Trump's biggest success was being able to trick Americans into thinking the oft-bankrupted, incompetent businessman was a success. That fiction was central to the wildly dishonest "The Apprentice." The real Trump boardroom was so shoddy they had to build the show's "boardroom" on a Long Island set.

If you feel like you're not getting answers from the US government about the state of the war in Iran... you're right. The Pentagon has not held a press briefing about the war in Iran in nearly two weeks.

@msnownews.bsky.social Suggestion: keep the names of your guests up longer on the screen & use the chyron space. The font is larger. The headlines don’t need to be up as long as they are.

@maddow.bsky.social The SAVE Act will disenfranchise married women disproportionally because of “name matching” - people keep talking about rural voters. It’s married women.

@nicollewallace.bsky.social You have to tell married women to look at their marriage certificates and figure out if they have the proper paperwork should the SAVE Act pass - look at all the paperwork on Real ID that has to align. A typo could kick you off the voter rolls.

@cnbc.com Why is Kernen doing politics - he’s bad at it.

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

ICE reportedly closed a deal worth tens of millions of dollars to warehouse human beings in Roxbury, New Jersey. It betrays everything this community stands for and then hands them the bill.

Here’s Block Club Chicago’s annual bucket list to get you through the rest of winter: blockclubchi.co/4cnI7XK

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

They're lying!

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Young people will readily embrace AI to do their schoolwork, In effect, getting it to do their thinking for them. So - I question the interpretation of the results of this survey

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#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits. The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.

Here’s an easy way to find out how to donate to your local food bank this weekend. 🇺🇸 @feedingamerica.org give.feedingamerica.org/a/donate

"Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor. Hope gives a future." -Rebecca Solnit

Donald Trump is trying to terminate Gateway Tunnel funding, the most important infrastructure project in New Jersey, and the country. I’m for Gateway. Jack is for Trump.

Bertrand Russell, who lived nearly a century through two world wards and won the Nobel Price, on how to grow old and what makes a fulfilling life: www.themarginalian.org/2018/07/03/h...

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it. Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

"A group of people who only remember 'the cover was blue' is called a patron."

Donald Trump is specifically targeting New Jersey, cutting projects that’d build infrastructure and lower energy costs. We need a governor who is going to stand up to his lawlessness, not rubber stamp it. We need Mikie Sherrill.

Oh no! Losing Diane Keaton and Robert Redford in the same month is really sad. What a great career she had people.com/diane-keaton...

WHAT people.com/diane-keaton...

RIP Diane Keaton - so many characters

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Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli in 2016: “Benefits reform for public workers: No post-retirement healthcare benefit if pension plus social security exceeds $50,000 a year.”

“The oath says enemies foreign and domestic… well, we also have domestic.” Trump tells the generals he plans to use the military against Americans

REMEMBER: Schoolhouse Rock taught us it was 250+ yrs we decided that we wanted NO MORE KINGS. THIS IS STILL TRUE FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY, EXCEPT THE ONES THAT NEED TO JUSTIFY THEIR HATRED OF THE POOR, SICK AND FEAR OF IMMIGRANTS & EXTEND THEIR WEALTH & POWER. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1t...

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

"Star Trek" Icon William Shatner Hospitalized

@maddow.msnbc.com www.wthr.com/article/news...

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@nytopinion.nytimes.com This confuses the beep-beep, meep-meep controversy youtu.be/wbl_ElsgtJY

Two years later, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are canceled‼️ It’s part of the pattern we’ve seen before; discredit the critics, control the media, and chip away at dissent until only obedience is left‼️Stewart’s words were a warning and it’s happening now‼️

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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team has gutted the JAGs — judge advocate generals — who are supposed to advise commanders on the rule of law, Without these independent military lawyers backing them up, commanders have no recourse other than to comply or resign. + www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

When E. Jean Carroll comes up with a good idea, we should all pay attention. And she has one here! open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

“The FCC decided all by itself that radio and television were the only two parts of American life not protected by the free speech provisions of the first amendment to the constitution.” George Carlin, 1988

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p