Since Trump returned to the White House, Event Strategies, which arranged Trump’s January 6 rally, has received tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts from government agencies to organize anniversary events, often without competitive bidding.

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A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president's first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein's orbit.

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by @lyz.bsky.social 1/2 "Americans like ranch, but they don’t respect it. As the top-selling salad dressing, ranch is déclassé, a symbol of the hoi polloi. In 2016, the Washington Post published an op-ed calling ranch dressing 'disgusting,' saying it tasted like..

by @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/2 “The important decision was handed down yesterday, when the Court, ruling on the Slaughter case — brought on behalf of an FTC commissioner arbitrarily fired by Donald Trump — overturned 90 years of precedent to give Trump dictatorial power..

by @snipy.bsky.social 1/2 “This isn’t a new playbook for conservatives. Rather, it’s the playbook they deployed so successfully in getting rid of abortion rights — flood the discourse with bad-faith, scientifically illiterate 'information' to shore up the idea that..

by @borowitzreport.bsky.social "When in the course of human events a tyrant imperils a nation, it is the duty of those who cherish democracy to remove him from power. "We the People refuse to tolerate a despot who threatens our country and the world"

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/2 “Trump has called for ending birthright citizenship since his first term as part of his appeal to his racist supporters who want to end Black and Brown equality in the United States. But his argument would overturn the central idea of the United States..

by @mikenellis.bsky.social 1/2 “Good people — talented people, people who actually have something to give to their community, their city, their country — these are the people who watch what happened to Pete and decide it’s not worth it. I said the same thing when Melissa Hortman..

by @andertoon.bsky.social 1/2 “No amount of gerrymandering can redraw public opinion. If enough Americans conclude that the administration has spent more time staging spectacles than solving problems, no congressional map will be oddly shaped enough..

by @anntelnaes.bsky.social Happy 250th anniversary from the Supreme Court

by @lwinner.bsky.social 1/2 “Zionist. In its plain meaning, it names a person who believes the Jewish people are entitled to self-determination in a state of their own. You can argue with that belief—people of good faith have argued with it for a century. But in the mouths I am describing, it has..

by @paulwaldman.bsky.social 1/2 “the religious right claims to be oppressed victims, while pushing harder every year to give their religion official government status. They seek the power not just to worship as they wish but to impose their beliefs on the rest of us..

by @mikehlas.bsky.social 1/2 “The what-might-have-been with Kinnick doesn’t count, though. So how does Kinnick rate above, say, great authors, novelists and playwrights the school has sent into the world, not to mention its lesser-known but vital standouts in the areas of science, technology..

by @jenrubin.bsky.social 1/2 "As with any Trumpian production featuring pretensions of grandeur, this has become another ode to his incompetence and cultural cluelessness. There is something particularly feeble about the MAGA cult leader — who has long insisted..

by @nberlat.bsky.social 1/2 “The Founders were terrible in many respects; the Constitution is ill-conceived and doesn’t work. That doesn’t mean we should give up. It means that rather than thinking of ourselves as failing a heroic legacy, we can think of ourselves as in a position to maybe take..

by @eggerdc.bsky.social 1/2 “the president’s exultation may not last long. He is, of course, too solipsistic to see it, but he isn’t going to be the president forever. In his shortsightedness, he has grown obsessed with changing the direction of the country via executive power alone..

by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social what the fuck is some Nazi-themed golden eagle doing above the door of the White House?

SCOTUS rejects Trump's birthright citizenship policy

by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy “I’m not a political expert — sometimes I think nobody is — but my God, again, this corruption is so blatant. And it does resonate with people. It’s really clear that corruption at the top & the sense that ordinary people are paying the price while people..

by @tarapalmeri.bsky.social “The politics around Israel are shifting so quickly that it’s becoming difficult to tell where symbolism ends and substance begins. “That’s why I wanted to interview Rep. Marlin Stutzman, one of Congress’s most pro-Israel Republicans, after he introduced..

by @macfarlanenews.bsky.social 1/2 “in the DAY AHEAD… let’s see if – & how -- the Administration & other elected leaders are lacing up their campaign running shoes. “Perhaps Trump will set aside time today to sign the housing affordability legislation that he stood up at the altar last Wednesday..

by @jenrubin.bsky.social 1/2 "Trump’s inability to snow over the public with his blizzard of deceit bodes well for Democrats’ chances to trounce Republicans in the midterms. Candid after his primary defeat, Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn let on: 'The jury’s still out whether this MAGA..

