“The dominant model of voter decision-making is flawed. I term this the Strategist’s Fallacy—the erroneous assumption that voters reason like political scientists and elite strategists, and that preferences observed today will persist through subsequent electoral cycles.” @gelliottmorris.com

NEW: In the Soviet Union, the leaders counted on the public becoming cynical & apathetic about their brazen lies & obvious corruption. As I write in my OUR LAND newsletter, Trump wants America to slip into the same fog. link.motherjones.com/public/43992... Subscribe to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

Don't just pray it's not real. It is real. Do something.

nOtHiNg aUtHoRiTaRiAn aBoUt tHiS, rIGht?

Trump has radicalized the GOP base. If you don’t believe Democrats are demons, you’re not truly with him.

ICE is an agency whose recruiting and training standards are so low that other federal law enforcement agents say pejoratively that ICE is “hired by the pound, from the pound.”

Accurate information is the enemy of the regime.

With his new Board of Peace, Trump's creating a global slush fund of billions that he will fully control—even after he leaves the White House. And, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, he's setting it up like a monarchy. link.motherjones.com/public/43880... Sign up for OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

A year ago Elon Musk tweeted that he had fed USAID "into the wood chipper." It was an act that killed people. We don't know most of their names, but we know 27. I've listed them below. Much like with Renee Good + Alex Pretti, we should also remember these lives taken by the cruel men who lead us

Pay attention to this now. Trump is signaling his desire to rig the midterms.

I hope he put sufficient postage on it.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

I got into this business because of The Washington Post. I was inspired by its Watergate coverage. It’s saddening & maddening to see what’s happening there. Bezos is ruining one of the great—though far from perfect—journalistic institutions. This wasn’t inevitable. It’s the choice of an oligarch.

Please don't fall for this.

I hope his kids aren't watching. Bad role model.

You run a real classy shop, Bezos.

It's racism, pure and simple. And it seems to work. Look at the guy in the White House. He's gotten elected twice as a racist. So they have no fear of any stains.

This sounds like BS. We're to pull back on sports and war coverage, so, yeah, sign me up.

So now ICE is a Praetorian Guard for Trump to end free and fair elections? That's Bannon's scheme.

Self-inflicted wounds lead to desperation.

Glad we could inform Larry Summers about big-money oligarchy.

Inside Donald Trump's corporate-funded war on America history www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

With his new Board of Peace, Trump's creating a global slush fund of billions that he will fully control—even after he leaves the White House. And, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter, he's setting it up like a monarchy. link.motherjones.com/public/43880... Sign up for OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

The problem is helicopter fuel is just soooo expensive these days.

So surprising the Ed Martin, formerly in charge of the Weaponization Working Group at DOJ, weaponized grand jury information to target Trump political foes and has been booted from HQ. Hope he gets to keep the trench coat.

Democracy dies when corporate greed prevails.

Turns out that it's not a good idea for a rich guy with lots of government contracts to own a crusading newspaper when an authoritarian controls the executive branch. Amazon has billions in deals with the Pentagon & wants in on the space biz. Bezos needs to suck up to Trump--or risk all that. So...

The Great Escape.

From the Department of Now They Tell Us.

While vetting the Epstein files, the FBI created a list of prominent names mentioned in the documents—and they noted which people had "salacious information" about them in the records. Trump was on the "salacious" list. Bill Clinton was not. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The next question should’ve been: Why don’t you answer her question? It’s outrageous that White House reporters let Trump get away with this and act as if it’s normal.

Reprehensible for the speaker to suggest fraud in what were likely routine circumstances, with perhaps big city precincts with more votes to count reporting later.

Hey, remember when Trump said it was important for the US to take the Panama Canal? Hey, remember when Trump said it would be a “national emergency” if the US didn’t annex all of Greenland? You think he makes up stuff?

Cassidy had his chance to try to stop some of this. He didn’t. It’s too late for his anger.

Imagine if Jesus showed up.

Burgum: "As warfare is evolving -- and we see how it's evolving in the Iraq-Iran war this year ... "

I still wonder what music Buddy Holly would’ve produced in the subsequent years and decades had he not taken that flight. He could’ve topped all the greats of the 1960s.

Doesn’t look like ICE is drawing back.

Hard to believe Mike Johnson got this wrong, right?

Woody Allen seemingly "joking" about Epstein's preference for girls over women and referring to the money Epstein spends on them. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

His precedent? George Washington.

Wait until this guy finds out about Jesus!

This is important to pay attention to. Trump's saying the quiet part of the plan out loud. With the midterms increasingly looking like a bloodbath for the GOP, he's calling on the Republicans to take over the election. This is what an attempt to end democracy looks like. Read @ariberman.bsky.social

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The racism is the point.

"Don't wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation under the new mania And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mindfuck America." Odds that Green Day plays and sings this?

Trump is turning the FBI into his own private investigative force. This is highly unusual and improper.

NEW: Trump has brought back an absurd & dangerous conspiracy theory—and he's using Tulsi Gabbard and the intel community to advance this nuttiness, as I report in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/43846... Sign up for a FREE trial subscription to OUR LAND at davidcorn.com.

No doubt, the Kennedy Center will open in time for the premiere of "Melania 2," which Jeff Bezos and Amazon are paying $300 million for, right?