Neguse: "I would challenge anyone to make sense of the rantings and ravings you just heard from the president. These are not serious people tweeting out offensive videos last night on Truth Social ... I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge what we see with our own eyes"

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "They're trying to condition some of these generals to the idea that they should be using the U.S. military to enforce the political agenda of this president. It's not going to work."

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

There are a few good reasons to think Republicans are too confident about how the politics of a shutdown fight will turn out. And at the top of the list is a truly preposterous argument. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social:

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @ericswalwell.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social You all need to get on the top podcasts and turn around the Republican talking pt lies. They’re winning the message war. Rogan, Maher, etc and get on Fox, NewsMax. TODAY!!!

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social @samsteindc.bsky.social @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social @johnheilmann.bsky.social @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com @peterbakernyt.bsky.social THIS NEEDS NATIONAL ATTENTION NOW! Press conference at 3P CT.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me. #pediatriccancer #cancermom

Berman: Was the President right about the polling? Enten: No. If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself.

He went out to clarify: basically, if other Americans choose to give the house to the Democrats, it is the responsibility of Texas Republicans to conjure up enough seats to make sure that doesn’t happen

The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

@jamestalarico.bsky.social: "They've talked about these fines, they've talked about trying to expel us from office... We're not too concerned about the personal or political costs. This is a lot bigger than us. This is about whether or not we will have free and fair elections in 2026."

This guy just said out loud that the whole point of what the Republicans are doing in Texas is to win Congress.

Imagine getting fired because math hurt a man’s feelings. We’re being governed by a walking Yelp review.

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Gov. Jared Polis on Trump's tariffs: "There's certainly no upside...With Europe, we historically had a tariff rate of 2-3%. This new deal has it at 15%. That's five times higher than it's ever been...They're a regressive tax that hurt our economy."

"The climate has always been changing" -- played a clip of himself warning about climate change in 2016, EPA chief Lee Zeldin now dismisses it

There is no bottom

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The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed.

Weakest 3 months of job growth since 2020.

Two can play that game.

Rep. Dan Goldman: "Virginia Giuffre was a victim — a minor victim — of Jeffrey Epstein's horrific child sex trafficking ring. If Jeffrey Epstein stole her from the Mar-a-Lago spa...it begs the question how much did Trump know about Jeffrey Epstein and how much was he involved."

Under the spectacle of the Epstein Files and the horror of migrants being disappeared to foreign gulags, the bureaucratic assault on democracy is all too easy to miss. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/what...

Mullin: "In 2009 there was sweetheart plea deal that was made under the Obama administration with Epstein." Tapper: "No, that's not right. It was 2008. The U.S. Attorney at the time was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee He went on to become President Trump's Secretary of Labor."

“When I was national security advisor, I never once for a moment thought, man, I have enough spare time to be secretary of state,” Jake Sullivan told me. “No way. Being national security advisor is more than a full-time job. So is being secretary of state.”

*this* is how desperate Trump is to distract from Epstein: -denaturalize Rosie O’Donnell -cane sugar in Coca-Cola -threaten Washington Commanders -Hillary’s emails -arrest Obama -arrest Kamala -arrest Oprah -arrest Beyoncé -arrest Al Sharpton

Meiselas: Donald Trump is being protested all across Scotland... You saw a protest in Edinburgh. There are protests in communities across Scotland...Let me show you this, where the speaker says, “As for Mr. Trump, we could smell your stink the moment that you landed”...

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WHAT THE FUCK. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest RFK Jr's armpits.

* REUTERS POLL -- NEARLY 90% ECONOMISTS, 89 OF 100, SAY THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE QUALITY OF OFFICIAL U.S. ECONOMIC DATA, INCLUDING 41 SAYING VERY CONCERNED @reuters.com

I’ve come to realize that the entire MAHA movement is just grown ass adults tricking themselves into thinking that junk food is healthy because a random dye was removed.

This is truly insane. We are witnessing one of the most corrupt cover-up schemes in history—and it's all playing out in plain view.

Phillip: He denied being briefed on the files, which he was. He denied knowing Prince Andrew, despite pictures of them together, including at mar-a-lago. And he denied being on Epstein's plane when he had many times.

"Ghislaine Maxwell isn't the only one who has no credibility here, Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social points out, "Todd Blanche has no credibility here."

While the Department of Justice is meeting in secret with Ghislaine Maxwell to coach her on testimony, it is hiding from us three discs containing court-authorized recordings of her phone calls. [Source: ABC News] That is the REAL evidence. And this is a cover-up.

❤️ the Scots!! 🤣🤣🤣

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What a DISGUSTING perversion of the facts. Ghislaine Maxwell is no victim. She is a convicted sex trafficker of little girls as young as 14 years old. She enticed and groomed little girls for sexual abuse.