"So much winning"

This is beyond appalling. The gall and ego of this guy to claim to know that God loves him and his desires and hates his opponents. This isn't a new idea in human history, obviously, but this is as obviously ego-driven and self-serving as we've seen in a while.

Very grateful to be given the chance to work on this courageous brief for @blumenthal.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov, and a larger bi-partisan group of current and former U.S. Senators. More information about their brief is here: bergermontague.com/news/berger-...

With lots of help from sycophants around him, Trump thinks he can shape reality by insisting on what he wants. Lose an election? Your allies can keep saying you won, until your people believe it. But Iran doesn't work for or worship him, he can't wish away inflation, he can't scare SCOTUS

Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Kolbert’s book, Life on a Little-Known Planet, is a master class in writing about the natural world.

How many times have we been "two weeks" from receiving a comprehensive health care plan?

Bondi should be asked questions about whether she's had discussions about a possible pardon.

Wow, I just listened to this. It seems obvious that he's describing MEDICAID and MEDICARE as "little scams," and that rather than the federal government paying for them, it has to do "one thing," and that is fund the military. I can see why they deleted this video, wow.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

When they value absolute loyalty over competence, you get people like Hegseth and lose people like this general. We can all see the results in a war where they profess to have been surprised to see Gulf States bombed and the Strait closed.

To the extent that he's also angry that she's failing to put in jail people who criticized him at some point, won't future courts see this move as proof DOJ is becoming less lawyerly, less serious, and it will cause them to be LESS successful?

Visibility matters. youtu.be/wMJvLTZOhpE?...

Cosplaying working class Rafael Cruz went to Princeton and Harvard. When he flees his constituents without power, he stays at the Ritz-Carlton. His wife, Heidi, is Managing Director at the fancy investment firm Goldman Sachs. They are not men & women with callouses on their hands. They are elites.

Apparently if the defrauded families wanted justice, they had to make a larger contribution to the President than this guy.

Convenient voting for me but not for thee... He always feels like the rules that govern everyone else do not apply to him.

As mortgage rates increase, making it more expensive to buy a house, the administration’s chief housing regulator is focused on manufacturing frivolous legal charges against the president’s political enemies.

Trump sends a message with his repeated steps to monetize his office, and his staff heed the message: "government service is a way to get rich." The corruption is unbelievable, and a betrayal of the public trust.

Definitely a good time to be leaning into policies to support clean energy production/alternatives to the global oil market...

Of course, his vanity campaign makes it far more likely that a true servant of the wealthy, one of the two Republicans in the race, will cross the finish line. His huge ego (among others) is proving very harmful. At least three of the Democrats in the race need to get over themselves and get out

As always with this regime, follow the money.

Justice Sotomayor is such an important moral voice on this Court, I wish she didn't have to do this from dissents so much.

This is really powerful. Power is an intense drug, and each of these people has sold their soul for proximity to it.

The regime's position is that out of all the billions of people in the world, only ONE (1) man's feelings matter. And it's not me or you. This guy is speaking to an audience of one. Everyone else is a non-player character.

My take on Robert Mueller & Trump is that he was from an earlier era of American politics, where one communicated facts in detail and let the listener make their own judgment. So he laid out a lengthy body of evidence showing the Trump campaign had collaborated with Russia. And the media yawned

This is another data point showing the importance of strong independent and investigative journalism. With 80% of the TV in the U.S. now being essentially state media, the need for Pro Publica's work has never been greater.

Counterpoint: no matter their history, if a Republican shows an interest in taking the antitrust laws seriously, that might help slow/limit corporate concentration, and thus should be welcomed and encouraged rather than denounced.

Republicans: debt is a "you" problem, not a "we" problem. They have object permanence with it -- under Biden (where the deficit was tending down) it was an urgent national crisis. Now they're incurring debt at historic rates (tax cuts for the rich & another $200 billion for the war!) & don't care

The people who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel after Charlie Kirk's assassination will now control television stations that reach 80% of Americans, twice that what was legally allowed before Trump's takeover. The state capture of network television is almost complete.

I hate this framing. Mullin wants to take over an agency w/a huge track record of unnecessary violence, such as murdering innocent civilians Rand Paul is making the point, partly using his own experience, to show that Mullin is a "violence first" thinker Let's not denigrate Paul for this

The larger national media and all Republicans will only discover that the national debt is a problem if we ever have another Democratic president. They have object permanence with this issue when their guys are running things.

This is great journalism, taking a lot of data points and like pointillism, explaining what they show in the big picture.

What a liar. Under oath he is insisting that what we can all see happened didn't happen

The "not everybody is buying it" has some big "Don't Look Up" energy. I feel like not nearly enough people saw that film.

Does it help with foreign policy to completely change directions several times a day and to relentlessly attack your closest allies? I don't remember learning either of these things in college studying foreign affairs

President Trump just signed an EO to "fight fraud." But 21 inspectors general offices remain vacant after he fired 17 watchdogs within days of taking office, and convicted fraudsters are being granted clemency. You can't fight corruption by dismantling oversight.

I'm doubtful that disrespecting our closest allies is the way to get other countries to help us in the war we started

In the middle of the greatest self-inflicted energy crisis for decades the Trump administration is laser focused on what really matters to the average American: thwarting renewable energy.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Odd. As someone who's dealt with a lot of corporate lawyers and lobbyists, usually people charged with serving the interests of oligarchs are careful about proof reading.

In actual real life, practically speaking, the sole purpose of the large magazine in America has been to ramp up the number of people murdered or maimed in mass shootings. These idiots might as well carry signs "help the active shooters in America kill more kids." FFS

My favorite movie was Sentimental Value, but I strongly agree with this thoughtful take that House of Dynamite was intensely important and very well done. I am the only person in my friend group who liked the ending, though.

Brought to you by the President who called affordability a Democratic hoax

I'm so old, I can remember when all Republicans could talk about was Hunter Biden getting several hundred thousand dollars from a Ukrainian gas company. But crickets here

While giving lip service to the First Amendment, this regime repeatedly attacks it. The next time Elon Musk calls himself a free speech absolutist, people should laugh in his face.

He thinks this kind of boasting makes him look tough and manly. It's a really sad idea of what those things mean.

Some people should stick to the things they're good at. For example, Rick Scott is good at Medicaid fraud, looking like Skeletor and extreme partisanship. Foreign policy, not so much.

Trump believes his voters didn't vote for any particular set of policies but just worship him and support whatever he feels like doing in a given moment. But what if his voters DON'T think this way, and they don't like broken promises to them? They might turn on legislators who always put him first

I'm so proud that this incredible advocate for justice and thoughtful legislator is one of my Senators. Whenever I see someone hear saying "well, why don't the Democrats do something," I think "they are not watching my two fantastic Senators and Congressman (Raskin) in action every day."