by @tdorman.bsky.social 1/2 “There are also no goals or benchmarks to tell us if tremendous progress is real. We also don’t require monitoring of water quality projects to see if they’re truly making water cleaner. Taxpayers, just give us your money and stop asking questions..

by @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/2 “An ICE surge in Ohio is not inevitable. Trump does not have to order his promised ‘large deportation.’ In April the House of Representatives passed legislation extending protected status for Haitians. But the Senate would..

by @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social 1/3 “this is what a messy but unacknowledged surrender by the US to Iran looks like. And this is probably what the New Normal will look like. It will consist of on-and-off military tit-for-tats; endless diplomatic squabbling and propagandizing..

by @artcullen.bsky.social 1/2 “The public doesn’t like the king. It’s not just the economy. People detest living in a police state. They want a whole new government, just like Thomas Jefferson did. He argued that we have a right to stand up against despots..

by @frankfukuyama.bsky.social 1/2 “The problem is that the Trump administration’s AI policy is typically chaotic. It is not clear who has final authority to issue new rules for AI, and on what basis. It appears that the turn towards regulation is driven by serious people..

by @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social 1/2 “Raising more money is not particularly complicated, from a technical perspective. Rather than taxing wealth or raising income tax rates sky-high, it can be done by closing the elaborate array of holes that have been drilled into the current tax schedule..

by @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy 1/2 “Trump ripped up the JCPOA, which he derided as a terrible deal. Now the Iranian regime is in a much stronger position than it was under the JCPOA. Yet we should also recognize that while the U.S. has suffered a military failure, it has also..

by @nberlat.bsky.social 1/2 “It seems fairly likely that the bill passes somehow; Congress is enthusiastic about getting it across the finish line, and Trump doesn’t seem to care all that much. Whether it does or doesn’t, though, Trump has proven once again that he loathes..

by @liberalcurrents.com 1/2 "The theoretical keyword of such a liberal vocabulary and policy agenda is sufficiency. People need enough, not the same. Sufficient money; sufficient education; sufficient opportunity; sufficient access to political power; sufficient freedom of speech..

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 1/2 “I am seeing a lot to celebrate in the people who are pushing back, the people who advocate for democracy every day. We are the real spirit of America and that is definitely something to celebrate: The people who refuse to give up..

Supreme Court says Trump can't fire Fed governor Lisa Cook

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by @thehungaryreport.com 1/2 “Counting is the first act of post-authoritarian government. It is how a new state learns what was taken, what was bent, what was hidden and what still has force. It is also the first temptation. Once a government begins measuring the damage..

by @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com 1/3 "As idiotic as this administration is, they have also clearly learned some things from their setback in the Twin Cities. They no longer gratuitously drop enormous amounts of tear gas and other crowd-suppressing measures, because that makes for very bad optics..

by @eisendrath.net 1/3 “America is more isolated than it has been in more than a century. He has alienated our allies, and pushed our trading partners into new alliances not with us but with China. His foreign policy negotiators - J.D. Vance, Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Marco Rubio..

by @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social 1/3 "the words of Jesus that we read this week, words that immediately follow the harsh ones, ask us to welcome and be welcomed. And in that simple act of hospitality, we find our own humanity and the reflection of God. It seems that even swords, estrangement..

by @barrypiatt.bsky.social 1/2 "Rather than produce a Farm Bill farmers can use to chart a course toward profitability, Trump seems to have opted for a policy of welfare-like bailout checks for the nation’s farmers. "Farmers have a reputation as rugged, independent, hard workers..

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 1/2 "In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Alito, with a majority that included Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has two adopted children from Haiti, the Court held that the courts can’t review a president’s decisions about TPS. In other words..

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social 1/2 “The profligate use of our tax dollars for whatever Trump and his cronies want while the American people suffer is at least as representative of Trump’s reign as is the peeling, algae-filled, militarily guarded Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool..

The BBC has requested that King Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster. They are also asking Trump's legal team to "identify all persons with whom he had communicated regarding any aspect of the January 6 2021 'Stop the Steal' rally.

by @michaelianblack.bsky.social 1/2 “Fear is killing this country. It’s a fear ginned up by the same pickpockets who have always relied on distraction to pad their billfolds. Yet I’m supposed to wring my hands over the ascent of Democratic Socialists like Mamdani when they’re the only people..

by @andertoon.bsky.social The Price of “Efficiency”

by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social 1/2 “The Reflecting Pool is a mess, with chips of ‘American Flag Blue’ paint Trump used in his failed effort to make it conform to his vision of how it should look. Now, Trump is going to spend more of our money to correct his mistake..