Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

“the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That…is fascism – ownership of government by an individual/group/by any other controlling private power.” Roosevelt

Next domino in the de-dollarization chain reaction?

THIS. Wake up dems. Stop refighting the last presidential election and engage with the crisis unfolding at your feet. Your inaction only proves your unworthiness to represent us.

How does it keep getting more embarrassing every day?

I pray this is true for the necessary Nuremberg that follows this national embarrassment.

cAllies are not ornaments. They are force multipliers. They are how America projects power without exhausting itself. They are how we avoid fighting alone, paying alone, bleeding alone. Undermining them in a moment of global tension is not toughness—it is sabotage. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

This is simple and smart. It’s the reason we use active voice when we write. Properly identify the subject (Trump) and the object (our wallets) to attribute causation rather than allowing him to weasel away in the miasma of a crisis of obfuscated origin. Come on @democrats.org

Look for the cliff notes on desks at 1600 Pennsylvania NW.

How many lives around the world will be ended or irreparably harmed before our courts finally reach the obvious and increasingly reinforced truth that this is a maliciously illegal regime?

Pretty hard to square this with freezing the Gang of Eight out for "security".

This seems devastatingly plausible. When he dies they can blame it all on him and keep their spoils. He is now more a permission structure and a liability insurance for MAGA lunatics than a leader of any kind.

Marionette is a perfect name for a MAGA GOP Congressperson

My heart goes out to the Iranian people who are once again standing up to the modern axis of evil. May they give the rest of us courage to act as well.

Needs to be a clarion call for the principled remnants of government to regurgitate this foul administration.

Disgraceful and appalling. I have to hope that our voters share my disgust. It’s a betrayal of the world order that unlocked the greatest wealth, health, and technology of our species history, and Trump is spitting in its face yet again. Shame.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @governorferguson.bsky.social How is this being allowed on your watch? This is the challenge of your lives. Rise to it.

Lutnick isn’t stupid. He knows what he’s saying here is a lie. Kellyanne knows this is a lie. But they have nothing but contempt for the Fox audience, and serving up lies to the lemmings has worked so well for so long. A tiny handful are doing well, millions are not.

Witkoff is a puppet an a fool. It’s an insult to all stakeholders in this conflict, including the U.S., that he represents and blatantly betrays U.S. values, those of our allies, and the lives of the heroic and righteous Ukrainian people standing their ground against a foreign invading horde. Shame.

Blaming the victims is a great way to ensure there will be more victims.

It’s the culmination of decades of gutting public education and blaming minorities and immigrants for young white men’s inability to compete in a ruthless global economy that requires intellect, resilience, and access to opportunity. This is an investment by the right paying dividends.

This man is the best of us.

13 years ago today.

What happened, not enough wasted taxpayer funds or shattered lives to boost your profits? 💀🩸🔥

This is a stink that may not wash off. Remains to be seen if the clown car government can actually execute on this incoherent corrosive babble.

So Bondi and Kash make a big deal out of arresting the J6 pipe bomber then the guy confesses that he is a Trump supporter who thought the 2020 election was stolen and his lawyer is arguing that Trump’s broadly-worded J6 blanket pardon applies to him and he should go free. Poetry.

The new US National Security Strategy reads better in either the original Russian via which it was dictated or the 1930s vintage German in which it was based. It makes Putin and Stephen Miller the architects of US foreign policy. The big loser? Our allies. The big winner? China.

The missing piece here is that those who rise must be made to strengthen those beneath them - the ones they fundamentally depend on - as they ascend or the artifice crumbles. The billionaires can keep swinging from the chandeliers for a long time while the pyramid below them falls in on itself.

Still not nearly enough discussion on how the U.S. forcing Ukraine to cede territory to Russia will all but guarantee a new nuclear age. Australia, Kazakhstan, Canada, Poland, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, even Ukraine itself—what non-nuclear power looks at this and doesn't now go for nukes?

"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Witkoff is not buying the Russian narrative. He is selling it.

It’s an ongoing and seemingly bottomless humiliation. Our people know there is much to be won if we play this right and break Putin’s back, but Trump & company’s greed and ignorance are driving the opportunity off a cliff. The catch is, we’re all tied to this crazy train.

If this “peace plan” fiasco alone doesn’t shake the frozen Russian funds loose for Ukraine, European powers need to lean HEAVILY on Belgium to wake up. Russia only uses maximalist negotiating, and only respects arguments backed by force and conviction. For Europe’s sake, Putin can’t win this war.

Because they think they can do even better with a numbskull counterpart like Trump. Maximalism pays when you’re bargaining with your own asset.

Glad to see the adults speaking up.

Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection advertisement on Ezra Klein’s podcast proving that cerebral lefties are also stuck in a gilded bubble. As a moderately educated middle-classer, this burns.

It’s worse than this. A handful of fools see a mirage of wealth, and they’re going to drag us all into the desert to die when Putin betrays them. Nobody but Putin wins from this.

Call your Reps and Senators. This Ukraine “peace” plan is a betrayal of America and Ukraine. Our veterans and ancestors didn’t fight and die so we could give the game away to Russia. Don’t let this be our legacy, folks. It’s not too late to save ourselves and our real friends.

We might have a functioning democracy if those influence payments were redirected to taxes to take care of our own people. Think how many school lunches that could cover.

Congress must re-materialize its spine and denounce this abhorrent proposal - an extension of rotten American oligarchy, victimizing Ukraine far beyond the suffering inflicted at home. It is a razing of the fundamental principles of democracy and self determination enshrined in our founding.

If Trump is on the decline, it’s important to identify where this malignancy will next manifest so we can start excising it now. We cannot fall back into the current decay again.

Do me a favor and forward this post.This needs to get out to everyone. We need to be unified.

They’re not just getting incredibly rich at the top - they control enough of the market to get away with slashing service/product quality. Crap news, miserable flights, high meat prices, astronomically expensive drugs. All proof of significant long term antitrust failures.

Donald Trump could have just kept his mouth shut about Jamal Khashoggi. But to smear a dead journalist, while sitting with the person accused of orchestrating his murder is just vile. Every time this administration hits rock bottom, a trap door seems to open. Cretin behavior.

You think housing is unaffordable now? Just you wait… Time for voters to look around the corner, and fast.

Definitely gives Weinstein vibes.

Dark Homer Simpson here unraveling our closest international relationship.

When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!