Some reassuring info from Joyce Vance: "(T)he law. 18 U.S.C. § 592 explicitly prohibits any U.S. civil, military, or naval officer from bringing, keeping, or having control of troops or armed men at any polling place during an election." But she stresses that an engaged public is needed, too.

CBS News(max) is officially cooked. Bari Weiss killed a whole-ass network.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Why would anyone risk themselves to go on 60 Minutes after this? How can viewers ever trust CBS News to report fairly on topics this White House is sensitive about?

WHITE HOUSE REFUSES TO TURN OVER EPSTEIN FILES DESPITE COURT ORDER TO DO SO: How many different ways can this admin say, "Trump is a fucking pedophile and all over the Epstein Files" because they refuse, over and over, to release them. That's not how innocent people behave.

Trump's speech was the loudest "please clap" in history.

Fuck all the way off: NO HEALTHCARE FOR YOU!!!! Donald Trump delivered an update on the cost of building his much-hyped White House ballroom on Tuesday. The venue, which the president controversially razed the East Wing to make way for, will now cost $400 million, he revealed during his speech.

A leaked memo that circulated thru Congress Tues details talking points Republicans are required to use when talking about Epstein Files to protect Trump, projecting an image of a party resigned that Trump is part of one of the most extensive int'l sex trafficking ops in history.

FAFO: The Dept of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, after a massive reorganization effort already resulted in the loss of almost 30,000 employees this year, according to an internal memo, VA staffers, and congressional aides.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. But only 36 from Melania. That's all she knows even with her "Einstein" visa.

This is how Trump "fixes" things: 1) Create a crisis that didn't exist. 2) Blame everyone but self for creating crisis. 3) Make up some insane shit that makes absolutely no sense at all and then steal tens of billions of dollars "fixing" the crisis HE created. 4) Take credit.

This is North Korea-level fuckery: Americans get free admission to national parks on a new set of designated dates—but Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth are no longer among them. Instead, the National Park Service has added President Donald Trump’s bday on Flag Day.

Trump 2024: We're doing TARIFFS! It will be so great! Everyone will be rich, like me! (not at all true, tariffs are taxes American consumers pay). Trump 2025: Tariffs are SO AWESOME that I will, AGAIN, have to steal $12B from taxpayers because my tariffs predictably destroyed US AG markets.

No corruption bad enough some $$$ won't fix: Trump's pardon wiped away a case that Trump’s antitrust chief had said fleeced Texas taxpayers. It also revealed the risky strategy prosecutors chose to pursue in granting immunity to Leiweke’s partners and focusing on Leiweke alone.

REPORTER: You don’t know if there was a second strike to kill the two men? TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it. He said he never (inaudible) REPORTER: Would you be okay with that if he did? TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it so I don’t have to make that decision.

This appears to tell a story of regret- loves someone with Autism, voted for Trump, Trump removed funding from department of education, now hates Trump. Predictable betrayal.

Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.

I bet that first meeting between Stephen Miller and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is going to be straight 🔥 . . . . . ('cause they'll all be in Hell together) (rimshot)

This is how you know Trump is lying: Trump concluded: “There will be a day when I run low on Energy, it happens to everyone, but with a PERFECT PHYSICAL EXAM AND A COMPREHENSIVE COGNITIVE TEST (“That was aced”) JUST RECENTLY TAKEN, it certainly is not now!” No one "aces" a fucking cognitive test.

Just another fucking con for the rubes to deny they were conned over... Trump Disbands DOGE Despite Eight Months Left On Its Charter Now a bunch of fuckwits have ALL of our information and are probably selling it to the highest bidder. And they ended up costing US $770B.

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Want the inside tip on how to know Trump is guilty of something? It's when he says nothing at all. Complete social media blackout for 24 hours. Exactly the same as before miniscule Pedo Protector Mikey's Johnson sent everyone home to avoid Epstein accountability.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump announced a new executive order on Thursday, reportedly allocating $25 million to support teenagers leaving the foster care system. Sounds like a pipeline of fresh teenage girls to the Pedophile of the United States of America and his supporters.

This rot has been festering in the GOP since at least the arrival of the Evangelicals and their taking over the party (pre-Trump) and normalizing it for Trump: apnews.com/article/2022...

"prince andrew and trump today. tooo funny," Epstein wrote to Bannon in 2019, when Trump met with Andrew during a visit to the United Kingdom. "recall prince andrews accuser came out of mara lago,” Epstein added. Bannon then replies, "Can't believe nobody is making u the connective tissue."

You know how DJT is absolutely guilty of it all? At a presser, he didn't say a goddamn word about it and took no questions. No insults, no sweeping accusations, no projection. Nothing. And he NEVER says nothing. Never.

The Democrats voting to (betray dem voters) reopen the government were: Dick Durbin (Ill.) Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.) Maggie Hassan (N.H.) Jackie Rosen (Nev.) Catherine Cortez Masto (Nev.) John Fetterman (Pa.) Tim Kaine (Va.) Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with Democrats No fucking surprises there.

Generally speaking, I try to not make such allegations as it is about the worst thing you can call a person but being civil and playing by the rules of engagement got us into this mess in the first fucking place.

Shocker, not a single trans person among them... Also, that's just for 2025 (so far). www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Government shutdowns, always because of Republicans, are the secondary reason Payday lenders love Republicans. The primary reason they love them is because they're all really, really into legalized theft from poor people. Imagine how fucked a mind has to be for that to be the only way to get off.

That's quite an economic "miracle" Trump is touting: The layoffs in October surged 175% from a year ago to 153,074. From the start of the year to October end, employers have announced 1,099,500 job cuts, a 65% rise from 664,839 in the same time period last year.

Just so everyone is clear, Dems didn't win because they were blue races in blue states: They won because Republicans voted to steal healthcare away from tens of millions of people and food from the mouths of starving children to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

“They think that they’re tough. They have no idea how tough we are. They think that they’re hardcore. We are so much more hardcore than they are.” --Stephen Miller speaking to Memphis police earlier this month.

The U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion on Wednesday—just two months after it reached $37 trillion—which comes as the government continues to navigate the federal shutdown. This marks the fastest single-year accumulation of $1 trillion in debt...

This time, after we crush these seditious clowns, cosplay cowards, and cons of every stripe, we have to hang every last one of these traitorous fucking bastards.

To bring a democracy under authoritarian control, you need more than a strongman. You need politicians who will assure the public, as we slide toward one-man rule, that nothing odd is happening. That’s the role pedo-protector Johnson is playing in Donald Trump’s takeover of America.

Fucking Trump... Inflation Jumps to 2.9% in August As Food Prices Surge and Tariffs Hit Store Shelves: One-third of tariff-driven price increases have already hit store shelves, squeezing household budgets nationwide.

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him. (…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Schools across the country banned 6,870 books between July 2024 & June 2025, a report from PEN America, a nonprofit that advocates for free expression. The 2023-24 academic year saw a 200% increase in school book bans, bringing the total instances of book bans since 2021 to nearly 23,000. Um, wut?

Well, at this point I think we can safely say that the rebranding of "poor white trash" to "MAGA" has been wildly successful...

"If I were a would-be dictator whose only civilian check on power had been consumed by total-complete partisan loyalty, something I would definitely do is call an unprecedented in-person meeting of the only people who could stop me and then proceed to illustrate why they should stop me." - T. Burke