@crampell.bsky.social: "The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced it was discontinuing some of its data collection on foreign investment in the U.S…In the absence of data, I guess we’ll simply have to trust Trump when he says that he’s delivered." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-one...

Trump has sold out the US, Ukraine, our allies to Putin and we need to have a serious conversation now in America about whether this is OK, or a form of treason. bsky.app/profile/chri...

The great @timothysnyder.bsky.social explains why this new Trump-backed Ukraine plan sells out Ukraine, Europe, and democracies across the world. Take a few minutes and watch. It is hard to put into words how much damage Trump is doing to our own country, how unfit and malevolent he is.

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

Wow.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

The Department of Justice is participating in corrupt prosecutions and corrupt cover-ups.

Narrator: Bovino has now fled Chicago, because he was being held to account for his illegal actions there by the courts -- and is overseeing the assault and kidnapping of people elsewhere in the United States.

Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"

Chris Murphy: "The fact of the matter is if you don't put constraints on Donald Trump's illegality, this democracy isn't going to be here next November. It isn't going to be here in 2028. So Democrats, yes, have to draw firm moral lines in the sand right now."

Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."

Seems like a pretty straightforward and irrefutable point 👉 "By 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

CNN: Trump in Epstein files NBC: Trump in Epstein files ABC: Trump in Epstein files FOX:

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

This is important context from Julie K. Brown. With alt text.

New in PN: The hysteria over Biden's pardons seems extra ridiculous now "Trump has perverted the pardon power far beyond the most questionable actions of any other modern president, emboldening a diverse cast of crooked politicians and outright fraudsters in a new American age of corruption."

MAGA gets to line up at the MAGA Bondi lunchline for big handouts of taxpayer money, as “settlements.” What a racket. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gosh, why and how could that be? Such an enigma!

A copy of this needs to go to every Senator that voted to confirm this grossly incompetent blowhard.

I was thinking the same thing...

Make a choice GOP. History is recording your names youtu.be/RMs7ILQ_n2Q?...

Live shot of Speaker Johnson's presser.....

All of the times I’ve wondered what Putin had on Trump, and now we find out Jeffrey Epstein was talking to Putin’s ambassador about Trump.

The country made a mistake in electing Trump. A big one. Now we should tell him, loudly, that he needs to go.

To be very clear - questions of whether Epstein provided compromising information on Trump to Putin - which then in turn explains Trump’s dangerous subservience to Putin - is back on the table.

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

This is some real disgusting shit

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

“Zorin loses track of his lies … and the lies of his government, because he’s indifferent to both in pursuit of his own delusions of grandeur.” @michaeldweiss.bsky.social covers the fictionalized career of Russian spy-diplomat Gen. Alexander Zorin.

A little bit of history worth knowing. If it’s history, they are trying to wipe it out, to make room for the absurd tales of eternal innocence that bring fascism and bloodshed closer.

they inherited the fasting growing stable economy and now they make it out to be they inherited a failing economy.....numbers don't lie...republicans do.

"Affordability isn't an issue. But if it is, it's not our fault." Party of personal responsibility strikes again.

Mark Kelly notably declines to endorse Chuck Schumer as the leader of Senate Dems going forward

New: We've translated in full a 1988 KGB training manual on how to infiltrate U.S. government facilities in the Middle East and North Africa. Something of a Russian growth industry these days, you might say. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Schumer and the Hateful Eight Betray America A New Low For The Democratic Senate open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Dems. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

So @therickwilson.bsky.social had some thoughts about @schumer.senate.gov caving

Can we please get a new Senate leader? Please?!?

Sen Gary Peters is in his own way the biggest embarrassment of the lot. He’s been a leader of Team Cave and he’s retiring. So there’s no politics or risk aversion. He wants to cave as a matter of genuine principle.

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

“In how many other countries could a candidate like that win this election? As I biked home from the beer garden that night, a gushing wave of enthusiasm broke loose in my mind. I wanted to get involved.” @amrkotb.bsky.social writes for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

He’s right.