SCOOP: Alexander Smirnov, the FBI informant convicted of lying about a fake bribery scheme involving the Bidens has been quietly released from prison just months into a six-year sentence—raising concern he could be pardoned by Trump any moment. jacquelinesweet.substack.com/p/fbi-inform...

Community note for the win

"Everybody in immediate proximity to Trump is getting richer while the vast majority of Americans are getting poorer." No plainer way to say it. @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and @jvl.bsky.social talk Donald Trump’s hidden unemployment crisis:

He is grasping on to his culture war bullshit like a life raft. Too late.

Jesus. Does he not realize what he is saying out loud?!

Trump temporarily passed out during a meeting in the Oval Office

Why would anyone want to attend Cornell, like ever?! Hey, I want to spend a shit ton of money for a worthless degree with zero credibility!

He’s a petulant child throwing a tantrum. He’s furious at senate R’s for not destroying the filibuster and giving him a blank check. But how long will they hold out?

All of these guys have got to go. They need to be completely shamed out of society.

“right now we’re much less” yeah one of us definitely is

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

The veil is faltering…

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

Yes, please Republicans, kill the fucking filibuster!

The California Republican Party is going to address its astounding unpopularity by fighting a public legal battle to overturn voters’ voices in an overwhelming vote. Idiots. https://www.kcra.com/article/california-prop-50-lawsuit-gop-party-redistricting/69263579

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I’ve heard her name a dozen times today in a room where I shouldn’t have heard it once. We are about to see a real world case study of the difference between authority and legitimacy.

Trump is more communist than anyone he’s ever accused of communism and I don’t know why we quibble about these things.

Frat boy just wants to play beer pong with strippers, not interested in his day job. Shocker.

California owns dozens of vacant houses in Los Angeles County. It's paying millions to guard them from protesters.

Looking at my music options (Spotify, Apple, Amazon), the old cd changer and mp3 player are looking pretty damn good. As is the TV antenna in my garage. Fuck these guys.

This absolutely cannot happen in America! Come ON! Spotify is running their recruiting ads. #BoycottSpotify

Definitely worth reading.

Consumer fleecing has reached unsustainable levels. And corporate America just keeps raising prices while laying people off and making execs rich. #StopTheBillionaires

And just exactly how much consumer fleecing does it take to produce the likes of this? #StopTheBillionaires

“It’s when you step back and take in the full list, with all of the extortionate details, that it becomes clear that Trump is moving toward something like China’s command economy.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Oh my god

“.. Guests were seen mimicking ‘Roaring 20's’ era attire, a period just before the Great Depression that historians note for its staggering income inequity.” 🤡 @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Seriously what the fuck are we doing…

The EU's climate chief said the US decision to skip the COP30 climate summit is a blow but opens the door to new partnerships.

Oh my god these people are such scammers! Ugh!

One month after Jeffrey Epstein died in a jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, JPMorgan Chase reported to US authorities of more than one billion dollars in transactions it viewed as suspicious, according to newly unsealed court records.

Let them eat urine cakes.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

What the fuck

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

🙌🙌🙌 more of this, please!

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

He wants to live in the middle east so bad, let them have him! Ugh. This makes me sick.

Wow, look at all those strong, white, manly men! This is fucking sick. And it’s coming from our government.

Joel Webbon says that young white Christian men are the real victims in society today: "If you are a young, white, single, straight man, you are, in the year of our Lord, 2025, here in these United States, a legitimate victim." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

By “you” I mean most MSM outlets, business leaders, voters who couldn’t be bothered to figure out the actual two sides, those looking for an excuse to vote against Harris, those performing principle by not voting, and everyone who voted for someone they know is vile and racist.

this is evil

"Elon Musk has substantial business interests before the Navy...Mark Hertling believes that the installation of Rachel Riley atop the Office of Naval Research could be part of a larger effort to reduce the vendor pool for federal contracting." www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...

It turns out you can’t keep gaslighting people about crime in their neighborhoods that doesn’t actually exist. Reality was bound to break through at some point.

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

Trump sent the National Guard to Portland to stop “protests” that don’t exist. Courts said it’s illegal — but the troops are still there, burning through tax dollars. @timdickinson.bsky.social reports.

Still awaiting my George $oros payment for showing up at #NoKINGS_Day & staying until noon. Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.

Actual good news to report!! 🙌🙌🙌 It CAN be done! 🫶