It has to be said - again and out loud - that it’s Republicans in Congress who’ve unshackled him.

They don't think they're public servants. They think they're kings, princes, dukes, and barons. They control the government, and that makes them royalty, and that means our money should be used to buy them planes and gold-plated toys and gilded ballrooms

Developing: The Patron Saint of conmen and criminals has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos.

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico). In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

The theological commitments regarding politics for the Christian and missionary Alliance in 1984

It may well be that these are drug smugglers - no one outside the DOD or WH is in a position to really know. But that doesn't mean the US is entitled to simply flout maritime laws and norms for interdicting suspected drug vessels.

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

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Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

“I didn’t see the tweet” [shows him the tweet] “I didn’t watch the video” [Shows him the video] [hand covering his face] “Still didn’t see it” [Clamps his eyelids open, like in Clockwork Orange] “I can’t speak to the specifics”

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Okay, So our troops will be working but not getting paid. While the Republican House Members will be away from work but getting paid. Allrighty then.

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Trump announces he will bomb the Nobel committee for denying him another peace prize.

The firings will continue until unemployment improves.

A Christianity that is known for its cruelty is a Christianity that no longer knows Christ. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." -Jesus

I agree with Pritzker, too many people are oblivious to what’s going on. Maybe large protests will wake a few up.

Pritzker also says ICE's treatment of peaceful protesters has gotten so bad that Illinois law enforcement has to protect them *from* ICE. "We’ve got Illinois State Police standing in between ICE and the protesters," he says. This is the America Miller wants. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Nathaniel Hawthorne predicted the SBC response (or lack thereof) to the SBC abuse crisis, well over a century. From the ending of "The Scarlet Letter." (Spoilers!)

The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is everything Trump hates. A woman who stands up to powerful and corrupt men and demands that people have the right to vote in a democracy. Bonus Trump-hate points that she’s Latino. Congratulations María Corina Machado! #FDT

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Marjorie Taylor Greene: This should not be happening, the shutdown is just going to drive everybody's approval rating that much lower. Pamela Brown: You're putting the blame on the leadership of your party? Greene: Absolutely. We control the House. We control the Senate. We have the White House.

New Yorkers know Attorney General James for who she is: a champion for justice who fights relentlessly for the people. Donald Trump knows her only as an obstacle to his corruption. My full statement:

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

You see what he's doing here, right? He's equating brown skinned people with "illegal rabble rouser" who are here to do WHITE PEOPLE harm. Same racist shit as Nazis, the Klan, Christian Nationalists, etc. He's othering people so white people will be fine when the othered ones are murdered.

Thanks, New Yorker

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

As a new Democrat, I was thinking today that if I run for President in 2028, I’d tell voters that one of the 1st things I’d do as Prez will be to bulldoze Trump’s gross ballroom. A monstrosity that’ll destroy the character of the people’s house. I’d pledge to bulldoze that fucking ballroom on day 1.

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Lt. General Rips Hegseth and Trump on MSNBC for ‘Insulting’ Troops Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling ripped Hegseth for his “offensive” and “insulting” claims about the U.S. military #Military #Vets www.mediaite.com/media/news/l...

Weak, broken, insecure men who get power and use it to cosplay. That's what we have.

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here. The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration. How? 1/

Of the general and flag officers hearing Hegseth declare that rules of engagement are stupid and the keys to military success are war crimes and shaving, what percentage are appalled v. into it? I'm guessing negative outweighs positive by a lot. But there's likely a minority that's thrilled.

The reason we have rules of engagement isn’t to keep warfighters from killing our enemies. It’s to keep them from killing a farmer with a shovel bc they thought it was a rifle and didn’t bother to wait to check. Or a family in a car bc the driver looked nervous. Or a boat full of fishermen.

In a stunning violation of OPSEC, we’ll be announcing to our adversaries when and where all of our top military leaders will be. Doesn’t seem Pete learned much from Signalgate. His incompetence is staggering.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

This is parallel the African deportations, where the deal was for “friendly” states to pass people’s back to countries where they will likely be tortured or killed. This is… pretty bleak. Anyone who supports this practice with a shrug or fist pump doesn’t believe all men are created equal.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

These “officers” are running roughshod over the Constitution and the rights of all people. They are in effect the criminals.

Good new detailed reporting from @washingtonpost.com on Hegseth calling all the brass to Pentagon at great cost and security risk. Here's the last paragraph: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...