How much did Patel’s FBI plane trip to the Olympics cost US taxpayers? And the Mar-a-Lago trips for “golf’? Building for-profit prisons? Bombing Venezuela for its oil? Trump & his Cabinet are spending money like water…. led by he Serial Bankruptcy Debtor in the Oval. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

. Protect kids from ICE..

More like Baby Mike Lee, I guess.

. Risks? Is this a big money handout to Big Pharma at the expense of safety? I can’t trust anything the FDA, HHS, or CDC is doing anymore. So much grift/payoffs. Remember, thalidomide was used to treat morning sickness in pregnant women. @jama.com @delauro.house.gov apnews.com/article/fda-...

Inhuman and evil..

It's very important if you are a child born to immigrants, even those not in the U.S. legally, that you know your rights and current law. Here is more information on Jus Soli from the American Immigration Council... www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/about-immigr...

Reading this story—about how the Pentagon has been given so much extra money it's struggling to spend it all—while thinking about the formerly homeless tenants I've spoken with in recent weeks whose housing vouchers are being discontinued for "lack of funds."

"Nobody I know thinks this has a chance of working... It's all pageantry, it's declaring victory, mission accomplished, here's the Board of Peace—Gaza's all sorted." Michael Weiss explains Trump's Board of Peace scam to Tim Miller.

84% of women who marry change their last name—meaning as many as 69 million American women could not use their birth certificate to register or update their registration to vote under the SAVE Act. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-overview-and-facts/

No doubt the “doctors” with their pills and syringes will be busy Tuesday before the State of the Union getting Trump all jacked up on uppers and god- knows-what-else just to keep him standing. It will be a time of duress and medical risk for him. @wyden.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

.WATCH “I can destroy the country… I can do anything I want. — Trump.

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

Don’t worry, Mitch McConnell, we haven’t forgotten that most of this shit is your fault.

Yep. Gonna be a lot of lawsuits But now the scary part is that DHS is asking to deport 200,000 people without due process because there is a backlog. The courts should say no but you know the SC is going to twist themselves into pretzels to let Trump do what he wants.

#ThanksObama We still want the rest of the Epstein files though

"What a loser, right? I mean, not only is he incompetent... you can just tell that the generals don't have any real respect for him." Sen. Tina Smith gives her unvarnished thoughts about Pete Hegseth during a live edition of the Bulwark Podcast with Tim Miller.

There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Unbelievable. Roundup OK says Trump in Executive Order. Forget about harms to your health, runoff into creeks, rivers, oceans. Bayer makes Roundup & asked for this. HOW MUCH $$$ did Bayer wire into Trump’s shell company acct? It’s ALWAYS cash for favors w/ Trump. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Times Union editorial board: “For the good of Bard College, Mr. Botstein should step aside. If he won't, the Board of Trustees should tell him it's time to go.”

. Anybody seeing these flyers posted around Washington DC?

WATCH. Hilary Clinton noon is is powerful and precise in Munich about Ukraine, Putin, and Trump. YouTube.com/watch?v=pqed...

“The most powerful crime syndicate in history” James Speyer, writing in The New York Daily News, says: It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts and murders — all while…

We're a year into Donald Trump’s autocratic rule, and no one should doubt what the regime is about. Racism. White supremacy. Censorship.

I have been saying this for almost a year and it is long past due for Dems to adopt this framing for 2 reasons: 1) it is entirely and demonstrably true. 2) the public must be prepared for the enormity of what will be required to dismantle the criminal organization and create a better democracy.

New via WSJ: French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to DOJ files. Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs. Then Brunel went dark.

. MASSIVE vote-cheating being planned now: • Voting machines w/ vote-changing software • Tabulator totals changed during uploads • Vote by mail? • Voter ID, passport, birth certificate • Re-districting • ICE at polling places to scare away voters @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov

It's *because* I'm a journalist that I say these things, not *despite* that. And *every* journalist should say this—because the disappearances of journalists and other citizens will ramp up soon. 170 of us are already missing. In a healthy country, Trump is in prison right now.

1/4 🧵The New York Times reported that Zorro Ranch was where Epstein was attempting this: "Jeffrey E. Epstein, the wealthy financier who is accused of sex trafficking, had an unusual dream: He hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his..."

. 73,000 persons currently in Trump ICE prison camps.

. ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

“The unions said the daily presence of militarized agents ‘has taken a painful economic toll on poor and working-class tenants across the Twin Cities’ … Evictions in Hennepin County spiked by 45% between this January and last, while requests for financial assistance have nearly doubled.“

Or, as I called it; The physical weight of Trumpism. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...

In this entire piece there is not a hint of even a semblance of a legal argument for how a war of this scale would be legal or authorized. There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran. None. Zero. Nothing.

"When somebody lies to Congress, whether under oath or not, it's what we call a 1001 statement – under 18 USC section 1001 – false statements to Congress – each false state you make to congress carries with it up to five years in prison." Glenn Kirschner

Imagine Cassidy and McConnell speaking out against Kennedy and joining his Democratic critics in calling for him to be removed from his job. It's not easy, even if you try.

Today Rep Ted Lieu stated after reviewing Epstein files: "In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations, allegations of Donald Trump raping children and threatening to kill children.” Hours later we see news reports Trump is on verge of bombing Iran. This is 2 + 2 = 4 stuff.

. Dems, wake up. Massive vote cheating planned. Easy & already been done. @repdangoldman.bsky.social - Replace current vote-changing software in ALL voting machines. - NO UPLOAD of tabulator vote totals via internet or cellular modem. 2024 uploads CHANGED Vote Totals. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

. Rubio plays a many-sided game. You cannot trust him. @aussenminister.diplo.de @germanyintheeu.bsky.social @spiegel.de @lemonde.fr @stampaitaliana.online @president.embassy.europa.eu

. Absolutely brilliant and courageous by Stephen Colbert. What Colbert did comes out of true comedic genius: talking about the thing you’ve been ordered not to talk about and mining it for gold: 2,374,133 views on YouTube. @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @meidastouch.com youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA?...

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

(🚨) This is just the beginning. But it is one hell of a beginning. You will never see the Epstein Scandal the same way again. And Part II is on the way. You can read this for free by clicking the red button at the link. Or subscribe for free and use this as your free article.

. Rubio plays a many-sided game. You cannot trust him. @aussenminister.diplo.de @germanyintheeu.bsky.social @spiegel.de @lemonde.fr @stampaitaliana.online @president.embassy.europa.eu

. The US EXECUTIVE Branch is supporting a dictator.

3/3 Here’s the fact they can’t outrun: They’re scared out of their f*cking minds. Because now IT is too big… and WE are too powerful… for this to ever “fade away.” This doesn’t “go away.” This doesn’t “blow over.” This doesn’t get “memory-holed.” Not this time. Not happening.

The walls are closing in on these rapist, sex traffickers and pedophiles and even their big bank accounts can’t save them anymore. Expose every last one of these monsters and put them in cages.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

. CRUELTY. Please — in a way that works for you — make your voice heard to your Senators and Representatives. Thanks. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @democrats.senate.gov