‘The President is the only judge of objective reality’ Hell of a Republic you got there.

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

🎶🎶🎶🎶 We're caught in a trap I can't walk out Because I love you Hormuz, baby Why can't you see What you're doing to me When you don't believe a word I say? We can't go on together With suspicious mines (suspicious mines) And we can't build our dreams On suspicious mines 🎶🎶🎶

Yeah, about that.

Trump is today telling every member of the US military that it is ok with him if Russia helps Iran kill them--every one. Once again Americans, Trump looks at US military personnel as suckers and losers that he can sacrifice for his own glory and profit. This is who leads

Well, imagine that …

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

Two weeks until Trump claims the Iran war would never have happened if he’d been president.

@jaketapper.bsky.social Hey Jake! This thing on? Trump here, unable to remember where his father was born. A dementia riddled madman has started a massive war, and still you all just shrug. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Rep. Massie:  “I've not seen any arrests from the revelations in the Epstein files…Over two dozen people have resigned, CEOs, members of government worldwide. But I haven't seen any arrests or investigations here in the United States from this DOJ.”

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Katyal: "Here's the problem for Donald Trump: his DOJ, in our case, filed briefs to the courts that said Section 122 is inapplicable and the president can't use it. So now he's turned around & he's gonna have to somehow argue against his own DOJ's interpretation of the statute. I think that's tough"

BREAKING: DOJ to investigate Supreme Court for mortgage fraud.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

In govts around the world, people in the Epstein files are resigning in disgrace. In private business, executives in the files are resigning in disgrace. In the Trump admin, nothing happens since the boss is in the files more than anyone and his party is filled with cowards.

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

All the various kinds of revisions add up -- by the end of the year, there were more than a million fewer people employed than previously estimated.

Just a reminder that Trump’s former criminal defense attorney turned Dep. AG Todd Blanche transferred Ghislaine Maxwell to a Club Fed where she now plays with puppies and goes to yoga classes.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Just had a fabulous talk with John Sipher, one of the most experienced CIA officers of his generation. We went into the Epstein files, what they say about Epstein and Russian intelligence, how Epstein kompromat might work to influence Trump… substack.com/@phillipspob...

In 2024, Trump stated that only himself and Dan Scavino have access to his Truth Social account. This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.

John Barron

Bitcoin reacting to Punxsutawney Phil’s six more weeks of winter.

@news.sky.com Adam Boulton just said live on Sky that Trump has a sexual felony conviction. 👀 I’d get the apology in pretty quickly unless you want to join the BBC. Trump is a revolting sexual predator, but his sex case verdict was a civil suit.

Reporter: A Democrat won a special election in Texas in an area that you won by 17 points Trump: I’m not involved in that. That’s a local race. I don’t know anything about it. I had nothing to do with it.

@jowolff.bsky.social you got your pocket edition of Marcus Aurelius handy?

He’s so catastrophically demented the only reliable recall he has is his whirling Lazy Susan of rehashed grievances and ‘Sir’ stories. Shameful that this empty wreck of a man is allowed to squat in the Oval Office.

The only thing his dementia riddled brain can reliably recall is his rotating Lazy Susan of personal grievances. It’s extraordinary.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

@gtconway.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ledb...

JD “reverses” (aka admits he was lying) This dude lies so easily, even when it’s on video They think we are morons

First item on the agenda - establishment of a subcommittee for the Board of Peace Peace Prize.

Former Trump WH lawyer Ty Cobb: “This is a man who is demented… I don’t think there’s anybody outside the boundaries of the United States who believes for a second that Trump is sane at this stage of the game.”

Trump: Sometimes you need a dictator

Trump repeatedly confuses Greenland with Iceland during a low-energy, slurring appearance at Davos

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

The President of the United States is seriously mentally ill. Might be nice if someone in America did something about that.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

On this basis if President Xi doesn’t win an Oscar in a couple of weeks he’s entitled to invade Hawaii. Trump is obviously severely mentally ill. But no-one in America that can do anything is prepared to stop it. Catastrophe is certain is that deranged sociopathic ignoramus isn’t dealt with.

Putin has been invited to Trump’s newly announced “Peace Council,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov claimed.

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Here’s strongman Trump pushing back against Russia. Just look at him.

The whole world is being held hostage by a monkey with a flamethrower. And no-one’s sure they can get it off him before he presses the flame on button, so they’re just throwing bananas at him to keep him happy. It’s astounding.

It’s a left wing opinion that agents of the state shouldn’t shoot unarmed suburban moms in the head, apparently. Good to know. Choose your wing accordingly.

The interesting thing is neither of them smoked before they were forced into a meeting with Trump’s little sidekicks Vance and Rubio.

The fact the press don’t all walk out at this point is shameful.