A reminder that if you are called to be part of a jury in a political prosecution you have a right to refuse to convict on the grounds the prosecution is unjust. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

He hates it when people abide by the Constitution.

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Good day to think of the victims of the Bush administration’s Iraq War and the consequences of failing to hold people accountable for its torture program.

Another one bites the dust. Trump fired yet another inspector general (IG), the FHFA’s Acting IG, Joe Allen, after Allen apparently gave exculpatory information to the DoJ lawyers prosecuting NY AG Letitia James, as required by the constitution & basic fairness. www.reuters.com/world/us/wat...

Insane. Inexcusable. Illegal. And the new normal in Trump’s America.

The facts alleged in this civil complaint are damning. Any ethics advisor would have told Tidmarsh to recuse from matters involving these companies because of his history with them and his financial ties to their owner. Did he ignore their advice, or … storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The kind of ethical clusterf@&k was inevitable in the current, pervasively corrupt, administration. When the President takes nearly a billion in crypto payoffs & orders criminal prosecutions as personal vendettas, his appointees will also wield government power for vengeance & personal gain.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

So the World Series MVP is an… immigrant

Another federal district judge who thinks appropriations law (i.e., Congress' control of the purse) is not a dead letter.

Well said, @donmoyn.bsky.social: The GOP-led Congress is committing a form of institutional suicide.

Spoke with Reuters about foreigners’ pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Trump businesses — not because of the Trump brothers’ business acumen, but to obtain the kind of impunity, freedom from legal constraints, that only the president can deliver. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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"there’s only one check and balance that actually matters: Good character." Not the good character of presidents, but that of "the people elected to Congress and appointed to the Supreme Court," whether they "are willing to exercise their oversight and check-and-balance responsibilities."

Pictures I took of the East Wing in January

First families enjoying the movie theater in the East Wing

Obama running down a corridor of the East Wing with his dog

The good people of Philadelphia should let Philly-based Comcast know how they feel about this.

It occurred to me that, with his demolition of the White House's East Wing, Trump has orchestrated attacks on the symbolic homes of two out of three branches of the federal government. Is One First Street next?

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

President Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted founder of the crypto exchange Binance, according to people familiar with the matter, following months of efforts by Zhao to boost the Trump family’s own crypto company. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

So We the People pay LM in contracts, and it uses some of that money to gift trump a gilded ballroom that is "not paid with taxpayer money" so LM can have influence over the child king to receive more handouts from We the People. This is how oligarchy works.

or: Fire the members of Congress who have abdicated their sworn duty.

The answer: “Stop the monopolies.”

I would like to see a list AND an accounting of contributions as well. I think it is possible that he has come up $230 million short, hence demanding that he is paid $230 million for being convicted of 39 counts of criminal conduct, that he "might donate to charity", in other words, pay for reno.

I'm extremely, extremely disappointed to see Apple on here. Steve Jobs would never have done this.

These companies: • Apple • Amazon • Microsoft • Google • Comcast & • Meta are financing Trump’s destruction of the White House’s East Wing. Contact these companies & let them know whether you approve of their helping Trump demolish a landmark. www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

Google gave Trump $22 million to spend on demolishing the White House East Wing & replacing it with a vanity project, a ballroom. Let Google know whether you approve of its financing the demolition of the White House East Wing.

Here is a list of the morally bankrupt companies who are bankrolling Trump’s literal destruction of the White House. Call their corporate HQs and let them know what you think

A Lockheed Martin vice president said the company “is grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President's vision to reality , … a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day.” Let Lockheed Martin know what you think of its support for Trump’s East Wing demolition.

“Trump did what Bin Laden could not do”

Congress didn't authorize the destruction of the East Wing, & Congress didn't appropriate money for it. These companies gave Trump the money to demolish the East Wing. They are financing it. Let these companies know whether you approve of their action. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This might just be a lesson for all of us. < warning: video has lots of expletives not deleted >

Trump has transformed the presidency into a massive "Bribe Delivery System" -- @gregsargent.bsky.social Truer words were never spoken

#ResignationInProtest, journalism edition: On October 10, "the editor of Governing, a magazine and website covering state and local governments," resigned "after facing increasing internal censorship pressures — largely to avoid critical coverage of President Donald Trump."

Democracy dies in darkness - They said Democracy dies in broad daylight - It seems Democracy dies in the Roberts court - In fact ~Unknown

When Truman renovated the White House, he “relied on congressional appropriation and formal oversight by the Commission of Fine Arts and NCPC.” Trump claims unilateral executive authority to demolish the East Wing & build a ballroom that he alone wants. #UnitaryExecutive www.enr.com/articles/616...

Whenever you hear someone invoke the unitary executive, remember the image below. This was an inevitable result of the unitary executive theory: Empowering a president to tyrannically destroy institutions that ensured our government reflects the rule of law rather than his personal whim.

Turns out that our founders knew what they were doing when they gave Congress the purse strings. It’s a shame that the Republican Justices who control the Supreme Court have so little regard for the safeguards the founders wrote in to the constitutional design. This is what tyranny looks like:

This is why our founders gave the power of the purse to Congress, not to the President. They created a system where the President is dependent on Congress for the money he wants to spend — for the things he wants to do. Their vision was a constrained presidency: constrained by law & by Congress.

The companies make *donations* to the “Trust for the National Mall, a small philanthropic nonprofit created in 2002 to partner with the National Park Service. … The $22 million from Google more than doubled the nonprofit's budget, which was $9.5 million in 2024.”

This also demonstrates the risk inherent in letting a President raise and then spend money from the private sector, rather than relying on money appropriated by Congress: Private sector donations can provide an end run around Congressional control. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The image also captures Trump’s undoubted belief that presidential spouses are expendable—the First Lady’s offices have been destroyed—but palatial gaudiness is essential.

It turns out that a lot of mandatory statutory and regulatory language gets ignored when there is no one to hold the Executive accountable.

🚨 NEW: Trump's biggest lesson from his first term? He left money on the table. He's returned to the White House with three new ways—all easier and faster than booking a hotel room—for allies, favor-seekers and foreigners to funnel money to the US president. me, for @forbes.com 1/

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."