Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1

“David Brouillette has a history of terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.”

"First, strip the executive of the massive powers that have accumulated over the last century. Second, make the powers retained by the executive subject to greater oversight with real consequences for abuse." What to do after Trump:

I don't file for mileage reimbursement when I drive to Cedar Rapids.

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

I remember some politico article from like 2 days ago where it was like "republicans feel more confident about the midterms" because of "the end of the war in iran" and "ICE not being in the news" lmao

People think they’re woke until they hear my argument for how both Ukraine and Palestine should be able to effect a no fly zone 😒

I’m actually a very moral and sane man who has realized that there’s a common set of solutions to prevent pariah states from exercising revanchist expansionist militarism and extrajudicial special operations. bsky.app/profile/utop...

I mean I struggle to imagine good things happening sometimes but that's why my therapist makes the big bucks

We may not have always agreed on everything, but he was a decent, kind man

Opinion | As long as America remains engaged in pointless, expensive, un-winnable wars, Lindsey Graham will never truly die.

none of you had to defend doing more than this and yet a lot of you chose to

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Listen I get the decorum of "don't speak ill of the dead" even if I think it's ridiculous and easily weaponized. But jumping online to glaze an objectively evil person you worked with who just passed makes me question your moral character, and your fitness to represent me.

I had the privilege of working with Senator Dracula on my bill offering tax cuts to family-owned mortuaries. While we disagreed on much and his horrible embrace has left me unable to endure sunlight, I'll always remember his amusing little jokes about exsanguinating my staff.

Speaking as just one guy who sues the government a lot: This basically does not happen. It is a transparent effort to shut down further inquiry by conceding relief. What they are seeking to cover up must be unspeakably bad.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly

Lincoln contra “blood and soil” national identity:

Today we celebrate the manifesto. The manifesto is pretty good. The choice of today as the high holy day of our civic theatre is very good.

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, remember that America is an idea. We are a creedal nation whose revolutionary promises remain unfulfilled — but are worth fighting for. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tuc...

"There’s simply no future for real democratic self-government with this corrupt Court in place."

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Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

I think the proper way to read Bovino's trajectory is as an exemplary CBP agent, who was trained, promoted, and encouraged through multiple administrations to be the person he is now. It is not that "racists are infiltrating law enforcement" -- law enforcement agencies MAKE people racist.

sanctions. disbarment. prison time

I love how our war goals are just a return to the status quo ante. If our top goals are just to go back to the way things were before the war, what was the purpose of the war?

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

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.

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has expanded the just-announced settlement of Trump's IRS lawsuit to include a pledge that the IRS will no longer pursue *any* claims it may have against Trump, his family members, and his companies over unpaid taxes.

Mifepristone battles as the Fugitive Slave Act redux, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app observed: "A Southern state going to the courts and complaining about free states....

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

If you ranked the 1000 most corrupt things ever done by an executive branch official in the history of the United States something like 950 of them would have happened since Jan 20 2025.

Which way, Dems? Affordability or accountability?

Missouri Republicans passed a "Born Alive" bill that states that dying babies must receive aggressive and futile medical interventions against the wishes of grieving parents and the advice of doctors. This cruel bill is a ban on palliative care for the most vulnerable babies. I am just sick…

Is it the official policy of the US Dept. of Homeland Security that no Jews serve there? If not, who is the “we” defined by belief in Jesus Christ as savior? Or does the “our” refer to the Americans whose security the Department has a duty to protect, none of whom are apparently Jews?

The only characteristic of Trump that I find personally relatable is his extreme contempt for evangelicals that support Trump

“The voters picked this map, and we will be honoring their choice.” It’s a simple message.

impeach

Imposing real, criminal consequences for the Hegseth/Miller/Trump drug boat murders must be a top priority for the next administration. It would be a catastrophic moral failing to let them go unanswered.

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

Jared Golden was the only Democrat to vote NO. If he voted yes, it would have passed. He isn't even running again. He's just a bad person who wants more people to die and wants a job lobbying for defense contractors. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-i...

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

Am I mistaken, or did the Founders create an entire branch of government that, among other responsibilities, was intended to perform oversight of and check the executive branch when it overstepped?