Trump's economy is entering a new phase. We look at the fallout from his on-again, off-again war with Iran, record-breaking self-enrichment, the Supreme Court's role in enabling it, and whether Kevin Warsh can keep a fragile economy on track. We discuss it all tomorrow on roundtable.

A still picture of Mitch McConnell from a hospital chair and a written statement is NOT proof of life or competency.

A rare look at tech accountability.

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I still can't believe the FBI admitted it has Epstein training videos that should have been released under the Esptein Files Transparency Act. My lawsuit continues! If you missed the live broadcast earlier, you can watch it here. Never any paywalls. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

President Donald Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control. That makes this an especially perilous moment — and one that Democracy Docket will be tracking. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

There's one weird trick for torpedoing Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing. It's not the slush fund. It's not the purges. It's not even the pardons. Read the latest from @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on the vulnerability Democrats can't afford to waste: lnk.thebulwark.com/4pAZ6dX

"Trump went on the Sunday show circuit to exploit the death of his friend to promote a voter suppression bill that would enable Trump to consolidate power for himself... Perhaps he could have at least waited until Graham was in the ground before propping up his corpse for his own benefit."

NEW: "Blanche wants to add attorney general to his resume. But he’s the very last person who should be put in charge of America’s law enforcement apparatus. Home of the Brave is here to make sure Americans know exactly who this man is."

"Make no mistake, this is not an unbiased, rule-of-law Court. Its offering of a few small band-aids will not prevent an impending death by a thousand cuts. And the victim is the Constitution." ICYMI @kimwehle.bsky.social:

“…DOJ staff have privately complained that the Trump administration is essentially deciding not to enforce antitrust laws…” As if we didn’t already know, Trump and his admin are catering to their ultra-rich friends by letting them raise your prices to line their pockets.

President Donald Trump seized on Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) unexpected death Saturday to push for the SAVE America Act, the sweeping anti-voting bill that’s currently stalled in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“Last spring, over 1000 FBI analysts were told to review and redact the Epstein Files. Sources confided that there were training videos instructing them on how to find, log, and redact Trump’s name. The FBI just sent me their response confirming the videos exist.” open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.

Like so many others…He knew it was wrong, but kissed the ring for his own selfish ambitions.

“.. The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies, the people said, adding that the couple was escorted out of their office ..” @ms.now www.ms.now/news/fbi-kas...

Glad you clarified that, CNN. So how about you stop paying this lying scumbag to fill your air with far right propaganda and stochastic terror talking points?

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This should go on Lindsay Graham’s tombstone.

Spelled his name wrong.

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

He never deleted it.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

WHCA issues this empty statement as they plan to fete Donald Trump. What a sad joke.

All these posts on here claiming that ridiculous Kash Patel was ordered to the White House to be called on the carpet over his obscene corruption and incompetence when he was really summoned to help Donald with his. How crazy to think this White House gives a flip about incompetence or corruption.

THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS CLOSED

Multiple things are simultaneously true: Iran’s attacks on third country commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz are illegal. US retaliatory strikes on Iran (as with Trump’s entire war) are also illegal.

Ya Think?

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

NY Times exec editor Joe Kahn in 2024: "It’s our job to cover the full range of issues that people have. At the moment, democracy is one of them. But it’s not the top one — immigration happens to be the top [of polls], and the economy and inflation is the second."

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.

Circulating. . .

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

If Mitch McConnell was alive and conscious, we would have visual proof.

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You never spoke up when they came for others. When they come for you no one will care because natural consequences are karmic. Freedom of speech was constitutionally granted so journalists and others could legally speak truth to power. The American media failed the people and rejected its rights.

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

We've reached the "find out" stage, folks.

I wrote the post below a year ago, but my point in it seems clearer today than ever. Dem-led communities and institutions will either reconstruct or _be_ reconstructed, as MAGA runs rampant. Those are the only options.

F–– a duck, y'all. This situation with American cities being subject to violent occupation to satisfy Republicans' id and bloodlust is intolerable. Intolerable.

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.

I highly recommend watching this video with Asha and Marc Elias if you want to know what the Trump regime's end game is related to the voter files they are trying to obtain. They explain what a voter file is then move into how & why Trump wants to remove people from them.

Thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

No paywall — please watch! open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Bullshit.

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