Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”

JARED BERNSTEIN: “.. Manufacturing is in a real slump, with emp down 5 months in row, down 94K over past year. We haven’t seen such trends outside of recessions for years. “.. Trump’s fingerprints are on this trend. It turns out that making factory production more expensive is bad for jobs.”

Holy shit

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

If the shooter was going after ICE, as Patel’s FBI says, then the federal agents must have been using the shackled detainees as human shields. Otherwise, I call bullshit on that contrived evidence of the shooter’s leftist ideology

Hmmm. Maybe it’s ok to secede from the red states. Then we should build a wall

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

nobody needs to hear this more than people who aren’t on here but: wait for a suspect and a motive

Why MAGA men love the loathsome piece of shit: This woman nailed it. 🎯🎯🎯👇

I told my daughter when I was fighting President Trump's first travel ban that we’re lucky to live in a country where anyone can speak out against the president. Now, we’re threatened with prison time. AG Bondi's threat disgraces the office of the US Attorney General.

Every single one of these traitorous assholes needs to be put in prison for the rest of their lives.

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Bingo.

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

people seem upset at what the agent said here, but to be fair he was merely stating official government policy

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

I’m trying to figure out how to make “Party of Useful Idiots” fit into the GOP acronym

NYT reports that a mysterious, *$984 million* transfer from a Pentagon"black box" account might be paying for the renovation of Trump's "free" Qatari jet. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/Gd0KcUp

Jill Harth really did get memory holed by a ton of media real quick years ago didn’t she huh

Yiiiiiikes

NOAA and FEMA are being gutted and our infrastructure was designed for the weather of 100 years ago.

It's totally understandable, as long as you grasp this Court's foremost theory of jurisprudence, to wit: Federal power can only be used to deprive the citizenry of rights, power, and benefits, but never to grant them.

The future of America is the police state

A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."

We know that this version of Grok is Elon unfiltered

seems to me that someone who lies about where they were born shouldn't be working in the White House www.occrp.org/en/news/excl...

Grok now has dozens of tweets referring to itself as "MechaHitler" and is saying Elon Musk built the chatbot this way "from the start"

Former NOAA Administrator Richard Spinrad: "I am convinced that the staff cuts that we saw were a contributing factor to the inability of the emergency managers to respond."

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion+ in tax cuts for the wealthy... "That's just how it is."

It was a mistake to hand over our government to religious extremists who think their purpose is to help shepherd us toward the End Times

While Kristi Noem’s out here blaming everyone but herself, here’s her own April press release bragging about clawing back $882M in disaster resilience grants. The kind that could’ve helped in Texas. They’d rather wage culture wars than actually protect human lives.

Well worth a read amidst the ongoing purges of the security services by a personalist authoritarian government. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Raskin: "I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. 'We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people's defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity ... '"

Members of the Republican elite know that climate change is a problem, but rather than take action to lessen it, they do what they can to make it worse, writes William deBuys. www.thenation.com/article/envi...

Well, I guess I will never sign up for a subscription from Paramount

If the US were a functioning democracy, corruption of this magnitude would bring down the government.

Unbelievable. And unforgivable

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

It really is amazing how far down the list this is on the outrage scale for Trump when any other president saying something like this would have been a massive scandal, complete with Senate hearings over accusations of quid pro quo and cronyism.

🔥 @warnock.senate.gov: “A budget is a moral document. The character of our nation is on the line… This is Robin Hood in reverse. Socialism for the rich.” 🇺🇸 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

To use a venture capital metaphor, Vance has only just progressed from his pre-seed to seed funding. JD Vance is everywhere—the highest point of contact, Trumpworld sources say, for tech billionaires who went all-in on Donald Trump. First and foremost, of course, Peter Thiel, the man who made him.

The masked agents pull up quickly. They jump out of unmarked vans. They wear blue jeans or battle fatigues. They approach Latinos, yelling and carrying assault rifles. If someone runs, they’re taken. If they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. If they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.

I see this guy got Peter Thiel’s memo

A childhood friend’s dad was career Navy and she was always talking about going to the commissary to buy stuff and I was always so jealous