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It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

For the crowd who thinks that Trump has cleansed the Epstein files of his name - does anybody honestly think he won't get caught? His coverup staff are so incompetent they couldn't even doctor the Epstein prison video without leaving obvious signs of tampering.

The voters sent a message with last week's elections, but the Republicans have chosen to ignore it. apnews.com/article/trum...

The relentlessly opportunistic Marjorie Taylor Greene hasn't had a change of heart, much less politics. She is just literate enough to read the writing on the wall. She knows that Trump is damaged goods now. So she may have taken to singing like a bird, but she's really just a canary in a coal mine.

Someone had to say this unfortunate fact, and I'm glad it was her. www.cnn.com/2025/11/15/p...

I honestly couldn't care about the Epstein files - I consider it a distraction from talking about the real problems our nation faces. But it sure is making Trump nervous, so I'm here for it.

I tend to think the deal made by the Senate Democrats was a) orchestrated, and b) a cave-in. This article points out some positives of the deal. One positive not listed: Speaker Johnson might have to bring the house into session, which could force a discharge petition vote on the Epstein Files.

now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...

The funny thing is, Trump was on those ballots in a way. Voters have already gotten a taste of what his second term would bring, and their message was clear: they want no part of the chaos that comes with him.

Contact your Democratic reps in Congress and let them know they need to keep standing firm against the Republicans on the shutdown. Democrats have a messaging problem, so despite last night's results, we still need to do the messaging for them.

Here’s a good explainer from @willsommer.bsky.social about why Kirk was a singular figure in the right.

Hillary, you were right about everything, including the "deplorables" part.

I'm Californian and I endorse this message.

Wonder what Putin was saying while he had the stage all to himself. Pundits are saying Trump got nothing from this "summit". I disagree; we'll be talking about his dumpster-fire diplomacy instead of Epstein for a while.

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

"That’s the sort of thing you hear before having to make a difficult decision about grandpa’s future..." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A government-sanctioned "truth arbiter" will soon arrive at CBS. Their role will be to ensure that journalists do not criticize this Administration or express views that conflict with its agenda. This is a betrayal—not just of journalistic independence, but of the public trust. 🧵

This interactive map shows what California coastal areas you should evacuate under a tsunami advisory.

For me the take-away from this poll is that for all the attention on the Epstein scandal, it hasn't altered GOP/MAGA support for Trump a single bit. The amount of hopium from the Left surrounding the scandal is deceiving. news.gallup.com/poll/692879/...

This article has a link to a PowerPoint summary of a poll conducted with the missing Biden voters - the people who showed up for Biden in 2020 but sat out voting for Harris in 2024. politicalwire.com/2025/07/21/d...

Maybe I might be wrong about this Epstein thing. It might be a useful distraction.

Am I the only one who thinks this obsession with Epstein and his case files is another pointless distraction?

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Repost and update: ....their votes for Trump have helped Ukraine get thrown to the wolves, and Iran mercilessly bombed by the U.S. and the Israelis.

I don't think this is getting enough attention - Trump and the GOP congress want to sell off over 250 million acres of wilderness - selling off our country for scrap- to make up for the budget shortfalls their "big beautiful bill" will cause. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

Wrestling to the ground and handcuffing a United States Senator, for any reason, is plain-out fascism. I urge all Americans to attend the No Kings march this Saturday 6/14. Visit Nokings.org to find a place and time near you.

Wonder what this could be about. apnews.com/article/jd-v...

An insightful article that underscores an important point: for all of Trump's posturing and threats, he's actually working from a position of weakness. He has the MAGA cult fooled, but we shouldn't be. Remember, TACO. newrepublic.com/article/1966...

To those people screaming at their Democratic representatives to "do something": They already are. Congresspeople have constitutional limits to their powers. They are not Marvel superheroes. Instead of screaming at them to do something, do something yourself. It's all hands on deck now.

For decades the NRA and other gun nuts told us that their guns were to protect us all from a tyrannical government. So a tyrannical government is here, they are all sitting on their asses, and the people who want gun control have taken to the streets to defy the tyrannical government instead.

Tiananmen Square in LA 2025

The "big, beautiful bill" passed by the House attacks the power of the courts to hold the executive branch accountable for its violations of the law and the Constitution. newrepublic.com/post/195630/...

They’re effectively banning the COVID booster for anyone under 65 who isn’t immunocompromised. The lunatics are running the asylum. People will be sicker & more will die because of this derangement.

An excellent article written by the federal technologists who previously worked on SSA's systems, explaining the true difficulties in modernizing a legacy COBOL system like Social Security, and why DOGE's "modernization" attempt is destined to fail. www.wethebuilders.org/posts/what-i...

Listening to Pete Buttigieg on Flagrant, and it occurred to me that he gets it while Gavin Newsom sadly doesn’t. You don’t make a podcast then force your Democratic audiences to listen to Steve Bannon and Charlie Kirk. You go on manosphere podcasts to have their audiences listen to your ideas.

The War Against Science is paying its dividends. www.wired.com/story/scient...

Not even 90 days. The second Trump presidency has gone far, far worse than I ever could have imagined.

I understand the "why won't you fight for us" frustration from those Democrats who sat out the election. But I DON'T, I CAN'T, and I'll NEVER understand how ANY Democrat who lived through the first Trump presidency wouldn't RUN to the polls to prevent a second. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

MAGA is becoming even more popular within the Republican party, not less. The cult is growing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump created an environment of instability where it's impossible to make long term plans. Whether you're a company, investor, or anyone working to put food on the table. The GOP only promises you more of this. If you want stability, you have to vote for it by voting them out.

Oh, look: The Trump administration is pressuring a "very large cloud services provider" to remove a bunch of books critical of Donald Trump from their online marketplace. www.reddit.com/r/EnoughTrum...

According to the last graph in this article, Trump net approval was -10 at this very same point in 2017, compared to -4 today. Like others, I am mystified why he still has 46% approval, but I am even more mystified why his approval numbers consistently outperform his first presidency.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

More scenes from today's #Handsoff anti-Trump, anti-Musk rally in San Francisco.

Scenes from today's #Handsoff anti-Trump, anti-Musk rally in San Francisco. The crowd filled the entire Civic Center Plaza in front of City Hall. Most of the speakers were local labor/union leaders, as well as representatives of government organizations based in San Francisco.