The end game conservatives envisioned when they took on choice and fought for Dobbs wasn’t intended to be limited to abortion. The rollback of fundamental rights and freedoms, control over one’s own body on the basis of gender, has always been about amassing power and exerting control. Joyce Vance

The impact on America’s maternal and infant mortality rates cannot be overstated. The US has the highest maternal mortality rate of any wealthy country; as rates continue to drop worldwide, they climb higher here, with Black women more than 3 times more likely to die in childbirth. Joyce Vance

Trump is probably the best thing ever to happen to George W. because George W. will no longer be remembered as the worst and stupidest president in modern American history. Robert Reich

Trump’s greatest frustration with experts seems to be that they keep introducing him to facts. Facts are inconvenient things. They refuse to flatter. They decline to applaud. They have no respect whatsoever for confidence unsupported by evidence. David Shuster

The common thread is difficult to miss. Trump has spent years advertising himself as history’s great problem-solver. Yet time and again he collides with reality and discovers that neither algae nor geopolitics is impressed by his swagger. David Shuster

Iran – the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism, and a regime that killed 40,000 of it’s own citizens earlier this year, will now emerge stronger and wealthier than before Trump trusted his “gut’ and launched the war. David Shuster

One of Donald Trump’s defining characteristics is that he repeatedly enters situations he does not understand, dismisses expert advice, and leaves behind a larger mess than the one he wants to fix. Or, as social media describes it, everything Trump touches turns to shit. David Shuster

America’s first trillionaire is a vicious white supremacist who’s kindling hate around the world and backing Republican candidates with big $$. American billionaires are openly sucking up to America’s first dictator, spending lavishly on whatever he wants, and gobbling up media outlets Robert Reich

When Trump’s threats are defeated in court, rejected by Congress, or withdrawn in the face of public opposition, media outlets and commentators fail to give the same exposure and attention to their defeat as they gave to their issuance in the first place. Robert Hubbell

There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen. trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at [the Justice Department] are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego.” Rep. Ted Lieu

Documents from the FEC identify the funding for Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC, and California Blue PAC as coming from Conservative Americans PAC, which is funded by the right-wing American Prosperity Alliance. Judd Legum

A network of super PACs that claim to be progressive and are spending millions in Democratic primaries are actually funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance. Judd Legum

Pulte has no experience in intelligence, although such experience is a requirement for the position. What he does have is demonstrated willingness to use the power of the federal government to attack Trump’s political opponents. Heather Cox Richardson

In the face of bipartisan opposition, Trump has shoved loyalist William Pulte into position as acting director of national intelligence, overseeing the intelligence gathered by the nation’s eighteen intelligence agencies. Pulte officially took office on Friday. Heather Cox Richardson

If we have a history after this madness.

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Trump’s mounting rage as he is backed further into corners. Anyone who has been following his presidency knows Trump is an angry man. Angry men often become violent men. Dan Rather

Call your representatives through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and remind them that funding lawless deployments, gutting oversight, suspending habeas corpus, and letting the Post Office police our ballots are against the Constitution. Thom Hartmann

Save the nonpartisan Election Protection hotline in your phone, 866-OUR-VOTE, and call it the moment anyone tries to intimidate you at a polling place, because no badge and no uniform has the right to stand between you and your vote. Thom Hartmann

The coming reckoning — unless they can stop it this fall — isn’t vengeance. It’s the rule of law standing back up after being knocked down, and in this country that recovery still runs through a ballot box which the members of the Reichstag of 1933 no longer had. Thom Hartmann

USPS has proposed a rule that would let it refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in any state that won’t first hand over its list of mail voters to the federal government, a rule the NAACP says is built to disenfranchise voters and that 23 Democratic-led states are now suing to stop. Thom Hartmann

The fraud claim was never an argument: it’s an excuse for voter suppression, its own form of election fraud. When you convince tens of millions of people that your side can only lose is if the other side cheats, you’ve prepared them to accept whatever you have to do to protect the vote Thom Hartmann

The public was warned. Several of his business ventures went bankrupt. He inherited his initial wealth. He is facing over 300 lawsuits. The east wing was supposed to be paid for by donors. Talk about a scam artist.

