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

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

The really fun part, every time the president says something utterly psychotic, is that right after all his little toadies and goblins go on camera to say that he didn't mean what he said and that you're stupid for thinking so, his next move is always to announce that he meant every word of it

Here’s the Mexican Marines removing signs stating that the Mexican beach is a restricted area by the US Department of Defense. Yes, it’s real.

Trump has found a terrifyingly effective way to eliminate bad news: delete the data. From hunger and poverty stats to foreign investment numbers, federal agencies are being gutted—making it harder to measure the impact of his policies. @crampell.bsky.social reports:

It's really shocking that Trump's DOJ, because a grand jury in the James Comey case refused to agree to their bogus indictment, bypassed that grand jury and lied to the judge about the grand jury deciding on fake indictments. Beyond appalling. Such a corrupt administration.

RFK Jr had committed to Bill Cassidy, as a condition to win his vote, that he would keep website language. Cassidy in February: “If confirmed… CDC will not remove statements on their website pointing out that vaccines do not cause autism.” Note the language in second photo.

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."

Econ professor: If you were to ask me, what's the single best number to summarize the state of the economy, it's the unemployment rate. That rate right now is higher than it's been in 4 years, which might explain why people feel so discontented.

This one took me OUT 😂🤣😆👏🏽 #QuietPiggy

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

January 6th?

Trump accuses Democrats of ‘seditious behaviour’ punishable by death over video on.ft.com/47TZ4q8

'HANG THEM': Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

THIS! Love my former colleagues

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

"This is not normal. We cannot allow this to feel normal."

Trump is calling for the six Democratic lawmakers who urged the military not to follow any illegal orders to be arrested, and he’s reposting replies saying they should be hanged and calling them terrorists.

I love him. “The first time I caught up to [ICE], I could tell that they already knew who I was. They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”

We've updated our Study. New stats (jaw-dropping imho): 1. DOJ noncompliance with court orders: 26 cases 2. Courts’ distrust of government information and representations: Over 60 cases 3. Court findings of arbitrary and capricious government conduct: 68 cases

Unprincipled and weak. The murder of journalists is perhaps the single most direct violation of the right to freedom of speech. (1/2)

If this isn’t 25th amendment territory nothing is.

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

He's talking about the story in the Washington Examiner.

Insanity

At least 30 individual or corporations who have given over $116M to Trump and his super PAC have received regulatory favors from the Trump White House. That includes Big Tobacco companies, Pharma giants, and crypto moguls like the Winklevoss twins. Pay-to-play corruption.

Trump’s ICE is waiting outside hospital ERs in Charlotte to abduct people in their most desperate hours of need. The cruelty is the point.

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"Donald Trump is an uncomplicated person. His crayon-drawn world is peopled by great friends and terrible enemies. He instinctively sides with the bloody autocrat who flatters him over the American journalist who holds him politely to account..." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-epstei...

2/2

1/Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg, asked Donald Trump about releasing the Epstein files on Air Force One over the weekend. In response, Trump leaned forward, slashing an accusatory finger her direction and barked, “Quiet! Quiet Piggy,” at her.

I'm surprised I only came across it now, but this review on improving communication in data visualization is excellent. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Part 2

Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.

It really is disgusting that Trump can insult, berate, single out, threaten, and demean female reporters on a daily basis for asking fair and legitimate questions and you can’t find a single Republican woman in Congress to say it is inappropriate behavior.

Clyde: Point of order. You may not call the President of the United States a felon

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Paul Ingrassia, who got caught texting about his “Nazi streak,” is now being tied to attempts to thwart the investigation of his former client, self-proclaimed misogynist and accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate. We're investigating to uncover the FULL truth of Ingrassia's indiscretions.

Trump on MBS: "We have an extremely respected man in the Oval Office today. And a friend of mine for a long time. A very good friend of mine. I'm very proud of the job he's done in terms of human rights and everything else."

Q: Is it appropriate for your family to be doing business in Saudi Arabia while you're president. Is that a conflict of interest? And your royal highness, the US intel community concluded you orchestrated the brutal murder of a journali--- TRUMP: Who are you with? Q: ABC News TRUMP: Fake news

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

To recap: *Berated reporter for asking about the type of cover-up that fueled Trump's conspiratorial attack on govt. *Refused to condemn MBS for role in murdering a journalist, suggested journalist had it coming, berated reporter for asking abt it. He is more committed to MBS than the free press.

Despicable.

Trump strutted misogyny onstage and too many in that press room let him. A wannabe fascist king performing for a real one while women doing their jobs were thrown to the wolves. Silence is cowardice. And we’re done letting cowards set the standard. F*ck the patriarchy.

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I don't know if the Epstein vote is a one-off or not, but I've been thinkin of that very thin, translucent sticker film that comes when you order, say, a new monitor. It's devilishly hard to get the first little bit of the corner to separate but once you do, the entire thing pulls off very easily.

I’ve been thinking and it’s kind of exceptional that not a single person said “Hey now” after the piggy comment.