Read the joint statement from myself, Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Chris Deluzio (D-PA-17), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH-02), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA-06):

When they say Trump calling a reporter "piggy" is "just being honest," they are revealing a key feature of the reactionary mind: it believes, at a deep brainstem level, that *everyone* is awful & selfish & ugly on the inside. Everyone just suppresses it out of fear of social disapproval. Not Trump!

Trump pardons allies who boost his crypto coin. Trump invests in corporations that he's supposed to be regulating. Trump cuts deals with autocrats to advance his family's real estate business. The list goes on. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.

The fact that this op/ed was actually published in The Post shows how completely bankrupt the opinion section of that once great journalistic institution has become. Democracy dies with free Prime shipping.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Yada yada yada, what you ACTUALLY need to know: Trump admin is working on a deal to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Pentagon officials worry that could allow China to acquire plane’s advanced technology.

The Future of Counterintelligence in America open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... Tulsi Gabbard making an effort to move CI from the FBI to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence raises the fraught and frightening prospect of a politically-motivated, secret security organization.

@repdangoldman.bsky.social is the best. We need more members of Congress like him. 👏👏👏

Taking stock of the Roberts court at 20—and the shadowy forces that built it. "This is now a MAGA court, and Roberts is at the helm."

President Donald Trump Could Become the World's First Trillionaire by 2028. Forbes clocks him at $7.3B as of September 2025, fueled by real estate, Truth Social, and a crypto spike from his $Trump token that briefly ballooned estimates to $58B. To hit $1T, that's a 140x leap in 3 years.

Bovino is called out by judge for claiming that shots were fired at ICE agents in Chicago, having been called out by judge for lying 2 days earlier as well. The shots fired in Chicago story was carried as news by NBC tonight, with no update that it was a lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

Mrs Slotkin hits the nail on the head, and I appreciate her taking the initiative to covertly raise the alarm. This clip is a must watch and should be shared with others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO...

I missed this thread when first posted, but **WOWZA** this is it.

Anyone who has experience in an abusive household, or who has worked with people in them, or has read a lot about them, will be familiar with a particular dynamic: Dad is full of loud passions & intense moods, sweeping through like a thunderstorm, unpredictable, volatile, often violent. He is ...

The FBI director is flying his girlfriend around on private government planes while FBI agents go without paychecks and families prepare to go hungry as SNAP benefits are being suspended

Trump hosted a dinner last week for White House ballroom donors. Then he went to Mar-a-Lago for a $1 million-per-person dinner benefiting his super PAC. Last night, he treated big GOP donors to dinner on his new White House patio. The government has been shut down for 22 days.

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders: newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025." "I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well." - She was 16

You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time. There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

More good work by Greg Sargent

@kenwhite.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social this Garrett Graff is astute: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

"Staffing cuts under the Trump administration mean forecasters are struggling to maintain normal operations...." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I understand bailing out farmers who suffered some sort of natural disaster or blight to their crops from a parasite, disease, etc. But that’s not what is happening. They can’t sell their abundant crops because of one man. Trump did it, he can pay the farmers out of his crypto.

September 26, 2025

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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Again: the right mounted a huge, billionaire-funded conspiracy to take over US media, degrade US institutions, & erode US rule of law. It happened right out in the open, over decades, & the US media & political establishment not only ignored it but punished all attempts to discuss it.

Gift link (I figured out how to do it) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

This makes me so mad...

Five years ago, Jared Wise was filmed calling on rioters to "kill" police at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, who he said were "Nazis" and "Gestapo." Today, Jared Wise is a senior adviser at Trump's Department of Justice.

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August 4, 2025

Peter Thiel in Hungary with Orban

American journalist, historian, and author Anne Applebaum on the West's biggest mistake in Russia's war against #Ukraine: "The West doesn't understand the extremism of Putinism. They keep imagining that there's a deal to be done, that if we just give Crimea to Russia, then he'll stop fighting.⤵️

July 27, 2025

I strongly encourage everyone to read this editorial by Thom Hartman about the Trump Cult. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

Holy shit wait for it