Ossoff: Because in our time, what those who build ballrooms and monuments to themselves, who rake in billions through foreign princes while the people's savings vanish, along with their hospitals, what they hate the most is when the people try to hold them accountable at the polls.

Corruption masquerading as governance. Incompetence disguised as confidence. And an endless stream of self inflicted embarrassments that somehow manage to become more absurd every single week. Mary Trump

No other president would create a fourteen million dollar problem that requires teams of workers to clean up his own completely avoidable mistakes immediately after the project was finished. That is not leadership. That is incompetence with a maintenance crew. Mary Trump

So after all the hype, all the promises, and all the millions and millions of taxpayer dollars, Donald’s magnificent Reflecting Pool has become a green algae infested swamp filled with floating paint chips. In other words, it is the perfect reflection of Donald Trump’s presidency. Mary Trump

Not only has the Reflecting Pool become a giant algae farm, but the American flag blue paint is already peeling away. Large sheets of paint are floating to the surface. Why? Because hydrogen peroxide, which crews are now using to kill the algae, is not particularly good for paint. Mary Trump

Trump claimed he had no idea who received the contract. It turns out to be one of his buddies. Because there was no competitive bidding process, the contractor charged taxpayers more than fourteen million dollars for a project Donald claimed would cost only two or three million. Mary Trump

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell. Governor Tim Walz

Yes indeed and you'll be in the history books.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a photo of the cursed vandals who are sullying American's reflecting pool.

In essence, the attacks on voting by mail have become a convenient, if false, vehicle for keeping the voter fraud narrative Trump loves to push on the front burner. Joyce Vance

Trump has defended casting his own ballots by mail, saying he did it “because I’m president” and “I had a lot of different things” to do. But when others do it, there is cheating. Joyce Vance

Republican voters regularly use mail-in voting. Nearly one in five registered Republicans vote by mail. Trump himself uses it. But in his role as president, he has an almost pathological dislike for the practice. One in four Democrats votes by mail. Joyce Vance

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Can we finally all agree that the argument “we should run the country like a business, and therefore elect businessmen to run it” has been a failed experiment?

The United States emerges weaker, poorer, and carrying responsibility for the deaths of fifteen Americans and hundreds of Iranian schoolchildren, along with countless Iranian civilians. Mary Trump

Another example is the agreement he signed with Iran at Versailles. He’s so proud of the symbolism and the setting. He clearly sees himself as some historic world figure. Yet it appears the Iranians completely outmaneuvered him. Jim Acosta

Trump's incompetence is now playing out on a much bigger stage, and his mistakes are impossible to hide. There simply aren’t enough people left to protect him or spin reality in a way anyone will believe. Mary Trump

This was a collision between 2 competing philosophies about leadership. JD Vance presented a politics rooted in force, leverage, and transactional calculations. Barack Obama presented a politics rooted in participation, community, and democratic stewardship. George Cummings

Obama celebrated teachers, organizers, public servants, volunteers, and citizens whose collective efforts strengthened democratic institutions. He framed democracy as demanding participation from every generation rather than loyalty to any one leader George Cummings

Obama explicitly rejected the idea of building a presidential monument dedicated to personal glorification. Instead, he described the center as a living institution devoted to community engagement, public service, education, culture, and democratic participation. George Cummings

JD Vance championed power, leverage, and political combat. Barack Obama spoke of citizenship, community, and democracy's enduring promise. George Cummings

Do vaccines save lives? Yep! Does antivaxx BS kill? Yep. 👇 Cervical cancer deaths for vaccinated young women fall to zero in England: study www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

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The alarm bells are ringing, folks. The Trump administration is coming for all of our Constitutional rights, and if you think you’re going to be exempt, I’ve got a (very expensive) bridge to sell you. #minneapolis #ohio