“What have I done!” 🤡

Will someone please explain to me how the Supreme Court can bless gerrymandering? I mean legally. What is their "reasoning"? This seems even worse for democracy--whose side they're supposed to be on--than the ideas that money is speech and corporations are people.

"Putin is in the real estate business in Ukraine, but not in the way Trump or Witkoff or Kushner have been in the business. Putin is in the real estate business in Ukraine the same way Hitler was in the real estate business in Poland." --Thomas L. Friedman, NYT, on Trump's negotiating folly

Blatant corruption on full display.

#labrador #labradorretriever

Chump Needs Naps Constantly, Where's Jake Tapper and The Lame Stream Media.......

"I should suffer the misery of devils were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man." --Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis," 1776

This Supremely Corrupt Court Has Failed Americans......

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

NYT: "Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence. "David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors." Abuse of office comes to mind.

NYT: "Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends. "David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments."

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

"Do you plan to attend Sarah's funeral?" --reporter, about murdered National Guard member "I haven't thought about it yet, but it's something I can conceive of. I love West Virginia. You know, I won West Virginia by one of the biggest margins of any president anywhere." --Trump What empathy!

Assuming every boat Trump and Hegseth blew up contained the amount of drugs they claim, Hernandez was responsible for bringing more drugs into the US than every one of them had combined. By far. And yet, Trump murders 80+ people and counting while pardoning the narco kingpin.

Then as now ...

Gary Larson saw Trump coming before the rest of us:

The fact that only 3 (by my count) Republican members of Congress have spoken out about the Witkoff situation shows how thoroughly corrupted and compromised the entire party has become from top to bottom. None of this is about just Trump - it is the entire political party.

Himes: "This shows Steve Witkoff almost literally sitting side with the Russians on this ... it's unimaginable to consider the fact that you would propose a peace deal that the Ukrainians didn't even know about."

I just submitted my comment telling the EPA to keep our water protections strong. If you care about having clean water (which… I feel like we all do??), please take a minute to send in a comment too. We can’t ignore this. share.sierraclub.org/s/58PVAxDb

Hegseth is a dude-bro with questionable tattoos, a creation of television...He believes that his job is hectoring young men about being fat and forcing Black men out of the military for having beards. He has no understanding of national strategy, and no experience managing anything. --The Atlantic

The White House seems content to let Hegseth preen and strut and yell, but the U.S. still needs an actual secretary of defense, and Pete Hegseth is completely unqualified for any position of public trust in government. Trump has plenty of options—including Mark Kelly. --Tom Nichols, The Atlantic

The 2025 National Book Award Winner in Nonfiction:

Putin's puppets.

NYT: "Kash Patel Under Scrutiny for Use of SWAT Teams to Protect His Girlfriend."

This is lunacy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, at best, an environmental lawyer. He has no experience or degree in medicine or science. This is tantamount to me, an English major, giving NASA a Post-It outlining how they should revise their entire approach to the astrophysics of dark energy.

Crow: "It just tells us everything that we need to know that reminding people to obey the law, reminding people to obey the Constitution, is somehow criminal in Trumpworld and should be responded to with death threats. It's very, very telling."

Please call or write your GOP legislative coward(s). Request only one thing: "Participate in democracy." My saying that to Jack Bergman, my coward, means nothing. I'm just a flea on an elephant's ass. But if we all deliver that one message, we might get through. Thank you. #VoteBlue

"He knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that... [He is] the most respected man in the room." --Trump, at Saudi Investment Forum, on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, credited by the CIA with ordering the murder of WaPo journalist Jamal Kashoggi How much money to Trump for that lie?

PBS: "Trump says Democrats should be arrested for urging military to refuse unlawful orders." Let this one sink in. Then #VoteBlue

Officials are facing threats and intimidation for resisting Trump’s plan. The situation is particularly alarming in Indiana, where four Republican lawmakers have been targeted in so-called “swatting” incidents after voting against a partisan redistricting session.

Ironic isn’t it?

10 fold…

I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.

NYT: No remotely savvy person can be surprised by Trump's epic graft. When Trump was riding high, his acolytes enjoyed his vulgar profiteering triggering Democrats. But as he burns up political capital on personal enrichment, some on the right suspect that it’s not just the libs being owned.