🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If you come across an attorney who is *against* putting things in writing, you are looking an attorney who plans to deceive and renege on his promises.

Trump during the campaign on Feb 2, 2023 to Fox: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even be hard. You have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to them, which I won’t reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will end immediately.”

Remember when someone assassinated the CEO of United Healthcare because he thought it was an unholy nightmare and some people wondered if the murder might be a wakeup call for the industry?

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

I honestly believe this admin is *hoping* for a terrorist attack to both rally around the flag and have a pretext for domestic crackdowns leading into the midterms. No other explanation for this insanity.

You sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but the acting Attorney General directed the IRS to stop all ongoing audits of Trump, but we know from leaked tax returns that Trump owes more than $100 million in unpaid taxes, so Trump is basically just giving himself a free hundred plus million dollars.

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100% this. Trump campaigned on targeting violent criminals. An 18-year-old girl getting ready to graduate high school is not the “worst of the worst.” Not even close. There is no justification for keeping her in ICE custody for months.

DeLAURO: The Save America PAC paid you nearly $10 million in 2024 to serve as President Trump's personal defense attorney! My God, do you not find there's any conflict of interest in what you are doing here as the acting attorney general of the US? BLANCHE: I don't understand what you're saying

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement? BLANCHE: The Constitution IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

Blanche says that if someone bribes Trump for a pardon, only the briber will be prosecuted. The President will only be impeached.

oh my god

Blanche: Can I please finish? Madeleine Dean: You told me in our conversation you blamed the victims. Hal Rogers intervenes several times to silence Dean, first by cutting her 5 minutes by 3 minutes, then by refusing to let her describe Trump-related docs into the record.

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

DEAN: You're under oath. When will you comply with the law and release all the files? BLANCHE: We have complied with the law DEAN: There are 3 million more documents. Nobody buys it. *the time of the gentlelady has expired* DEAN: How do I get cut off 2 minutes into this?

Blanche REFUSES to rescind memo creating Terrorist Slush Fund. Blanche: I'm not committing to putting anything in writing. Meng: You started it in writing so why not rescind it in writing. Blanche: I'm not committing to putting it in writing.

BREAKING: Rep Meng asks Rubio about the slush fund after the stay expires. Blanche WONT commit to putting it in writing. BLANCHE: "We're not moving forward with the fund. Period. The reasons for the fund remain important, but we're not moving forward with it." MENG: "Ever?" BLANCHE: "Correct." 1/

Shorter Todd Blanche: We succeed on our appeals when we go before the far right Supreme Court.

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BREAKING: Blanche says the tax immunity for Trump and his family is STILL IN EFFECT. "I can't answer it yes or no. The ONLY document we're not moving forward with is the fund."

Sen. Murphy to Markwayne Mullin: "You've spent the first two months of your tenure threatening to suspend international arrivals in states represented by Democrats. Not only would that throw our entire air travel system into chaos. It's completely illegal."

Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio says the quiet part out loud: Even if Trump scraps the Anti-Weaponization Fund, the DOJ could still settle separate lawsuits brought by Jan. 6 Capitol attackers —potentially handing out millions in taxpayer dollars to people who participated in the attack.

MULLIN: I will never break the Constitution. We will enforce the law MURPHY: Will you implement court orders when they tell you to stop? MULLIN: You're making an assumption MURPHY: Will you or will you not? Listen, if you're a Dem or Republican on this committee, you should be really freaked out

This is crazy

🔥 SEN. @vanhollen.senate.gov to Rubio: “This is your first public hearing since Trump & Netanyahu launched an illegal war — Netanyahu finally found someone stupid and reckless enough to do it… face it: the Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire.”

The Bari Weiss dumpster fire at CBS News(max) continues

Trump administration buildings are now becoming infested with bed bugs. Employees are reportedly becoming sick from the infestations in the building that houses the agency responsible for mitigating the spread of invasive pests in the US. www.notus.org/policy/usda-...

MacFarlane: They're off message in the Republican conference and they know it. They are talking about ballrooms, reflecting pools, monumental arches, slush funds, and Pulte

Chris Murphy to Markwayne Mullin: "Every single day this agency is violating the Constitution and the law. This cannot continue. For Congress to approve of this budget, you must assure us that this Sherman's March of illegality ends. The worry is the opposite is about to happen."

SCHWARZE: If only Chauvin was fraud, maybe we would've uncovered it 10 years ago DeRUSHA: You're comparing the intl incident that was killing of Floyd w/fraud? S: How was that intl incident? D: Ppl around world protested S: You had more people get tax dollars in Al Shabab than marched for Floyd

remarkable that Minnesota Republican endorsed this guy, who can barely manage a coherent thought let alone express it, for US Senate -- though I guess he maybe is a half step up from Royce White

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

ARBOR: “.. Cattle supply is not something that can increase quickly... That is the reason that the Trump Administration is a big fan of Argentinian beef imports.”

You can see why they try to call them “AI factories” — not “data centers.” @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

Tim Kaine reveals that the targeting criteria for the murderboats does NOT require narcotics on the boat. 😲

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Props to CNN for this chyron

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

i know the White House thinks it's cute that nobody in the administration has real responsibilities beyond fluffing the president on TV, but that disaster of a press briefing by Dr Oz is a reminder that it's actually good to know what you're talking about

⬇ Vought is an unelected person and is destroying the country for some extremist "vision" of Project 2025. He is a threat not only to our country but the world.

If Big Brother doesn’t like your science topic you won’t be funded and if Big Brother doesn’t like your results you will be defunded. A recipe for backwardness that seems to be designed by people who want America to humiliate itself and collapse. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Because a family member (illegally) donated in my name, I get texted a daily stream of the most outlandish and desperate lies the GOP tells its faithful. Truly disturbed and disturbing stuff--but believed by millions. GET UP AND VOTE, WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

A Kenyan High Court judge issued an order restraining anyone from establishing any Ebola quarantine or treatment facility in Kenya, argued on Kenya's constitution, not the US one. CDC officials themselves criticized the plan, which tells you the objection isn't only partisan.

Bill Pulte Lacks Intelligence Qualifications. He’s Perfect for the Job Trump Just Gave Him. #MotherJones

Los Angeles officials warn against election interference after ballots burned, voter center vandalized #TheHill

California get out and vote …vote vote vote