HEGSETH: We had US boats that surrendered to Iranian ships during the Biden administration-- REED: Listen -- we're talking about the war you started. Not a situation in which oil was flowing freely, we weren't losing personnel. So your fallback to Biden is just a very very obvious excuse

Trump is so lucky that Biden won in 2020. Otherwise he’d have to blame everything on Obama.

“Your fallback to the Biden administration is a very obvious excuse for … gross negligence.” Senator Jack Reed calls out Hegseth's deflection tactics.

It’s Biden’s fault that we need to show ID at Olive Garden for unlimited breadsticks.

😳 Hegseth snaps at Peters: "Your characterization of this incredible effort as a failure if reckless and irresponsible and smear the sacrifice of the troops. Shame on you." Peters responds: "You, sir, are the failure!"

GOP Sen. Kennedy cuts off Hegseth as he rambles and says, "Guys, we need straight answers! We need straight answers"

MERKLEY: There are reports that we have hit numerous desalination plants in Iran. Were those deliberate? CAINE: I'm not aware of those being particular targets, nor am I aware of those reports M: You're aware infrastructure civilians rely on is not generally considered a genuine military target?

GILLIBRAND: Over 160,000 New Yorkers have been kicked off SNAP. What do you have against hard-working New Yorkers, children, and seniors? ROLLINS: First of all, diesel is down under Biden versus today GILLIBRAND: All of those prices are higher than when you took office

GILLIBRAND: How do I go back to NY, and what you would say to people who see funding an unauthorized war abroad is a higher priority to this administration than their ability to feed their families? HEGSETH: You're talking about political tradeoffs. Our job is to deliver for the US military

BALDWIN: Requests for additional medical and drone defense systems were reportedly denied prior to the conflict with Iran beginning. Why were they denied? HEGSETH: I would confer with Admiral Cooper

MURPHY: Will you make public the amount of money you're spending to upgrade Trump's plane? And second, can you commit to this Congress that the committee isn't going to take this plane with him when he leaves office? HEGSETH: Its investment is classified. And that's not a decision for me to make

OSSOFF: You stated on the 14th day of this conflict that Iran's military was 'destroyed.' Was that an accurate statement -- yes or no? HEGSETH: Iran's ability to challenge the US-- OSSOFF: That's not what I asked. Yes or no? HEGSETH: What the milit--- OSSOFF: Will you answer the question?

OSSOFF: When you declared victory, were those accurate statements? HEGSETH: It certainly was a historic military victory over Iran OSSOFF: Had Iran's military been rendered 'combat ineffective for years to come?' HEGSETH: They had 160 naval vessels--- OSSOFF: You need to answer the question.

OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?

Trump has called the decades of peer-reviewed climate science that guides the NAS manual for judges "fraudulent." He has repeatedly tried to discredit the science behind climate change, because his big oil and gas donors are responsible for accelerating it. 🧵

Trump’s net approval among men is -22, the lowest in either of his terms. (via YouGov)

We did it lads

Oh! They gave millions to Trump lol. people.com/taylor-farms...

HHS to cut more than $1 billion from Minnnesota, California Medicaid #UPI

A federal appeals court has upheld the criminal conviction of Trump aide Peter Navarro for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Committee.

Benny Johnson tells an agreeing Sen. Eric Schmitt that "the left is setting themselves up, they're training, they're ready to try and stage a mass slaughter event" "Yeah," Schmitt replies. "They're drawing federal officers out and then they have snipers."

Pete Hegseth's opening statement to Congress is quickly interrupted by a protester who yells about the "illegal war" and blood being on his hands

Hegseth is interrupted by a second, third, and fourth round of protesters in quick succession

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."

The MAGA agenda: - ICE is killing innocent people in the streets - GOP is trying to steal the midterm elections - Trump and his cronies are illegally blocking the release of the Epstein Files - We’re losing a useless war against Iran - The economy is in the toilet - There's shit in the lettuce

"The Court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard-fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black history. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design."

The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship.[] It turns its back on what is in plain sight. The Fourteenth Amendment is not colorblind. It never was."

Crockett: "Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing"

"Donald Trump is the face of hate. He is the face of war. He is the face of a pandemic. And now he is the orange, sagging face of explosive diarrhea." — @nberlat.bsky.social

Trump on attack that killed US troops: "They did slip something through in Jordan"

Creepy then and now. #Blues

Mitch McConnell’s staff have declined to answer basic questions about what work he is doing—37 days after he was loaded into the back of an ambulance and vanished from public view. His staff refused to even say if the senator had spoken to any of them in recent days.

What

Trump: "We took over Venezuela. We went to war with Venezuela. The war ended in one day. We're taking out millions of barrels of oil."

Trump on Iran: "Honestly, they haven't seen anything yet. We've been nice. We've been nice."

Q: Do you believe Iran has moved nuclear centrifuges into Pickaxe Mountain? TRUMP: All we do is read the fake news. Maybe this one they have right. But it's okay. It doesn't mean anything unless they have the material. We'll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.

Q: Are you planning to impose consequences for what you announced about them meddling in The 2020 election? TRUMP: It took place a long time ago. I think China is maybe a little bit different today than it was then. But look, we do things to them too.

Q: Do you think it would serve your most vulnerable members if Trump stopped relitigiating the 2020 election & moved on? JOHNSON: Well, I didn't hear him in that address relitigate the 2020 election. This is about making sure people have faith in our election system.. He is showing you the receipts

He is absolutely not "showing us the receipts." He has zero actual evidence, nothing at all. He's been laughed out of five dozen courts and just has rumors and conspiracy theories. Speaker Waylon Smithers can lie all he wants, but this is utter nonsense.

Top historian explains why Trump might 'fake' an 'act of terror' #AlterNet

Lindsey Graham’s sister stuns with 'sinister' move in bid for late brother’s seat #RawStory

WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT

Trump put a man in charge of finding election fraud. On camera this week, that man admitted he found none. Zero. Then staffers pulled him out of the room mid-answer. Watch it unravel 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-news-t...

Q: Dems ditched Graham Platner after sexual assault allegations. Two members of your conference -- Max Miller and Cory Mills -- face domestic violence allegations. Why keep them in the conference? MIKE JOHNSON: The key word there is 'allegation'

So alarming. An anonymous Admin official today: “We do not have enough [air defense and long-range munitions due to low supply and battle damage] to safely sustain operations, and I don’t think the White House is aware of that,” the official said.

Oh get the FUCK out

Welp… this should help his popularity.

“The alcohol boycott has …..resulted in a $360 million US drop in wine exports to Canada in 2025 from the previous year, along with a $150 million US drop in spirit exports.” Trump can dish it out but he can’t take it. He is a self inflicted wound. #Sheshed www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...