Pivot back to Afghanistan! (Lawlessly blowing up boats in the Caribbean seems almost sane compared to this.)

Or just two meetings with Tom Homan.

Excellent

What are the chances this was the "only" time Homan accepted cash for favors?

thank you to everyone who brought this to my attention. tom homan is indeed a bitch. also a criminal.

The case involved the DOJ's Public Integrity Section which Trump basically dismantled upon his return to the White House.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

This guy is ruining so many lives and breaking up families, accusing people who overstayed visas of being criminals and shipping them off to foreign prisons. Turns out he's a shabby crook who's done much worse. Disgusting.

to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Old enough to remember the shitfit Republicans threw after Paul Wellstone’s funeral, when they characterized some of the oratory from the dais as incendiary libels. Let’s stay tuned for the gentle rhetoric we’ll hear about Dems today.

He's always ranting about criminals. But that's projection. They are actually in The White House - and he's one of them

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts…

Happy International Red Panda Day to @darthbluesky.bsky.social and everyone else who celebrates redpandanetwork.org/internationa...

On @siriusxmprog.bsky.social "State of the States," got to talk (again!) to Debra Shigley who has runoff election on 9/23 in Georgia SD-21 (Fulton & Cherokee Co) Then, Leslie Mehta, running in very competitive Virginia HD-73, Chesterfield Co - a pick up opportunity! 9 AM ET, replays thru weekend

The press corps continues to disgrace itself, as @vermontgmg.bsky.social points out here. Also, they have no business attending daily briefings that they know will be cyclones of lies. If a source lies to you repeatedly, you stop using that source. Period.

“That’s the thing about negotiating with fascists: the negotiation is never over,” as @marisakabas.bsky.social writes. “Giving your lunch money to the school bully has never once stopped him from coming back.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/jimmy-kimm...

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

his advisors could very well be Truman Show-ing him and I don't think he'd know or appreciate the difference

Worksite raids are often framed as a crackdown on unlawful employment practices. But instead of punishing employers, the administration is doubling down on hurting workers as a tool for mass deportation.

It's also worth noting that Duffy cherry picks rare incidents of violence on public transit while you could just watch traffic for an hour in the city and watch drivers repeatedly operate in violent and unhinged ways. But of course, we just accept that.

This is absolutely right. Trump and Miller want the law to be little more than a tool of domination. It’s as clear-cut an example of their authoritarianism as any

Obviously Searchlight / Third Way folks have spent significant time and given a lot of thought re: this critical mi$$ion. Pretty weak-kneed #FAIL out the gate if they can't even muster the courage to publicly cough up names of "maximalist" groups to engage in fisticuffs with. 😆 🧾 is.gd/rNpbSz

She should do it. I was at a Dem club in Harlem with a candidate when the IDC was at the height of its power and when club members asked him WTF they were doing caucusing with Republicans, he condescendingly told them they didn’t know how Albany worked.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠, with Justice Kavanaugh saying that the wrongful stops of citizens is “typically brief.” But try telling that to the U.S. citizens who have been violently detained: Cary López Alvarado, Andrea Velez, Javier Ramirez, and U.S. veteran George Retes.

"Roadblocks" = the Law: "Mr. Siebert has recently told senior Justice Department officials that investigators found insufficient evidence to bring mortgage fraud charges against Ms. James and has also raised concerns about a potential case against Mr. Comey, according to officials"

Hell of a photo by my former Chicago Tribune colleague Stacey Wescott from a protest today at an ICE facility in the Chicago suburbs. Read the sign at the bottom. @staceywescott.bsky.social

Do you know how badly things have to be going in America for us to be owned this hard by the Dutch? The Dutch of all people

in this offhand and trivial way this is a comically misleading headline. the author knows this is very literally not true.

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

BREAKING: Trump's head of Social Security says raising the retirement age "will be considered." That's a betrayal of Trump's campaign promise to protect Social Security.

please save of us from this kind of "reporting"

SCOOP: he’s been released jail He’s currently at a mosque

every Dem needs to internalize this: "What Trump is doing on free speech — and on pretty much everything else in his presidency — is unambiguously unpopular."

The early polling on the FCC going after Kimmel is decisively anti-Trump/pro-free speech www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-trump-...

my experience has always been that when they are talking about you, you know it - and they mean it if it's not aimed at you, easy to pretend otherwise

There has been a pronounced increase in GOP pessimism about the direction of the country over the last month. This is like Democrats under Biden in 2023 levels of dissatisfaction under a co-partisan president. Independents are more sour on direction than any pt in 2024 apnorc.org/projects/pes...

via @bluevirginia.bsky.social, Early Voting starts today in Virginia! DLCC: Momentum Behind Virginia Democrats on First Day of Early Voting "This cycle, Democrats are running candidates in all 100 districts" open.substack.com/pub/bvirgini...

this is absolutely wild the court *sua sponte* dismisses the case for violating Rule 8(a) so that means the court, all on its own, looked at the complaint and said it's too long, too scattershot, too arbitrary to even count as a complaint. *never* seen this happen to a private party with counsel.

people fucking hate this shit and we haven't even fully revved up stagflation yet, or seen the effects of tariffs on holiday season

My body hurts and will probably hurt way more tomorrow. But it’s a lot less pain than what our neighbors are enduring inside the Broadview ICE facility.

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Merryday strikes Trump's complaint against the NYT for being hot garbage — that is, for making a mockery of the rules for concise and precise pleading in federal court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There are strong indications that Matt Dunlap is going to challenge Golden. I hope Dunlap is going to get sufficient funds to mount a spirited challenge because he can beat Golden and then LePage and would be a better representative than both.

Well put: #mepolitics

Is the disinflationary impact in the room with us?

In July 2024, @golden.house.gov wrote Bangor Daily News oped stating Trump would win, rejecting the premise that he's a "unique threat to our democracy." Mocked those worried about that threat as "pearl-clutchers" Well, here we are and Golden is doing his part to aid and abet Trump For what?

Maine's Jared Golden just voted to give Donald Trump's regime blank checks. #MEPolitics

"It’s apparently really because Donald Trump is offended by comedians making fun of him. You can’t make fun of the Dear Leader in Russia, Hungary, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, or any other country where the men Trump admires rule."