Folks, could it be stove touchin’ time?

You decide America. Is this what you want your country doing? If the answer is no, then you have a civic duty to vote every damn Republican out of office in Nov. Every one. You have a civic duty to protest ICE everywhere. And you have a civic duty to be prepared to engage in civil disobedience.👇

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "There's an opportunity here to go on offense in the court of the public opinion on something that matters to people left, right, and center…Any senator who approves of Todd Blanche is approving of a further cover-up in the Epstein saga."

The governor of Kentucky, who happens to be a Democrat, demands video or interview proof of life of Mitch McConnell.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "This isn't even a close call on Todd Blanche. The fact that we are in a world where Republicans could see fit to make this guy the highest law enforcement officer in the land should cause people to freak out. It is an insane thing.

Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”

Sean Duffy puckers up and kisses Trump's ass: "Mr President, thank you for your leadership. You don't do anything that's small. Everything you do is big. It's huge. It's the best. It's the greatest. America loves you."

Major development. Read more here:

BREAKING: A federal judge just nullified Trump’s $1.776 billion IRS “settlement,” ruling it had “no viable basis in law or fact,” finding there was never a real legal dispute, and referring Trump’s attorney to The Florida Bar for possible discipline.

Trump says the US military will serve as mercenaries by taking over the Strait of Hormuz and charging everyone a fee to transit equal to 20% of their cargo.

24-hour Hormuz traffic rolling over sharply ... now at just 3. - Schwab

There's a term for when you set up a "protection" scheme where it wasn't needed before and then demand money for it

Assuming it's true that Trump is going to charge tolls, who do you think is going to pay for that? We will. And we will pay twice, because who will pay for "the guardians"? We will.

Better headline: US to run protection racket in the Strait of Hormuz, Trump says.

Based on the photo Mitch McConnell’s office released today, he looks well enough to receive a visit from Governor Andy Beshear.

Imagine signing your own tweets like you’re turning in a fifth-grade book report. “Thank you! President DJT.” We know who you are. You’re posting from your own account.

Damn. That was quick. It’s almost like they knew it was coming. 🤔 Iran releases a LEGO-inspired movie of Lindsey Graham’s sudden illness and death.

Page One in Jacksonville: “.. developers may have ‘overbuilt tons of communities’ after population surge ..”

Would love it if Nancy "Fifth Place" Mace took a chance here.

“I’ll see you soon.”

Lies

May Donald Trump golf again with Lindsey Graham . . . and soon.

Not sure why the FBI would be involved with a heart attack.

RIP to the first ever completely gay senate delegation

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

Spelled his name wrong.

He never deleted it.

Lindsey Graham is dead.

“I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government-funded G5 jet for vacations. Maybe we should ground that plane. It costs $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” — Kash Patel, 2023

So we are paying billions of dollars for military aircraft, fuel, and pilot training for an endless series of flyovers of American cities and beaches now? At the same time we learn that the military has burned through a record $1 trillion in the past year under warmonger Trump?

This is Trump’s second physical in two months. Mitch McConnell may outlast him.

Trump: “I just finished a perfect physical at Walter Reed, I do it every 6 months, and I requested another Cognitive Test, the only President to do so, three times, and I aced them all — Got every question right. Few people in DC could do so, including Maggot and her flunky associate, Jonathan Swan”

“I just got back from Walter Reed wear I was able to tell the differince between a tiger and a duck. NOBODY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TWO DO THAT!!! I must be the smartest person since Jesus. Maybe smarter!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”

Trump admits to ANOTHER mystery trip to Walter Reed as speculation grows about his frequent checkups and cognitive exams, DOJ shows up at reporters' homes with subpoenas, a fence going up around the White House, and more. Your midday update is here:

Another Cognitive Test!

Donald abandoned his 3 oldest kids, when they were all in grade school, to run off with a mistresses. He had a child with that mistress, speculated about the eventual size of that baby's breasts, and then abandoned her too. He married his next mistress. And cheated on her with someone in porn.

The White House has become Dollar Store Caesar’s Palace. Donald Trump has always been an extraordinarily tacky man. I remember when they first showed the inside of his Trump Tower condo on “The Apprentice.” We were supposed to marvel at the luxury. I laughed at the vulgarity.

Trump’s paranoia has never been more on display than last night as he lay awake worrying about being the target of assassination. Paranoia, coupled with his narcissistic dementia will prove to be a cocktail of chaos in the next few months. The decline will be daily and measurable.

Trump just vowed to launch essentially our entire nuclear arsenal at Iran, yet he’s the one that says the world isn’t safe with a “lunatic with nuclear weapons.” Sadly, he might be right.

It doesn’t matter. No one needs you. It became law at midnight regardless. Go take a nap, Grandpa.

Jeffrey Epstein was paying the off-duty Palm Beach deputies who guarded him $3,000 to $4,100 a week. A convicted sex offender on work release, buying protection from the same Sheriff's Office that work-release rules barred from any business with him.

NY Tmes exec editor Joe Kahn said in 2024 that the issue of democracy's survival was not a top priority in his newsroom's coverage. Now Trump is sending federal agents to NYT reporters' homes to deliver subpoenas over coverage he doesn't like. I wonder if democracy is a priority for Joe now.

Important statement from the New York Times

Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.

Those dang journalists are telling the truth again. It always gets them in trouble. Sue him back, just like the BBC is.

Have you had enough yet? Congress could have done something if there was oversight to put limits on an out of control authoritarian president. It’s on all of us to speak up. We The People have the power to force Congress to IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE #Rule9 Honor #MajorJasonWatson #DOOR