i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.

hate that this was 10 years ago and it's only gotten more true

It's true, no one has time to make home cooked meals and never has. French peasants ordered from DoorDash constantly.

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

Trump: "In 11 months, not one illegal alien was able to get into our country. And they can come in, but they have to come in legally. They have to show us they can love our country, not that they want to blow up our country."

Q: What did you say to Netanyahu about Iran? TRUMP: He's fine. He'll do whatever I want him to do.

I love a man who spent half a billion dollars on a yacht and 55 million dollars on a wedding scolding us about having a spending problem.

Seeing coverage of Congress as a young man in Indiana, I remember watching Barney Frank run circles around bad-faith arguments with his formidable intellect and unique political style.

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

i think it is a solid sign of how fundamentally checked out bezos is from the actual state of american politics that he is mouthing the cliches of 20 years ago as if they are novel insights

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

BREAKING: A handful of Senate Republicans are finally starting to join Democrats to pull the emergency brake and end Trump’s war with Iran. Now is the moment to keep pushing. Call your members of Congress.

So once applications open for the $1.7B slush fund, we're all going to apply and break their portal, right?

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

It's getting really hard to design poll questionnaires that don't prime people against Trump, just because of how crazy all this is. You cannot ask a "neutral" question about the president of the United States directing the Department of Justice to settle his case against the IRS. This is just crazy

I just heard myself say “fck u dork” to this sign

He's right—but just to be super clear, that doesn't mean all term limits are bad! Executive term limits are good. Judicial term limits are excellent. But legislative term limits weaken legislatures and empower lobbyists. The legislature is the one branch that shouldn't have term limits.

Tech guy in my building hit on the young girl who lives downstairs and got shot down. Now he's calling in retaliatory noise complaints about her. The cops have shown up, the management is leaving insane letters on the doors. Genuine blow to my quality of life because this guy is a malignant incel.

"Vladimir Putin has obviously stolen billions, but never this brazenly." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-lootin...

Autism defined by Autistic people:

Yeah there's a larger story here about how the Texas Bargain - low taxes, cheap houses, good schools - ended up making the state way more competitive politically while the Florida Bargain - low taxes, cheap houses, you can do crimes here - made theirs less.

And then there's this: The settlement gets sweeter for Team Trump In a newly-posted, one-page document, the Justice Dept details that it is now prohibited from pursuing tax claims against Trump or his family in the future Signed by Todd Blanche

Talarico now favored by Kalshi prediction market.

Straight out of the fascist playbook of re-writing history. They're going to use the fact that January 6 insurrectionists were pardoned as "proof" that they didn't actually attack anyone and were wrongfully targeted.

We still have not gotten the full story about Trump’s ballroom but his comments today about drones and missiles and snipers indicates there are much worse things going on there than a mere vanity project

Who the fuck asked for this?

NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes. It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska. The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it. w/ @adn.com

You gotta love the self-professed party of personal responsibility Jeanine Pirro wants to misapply the law to prosecute parents for the wrongdoing of their teenage children But when she was District Attorney her husband was convicted of tax fraud based on tax returns that she also signed

REED: How many taxpayers' returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach? BLANCHE: Excuse me? REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct? BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family. REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy

Sure sounds like Trump is trying to make the White House into a fortress for when he refuses to leave office.

COONS: Will you commit to making reports fully public so Americans know who is getting taxpayer dollars out of this settlement fund? BLANCHE: There are privacy laws that may prevent some of the information from being fully public

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

NPR is offering buyouts to journalists as it overhauls its newsroom, with the threat of layoffs to follow. Two recent gifts totaling $113 million are primarily dedicated to NPR's tech infrastructure. n.pr/4nHd2Cc

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

Bill Clinton used to have to walk across the street to use a private telephone to make fundraising calls so as not to violate the Hatch Act by using public resources for partisan purposes. Trump makes campaign commercials from behind the Resolute desk.

I see we're doing this again. Anyways, Zionism is Jewish ethno-nationalism, which doesn't make it any more inherently evil than Serbian or Italian or Greek or Turkish or Mexican nationalism, but is also no reason to it treat it as any more exculpatory for the crimes of the Israeli state.

Folks, the call is coming from inside the house. You are the Democratic Party. If your representative doesn't have the integrity or fortitude, get your neighbors together and make their life miserable. Politicians just want to remain in office and will do whatever it takes to achieve that.

You don’t think Trump and his Big Oil donors are screwing you on purpose? Seriously??

I need a govt slush fund to compensate me for reading the news the last 10 years

I did not truly become a father when my children were born, but later when I rented a pressure washer from the home center and just wandered around looking for things to pressure wash for an afternoon.

The very recent Biden unpopularity discourse is so illustrative. Imagine dozens of stories and interviews every week where Trump officials have to answer not for any of his policies or statements, but his mere unpopularity, along with dozens of opeds on how he should appeal to disaffected voters.