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Are Trump cabinet members just straight up making ads for the Dems' midterm races now?

In their wildest fantasies about Hunter Biden, Republicans didn't come up with anything half as corrupt as what Kushner is doing in front of our eyes every day. He's handling US foreign policy at the exact same time that he's taking billions from the Saudi dictator.

Thank you for writing this thread. It is such a good explainer about why it is so. Emotional. and Hard. To talk about abuse.

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

This story is infuriating to me because this should not be on crowdfunding to resolve; @mit.edu should have solved it with financial aid.

👀 And this is the anti-DEI regime?? These fascists are having trouble filling U.S. Atty positions as good, experienced prosecutors flee. Look at the spin from DOJ as they recruit candidates with only one year of experience, rather than three...🤣 🧾 news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This has me smiling so big. This is just so special.

Breast cancer mortality dropped 58% from 1975 to 2019. Localized, early detected breast cancer has a 99% 5 year survival rate. Modern mammogram tech was developed by NASA for telescopes. Last year, RFK Jr. cancelled 87 research grants on breast cancer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

A federal judge has blocked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from cutting the number of vaccines recommended for every child

As someone who was in academic leadership at a young age, some of my trainees were older than I The age is not THE factor. It is the authority or power over someone else's position or role Solid red line, no rationalizations or excuses

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

@thefarce.org: "The Hunter Biden story was mostly made up. Kushner’s corruption is so thorough and vast that America hasn’t even begun to reckon with what a disaster it is for everything this country once aimed to stand for." thecause.substack.com/p/jared-kush...

A point we make in this story is trump and his ruling party and minions like Vance, Miller, Hegseth, Rubio et al spent more than a year doing the most cartoonish form of being a dick to key allies and others as possible— tariffing insanely, threatening to invade a NATO ally for no reason, and…

If they are deported, good luck finding American citizens willing to work in those conditions. Apparently Republicans want immigrants to do the jobs no one else wants to do, but want them kicked out too. Should we expect forced work immigrant concentration camps in the future?

Recap: Hour 1: We hit them like they’ve never been hit before. Day 1: We already won this war. It was easy. Yay us. Day 5: We don’t need any help. Don’t bother showing up after the war is over. Losers. Day 13: Why isn’t the world helping us? There will be be consequences.

The real Operation Epic Fury needs to take place in November.

Interesting 🧵re: Miller's deportation plan as ethnic cleaning

This is going to be a very effective way for Iran to control international pressure and keep countries on the sidelines and/or pressuring the US.

Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.

Russia is helping Iran, Ukraine is helping the US, and Donald Trump is helping Vladimir Putin and Russia.

Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

Elizabeth Warren: “For the Trump administration to say over & over, there's no money for healthcare – there's no money for childcare – there's no time to pay attention to how families are paying more – but there's a billion dollars a day to go to the Middle East & drop bombs on Iran”

That Dem consultants told Gov. Walz to stop calling them “weird” still has me miffed.

The idea that opposing and rolling back trans rights is good for cis women and girls is ludicrous on every level and absolutely enraging when applied in legislation and policy that obviously limits and rolls backs rights for ALL women and girls

We put panels on our roof and a battery in the basement in '17. The system was supposed to pay for itself in ~17 years. It's already more than paid for itself. We have a large house, & have had consecutive months where our bills are $9-$10.

Coons: "Right now, the clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that President Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people."

Leaders of both parties should be calling for Witkoff's immediate resignation after these remarks. He is a Russian patsy, a traitor, and this has just gone for too long. It is has to end.

Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

New from me at @motherjones.com: Today, @ericswalwell.bsky.social said he's working to help the family of a Deaf kid seek humanitarian parole so he can continue attending CA School for the Deaf–and his staff brought his hearing aids to Colombia for him to use. www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties Also, he is what Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson told everyone Biden was. Their silence now is deafening. And damning.

No one wants to confront the fact that the ideal fiscal policy for the next Dem President should look almost identical to Biden's but with the addition of confiscatory taxes targeted at top earners that get dedicated exclusively to paying down the debt to offset inflation.

we’ve had two truly enormous crises under Trump and the first one was covid which everyone apparently gave him a pass for despite the fact that he made it worse but this one is completely, obviously, unquestionably his fault and would not have happened without him

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib And now, Minab We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Anthony Blinken says Israel tried to pressure Obama to bomb Iran, warning they’d do it with or without the U.S. Obama refused. Trump caved to the same tactic. Also worth noting: Obama’s name doesn’t appear in the Epstein tapes.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

Christ, this guy.

The SAVE Act requires a passport or birth certificate *that matches your current name*. That means a woman who changed her name when she married can't use her birth certificate to register to vote!

He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Yes when I say he follows this philosophy sometimes people think I'm speculating or drawing a loose connection, but no, this was the literal philsophy that Trump was brought up believing. Peale officiated his wedding to Ivana! bsky.app/profile/pale...

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

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Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...