“Biden implored the Democratic Party to learn some lessons from this outcome, while saying, “the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.””

What happens when no member of the Supreme Court’s dominant Republican bloc feels any need to moderate its most aggressive impulses? We saw it yesterday: Even smaller case turn into maximalist rulings that blow up precedent and gut civil rights. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“That’s a recipe not just for a politicized military, but an authoritarian military,” he said. “That’s the way militaries work in Russia and China and North Korea.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

VICTORY: A federal appeals court panel Wednesday dealt the Trump administration its first appellate defeat in its nationwide crusade to obtain unredacted state voter rolls — after nine straight district court losses and no wins. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump spiked today's affordable housing bill signing like a big selfish baby. When will Republicans learn he wouldn't spit on them if they were on fire? My column on President Tantrum: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“It amounts to one of the biggest efforts in decades to increase the supply of housing and reduce prices. On Wednesday morning, however, Trump claimed it was of “minor importance”.” Proving once again that trump doesn’t care about the people. The only SAVE act we need is one to save us from trump!

1/2 “The justices have consistently made it harder to hold government officials accountable over the last 20 years. They have repeatedly struck down criminal convictions of state and local officials under federal anti-bribery laws. They have closed the doors of the federal courts

1/2 “The report focused not only on Gaza but also the occupied West Bank, which Israel continues to control despite the international court of justice declaring its occupation unlawful. In the ‌West Bank, the commission found a sharp increase in ​violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian

1/2 “Trump, his white Christian Nationalist allies, and AIPAC have no right to lecture anyone about what it means to be “pro-Israel.” They have done incalculable harm to Middle East stability, Israel’s security, and the U.S.-Israel relationship.

1/2 “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan said in an order explaining the decision. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

The only vandal here is trump—and his cronies who ripped off US taxpayers.

“The-president-is-a-comic-book-hero thing is something that appears to go along with modern Republican governance. But it’s reached a level of absurdity with Trump, both because of the extremeness of the cult of personality and because the reality is … he’s a fuck-up.” trib.al/hxqe4tM

1/2 “The Justice Department “is not conducting a criminal investigation,” the judge wrote, “but is instead using the grand jury process for other (unlawful) purposes.”

1/3 “It matters that we no longer employ qualified people to handle matters of war and peace, but leave war planning to entertainers and negotiations to profiteers. We seem to still be under the sway of the fairy tale that Trump himself can negotiate. He cannot and he never could.

1/3 “Trump’s own anger masks a desperate desire to find an off-ramp from a conflict that did not go the way he had planned, an outcome that has threatened to leave the United States—and Trump—reduced in the eyes of the world. For a decade, Trump has dominated the global stage

“Proper told authorities that members of the group online believed the US was headed in the wrong direction. Proper also said that some did not want people involved with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – a former friend of Donald Trump – running the country.”

“The new pact between the U.S. and Iran seeks to rewind the clock to the day before the war.​​“

The Trump Organization will plan, build, and open 25 Trump-branded projects in foreign countries during his second term. Trump owns the company and actively profits from it, meaning his foreign policy decisions with these countries affects his bottom line. The grift never ends.

Israeli officials are angry with Donald Trump about the deal with Iran. trib.al/QSxFmna

Trump’s weak, sad, and embarrassing weekend—from a peace deal that strengthens Iran and pays billions to the regime, to a beyond parody WH cage fight. By contrast, a better America was celebrating the Knicks and enjoying the World Cup—there is hope! youtu.be/b_28d34KFxg?...

1/3 “Vance’s admission contradicts what he said on Friday, when he claimed that Iran would not be “receiving any cash, and no funds are being released simply for signing a deal or attending a meeting.” In addition to the U.S. paying $300 billion in reconstruction funds, Iran reports that the U.S.

1/2 “The authoritarian-minded leader, fixated on self-glorification, tried to force his name onto a memorial for a celebrated assassinated president, a court instead upheld the law, and a crowd assembled to watch the crew precisely because of the indelible images that would soon emerge.

“Real vetting — internally and externally — is specific, documented and open to challenge. None of that seems to have happened here. That’s why it’s reasonable to conclude that Artan was turned away not because of anything in his record, but because of where he was born.”

1/2 “The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don’t turn over voter rolls to the federal government. The rule, proposed last week, is vaguely written but appears to establish broad authority for the

The existence of a trillionaire is a policy failure.

@pkrugman.bsky.social: "The SpaceX IPO now in progress makes it clearer than ever that Musk’s greatest skill isn’t developing futuristic products. It’s his mastery of financial shell games & his ability to leverage insider influence, especially his influence w/the Trump admin." 🧾 t2m.co/Zjm6S5yr

There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.

1/3 “Christian nationalists need the Mormons and their votes, so they’ll pretend to be friends for now. But should the day come that the Christian nationalists get the power they desire, they won’t stop at stripping non-Christians of their full rights. They’re coming for other Christians, too.

1/2 “Asked if he’s “confident” he has enough evidence to bring charges, Essayli showed his (lack of) cards.

1/2 “Trump’s attendance at Madison Square Garden ahead of the game required additional security measures at the arena and forced fans to arrive two hours early to go through “TSA-style security.” It also led to the free watch party outside the venue being canceled.

1/3 “Trump “talks about election fraud all the time,” but it’s “not often he’s sitting across from someone in sort of a captive environment where someone says, ‘Prove it. You’ve not proved this. You’ve sent Republicans out on witch hunts in all 50 states;

“The press is not the enemy of the people. The press is the people’s guarantee that they will know what is done in their name. Some of the institutions that taught this country what bearing witness looks like are right now under pressure from, or perhaps in bed with, this administration.”

OPINION by legal analyst Barbara McQuade: "With a loyalist like Pulte leading the president’s daily intelligence brief, the engineered incompetence itself poses a grave risk to our national security." READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/bill...

“Whatever meager shred of legitimacy the U.S. Supreme Court had went up in flames with its shadow docket decision on Tuesday allowing Alabama to move forward with a racially discriminatory congressional map with no time for election administrators to prepare.”

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.

1/2 “The Supreme Court’s ruling to allow Alabama to use a congressional map found to be racially discriminatory indicates that the conservative justices are following a single principle: Do whatever it takes to help the Republican Party. Even for a court that has already undermined voting rights,

“The secretary has good reason to avoid condemning Trump’s blatant corruption—he appears to be instrumental in pulling it off.”

ICE employee Alexander Back arrested after trying to pay for sex with a child. According to police, his response was: “I’m ICE, boys.” The agency that increasingly seems to attract people who believe a badge, puts them above the law. FIGHT ICE. PAXIS IS YOUR AMMUNITION: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

Every member of Congress who remains silent on Bill Pulte’s appointment as director of national intelligence is actively choosing personal political survival over the literal safety of the United States.

Trump's Iran War has already killed thousands and sent oil prices skyrocketing. His response to negotiations collapsing? "I don't care if they're over [...] I thought they started to get very boring." The entire world is suffering because of Trump — and he just doesn't care.

“The president was left with a choice: Keep fighting an uphill battle for a brazenly corrupt scheme or back down from a fight he was likely to lose. He apparently went with the latter.”

“Once you’ve taken it now four times, it’s probably not that difficult to pretty easily get through it. It shouldn’t be hard to get through it anyway, because it’s a dementia screening test, it’s not an IQ test.”