An acquittal and an all-you-can-eat pun buffet Today was good, thanks everyone

I may be biased because she’s my colleague but @mollyroberts.bsky.social did a truly fantastic job reporting on the Sandwich Guy trial. It was delightful to follow along. Give her a follow! (And if you’re able to do so, I hope you’ll consider supporting our work ⬇️) givebutter.com/journalism/m...

If hurling a sub at someone wearing body armor isn’t assault, WHAT IS — Stephen Miller, probably

Hiiii Yassamin 👋🏼

"Rioters tried to kill me on January 6. Trump pardoned them." Sgt. Aquilino Gonell writes a must-read piece on what it's like to risk your life to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/rioters-tr...

"What it's like to defend democracy, only to be called an un-American traitor." Sgt. Aquilino Gonell defended the Capitol on January 6. He wrote a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump and his enablers:

We need a no fakes pledge. Politicians who don’t sign, who throw AI slop in our faces, ought to face some kind of consequence.

If I let them throw sandwiches at me, can I be installed finally

It was the Hannibal Lecter thing that gave him away

If I let them throw sandwiches at me, can I be installed finally

Turn the thermostat even higher

Basking in the good vibes. On to 2026!

Basking in the good vibes. On to 2026!

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that. But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal. You can’t negotiate with people like that.

One of the most important skills, and that you never get complacent

We can’t normalize this and we can’t ignore it. That’s why CREW is keeping it on record:

What a time we’re living in

What’s crazy is *his* position is the politically inconvenient one Like, this judge gave him a reprieve and he was like nooooope I want the blame

They cannot abide your insults and mockery, very secure in their cosplay fatiguery

Repost if you think President Trump's weaponization of the DOJ against his perceived political enemies (while letting his allies off the hook) is unacceptable and antidemocratic. 🔁

Every aspect of American media is now controlled by a small group of far right billionaires. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

He’s got a staffer looking for whether there are any merger applications he can leverage here

Dick Cheney: “In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump. He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him”

And once again it works for Mike Johnson. He gets asked about Trump’s pardon of his crypto fraud guy yesterday after Trump’s 60 Minutes interview, he said he doesn’t know about it, then he DOESN’T GET ASKED a single question about it today in his press conference. bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Here it is, the Constitutional crisis people feared, Trump openly and flagrantly defying a court order. And it's over... denying Americans food. We are literally facing a Constitutional breakdown over SNAP funds. This administration is making mistake after mistake. They can be beaten.

We've got you 👍

Preface every single question with “you can’t have missed this in your position” and watch his head explode

Can we all agree that when a president pardons a guy who was convicted for financing terrorists, and then says he didn't know the guy but "I was told" to pardon him, the follow question MUST be "Who told you to pardon him?" But CBS never asked: who is making decisions in the White House? 1/

Good. Click in.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Vote!

Who says the man has no empathy? He has expressed what is obviously deep and sincere sympathy for, among others: ✳️ Prince Andrew ✳️ Ghislaine Maxwell ✳️ Jair Bolsonaro ✳️ Vladimir Putin ✳️ Benjamin Netanyahu ✳️ the convicted January 6 insurrectionists ✳️ the Nazis who marched in Charlottesville

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

“We’Re DoInG eVeRyThInG pOsSiBlE tO rEdUcE sUffErInG”

“The insurrection of January 6 happened before our eyes and produced about three news cycles of almost universal horror before that consensus began to succumb to the assault of partisan revisions and elisions, lies, alternative facts, and conspiracy theories…” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

If being anti Trump is illegal, lock me up Oh wait

Incoherent foreign policy, seemingly arbitrary one-off military operations, little to no real diplomacy, threats that no one can tell if they are serious, disrespect allies, world leaders mock us openly and manipulate the President at every chance

Correct

Cowardice reigns in the House of Representatives

This is a very good reason for Congress to do tariffs instead of letting the executive run them

Prosecutors are being sidelined merely for stating the truth about previous Jan. 6 convictions.

Remember how mad you were to find out WMDs in Iraq was a ruse, just a fig leaf for premeditated invasion for totally different reasons?

Resistance means using all the tools and spaces you have for peaceful opposition. My latest video.

Once again, the Senate, also run by Republicans, remains open. This is solely an effort to protect the pedophiles and sex traffickers in the Epstein Files.

Weird, it’s almost like Trump’s constant threats of lawsuits are meaningless and institutions should not capitulate right away

Not making a prediction, but only to note: a smart person with undersized heart in JD’s position could conceivably judge (maybe correctly) that his wife and children are all that stand between him and the thing he wants most in the world

“How to cognitive” youtube.com/shorts/omTd0...

Breaking character: This is a good thread. One my fixations is that Dems blow money on ads rather than building political infrastructure. My theory is they do this because the data tells them too just like the data told Robert McNamara to destroy Ford by cutting R&D to the bone.

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