Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

mark kelly's wife was literally shot in the head bc of violent political rhetoric & now the president of the united states is calling for him to be executed.... but iTs tHe LeFt

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

Trump could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and Mike Johnson would say they deserved it

Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"? LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president

Correct Answer

Schumer: "I've never seen a president who has gone this low. I've never seen a president who has done more to encourage political violence. I've asked the Capitol Police to give special protection to Slotkin and Kelly as well because you gotta worry after the president says these things."

Schumer: "We are very concerned. The trouble is the president not only seems not concerned about it, but almost delighting in this kind of dangerous political rhetoric. And it's despicable."

This is an accidentally honest answer. What she's saying in code is: "The President is a misogynist, petulant bully. You've all seen him be a misogynist, petulant bully. And lots of voters out there are also misogynist or petulant or bullies and that's why they like him."

Insanity

Can you imagine if someone immediately said, “No! You don’t say that. Get the fuck out of here. Go back to your cabin, asshole. You’re done.” What does that timeline look like and how do we travel to it?

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Happy for yall and Zohran but here in Detroit, Mary Sheffield makes history as first female mayor of Detroit 🫶

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

“If we can’t cheat, we won’t play, which means we automatically win. So there.”

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

The Atlantic seems to be on a hiring spree. They could make up for the hires of the Jonathans Chait and Haidt by snapping up every Teen Vogue politics writer who got laid off today. Add some much-needed journalistic freshness and diversity to the bullpen there.

Silver plan with subsidy 2025: $135/month. Same plan with a $500 deductible increase in 2026: $612/month. Even the crappiest high-deductible 2026 bronze plan is more expensive: $176/month. And no choice because nothing else covers a needed Rx. "Open enrollment" is a cruel farce. @charlesgaba.com

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Really worth reading the entire 60 minutes interview transcript but admit this part got me laughing out loud.

Walmart, McDonalds and Amazon are the largest employers of people who require SNAP assistance. The CEOs earned between 18-40 million last year, 1000x their median employee income. They took billions in profits, while their workers relied on SNAP to survive. Wanna fix fraud and abuse? Fix that.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.

Really getting sick of welfare queens like Mike Johnson sitting on their asses and refusing to work while I pay for it with my hard-earned tax dollars. #EpsteinShutdown

Please understand that people will not be "going without SNAP/EBT/food stamps" - people will be going without FOOD. Actually and literally.

Johnson basically says it here

Survivors — and family of survivors — of Epstein and Maxwell's abuse are urging Mike Johnson to swear-in Adelita Grijalva: "Every day you stall is another day survivors are denied justice, and the American people are denied the truth. Swear in Representative Grijalva and let democracy speak."

Next year will be 10 years since my permanent boycott of speaking on panels unless they're 50% women One of the best decisions I have made. Cost me nothing What do I learn/how do I grow without women as part of conversation? I don't I really encourage #AllMen to join me.

"Ken Paxton just filed a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson that quotes Trump’s rantings about Tylenol as if they were peer-reviewed studies. Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy and the animating force in Republican politics."

Reporters must stop accepting this. Options: -Laughing at him. Long and hard (combine with others) -"It's your job to be informed" -"How can Americans take you seriously when you always claim ignorance?" -"I've never heard a speaker claim ignorance so often" -"Nancy Pelosi knew what was happening"

I keep feeling like I'm suddenly qualified to do things like run CBS News, or be POTUS.

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

can someone explain to me why toronto is even allowed to play in the world series? since when is canada in the world

People sometimes wonder why God would allow so much suffering in our world. Maybe instead we should be wondering why we do. — Jim Palmer

Jeffries on Mike Johnson likening Democrats to terrorists: "That type of language is reckless, irresponsible, and it's gonna get someone killed."

Jeffries on a death threat made against him by a pardoned J6 criminal: "Not a single Republican has reached out to me since that incident occurred, and that's no surprise because they cannot defend the fact that Donald Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who brutally beat police officers."

Ad: This clip, then cutting to people waiting in food lines, then to Johnson saying he isn't familiar with X, Y, or Z, then cutting to U.S. citizens being arrested by masked goons, then a quote from Roberts and the immunity decision.

He’s so “busy.” What is he doing? Here’s what he’s told us he’s NOT doing. -reading/watching the news -negotiating with Dems -developing a strategy to end the govt closure - learning the details of the health “plan” he insists Republicans have -drafting/pushing legislation What’s left?

Trump claims that "more than" 1 out of 1,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses over the past five years

Q: Do you support efforts to ban apps that track ICE agents' location? TRUMP: What do you mean by that? Q: Like, specific apps that are used to track ICE agents T: I guess we'll do that. I'm not a big app guy. I'm not into that too much. Pam might be. Let's go. Give 'em a good answer there

Q: One of the J6 people you pardoned was charged w/ threatening to kill Jeffries. Do you worry your actions undermined safety? TRUMP: No. You have thousands of people that we're dealing with. And if one goes haywire ... I don't know of the incident ... sometimes Republicans are too nice

look I do corruptions 12 hours a day every day you can’t expect me to answer a question about one of them