The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.

BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

IBM has agreed to pay the U.S. government $17 million to settle DOJ allegations that the company’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies violated antidiscrimination laws.

Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE. Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.

And in "Pulp Fiction," the fact the character is riffing on a Sonny Chiba movie and *thinks* he's quoting the bible serves as a hint that he's a sanctimonious fool. What does that make somebody who, in turn, quotes a Tarantino character quoting Sonny Chiba?

doues the virus still exist? Yes, so yes we need the vaccination.

Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono names the people who have been pardoned by Donald Trump after they have donated to support his campaign and PACs in the Senate hearing on fraud. "I call it corruption." 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

Twenty-three mostly Republican-led US states changed their voting procedures to mirror key aspects of President Trump's sweeping package of voting restrictions in time for November's midterm elections, a Reuters analysis shows reut.rs/4egp4Q4

Remember when Trump threatened to wipe out a whole civilization? And then backed out of that and talked about forming a deal with Iran? And then dropped that and went to a UFC fight as negotiations fell apart? And then unveiled a triumphal arch and a photo of himself as Jesus? That was this week.

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

The EPA announced plans to weaken existing federal requirements over how power companies store and use the toxic waste produced by burning coal. The proposal would make it easier to reuse coal ash for things like cement manufacturing and the production of drywall. https://wapo.st/4cnMLDq

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Trump has systematically demolished federal guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 election. At least 75 career staff are gone. Two dozen appointees, including many from the election denial movement, have been hired. Ten helped try to overturn the 2020 vote.

Mr “I’ll pardon anyone who gives me money” has thoughts on crime.

In contrast to the plastic visage of Kristi Noem, you probably can’t picture Zeldin’s forgettable face. It’s also hard to recall any memorable utterances from him. But the EPA administrator’s blandness has provided cover for the most destructive reign since the agency’s creation. trib.al/GMfq5cR

Brief Trump summary of the past weeks: - “Open the strait” - “Help us open the strait” - “We don’t need the strait open” - “Open the f’king strait or I destroy you all” - “We block the strait”

Unbelievable and yet entirely predictable. bsky.app/profile/atru...

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys

There. Now Fox News has everything they need to edit that into whatever statement they think is best.

BBC picked up the story, great to see it getting more visibility - I just hope it leads to action: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Somehow we couldn’t handle a quicker switch to EVs but we can handle energy-sucking slop factories.

Trump accepted $37 million worth of donated foreign steel for his White House ballroom from a corporation based in Luxembourg. Just days later, the Trump administration made major cuts to tariffs on steel imports that could significantly benefit that corporation. "America First."

In doing this, the DOJ is trying to keep the president’s records private—rather than public, as mandated by the country’s representatives nearly 50 years ago. The Presidential Records Act is key for transparency. trib.al/HYy1Ztj

Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service. All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.

I'm sure there are countries that have betrayed every principle they ever stood for faster than the United States but it's hard to think of one right now

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All that time Trump was insisting that Iran was begging to make a deal, it was, in fact, Trump who wanted a ceasefire and was begging for a deal, while counting on Pakistan to make it happen. Strongman was so happy to get a deal that he didn't look at what was in it. newrepublic.com/post/208815/...

Brutal.

Vance has been trafficking in conspiracy slop for years - but this is another low. He accuses Ukrainian intelligence of interfering in both America’s and Hungary’s elections. “This is just what they do,” Vance said. Not it isn’t. This is what the Kremlin says they do.

Iran gets: the strait the hereditary leader the dead guy wanted withdrawal of enemies to tell the story of how they fought off all of west asia plus USA at the same time and won for the next 100 years to give no nuclear assurances USA gets:

Only a master deal maker could achieve the status quo of 5 weeks ago in exchange for accomplishing nothing of value and turning his country into a global pariah. Thank you sir

Susan Collins grimly standing up, walking across her office, and with a heavy weight bearing down on her weary shoulders, moving her doomsday clock from "concerned" to "worried."

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

BREAKING: The White House today proposed eliminating the Title X family planning program. A few hours later, the health dept quietly released guidance that would shift the focus of the program millions of low-income people rely on away from contraception and toward "family formation."

He is a caricature of human. Yet 77+Million morons voted for this asshole. 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♀️

snapped peas are just regular peas that have finally had enough of everyone’s bullshit

There are two rules in Trumpworld: 1) Everyone who works for Trump must place his interests above those of the institution they purport to serve 2) Everyone will inevitably fall short of that goal, incurring his wrath This is the essence of personalist rule: newrepublic.com/article/2086...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

I’m getting a lot of mileage out of this meme lately.

New in PN: DOJ payout to Mike Flynn has J6-ers lining up at the trough "Maybe the plan is to normalize theft, getting the public used to watching the president dole out taxpayer money to his supporters so that we’ll hardly notice when he hands himself almost a quarter billion dollars."

Democrats: THIS is your midterm election advertisement. Run it!!!

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country, we have 50 states, all these people, we're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things

ICE has kidnapped a Colombian asylee and evangelical pastor, Yeison Cortes Vasquez of Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the virtual eve of Easter, the holiest day on the Christian calendar

It’s not a joke. It’s a clear and frequently reinforced signal to the armed services that if you break regulations or laws you will be exonerated as long as your actions show fealty to Trump/MAGA.

your grandparents voting for reagan

That's quite the sign: