Trump is draining our tax money by giving grifts to his buddies. Outrageously large no-bid contracts going to people that he can then coerce or manipulate. Trump never does anything with a quid pro quo. This is the most corrupt Admin in history.

it's kind of hard to escape the conclusion that the entire spacex IPO is just a way for Elon Musk to financial engineer a huge, distributed theft from index fund holders?

Evolution of Trump AGs: Sessions: Fired because he wouldn't help Trump cover up crimes Barr: Was willing to do coverups, resigned for being unwilling to commit crimes Bondi: Willing to coverup and commit crimes, fired for being too slow in each category;

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

Lying under oath to Congress should have consequences

Counterpoint: no, it will not

Bigotry is so brain melting that some Tennessee rescue won't let a friend of friend adopt a dog because she lives within 20 miles of Dearborn.

Is everything Trump does corrupt or illegal? I honestly think every single thing he does is for his own profit and/or to stay out of prison. He’s a dirty crook and he is destroying this country with his corruption, malice, and idiocy.

Gov. Mikie Sherrill's mishandling of protests outside the Newark ICE detention center, with violent state troopers running amok, is a national embarrassment To make it worse, Sherrill invoked the vile "outside agitator" trope of 1960s segregationists My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/miki...

Conservatives lost their minds when Obama released less than $2B of Iran’s money back to them. Now we’re giving them $300B to make up for the damage we caused when we decided to bomb them and screw up our own economy?

Any felonies taking place at Delaney Hall are the crimes against humanity by ICE and the GEO Group, who kidnap and abuse human beings who've done nothing wrong and brutalize anyone who protests Gov. Mikie Sherrill's goons are attacking people trying to stop this injustice. She is an utter disgrace

Abortion regret is almost nonexistent. You know what people regret a lot more? Having kids. Studies looking at parental regret have found between 8-15% of people regret having kids. We should support more abortions.

"The Holocaust was not carried out only by the truly evil and those who ran the death camps. It was carried out by lawyers who drafted the legal justifications, businessmen who used slave labor, bureaucrats who processed the paperwork, and neighbors who looked away."

one of my most “Character From a Whimsical Middle Grade Novel”-coded lore drops - which came up again this morning at the dentist - is that the three orthodontists we were given to choose from when I was a kid were Dr. Fear, Dr. Wrench, and Dr. Strange

Dark and murky --- reflective Bright blue --- not reflective

It's just insulting. You're a governor! You have power! Power you used to commute the sentence of a woman who attacked our democracy! That pardon power is one of the most powerful tools a person can have, and you used it. You don't get to play the victim, man.

It’s really frightening.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A group of Black, radical Panthers carries guns to protect against police brutality. The Establishment has other ideas Story by @jessebunch.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/6rBiMc

And now they are all gone. RIP Sonny Rollins.

I’m impressed with Steyer giving this clear support for trans kids. This wasn’t controversial until the recent relentless right wing campaign to eliminate trans people. Too many on the left have embraced the bigotry too and that cannot continue. Good for Steyer for being a decent person here.

Shut Delaney Hall down, NOW.   Today, @menendez.house.gov and I went to Delaney Hall because of the inhumane conditions we've been hearing about.   What I saw and heard is absolutely unacceptable.

Donald Trump promised the war in Iran would end with unconditional surrender. But he never said which country would do the surrendering.

Katelyn Burns is one of the best reporters covering trans issues. You need to subscribe to her newsletter so you can stay up to date on all the anti-trans fuckery happening here, right now.

Cops once again not countering the ACAB reputation.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

NASA just sent four astronauts to the moon, farther than any human has ever travelled, and they returned safely. SpaceX just blew up another rocket.

Fun new detail from a source: The Trump administration appears to be paying the bond for these agents. It also appears to be paying for their private defense attorneys.

This is sickening. The Trump Admin is erasing women vets from history. These women gave their lives for this country and that piece of shit fascist can’t even sacrifice a golf game for the wedding of his own son.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

There is no place for bigotry in the Dem party moving forward. We must be progressive and inclusive. That’s the only viable path to fight fascism.

You can’t write about Israelis raping Palestinian prisoners within three months of an attack on David Frum’s childhood synagogue in Toronto, but you can compare Hamas to the German army and lie about the causes of the Gaza famine within days of the massacre of Muslims at a mosque in San Diego

Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Cons in chaos Cons in cowardice

ADL put out a new report on record high antisemitism in America, and documents more than 40K cases. Guess how may they document by Muslims and leftists? 3 Not 3%. Three total. Antisemitism is real, and it’s almost entirely coming from Christian nationalists. www.qasimrashid.com/p/who-is-ign...

So many companies, industries, schools are paying protection money to the mob boss. If they don’t, he will sue or legislate to ruin them. Having an openly corrupt president is quite destructive when there is no one in power willing to stop him.

No! This is not "today's warped political age." This is "TRUMP's warped political age." A majority of Americans are rational, decent people who think this stuff is as corrupt as hell bit.ly/3Rkyfpl

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I guess SCOTUS and the gop have just decided that our country’s treasury is just a slush fund for the criminal idiot to use for whatever corrupt purpose he wants? Is that how it is?

Did the UWash IRB replace people with AI? It’s the only rational explanation for this unethical and poorly designed study getting approval.

The most corrupt president in the country’s history is about to pay off the traitors that tried to pull off his coup. Correction: our tax dollars are about to pay off traitors to this country.

NEW: University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras that would record everything they saw from a first-person perspective, including the children they were teaching, then use that footage to develop AI models. Crucially, it was opt-out, rather than opt-in.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social in Montgomery: “We’re here united to take on this new confederacy, 60 years after the Selma March… because we know their intent is to dismantle everything gained during the civil rights movement.”

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.