You may remember Republicans absolutely losing their mind when Obama released $1.7 billion in frozen Iranian assets.

The man Trump appointed to approve and advance his Ballroom/Bunker complex turns out to be a big time fanboy of Vladimir Putin.

Do you know what's worse than defunding the police? Paying the people who beat the police up.

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

I am not an expert on these things but it seems politically fraught for the president to use our tax dollars to pay off the people who stormed the U.S. Capital at the same time his tariffs and war are making everything we buy more expensive.

Your tax dollars just paid a French oil company to stop building American electricity, and the gas it’s being replaced with is getting shipped overseas to Europe and Asia. The Trump Administration is PAYING to kill projects that would have lowered your costs.

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It is an open heist shoved right in the face of the American people. If we can restore the rule of law & the Republic, every single person involved in a settlement should face RICO charges.

Looks like the Sun isn’t the only one who can deliver sick burns.

Metaphors don't have to be literalized but it's not entirely surprising this one has been

Funny how "socialism" is somehow scarier than "authoritarianism" or "surveillance capitalist police state".

Evangelical Christian leaders literally gathering around a gold statue of the president and celebrating it, all while raging against any accusation of idolatry. This is what idol worship looks like.

Literally worshiping a gold idol at Mar-a-Lago. Not a cult.

SHADY AF Tennessee Republicans are now trying to eliminate the requirement to notify voters when their polling place changes during this gerrymandering mess. Ask yourself one question: If everything is fair & legitimate, why would they need to make it HARDER for voters to know where to vote? 1/2

Every day, he 👏 is 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 law. The Supreme Court ruled his tariffs are illegal and now the International Trade Court. This is not legit trade policy. This is breaking the law, on the backs of the American people, who are paying for it every single day.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Remember when they told everyone taxpayers wouldn’t pay a penny?

Well some of us *do* still want to be superheroes, but the thing about being a real superhero is that praise for being one is about the last thing on your mind

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

The core problem with MAGA is they’ve swapped patriotism for personality worship. They love Trump more than America. When he attacks our institutions, mocks our military, or puts himself above the Constitution, they cheer. That’s not conservatism. That's a cult. Real patriots put country first. 🇺🇸

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

House Republicans have blocked the bipartisan DHS funding bill the Senate passed for the past 32 days. Mike Johnson could fund these agencies today. He’s choosing not to.

If this was, in fact, an active shooter situation, treating it like a minor inconvenience so you can go back to your fancy dinner is the most end-stage American capitalism display I could possibly imagine

You can 100% bet that tomorrow Trump will say, “See, this is why we need the ballroom!” (Or. I guess, later this evening, depending on your time zone).

I’m going to wait to post until one of their books comes out and tells what actually happened tonight.

Congress created the Attorney General’s office in 1789 and later created the Department of Justice in 1870 Congress funds the Department of Justice, as well as the entire Executive Branch Congress even pays the President And Congress will continue to hold this power after the midterm elections

Honestly, it’s exhausting to have such dumb, corrupt, incompetent, reckless and evil people currently running the country. What a sad expression of the failure of education and morality in a country that once could pride itself on advancing talented and capable people.

How do you even begin to prevent the manipulation of prediction markets by people with I side knowledge? An even bigger risk — officials who take action just to win the “bet.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Only in America 🤦‍♀️

No one should be comfortable with a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell.

Probably not suspicious that Trump fired his Navy Secretary in the middle of a naval blockade.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.

As with declining trust in universities, you cannot explain the timing or this trend, or fix it, without first acknowledging the reality that the the primary driver of these is the Republican Party’s near-total collapse into far right authoritarianism in the last decade: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

in a world of lauren bezoses, be a connie ballmer

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

Clarence Thomas ruled in favor of Citizens United. Harlan Crow's political contributions then went up 862%. Then we later find out Thomas let Crow take him on lavish trips, buy his mom's house, and help fund his wife's conservative nonprofit. But go on about how "progressivism" is a problem...

Medicare Fraud: Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA, the company pleaded guilty to federal charges of Medicare and Medicaid fraud This period is frequently cited in his history regarding illegal activity, in which the company paid over $1.7 billion in fines.

Several folks in my mentions said they quit watching the new Count of Monte Cristo on PBS because it features Black actors. My friend, you are going to be shocked when you learn the ethnicity of Alexandre Dumas.

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

We’ve gone from “I don’t care if they reopen the Strait” to “we’ll destroy your civilization if you don’t reopen the strait” to “well if THEY don’t reopen the strait then WE are going to blockade it ourselves.” What an extraordinarily embarrassing moment for this country.

Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.

Definitely a “Society of the Spectacle.”

We are in a truly dark place when the words "he doesn't support destruction of a whole civilization" is regarded as a profound act of courage. Call me crazy.

This is the worst reality show ever

America is now on the clock. We have two weeks to remove Donald Trump from office through the 25th Amendment or impeachment. Not saying that will happen, only saying that a nation with even a shred of decency would get to work on it immediately.

Whether or not Trump’s threat against Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight” proves to be one more empty bluff, the very fact that a President of the United States could speak such words is sickening.