According to Andrew Weissmann, Blanche using sleight of hand; they’re not killing the deal. Trump still gets $1.776 billion. He still gets a sweeping civil liability shield. They only removed the J6 slush fund piece. Same jackpot. Less scrutiny. Worse than before.

#WeKnowThemByTheirVotes Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran. www.govtrack.us/congress/vot...

Lying under oath to Congress should have consequences

Gentle Observation 458 - Social media is auto-bio fan fiction. patreon.com/kochalka

Trump on March 9: "I think the war is very complete, pretty much." On April 1: “We are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly. “ On May 6: “It’ll be over quickly.” In an interview released today: “I think this will resolve itself fairly quickly.”

“ DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.” - The Right Wing Gospel

Whenever federal court reform comes around, it can't be only SCOTUS expansion, limiting of jurisdiction, ethics reform etc. It has to be dealing the shadow docket and limiting to actual emergencies.

Well, hello

"This is a case involving race-based political benefits for white Republican hacks. Accordingly, the District Court's decision is reversed"

Henry Giroux touched on this recently.

Of course, corruption is not exceptional or unheard of, but the normalization of corruption *as* governance, so that the two concepts become indistinguishable, is crucial to the fascist project. People have already begun to shrug off Trump's manipulation and extraction as par for the course.

In what universe is this not grounds for immediate expulsion

At the very core of our national problem right now is that many Americans—millions, perhaps tens of millions—outright reject democracy as we had previously known it. It was always there on the right—rejection of the opposition as legitimate—but it went from fringe to central to their existence.

North Nashville community members are concerned about a proposed data center at Fisk University, calling the project “kind of diabolical.” Meanwhile, project managers claim data centers are inevitable and the HBCU will do it “the right way.” 🖊️: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social

One of the wildest things about Kavanaugh's now-notorious quote is that there was ample evidence *on the record before the court* that this was untrue, yet he stated it as an undisputed statement of fact. Did he bother to read the record before writing his opinion?

Given the news that Trump has just appointed Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence, it feels timely to revisit the three different episodes of financial impropriety by Pulte that I’ve reported on in the just last six months! Let’s recap:/1

Fuck me, this is Bill Pulte. The guy who was using mortgage data to launch DOJ investigations against Lisa Cook, Letitia James and Adam Schiff. He is being put in charge of national intelligence because of his track record of being willing to manufacture false allegations to target Trump's enemies.

Trump may succeed in flipping Texas blue. Why? Because Ken Paxton will remind normie voters of everything they hate about Trump: The MAGA rage, the hate, the corruption. I talked to numerous Texas Dems. They lay out the path, though it's very hard. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2109...

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There isn’t a part of Stop Making Sense when Bernie Worrell isn’t looking like he’s about to make love to his keyboard and I love that

Trump really has remade the whole conservative movement in his image. Weiss is just like him, a petulant power mad imbecile who can do literally nothing right and gets incandescent with rage anytime she is questioned, but also too much of a chickenshit to fire people to their face

This election, as Republicans have sold out their core values, we AT LEAST need to trump any attempt to brand: • Free Speech • Fraud/ The Swamp • America First • State’s Rights • Fiscal Conservativism • Back The Blue • Snowflakes • Family Values • Fake News • I Did That (gas prices)

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Huh. A German-born arch-conservative elite with peculiar ideas about genetics is emigrating to Argentina. Huh!

The Catholic Catechism and the Baptist Confession of Faith state explicitly that God is neither male nor female, has no body or physical form. To think of God as biologically male diminishes the very nature of God. Everyone from Billy Graham to the Pope to the Anglican Church agrees on this.

Citing POLTERGEIST as a reference point has me in

The issue is that modern conservative circles despise artistic introspection and experimentation. There's no real modern equivalent to Lovecraft, Yukio Mishima, Italian futurists, Tolkien (who all tend to be appreciated across the political spectrum) for a reason

It’s no big surprise that Trump’s DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here’s the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that’s right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they’d do just that. And we’re working to post them all online, as are others.

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Kilmar Abrego Garcia never asked for this. He was illegally arrested and deported to a gulag by the Trump administration Then-when a judge ordered him to be brought back-he was illegally arrested and prosecuted by Trump again He is perhaps the most unassuming, unlikely hero we’ve ever known

They ended up running down the railroad tracks, pursued by about 50-60 activists and quickly left. Lmao

“The kids want liminal spaces!”

Republicans are fully unmasked to their core value: White makes right.

My hope is that the name Trump becomes synonymous with everything that is wrong with America - a King Midas who pines for gold and everything he touches turns to shit.

RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...

Repost with your first crush

Great write-up! This video breakdown of her contributions to STAR WARS was a revelation. youtu.be/lgfwi1gO8mQ?...

REMINDER: The full effects of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill don’t hit until after the 2026 midterms. That’s by design. Republicans want the votes first and the consequences caused by your pain, AFTER the election.

Bumping this reply. I do not think the problem is the American people or public opinion. The problem is our Supreme Court is packed and corrupt. The people cannot pay attention to detailed constitutional law while a corrupt Roberts Court rewrites the constitution case by case.

Honestly I think people living within the current borders of the US can do a lot better than a bunch of rules created by slaveowners to manage stolen land anyway

Ken Paxton is throwing everything he has at us. He’s called me a radical leftist. He’s called me a fake Christian. He’s even called me a vegan! I’m an 8th generation Texan — I've been eating BBQ since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment.

Dems could’ve done better than an insult in responding to Miller’s transphobic post. But Republicans abdicated the right to be offended by anything Miller is a white supremacist disowned by his Jewish immigrant family for betraying their faith & values If you want to respond forcefully, go there

I think about this a lot.

He also is an adulterer, liar, and swindler who is forcing “Christian values” on us Texans of all backgrounds.

E. Jean Carroll didn't just "accuse" Trump of sexual assault. She won a civil lawsuit against Trump for sexual assault. A jury found that Trump sexually assaulted her. She deserves for us to call it what it is.

Thomas Massie appears to use the word "genocide" to describe Israel's genocide in Gaza for the first time. He and Marjorie Taylor Greene are the only Republicans to do so. Both will not be in Congress next year.

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

Also, I would like to call for an immediate end to any media outlet calling Carroll "one of Trump's enemies." She is the woman he raped.

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