Kash Patel's FBI invites all 50 states' top election officials to a meeting to talk about how the feds can provide resources to, um, what? turn the mid terms over to Kash Patel's FBI? "So fuck the FCC Fuck the FBI Fuck the CIA Living in the motherfucking USA" - Steve Earle

Verbatim: "I will not sit idly as they use me as a prop in a closed-door kangaroo court by a GOP running scared. If they want answers, let’s stop the games & do this the right way: in a public hearing, where the American people can see for themselves what this is really about." Bill Clinton

Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.

This illustrates exactly why the Senate posturing over DHS is meaningless. The country doesn't need dink-ass Gestapo behavior modification. DHS needs to be torn down to the studs and totally rebuilt. They are just Trump/Miller's sadistic wet dream right now.

Texas Sens. John Cornyn & Ted Cruz (crickets)

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

So are White House staffers also using Trump's account to declare new wars, disseminate new Executive Orders and the like? Hey Karoline, which staffers have been exercising such power? Anyone besides Stephen Miller? Is this less nefarious than using an auto pen?

Que the Star Trooper Gestapo invasion music...

So the only black Republican in the Senate condemns Trump's KKK-like social media post, I'm not seeing many other Republicans call Trump out. So, just open racism is a GOP plank now? Good to know. John Cornyn & Ted Cruz? You 2 OK with this?

What is the "crypto industry"? Like, what does it produce?

They were conciliatory for about a day and a half. Now Republicans are suddenly back to fighting hard for the right of the Executive to keep an unaccountable Gestapo to enforce his Retribution on Brown People & other imaginary enemies. ICE doesn't need to be reined in; it needs to be disbanded.

Very Stable Genius Donald Trump uses overt racism to distract Americans from his pedophilic past.

Do they sell dementia meds? Asking for the President.

Same as it ever was. "Every ingredient is in place for Texas to swing back, and potentially give Democrats a Senate majority, except one: the Texas Democratic Party."

Or rules of economics.

Only accepts cash payments, huh? Probably this is all totally straight up, knowing the Trump family. Right? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #[email protected]

Bezos seems needlessly cruel as he kills off the Post bit by bit. Why not just pull the plug? It's probably too late to sell it off to some media vulture such as the Thompson chain.

The Buck doesn't Stop at all anymore.

Emperor Drumpty thinks Gabbard's skirting of the Constitution is pretty swell, but hedges his bets by throwing Pam Bondi under the bus for it 🙄

If they control agriculture, they control food production.

Trump Havana Casino then? So Emperor Drumpty & Marco Polo apparently like this plan to depose leaders and topple governments in select countries, then prevent the suffering citizenry from governing themselves, then take no responsibility whatsoever for providing food, shelter or employment.

ICE plans on eventually warehousing 150,000 or more humans across the US. The existing gulags don't even have medical staff. But they have epidemics.

Now Donny Two Dolls' minions are calling *us* the Mob. 🙄

Very Stable Genius with the Nuclear Codes "For the first time since 1972, it leaves both superpowers with no limits on the size or structure of their arsenals, at the very moment both are planning new generations of nuclear weapons and newly evasive means of delivering the deadly warheads." - NYT

Verbatim: "Senate Republicans are concerned that a public backlash to President Trump’s handling of the economy & his aggressive deportation policies could give rise to a Dem wave that not only sweeps away the House Republican majority, but also threatens their own 3-seat majority." - The Hill

Oh, but Don Lemon's microphone 🙄

Trump's Oligarch Recession is gearing up...

While the number of Gestapo agents skyrockets across the US, the size of the DOJ unit charged with policing law enforcement is dwindling. Almost as if the Trumpistanis need an unaccountable militia ready to round up the State's Enemies at a moment's notice.

Republicans in Congress all knew their blather about creating a healthcare plan better than the subsidies they let expire was just that - blather. Instead your healthcare $ has been redirected to help ICE buy enough human warehouses for 150,000 human beings. Those are fascist priorities.

Less smugness and more stuttering. It's his tell.

there's something unholy about the Trump administration being laser focused on "fraud" while Trump pardons an endless clown car of fraudsters and bilks taxpayers at every opportunity. it's just transparently absurd.

This was part of the Trump/Miller plan all along. We should thank Bannon for blurting it out in one of his drunken stupors. And another great reason to decommission the Gestapo.

Trump's Director of National Intelligence & Election Taint...

Another Fine Mess “Bezos’s sickening efforts to curry favor with President Trump have left an especially ugly stain of their own. This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction.” - Martin Barron, former executive editor, Washington Post

His Spider Sense has told him Minneapolis has a secret prison full of Somalian murderers that they don't want to give up. Like saving them for a rainy day. All the other cities gave up their secret stashes of foreign gangers, now it's Minneapolis' turn.🤡

Verbatim "Almost half a trillion dollars has been wiped off cryptocurrencies in less than a week as a selloff led by Bitcoin accelerated. Total crypto market value has slumped by $467.6 billion since Jan. 29, according to CoinGecko data." - Bloomberg

Sen. Thom Tillis says he's happy to hold up Trump's appointment to the Fed forever if necessary, until DOJ drops bullshit lawsuit against Fed Chairman Powell. Of course, every senator should be lining up behind Tillis to empathize the need for an independent Fed, but cowardice runs deep with them.

But Hunter's laptop 🙄

Put America Behind Bars Again Hard to get excited about Congress funding DHS for another year when ICE already is rolling in so much $ that they're buying up giant warehouses to turn into gulags where they plan to imprison 150,000 human beings.

The Gestapo thinks court orders are hilarious.

Now do the remaining 2,000.

Meanwhile, deep in the Home of the Free... Texas Gov. Greg Abbott SO MAD that students dare exercise their constitutional right to protest Gestapo facism that he threatens to have the state take over their districts if it happens again🙄

Congressman says it's up to Congress to hold PeeWee German responsible as shadow head of the Gestapo, although I think turning him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague might be appropriate...

I guess Emperor Drumpty's ICE & Justice revenge tour will be moving south for some bigger fraud & better weather, eh?

Your country on Republicans

Gestapo leaves "death cards" for immigrant families to find, the better to terrorize whole neighborhoods. This is why the movement to defund ICE is gaining traction.

Trump/Miller doctrine killing off American ag. “The current Administration’s actions, along with Congressional inaction, have increased costs for farm inputs, disrupted overseas and domestic markets, denied agriculture its reliable labor pool, and defunded critical ag research and staffing.”

Trump thinks it's time to stop talking about his rapey days with Jeffrey Epstein so I guess we're probably going to war with Iran or maybe Seattle real soon.

I don't know how it's taken me until this afternoon to realize that myopic faux conservative intellectual David Brooks got hired by The Atlantic, but apparently it happened. The Times got the better end of the bargain, but damn, both these old organs seem more than ever headed for life support. 🙄

Verbatim: "I have deep concerns about the fairness of our elections in '26 and '28 right now. I have concerns about the elections and primaries in our country." - Sen. Mark Warner, vice chair, Senate Intelligence Committee