If the fascists don’t want stuff like this to backfire maybe they should make a better movie next time

“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be demands for an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @theguardian.com

Dow hitting 50,000 for the first time despite [gestures vaguely at all of it] is some kind of cursed symbol of the shortsightedness and self-absorption of this era

Welcome to the world of selective enforcement, a hallmark of autocratic and hybrid governments. It doesn't matter if the underlying investigation has validity. Because the probe is not about the rule of law, but rather the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of allies of the regime.

Expecting Donald Trump to apologize for racism against Barack and Michelle Obama is like expecting the sun to rise in the West

Just something deeply wrong when a government cannot follow processes and values that most human beings would deem minimally acceptable.

The MAGA justices said letting presidents do crimes wouldn’t lead to presidents doing crimes. Just like they said unlimited corporate money in politics isn’t corrupt and doesn’t look corrupt. Just like they said we don’t need the Voting Rights Act anymore. Just like they said Bush won Florida.

The same Marsha Blackburn who asked a Biden judicial nominee about his "rap sheet", by which she meant "getting a speeding ticket for going 5mph over the limit as a black man in Mississippi"?

The most corrupt DOJ ever, the most corrupt Attorney General ever, the most corrupt president ever

Fox News paid a seven-figure settlement to Seth Rich's family but they just keep getting more depraved

No metaphors here, move along

You might have learned about the Mexican-American War in school. You might even have learned that the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo granted USA more than half of Mexico's land. But did you learn that the US Army was occupying Mexico City at the time?

The MAGA regime is so corrupt they *repeatedly* abuse power to punish their victims for being noticed. First Kilmar Abrego Garcia, then Renee Good’s widow, now Liam.

The sitting president trying to name all this public property after himself is a huge corruption scandal. Trump-Kennedy Center, Trump Accounts, Trump Cards, F-47, Trump (Epstein) Ballroom, Trump Institute of Peace… it’s all corruption and abuse of power, and it has to be undone. Symbols matter.

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mutual friends are so important

All to suck up to the president who is simultaneously destroying Washington, DC’s performing arts center

Lizzie Johnson's boss Siobhán O'Grady, the WaPo Ukraine bureau chief, has been laid off as well:

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

SCOTUS’ MAGA justices seem ready to give Trump even more power by letting him fire leaders of independent federal agencies in defiance of laws passed by Congress. This would give Trump unprecedented control over these agencies, ignoring over a century of protections against abuse of power.

It's been a decade. Trump isn't the only one with something to learn.

Liberals: America is for everyone MAGA: America is for Trump and his billionaire friends

Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience bsky.app/profile/maxt...

I’m so old i remember 8 years ago when it seemed like Bezos wanted the Post to do its job

Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

NEW: Leader Thune filed cloture on Justin Olson's nomination this afternoon. Olson is an anti-trans extremist who’s delivered alarmingly offensive sermons. As soon as this Thursday, he could be a lifetime federal judge in Indiana. Please read and share: nominationnotes.substack.com/p/justin-ols...

Trump lost New York by a MILLION votes He lost California by THREE MILLION votes Voter suppression was never about stopping fraud. It’s always been about stopping black voters, brown voters, young voters, and liberal voters.

He brought us to the brink of war with our closest allies like two weeks ago

It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk. Again, if a single Democrat ever talked about punishing rural areas like this for ___, it would be a nonstop national scandal for months on end. But Republicans can treat cities & urban residents like this & 🦗🦗

Does the Trump admin believe DC v. Heller was wrongly decided?

Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering. Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!

Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.

Chad Mizelle is married to Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, the Trump judge who unilaterally lifted the CDC’s mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation while Omicron was spreading like wildfire.

Before drawing any big conclusions about the importance of individual candidate strength or strategy in the Texas special, ask yourself how much anyone, even special election voters, really knows about their state senator

Just as this news was announced: mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient’s unique cancer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Is it smart for a state whose economy is all about tourism and retirement to risk the lives of children and the elderly?

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005... "Over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves"

Data is useful and can inform strategy. But the “popularism” approach, relying on a grab bag of issues that poll well to set strategy, is fundamentally flawed because people’s brains are not linear sums of issue reactions.

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

American patriotism used to be deeply intertwined with believing that we were the world’s greatest democracy.

If i were the UK i would simply join the EU

I’m so old I remember when it was illegal to condition civil service hiring on supporting a particular President or tyrant.

Congrats to the 52 Republican senators who voted to make this pedophile defender the US Deputy Attorney General

if Musk is doing this for London crime, what do you think he is doing for content about American politics, an issue that affects him much more directly?

Trump is openly stealing from you Republicans in Congress could stop him but they won’t

Usually dictators are more subtle about looting the treasury, because gross corruption is often a part of what gets them overthrown.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp! Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!”

These fucking animals are drawing guns on people for the non-crime of following them while following all traffic laws