JOINT STATEMENT: “.. this is how monetary policy is made in emerging markets ..” (via @apnews.com)

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

Trump and Rubio are doing such a great job running Venezuela that the U.S. is now warning Americans to leave Venezuela to escape armed militias. And they want companies to go to Venezuela? No way companies will do that. Trump’s Venezuela operation is a disaster. www.foxnews.com/world/us-war...

Ronald Reagan’s budget director.

TFTD: A reminder that DHS was born out of the Patriot Act following 9/11. We can now see that voluntarily giving up certain of our rights in the name of "safety" was a bad idea. DHS, and its sub-agencies, ICE, CBP, et al, are now weaponized against normal citizens, not foreign terrorists.

Bad news for the Malignant Narcissist.

The reason MAGA exists.

yeah that sounds like its percolating through that they lost this case

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

Did you see the item where a Danish newspaper proposed renaming Greenland to Epstein Island so the Trump would stop talking about it?

GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER: “.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish .. “.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”

Let me repeat: 2025 was the worst year for job growth outside of a recession since 2003. Trump's economic policy has been nothing short of a disaster since the start. How about instead of starting wars with foreign countries, we fix our problems here at home?

I hope we are witnessing the death rattle of the GOP. If not, no amount of outrage will be sufficient. This is not OK.

It seems somewhat obvious in hindsight, that Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to various blue cities was a short-term placeholder in order to give him time to hire additional thugs for ICE, CBP, et al.

PSA: I just tried to open a Goodreads account. I get prompted for credit card info (seems normal). Next thing I know I'm redirected to Temu, and some company in Georgia charges $2 to my credit card (yes, fraud). So now my card is bricked due to fraud. Fuck you Goodreads. Fuck you.

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

If you beat up and injure a cop at the Capitol the Trump admin will pardon you. If you drive away from an ICE agent they will kill you.

It's time to state clearly that if MAGA and Republicans can't condemn any part of this shooting, continue to blame the victim for it, and even hint that it's a just outcome that others "deserve," that's a crossing of the line that the rest of us won't ever be able to forget.

Jesus? Jesus to the white courtesy telephone. Your animals are running amok. Please control them.

Occasionally as a litigator you run across an opposing party who repeatedly breaches contracts and settlement agreements and legal requirements — just never abides by them. Generally competent lawyers point out that you shouldn’t do business with or enter contracts with that person. /1

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

Fuck these guys.

RIP The rule of law. For gawd sake, in a world full to the brim with Chamberlains, somebody please find the balls to be a Churchill.

With Trump very transparently saying that the invasion of Venezuela was to take their oil, let's dive into oil markets. TL;DR - it's not at all clear to me that Trump or the people around him have any coherent long term strategy.

"Peace President." [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

My god. Rubio is a hideous excuse for a human being. I guess he fits right in.

Live look in to this right wing protest 10 minutes after it was scheduled to start.

Donald Trump’s and Pam Bondi’s corruption of the Rule of Law in America will continue apace until the American People stand up and cry out “No More. We’ve had enough. We are a nation of laws, not of men.”

this is government by Fox and Friends, only dumber