VP Vance and Speaker Johnson are doing everything they can to say the words "Chuck" and "Schumer" in every shutdown-related sentence. He's their new Pelosi.

If govt. shutdowns only exist because of a 1980 memo by Jimmy Carter's AG Benjamin Civiletti. Ultimate Trump flex would be have Bondi simply write a new memo.

If you're the next Democratic president in, say, 2029... do you go ahead and fire all the Trump people who were installed in independent agencies or do you try to return to normal with his people?

What may be most apparent in this speech is Trump's complete disregard for all of the world except the US and Europe, and his fear of what's happening to Western 'heritage.' The language is not even coded. www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/p...

Madison's first draft of the #freespeech clause was more expansive: "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable."

What is Lisa Murkowski even thinking? “You're roadkill in the middle” - great interview by @audiecornish.bsky.social ... youtu.be/CLVqlJOTlNE?...

Anyone who takes the time to look will find the immigration crackdown right next to them. That’s what I found — at two degrees of separation — when I heard from a friend that her child’s special needs aide’s father.

Hmm. What do you think they’re going for with this?

Shocked to learn, researching this story, that 2 million Americans got polygraphs from their employers until Congress largely outlawed their use in the private sector in 1988. Still in use for government workers, however, and the Trump administration is leaning in. www.cnn.com/2025/06/05/p...

I called @markupdegrove.bsky.social about Trump rolling back diversity initiatives and he said the issue is much larger than that. “This is certainly the biggest rollback of civil rights since Reconstruction." More from our talk in #whatmatters lnkd.in/eGUJnF_2

Musk has built a dark conspiracy theory around social security. www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

Lucy with the football; Trump with the tariffs. (some of them, anyway)

It's the doodle of mice. www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/s...

Mexico exports to US were roughly 30% of its GDP. Canada exports to US were roughly 20% of its GDP. US exports to Canada were about 1% of US GDP. US exports to Mexico were about 1% of its GDP. www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/a...

Clearly Trump feels a kinship with Putin.

Trump keeps saying he and Putin went through the Russia investigation “together.” He’s said it a few times. It sticks out. And Trump calls the investigation into Russian election interference a “hoax”.

Regarding the rare earth minerals in Ukraine… www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/e...

Medicaid covers more than 20% of Americans -

"...The child was unvaccinated and had been hospitalized in Lubbock...This is the first US measles death since 2015, when a woman in Washington state died."

'...we've got to live in the real world here...' x.com/zbyronwolf/s...

Dead people are a frequent bogeyman... social security, government workers, etc... www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

Trump keeps saying the US has spent $350 billion in #ukraine. Where does he get this figure? The actual amount is much less. And Europe has spent more, not less, than the US, at least according to the Kiel Institute. www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-a...

Very male-centric Cabinet from this angle.

#5thingsididlastweek 1 Dissected claim Social Security pays to millions 100+ - no evidence 2 Reread Mueller Report re: Trump Russia shift 3 Watched WH Black History event as WH declared war on diversity 4 Listed DOGE cuts outside DC 5 Listened 2 Musk bio. Asperger’s blamed for no empathy

I’m interested in who at DOGE will read millions of these emails. AI? Or is this pretense? www.cnn.com/2025/02/22/p...

We sent our climate change guy to the Daytona 500. @billweircnn.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/s...

Donald Trump's lawyers cut George Washington off when they cited Washington's Farewell Address to argue in favor of presidential immunity. Washington used the address to announce would leave office. Trump wants immunity for trying to cling to power.

What if the Saudi wealth fund bought up a bunch of DJT stock?

Old school temporary shutdowns -- In '82 they let funding lapse for a day when Republicans wanted to go to the White House for a BBQ. Tammy Wynette sang to Ronald Reagan. Democrats had a fundraiser. They finished their work the next day. youtu.be/p1nD4PwzUIQ?...

The difficulty Trump has found underwriting his $454 million bond proves the advantage he enjoyed by lying about his assets to get massive loans. If you got a $232 million loan you could probably make some money too. cnn.com/2024/03/19/pol…

Too many secrets. www.cnn.com/2023/01/16/p...

HR 2 is the bill Republicans want to model border policy on. It passed by one vote in 2023. It could not pass the House today. www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...

Why can’t we outlaw these ghosted fake phone numbers that call? Is there a legitimate use for those?