After MTG lied about me for weeks, she said that she felt bad for my unborn child because he'd have me as a mother. Her rhetoric led to threats against my family. No one, even her, should receive threats like those, but I'd like to see her own up to the role she played in creating them for others.

CNN: That's not what farmers are telling you. One farmer at a town hall told you tariffs drove up prices of fertilizer ALFORD: It was Biden that drove it up C: That's not what the farmer told you A: Well, that's what I'm telling you C: Sir, excuse me. Are you listening to your constituents?

there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.

"Do the Republican Good Immigrants finally understand that Trump and his administration want them gone, too?" A deep dive on immigration politics in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social:

Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.

Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans

This whole book is a hate crime. She's burning a cross on the front lawn of the English language.

The other reporters in the White House press corps are apparently waiting until the president actually takes a swing at one of their female colleagues before they say anything

we are the world but its everybody telling quentin tarantino to shut the fuck up

Trump claims each blown-up Venezuelan boat “saves 25,000 American lives.” @jvl.bsky.social lays out the facts, walks through the math, the drug routes, and the reality, and breaks down why Trump's lie matters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4aCcPeI?utm_...

Call the pullup a child because he just murdered it

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Kudlow is just lying to his viewers: "Unemployment is at rock bottom. These are real facts. I'm not making this stuff up. Unemployment claims are as low as they're ever going to get."

I do not get why so many journalists are willing to torch their own reputation to save a colleague who showed complete contempt for every facet of journalism, starting with "just being able to write well"

The Trump Plan will give Americans the opportunity to pay for their healthcare. One problem has yet to be solved: The healthcare will be unaffordable.

“Saving 25,000 lives” by blowing up a boat relies on the kind of innumeracy that led people to believe that, when Trump talked about deporting 20 million people, he would be targeting only criminals and rapists. lnk.thebulwark.com/3KP4z0z

President Goodbrain can't remember what he said five days ago.

If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.

The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

"At which point we're going to blow them out of the fucking skies."

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

I think central planning by the dumbest guy you've ever heard of is bad for the economy

What in the actual hell

Of course. Of course. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

That's not better!

'If I Did It'

Abbe Lowell, the attorney who is representing Letitia James: “I can't tell you a time in the federal system...where a federal prosecutor thought a case was strong enough to bring to a grand jury, and the grand jury said no.” @kaitlancollins.bsky.social

Cotton froze when Berman asked the obvious: “Would it be legal for Arkansas police to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat?” He can’t defend the legality of the strike without admitting it would be illegal at home, and it exposes Trump and Hegseth. #holdfast www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDt...

JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"

This is why, every time I hear weak-knee Dems or Dem pundits/consultants talking about how they can appeal to Trump voters, I get irrationally angry. The goal isn’t to embrace racists and fascists. The goal is to provide the alternative that lets voters kick racists and fascists into the wilderness.

Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award Also Boomers:

Ever have a relative who is a big dumb ass but has money so everyone pretends whatever idiot thing they are pontificating about is interesting?

If this goes through and they move matches to red states, FIFA will FAFO

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.

Amazing. Grand Jury refuses Administration effort to reindict Tish James. Those events are typically once or twice in a lifetime for prosecutors, or even offices. Now the Administration is racking them up. A complete humiliation.

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

Magaziner: "This is not about the drugs. This is about oil."

Wow, Adm. Holsey didn't leave of his own accord, Hegseth pushed him out. What looked like the SOCOM head resigning rather than do war crimes now looks like SecDef canning him to facilitate war crimes. Congress should have him testify, and would've already if war-crime-sympathetic GOP didn't run it.

A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court. A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

What does a Trump presidency look like when he goes into it knowing he has immunity from prosecution for pretty much anything he does? It looks like this one.

NEW: Jim Jordan and House GOPers refused to let the American public hear directly from Jack Smith, per his attorney.

BERMAN: How many of the 40,000 people born in Somalia living in Minnesota do you consider to be garbage? McLAUGHLIN: We're really looking at the data BERMAN: All of them? McLAUGHLIN: This is not about politics. This is about public safety. We saw the terrorist attack against us last week.

Trump calls human beings “vermin,” “garbage,” “diseases,” “poison,” and “animals.” Then, when I rightfully point out that the same dehumanizing language has been used by fascist regimes to justify humanity’s worst atrocities—Republicans lose their minds. Give me a break.