It’s amazing the difference between how some Republicans speak 5 minutes after their political careers are over compared to the time when they wanted the cult leader to love them.

One of many reasons why the Founders specifically chose not to require that is because 8 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born outside the colonies and 9 of the 95 representatives elected to the first Congress were born outside the US.

There really needs to be a law against donating someone else's work to a slop factory.

Blanche: "I very much disagree with the idea that the American taxpayer is indignant that a victim of weaponization [gets compensation] -- I think they want their tax dollars spent on things like that"

Either he is a habitual liar or he is completely out of touch with how the vast majority of Americans feel about this. Of course, both things are also a possibility. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Eligible to be paid with your money after storming the Capitol and breaking into Nancy Pelosi’s office.

Tell publishers to keep the news in the Wayback Machine: www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

You will be paying her with your tax dollars. Brought to you by the Republican Party.

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OMG, the psychology. On the nose from @radiofreetom.bsky.social: "Almost any time Trump talks to a foreign strongman, he seems both charmed and intimidated, and ends up defending his autocratic friend rather than his country. These dictators appear to bring out a kind of neediness in Trump."

Spain FM José Manuel Albares: "I have seen a monstrous, undignified and inhumane video where members of the flotilla were unjustly and humiliatingly treated by an Israeli minister..." "I demand their immediate release and an apology from Israel." Promised EU-wide sanctions on Ben-Givr. #eupoli

"A German court in December 1926 awarded...the military leader of the Kapp putsch, back payment of his pension to cover the period when he was a rebel against the government and also the five years that he was a fugitive from justice." - William Shirer. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 109

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has condemned Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador to Italy: "Italy further demands an apology for the treatment reserved to these demonstrators and for the total contempt shown toward the explicit requests of the Italian Government." #eupoli

I'd like a slush fund to compensate all the professors who lost their jobs because they said something.

Young people in America will now think it’s normal for a President to give a divisive, political, partisan address to our men & women in uniform. We’ve so normalized his indecency, his busting of all institutions & norms, his corruption, & his lawlessness, it’ll be tough to ever find our way back.

Canada PM, Mark Carney: "Canada has already imposed strict sanctions on Mr. Ben-Gvir, including asset freezes and a travel ban, in response to his repeated incitement of violence. The protection of civilians and respect for human dignity must be upheld everywhere, at all times." #cdnpoli

Jack Ohman

Senate Democrats are trying to stop Trump from using $1.8 billion of your tax dollars to give handouts to his allies, but Republicans voted to let it happen.

Gas is still above $4.50. Housing and child care prices are just getting worse. And Trump & Republicans’ top priorities this week are a golden ballroom and a slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters.

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Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

It’s time for Kash Patel to go.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

This past year has shown us that our privacy is being decided between giant tech companies and governments. That's not how it should be. We need strong privacy laws that protect all of us, and EFF needs you to help us advocate for them. eff.org/spring

If you want to understand why interest rates are going up, Kyla has a good background on bonds. youtube.com/shorts/3eReS...

Amanda does a good (and fun) rundown of the races. youtube.com/shorts/MsTNE...

This precedent could also be applied to government officials who blow people up in boats without a declared war, due process, evidence, or trial.

Inexcusable.👇 www.mediaite.com/politics/eig...

Marian Kaminsky

“By name.” Just one more American citizen who will now need physical protection because the worst human being who’s ever lived just made her a target.

I will really want to read that audit letter. I just assumed they'd cheat by using a SPAC. www.ft.com/content/028a...

Spanish MEP Nicolás Pascual de la Parte, a member of the European People's Party and a former NATO ambassador to Brussels: "Welcome, Canada! Our reliable security-building partner..." #cdnpoli #eupoli🍁⭐

The idea that they are paying Iran is probably going to open the Strait of Hormuz to a degree. If it's done quietly, the Trump administration may not object. Essentially, things start to ease up and Iran gets an income stream. www.ft.com/content/110b...

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF

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It is illegal for the rest of us to trade on insider info. Martha Stewart went to jail for it. This is SO wrong. We all work so hard at our jobs, pay our taxes and just watch while this happens day after fay.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Americans should be cleareyed about what the president is doing. He is taking their money and showering it on criminals,” the editorial board writes.

BREAKING: OpenAI is reportedly preparing to file to go public through a IPO as early as this week, per CNBC

Nothing makes someone look guiltier than forcing the Justice Department to promise never to investigate your taxes or prosecute you for anything they might find

To be fair 2x effectively zero is still effectively zero. It would be nice if he paid taxes.

Imagine saying this in front of a literal fucking spaceship.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Every time I see oil drop I check out to see if anything materially changed. hormuz-traffic.com

As I watch the response to Trump by his supporters to the latest grifts I no longer can believe that we're separated by a bridgeable difference. We are fundamentally incompatible at the level of raw perception and cognition. It's sad that I could have posted this any time in the last 10 years.

Blanche never had an intention to carry out that promise

Even better. bsky.app/profile/denn...

Really good.