This is why they really hate him — because he’s showing government can actually do good stuff for regular people

NYT reports DOJ is considering settling Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. As I wrote in my Substack, this is a straightforward scam https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/a-judge-calls-out-trumps-self-dealing

Don’t let them tell you that Ukraine depleted our weapons stocks. They didn’t. Completely different systems. In fact, because of Ukraine our industrial base has improved. They lie and lie. We won’t fall for it

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump won’t rule out deploying troops or federal agents to the polls during the upcoming midterm elections, he said in comments to journalists Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Your Saturday FYI: Russia is getting its ass handed to it, by Ukraine. Ukraine has “the cards.” Slava Ukrainii

It remains great work

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.” — Bob Marley

Hantavirus sounds way too fucking scary. I’m calling it deja flu.

NEW: Democrats win another special election by a LOT. Harris won here by 1% in 2024.

2024: Lol, calm down, stop being hysterical. Trump isn't canceling elections. They're run at the state level anyway! 2026 [person at the state level, in Louisiana, after a Supreme Court decision]:

In a fascism-ascendant society, things go from "not possible, ever" to "normal" very quickly.

We must understand the nature of the assault. Fascism is a virus. It is uniquely suited to infect the system of a very specific host: Democracies. /1

Putin and his generals are paranoid, afraid of assassination, and hiding in bunkers giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

Can’t be done.

If you weren’t worried enough …👇 “Restraining Trump seems all the more urgent amid unconfirmed reports that he discussed the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Iran in a recent White House meeting.“

Trump cratering on Iran in Pew poll: *62% disapprove of his handling of war *59% say war was mistake *Only 24% say his goals clear (!) And Trump just revealed he's clueless about what his own negotiators are offering On the pod @stevebenen.com is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

The world’s ten richest people — all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $260 billion in April. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.7 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, 66 million in total, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

This is Banksy’s most powerful piece yet.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

It's been a cover-up the entire time. The Epstein Files are Trump's kryptonite. He can't escape it, nor can the Epstein Class - it's a transnational criminal syndicate. They would rather burn America and the world down rather than be transparent and investigate.

Per Washington Post, a U.S. intelligence assessment found that it could take up to 6 months to fully clear the Strait of Hormuz... that's if the war ended today. Trump is not telling Americans that.

A lot of Dems in competitive races need to take a closer look at their districts. The prevailing wisdom among leadership & consultants is to avoid impeachment talk; that seems more likely to signal weakness and non-alignment with the majority than to actually pick up swing voters.

This is very good

"This all could have been avoided if Trump had just stayed in the JCPOA...but it was Obama’s brainchild, which meant it had to be torn up, simply because Trump is such an insanely insecure and vindictive man." Important refresher on Iran deal from @mjtoma.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2092...

Unfit to command...in the eyes of his military commanders.

HOWLING

The massive Orban defeat should prompt Dems to align themselves more firmly with anti-fascist and pro-democracy forces abroad. There's a powerful link to be drawn between the celebrations in Budapest and the confrontations with ICE in Minneapolis. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2090...

One pound of ground beef now costs more on average than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Trump watches daily “stuff blowing up” reels of his Iran war, treating death as entertainment while 13 US troops and 1,500 Iranians have died.

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats are unable to stop random liberal low-follower BlueSky accounts from talking about neocolonialism and "unhoused people", I will have no choice but to hold my nose and vote for him for the fourth time in 2028.

The company reportedly cited its “current business needs” in its decision.

This might be the most unhinged thing he’s ever tweeted, and that’s saying something. He’s flailing. Has no idea how to get out of this war cleanly.

Leavitt contradicts Jesus, who explicitly says in Matthew 6:5-6 to not do the exact thing she does here

Social media can be an incredible organizing and educational tool but it’s also an aggressive black hole that swallows all discourse and digests it until nothing makes sense or is cohesive anymore. We’ve been driven insane and our insanity is the most lucrative product for literal fascists.

Any leader asking for your vote and trust has to make reining in the tech fascists and addressing their crimes against humanity, which is at least if not more destructive than what big tobacco and pharma has done, part of their agenda. It’s not even a partisan issue. It’s a human issue.

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

There are going to be a lot of intersex cis women, especially from the global south, who will be ruled ineligible and then subjected to terrible discrimination or worse in their home countries. Prior sex testing regimes have resulted in suicides and ruined lives.

‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Breaking character: Every so often, I like to remind people that Trump has a serious personality disorder that makes his decision-making different from a normal person's. The media doesn't explore this, which makes their reporting on him useless, but my friend Nick Carmody does.

Never have so many fought so that so few could make so much money.

Hypothesis: on US government servers there's thousands of Anthropic wargaming outputs and a bunch of them (based on scraped analyses from experts) basically say all this would happen, and the Trump admin can't figure out how to just delete them all, hence rushing to rip the whole system out.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Investors are moving huge sums from the US to Europe, — FT This February may see a record investment in European stocks — in the first half of the month, investments worth about $10 billion were made every week.

1️⃣The share of IT companies, especially in the field of AI, in American stocks has increased sharply. 2️⃣Clear signs of growth in Europe. European countries are now spending huge amounts on military technology, and the value of defense and industrial companies is growing.

Remember, these guys fired all the people who actually know what they're doing because "DEI" and then hired the absolute dumbest people imaginable because of "meritocracy" and... then they do stuff like leaving comments enabled in their "this is how we concentration camp" PDF.

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Monstrously evil. Abolish ICE. Melt down its weapons and sell off all of its assets. Release everyone from its concentration camps and grant citizenship (if they want it) to everyone whose rights it has violated.