“Starting on Day One, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.” —Donald Trump, August 2024

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. 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.

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

"nearly half..." ??? it's an open book test. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

The framers had a remedy for brazen corruption: impeachment. Trump's grift is so far out in the open because he is sure he can get away with anything.

Per usual, Trump has lied about every aspect of this. He now says it'll cost 50% more than when he announced it. He now says it'll be much bigger than originally planned. He said he wouldn't touch the East Wing, and he's now demolishing it. He said he would accept input from US agencies, but hasn't.

Q: On the pardon of Changpeng Zhao, Binance has significant business interests with World Liberty Financial, the president family's crypto company. How do you respond to criticisms that this is a corrupt act? LEAVITT: I would respond and say the president is exercising his constitutional authority

A shocking White House demolition. Kristi Noem’s new private jets. Lavish donor dinners. Amid a government shutdown with no end in sight, the Trump administration’s gilded priorities are clear.

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

There is no specific language in the Constitution that forbids destroying the White House, so it’s hard to understand what grievance the Democrat Party could possibly have with President Trump. by Jonathan Turley

Burchett is Burchetting again.

Whether it’s conservatives complaining about a redesign of Cracker Barrel’s across the country, or liberals complaining about President Trump bulldozing the East Wing of the White House, it’s clear both sides are engaged in a new political battleground over architecture and design

There was at least one kid that said a gun was pointed at him and they threatened to “blow his mom’s head off”

Its real. Gift link so 300 people can see the source www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

It flies under the radar because it is overwhelmed by the sheer repulsiveness of the physical destruction of the east wing, but there is no way that a president should be allowed to use private money to change public property. It circumvents the power of the purse.

Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.

True this.

Trump lied! Who could have foreseen this?

This is not a joke. It actually happened.

House Republicans stopped revising their legislative calendar back in July. So I updated it for them. Since July 4, the House has conducted 20 days of business in 16 weeks. Oct. 27-30 remains TBD.

An essential feature of authoritarianism is that the leader - not courts - decides who is guilty and who is not. Santos - who Trump said is getting a commutation bc he “votes Republican” - is the 10th high profile loyalist to get a pardon or clemency. We cannot accept this.

New: The recent layoffs in CISA's Stakeholder Engagement Division have virtually shuttered SED, eliminating teams focused on critical infrastructure support, nationwide partnerships, and international coordination. My story with details cuts and impacts: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-st...

New York is potentially able to undo the Trump commutation of Santos. It passed law just for this situation after Trump pardoned Manafort. newrepublic.com/article/2019...

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

Asked if it is still "ridiculous that anyone...would even suggest that President Trump is doing anything for his own benefit," the White House referred us to his personal lawyers and DOJ. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

4. We needed to confirm Trump and Rudy called GOP senators in an attempt to delay certification on 1/6 5. All the toll records were given to Trump and his lawyers in discovery a couple of years ago so what's your problem now? Sincerely, JS END/ assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

🚨 🚨 ICYMI: Federal judges caught the U.S. government providing false info in over 35 court cases. Sworn declarations. Falsified records. Repeated lies. Law professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social says it may be intentional. via @60minutes.bsky.social (ht: @allenanalysis.bsky.social)

Justice Department whistleblower Erez Reuveni says he was fired after refusing to lie to the court. He sits down with Scott Pelley in his first television interview. Tonight on 60 Minutes.

In case you’re keeping score… Number of congressional investigations into Trump’s personal enrichment schemes: Zero

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse. We have obtained these photos:

I know we've gotten jaded to this, but his utter lack of empathy still shocks. 50,000 people is mentioned only in comparison to 1,200 and is written off because they will be replaced with younger people? He talks about people they way a beef processor talks about cattle.

UPDATE: COLOMBIA’s President says 🇺🇸 government (Trump) “committed murder” and bombed a fisherman with no ties to drugs “The boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure”

Okay I cannot stop laughing at this one

How can you not discuss his mental health? First his temper tantrum with Zelensky and then this. He is not well.

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

Gov. Pritzker: "Democrats should just...follow the law. That means if someone broke the law — whether you're an ICE agent, or a CBP agent, or Stephen Miller — if you broke the law, you should be held accountable."

Trump is all about normalizing corruption.

There are so many threats to the rule of law. And, also, Trump is getting no-billed and acquitted in key cases. But if pardons are your line, the Manafort/Stone/Flynn pardons and/or the Jan6 ones were the keystone pardons. Not this one. Look on THIS ONE as an easy object lesson.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

In this regime, the only word worse than DEI is ethics. Verboten.

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

Apparently he’s not interested in having men under his command murder civilians.

"I might bankrupt a casino or two, but I'll do it one well-played hand at a time. Not like some tangerine hack who has to file Chapter 11 time and again." From this moment forward, he's BlackJack Pritzker. On campaign lit, lapel pins and bumper stickers. Shit, it worked well enough for Pershing.

Also: Even if one agreed that keeping the Argentine economy afloat (on behalf of a far-right nutjob) was a vital US interest, $40bln aint going to get the job done. Will bail out a few US hedge fund billionaires and Trump donors though.

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

ICYMI — PELOSI: “Shut up. I did not refuse the National Guard. The President didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?” (The unserious questioner is Alison Steinberg, who works for Mike Lindell — the my pillow guy)

So Republican means Nazi-supporting? Not surprised.