Democratic leaders think they are minority party of governing coalition, rather than opposition party to authoritarian regime.

As predictable as the sun rising and setting each day.

What does it tell voters, who have said unequivocally we want fighters, that you sit & silently witness your own humiliation? If you will not fight for yourselves, are we to believe you will for us?

Making medal presentations — deserved or not — should not be allowed during a SOTU speech and probably not in either chamber at any time. Do it elsewhere. Give the recipient the deserved focused honor and dignity rather than serving as nothing more than a prop in a charged political environment.

who did this

And they just sit there

Can any journalist or historian find an instance in this man’s life when he actually made a truthful statement?

Does that look like a man who can both stand up and talk for 2 hours

“PBS News reports that Trump’s State of the Union address is expected to last over two hours, with one source saying it could extend up to three hours.” Only the worst victims of identity replacement will endure two to three hours of his blather. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

It's kind of wild how explicit it's gotten: the GOP is the party for people of low moral character. If you're a scumbag, a grifter, an abuser, or a predator, it will welcome you and defend you. Low moral character is not a barrier; it's a desideratum!

Republicans voters sure know how to pick a quality leader and elevate him to god level. Worse? They continue to lick his boots today. “I didn’t know” has expired. As for their elected representatives at every level, they should be tarred as supporting & endorsing pedophilia. bsky.app/profile/atru...

General McClellan over here not pressing his advantage.

1. Until Sunday, it wasn’t clear to me why Savannah Guthrie’s mom was still missing nearly a month after her disappearance. Then came images of the FBI director, Kash Patel, partying with members of the US Olympic hockey team after they won the gold medal. Then it all started to make sense.

I see report after report that say basically the same thing as Gizmo’s report: 100s of billions spent on AI but near zip ROI. Businesses reporting no productivity gains vary from 80 - 95% and a not insignificant amount say less productivity. AI execs claim it is + gizmodo.com/ai-added-bas...

Yes, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is correct on billionaires. www.offmessage.net/p/the-case-f...

Trump has said many times he is smarter than all of the generals. No need to worry, right? Any bets on General Caine being shown the door and the pertinent Washington Post reporter’s house is raided at 6:00 AM? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

What you idiot commies don’t understand is that if we tax rich people they will JUST LEAVE, depriving our nation of tax cheats, political bribery, and national acts of perversion

Is there a better example of a deeply corrupt sitting federal judge than Aileen Cannon?

So many sociopaths.

You mean the guy who still can't find an 82 year-old woman taken from her home?

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

Lord, this is terrifying. Thanks to @willbunch.bsky.social for shining a light. We have to find ways to block these horrors.

Why is the United States on the brink of war with Iran? Penis size syndrome? That seems to be the only discernible answer

Jeffrey Epstein reportedly said Donald Trump was the worst human being he ever met. That seems to have been a gross understatement.

Bragging about ill-gotten gains accomplished by a blatant violation of the United States Constitution and a federal statute.

Laura Loomer winding Trump up over remarks Susan Rice made: “This is as anti-American as it gets”. MAGA spews this level of tripe ad nauseam. 10:1 says Loomer or her gilded god could not accurately and concisely define or “American” or “anti-American”.

Show up at the hearings if you are able. Seeing us makes "them" squirm. Elections are coming up.

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

So it’s going to be a 🖕to the Court, the Constitution, and the people every day? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Government of the corporations, by the corporations, for the corporations. Of course. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

I’m so old I remember this. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Yes yes, we’re all frogs in the boiling water. But still. How on earth are we living in a time when a federal court opinion can open like this?

Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.

From the lips of the law-and-order president: “I can do anything I want.” Why wouldn’t he think he can do anything he wants? Isn’t that basically what the Court said in Trump v. U.S.? John Sauer even told the Court Trump could assassinate his critics and political opponents. They bought it. 1/2

I see Herr Miller wrote the outraged president’s remarks* about the Court’s tariff decision. How soon one forgets about the free and unconstitutional get-out-of-jail card he received less than two years ago. * A charitable description.

Aw, poor baby. Over his 79 years, he's never been told "no". Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

IIRC, it was recently reported that ~ 94% of Trump’s tariffs were passed on to consumers. Reimbursing corporations for the unlawful tariffs seems absurd. Corporations in general almost certainly aren’t going to reduce prices. Refunds to individuals? I don’t know how that can equitably be done. 1/3

Thou shalt not create laws or implement sweeping policies that adversely affect the financial portfolios of this Court’s Justices or oligarchs who lavishly fund Justices’ vacations, boondoggles, property (real and personal), or general net worth. So sayeth the Lord.

I deleted this post (sans corrections) from yesterday. I recalled Lieu saying there is evidence Trump raped children. That was incorrect. Lieu said, “[T]here’s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children [and] threatening to kill children.” Threatening to kill children.

If the "mini-shutdown" over DHS is so bad, then how did Donald "The Worlds Greatest Negotiator" Trump get suckered into it? He signed the CR that cleared the way for this!

Chris Murphy on Trump’s State of the Union address: “These aren’t normal times and showing up for this speech puts a veneer of legitimacy on the corruption and lawlessness that has defined his second term”

BREAKING NEWS from #RolandMartinUnfiltered: House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request from Democrats and the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. For him to lie-in-state at the US Capitol

Dollars to doughnuts says someone has to use a chisel and hammer to get all that makeup off his face at night.

Priceless. www.instagram.com/reel/DUv9Dmd...

did they even consider how this would play out in suburban diners outside of busan?

ok but how is the opposition party supposed to win over his supporters now, have they even thought about that

That’s weird. Prince Andrew arrested. The law and order president told us it was all a big “Democrat” hoax.

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

Vladimir Putin’s boy, Donald Trump, and the Epstein Administration continue apace destroying the international world order for the sole purposes of greed and escaping prison. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...