BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

WTAF, America?

Lol.

Let’s talk about what real strength looks like—and how Trump’s MAGA “alpha male” act is the opposite of it. 🧵

MELANIA DID IT AGAIN: Her staff repeatedly plagiarize - too stupid to have any original thoughts and too stupid to acknowledge the real author of her words

Every day he finds new ways to turn the US into a giant insane asylum.

Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.

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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment. Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Rep. Jim Himes: "Having the Defense Department kill alleged drug runners in the Caribbean is illegal...These folks are committing murder — murder defined as killing without a legal basis. I am mystified over why the rest of the chain of command is quite comfortable with it."

Wonderful pack, Randy!! I appreciate the inclusion! 💙☘️

More than terrible - a traitor, a felon, a rapist, and a pedophile.

Motherfucking wind farms…

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

“His ambition is fueled by the money of others who would never deign to live in the Midwest. And like other populist charlatans, he has convinced himself that he should be anointed to lead the rubes out of their misery.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

From asbestos to stolen elections, Trump has spent decades turning conspiracy theories into government policy—eroding trust and warping U.S. institutions. Here’s how the paranoid style became the Trump style. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

I hardly believe my own ears. FOX host Brian Kilmeade suggests KILLING homeless people. BRIAN KILMEADE (FOX HOST): Or involuntary lethal injection. JONES: Yeah. KILMEADE : Or something. Just kill them.

This is a firing offense. Bill Pulte must go.

They don't have a suspect in custody nor any clue as to motive, and yet he's pinning this on anyone who called Charlie Kirk a Nazi.

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Today we had a chance to stand with the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in uniform. Ashli Babbitt is not that. She is a traitor. She will be a traitor. She died a traitor."

Protests against Trump erupt inside D.C. restaurant as people chant to his face: “FREE D.C.! FREE PALESTINE! TRUMP IS THE H*TLER OF OUR TIME!” (via Sam Waldenberg / CNN)

Hypocrisy is rampant.

We know he’s guilty. They know he’s guilty. He knows he’s guilty. And yet we wait for things to show him guiltier?

I guess both parties have no choice but to discipline the 46%

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

"Cadets must be prepared for combat. But their education is about far more than lethality. It is about becoming a leader of character....loyalty, duty, respect, selflessness, service, honor, integrity, personal courage." You know who that doesn't describe.

In a world where shame functioned...well, this would be something that would embarrass his MAGA defenders. We do not live in that world.

From today's "To the Contrary" Newsletter: Trump Loves the Smell of Brutality in the Morning. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trump-love...

Reminder: America may be governed by a sniggering 12-year-old man-child. But remember that juveniles with napalm and nukes… still have napalm and nukes. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

"Trump’s genius is in making extremism feel unserious. The more absurd the packaging — the memes, the cosplay — the easier it is to shrug...He has managed to turn deadly serious matters into consumable content. War crimes, but make it meme-able." www.mediaite.com/opinion/trum...

Which brings me to what just happened in Florida, that petri dish of infectious diseases we thought we had eliminated. As bad as Kennedy was — and he created whole new categories of ghastliness — what’s happening in Florida is a darkling omen. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Bless all the people who ripped RFK Jr. a new asshole today.

No One Should Be Surprised…. BREAKING: Trump secretly offered disgraced "Democrat" NYC Mayor Eric Adams a job in his administration, if he drops out to clear the way for "Democrat" Cuomo to beat Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. 🗽 Every NYC voter should see this.

Trump administration have just released the video of the strike on the Venezuelan vessel. It’s the size of a very small fishing boat, blasted to pieces by multi-million dollar US hardware. It doesn’t look strong. It’s embarrassing.

Pritzker: "We have reason to believe that the Trump administration has already begun staging the Texas National Guard for deployment in Illinois."

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures. Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims. Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

Trump did this

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