Trump's speech tonight was a 5-alarm fire for our democracy, our Constitution, and our country. No matter your political party, we must stand together for our democracy & fight back against this attempt to undermine it. No Kings.

NYT nails it.

Nothing has changed. Trump is lying. He lost in 2020 by 7 million votes. The SAVE Act won’t pass. Republicans are going to lose the midterms. The president is unpopular, and he’s a failed lame-duck loser. Onward and upward.

BREAKING: Trump used a primetime address to resurrect debunked claims about the 2020 election, allege foreign interference and pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act. But despite claiming the election was stolen, he presented no evidence that vote manipulation affected the 2020 outcome.

There you have it. The Republican platform for 2026: Dems are communists & the only reason they’ve won elections is because China rigged them. Hopefully you won’t notice that the economy sucks & you are paying more for rent/gas/groceries because Republicans started another war.

I can’t wait to watch @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social tonight! 🍷 #TrumpSpeech

Trump: "[China] wanted to just make you sound like your president wasn't so hot. When actually your president has done a great job."

Speaker Mike Johnson suffered another humiliating political defeat at the hands of his own party when he was forced to abandon plans to pass a veterans’ benefits bill designed to be one of the GOP’s big legislative wins before the midterms.

Run for the bathroom. Shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms to Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a parasitic outbreak that has infected thousands of people in five states. www.wsj.com/articles/hea...

No way, eh?

terrifying and violent behavior, according to those relatives. They accuse him of attacking women in his life over the years, and one shared a voicemail with the AP from last winter in which he told her that he thought someone should slit her throat.

Good!! 👏🏾👏🏾

A Kansas court temporarily blocked a state law that would disqualify late-arriving mail ballots in the first ruling since the Supreme Court rejected a GOP challenge to grace periods for mail ballots that arrive after Election Day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The New York Times snapped a pretty interesting on-site photo just days after Trump insisted yet again that vandals were responsible for the damage.

He had to be forced to meet with Epstein survivors or he doesn’t get a vote from Tillis.

Q: Do you have an update on the Cyclospora parasite outbreak? Leavitt: The White House has a handle on the situation (The White House gutted the CDC's parasite tracking team last year)

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Whole Foods location shuts down its salad bar as diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis cases surge to record highs across the U.S.

We’ve known for years that foreign governments have attempted to influence our elections – many supporting President Trump. But the fact is, the IC resoundingly found that no foreign governments successfully interfered in the 2020 election.

CNN investigation: Trump promoted more than 20 companies on Truth Social after buying their stock. In several cases, he announced government actions that could benefit those companies while already holding their shares. Drain. The. Swamp.

DOGE 💩

wow -- Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts & tells him, "My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B Dalton's books when you were putting yourself through law school...I don't love the idea of DOGE shit we're picking up because people did it wrong"

Balint on Hegseth's obsession with testosterone and his attacks on women in combat: "I think it is indicative of the fact that there are so many people in this administration that have some weird, intense, homoerotic, feelings towards men while also being incredibly homophobic..."

Per @propublica.org reporting, FCC Chair Carr took $63k+ in gala tickets from Paramount while its billion-dollar deals sat before his agency @democracydefendersfund.org's Virginia Canter calls the alleged conflict "shocking" You can't referee a game you've been wined & dined by -TN

In an exclusive briefing, Popok is joined by former fed Judge Luttig and Miami trial attorney Andres Rivero to dissect their big win for the Rule of Law with Judge Williams’ scathing rebuke of Todd Blanche and its impact on the confirmation hearing.

Listen to this tape. This is the corrupt piece of shit who is going to address the American people tonight with claims of voter fraud. Imagine all the phone calls Trump placed that weren't taped. In every other democratic country in the world, Trump would be rotting in prison.

Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor: Todd Blanche had said that when things were misredacted, they were taken down and fixed within 24 hours. That is not true. There's still survivor information in there even today.

Hirono: Would you say that Blanche exhibits a dismissive attitude towards Epstein's victims? Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor: 1,000% yes.

Epstein survivors and their family members stand with Dani Bensky as she calls on the Senate to oppose Todd Blanche's AG confirmation

Dani Bensky, Epstein survivor: I'd like to remind you of who you're hearing from today. At this time, can my survivor sisters and family please rise? We were children at the time of our abuse. Look at our faces and remember the women and families of those who the DOJ re-victimized.

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Talarico: Ken Paxton’s billionaire handlers won’t let him answer questions in public. It’s why he hasn’t debated in over a decade. But I want him to prove me wrong. I’m challenging Ken Paxton to three televised debates.

WARREN: How many of the enforcement actions that you've dropped were against companies that donated to Trump? VOUGHT: We've made every determination without regard-- W: That's not my Q & you know it. Here's ones we know of. Apple, Bank of America, Capital One, JP Morgan, Toyota, Walmart, Meta...

$20 million. His candidate still lost by 10. And now he's the one who might get charged. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-war-hero...

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Computer chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom are slumping again Thursday and dragging stock markets down worldwide. Oil prices, meanwhile, continue to climb because of the war with Iran.

A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds Trump with a 37% approval rating and 61% disapproval. The share of Americans who “strongly approve” of him has fallen from 19% in February to a new low of 15%.

ICE’s Camp East Montana is a hellhole. It’s been open less than a year and three people have died there, including the first-ever homicide in ICE detention (allegedly at the hands of guards). Both DHS and Congressional watchdogs have documented extensive problems. Shut it down!

These childish ReThugs have got to go.

More than half the House Democrats voted Wednesday to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid from Israel, the most substantial signal yet that once rock-solid bipartisan support for the country is disintegrating in the aftermath of its war in Gaza that has killed thousands of Palestinians.

Wild stuff; the Trump admin appears to be getting ready to claim that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, shot and killed by ICE on his way to work, had multiple baggies of meth just sitting in plain view on the DASHBOARD for anyone to see. I know the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but COME ON.

📬 CONFIRMED: In a win for voters, USPS is following a pair of court orders blocking it from implementing Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order. That order directed the Postal Service to only deliver mail ballots if states handed over a list of preapproved voters.

So, the same “vandals” who were able to cut a “350 foot long”, apparently invisible to the naked eye, slash in the reflecting pool, somehow also managed to turn ALL of the “50 year” American flag blue paint… grey? Wow.

Embarrassing. Embarrassing for him. Embarrassing for the legal profession. Embarrassing for the Justice Department. Embarrassing for his former law partners (who have been embarrassed more than they deserve lately). Embarrassing for his family. And embarrassing for the country.

Ironically, just as Blanche sought confirmation, the Trump DOJ he leads kept thumbing its nose at the advice and consent process for U.S. Attorneys. Federal judges have rejected Trump's unqualified, unconfirmed loyalists in NY, NJ, NM, NV, & LA. This morning, it was Seattle.

dude is knocked out

Todd Blanche has refused to release the Epstein files and has put survivors in danger by making their personal information available. Ranking Member @robertgarcia.house.gov is clear: Oversight Dems are demanding the Senate not confirm Todd Blanche.

I have a 78 y.o. sister with similar dementia symptoms as him. We’re trying to get her into an assisted living facility. The fact that his advanced cognitive decline is largely ignored and he is allowed to destroy everything is really pissing me off.

This is NOT okay! WTF?