What an embarrassment:

In order to stay ahead of the curve here, I'd like to note that the U.S. has no grounds to invade Cuba, arrest or change its leaders, take control or directly influence its actions or, for that matter, to be blockading it right now forcing its people to suffer. Nor is any of that in our interest.

A full room in Fort Myers and a clear reminder of what this campaign is about: people.

U.S petro-state #ffagenda lawless fascist regime is aiming to pay violent pardoned criminals big money for their J6 insurrection violence

Brazen corruption.

Ari Melber: Trump's IRS Slush Fund Could Pay For New Revolt www.mediaite.com/media/news/a...

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Congress could presumably use its power of the purse to ban any expenditure of taxpayer funds by this commission. Seems like Dems should insist on votes on this?

The case for Trump's bloated Pentagon budget, to the degree there is one, is that military competition with China will be expensive. But now Trump's basically said we're not going to contest China near its borders. So what's the $1.5 trillion for? Blowing up drug smuggling boats?

⚡️ Putin wanted to go down in history, and special tribunal will help him – Ukraine’s foreign minister

Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS is the biggest heist in history. youtube.com/shorts/A9Qfr...

Trump helped turn the Strait of Hormuz into a global crisis—and now he’s looking to China to help bail us out. Think about how that makes us look to the rest of the world.

Raskin said that if this fund hands money to the Jan. 6 rioters, Trump will be “using federal taxpayer dollars to compensate people who participated in insurrection.” Trump & his lawyers “are figuring out a way to refund the Jan. 6 militia, presumably to get them ready for the next round of battle.”

The main way Warsh finally got the gig was by pledging to cut interest rates, which was Trump’s litmus test. Unfortunately for Warsh, he will not be able to deliver on that promise for reasons that are clear to everyone except, perhaps, Trump.

Maybe a dumb question, but can DOJ just fork over $1.7 bn dollars to a slush fund without congress appropriating that money? Maybe it's already appropriated for some other purpose? Geninely not clear to me how they actually do it.

House Democrats secured the necessary signatures to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a package of Russia sanctions and billions of dollars in Ukraine aid. This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used to do an end-run around GOP leadership.

@robertgarcia.house.gov announced this morning the release of the below report, based on bank records & other documents, on how Alex Acosta's sweetheart plea deal helped Epstein continue and expand his global network of sexual abuse. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living "starting on day one," and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut food assistance, ran an interest-rate boosting deficit, and attacked fed independence.

Of all the batsh*t arguments being put forward by Trump supporters, the one that he was good for Ukraine is easily the most disingenuous. This is what Trump did: Stopped all aid to Ukraine Starved Ukraine of air defense (which helped Putin kill Ukrainians)…

So you're telling me that cutting tariffs leads to lower prices? Fascinating.

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

BTW, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for this project.

Hey everyone, meet the AAG, my personal fixer.

Can someone remind me how it worked out for Saddam?

The man building a ballroom with foreign steel probably shouldn’t call himself the champion of American steel. But as you learned from the Epstein files, I’m open to working across the aisle. So how about signing my steel bill to actually rebuild the American steel industry?

Happy birthday! Enjoy your special day. All the best to you. Keep posting!

Today is Monday. That means trump falls asleep at yet another high profile event with cameras rolling. Imagine what happens when there are no cameras. trump is not mentally or physically fit to be President of the United States.

Hegseth says they’re protecting history by restoring Confederate names to military bases. But the same administration has taken down a National Park Service exhibit about slavery. They are choosing which history gets honored and which gets erased. zurl.co/bky8I zurl.co/5NLjy

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children taken by Russia remain separated from their country and loved ones. We will not rest until every single one of them is reunited with their families.

It's time for Congress to step up. It should start by cutting off funding for this war until Congress authorizes it. Then it needs to reform the War Powers Act to do the same for all future conflicts so that we don't find ourselves right back here again. www.stripes.com/theaters/us/...

Kaja Kallas: "The ceasefire Putin wanted was only very cynical to protect his parade, whereas they were actually attacking civilians in Ukraine. Ukraine kept to the ceasefire, like previously, offered ceasefires unconditionally, what Russia did not really stand up to this."

Trump's J6 Pardons Reward Political Violence! youtu.be/UAZWnb4tCGk?...

Trump just called Iran’s response to the U.S. peace proposal “totally unacceptable.” Translation: diplomacy may be collapsing in real time while the risk of escalation rises by the hour.

We’ve got to protect our democracy from Trump’s deranged, egomaniacal descent into authoritarianism. But Congress is doing NOTHING to stop Trump, and it’s time for a change. We need the resources to win this race — so I can take this fight straight to Congress.

Your Saturday FYI: Russia is getting its ass handed to it, by Ukraine. Ukraine has “the cards.” Slava Ukrainii

Virginia was a setback But the math still points to a pro-democracy pickup The South is rising up — protests in Tennessee Alabama & beyond And a national mobilization in Montgomery is set for May 16 The movement is growing and here's how to join on my Publisher's note on @contrariannews.org -TN

A really tough week. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content with everyone you know. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

CIA says Iran still has 70-75% of its missiles.We've expended 45% of our precision strike inventory.I broke down Trump's three options with @smerconish.bsky.social on @cnn.com & we discussed my new novel 2084, publishing Tuesday,where today's headlines become tomorrow's history. youtu.be/Zw8KeULYcSc

Ukraine is now taking the war to Russia. It is as clear a sign as any that Europe together can protect itself in the future without the USA.

Trump’s tariffs are an illegal tax on the American people. That was true of the tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court, and of the tariffs he replaced them with. This unconstitutional abuse of power is costing American families thousands of dollars and hurting our economy.

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Kash is just a bad, paranoid mess. Never should’ve been given that job. What a disaster he is.

It’s not a trick question. If you can’t say under oath that a president cannot serve a 3rd term after having the 22nd Amendment read to you word‑for‑word, you have no business on the fed bench.

President Donald Trump’s 10% global tariffs were declared unlawful by a federal trade court in a fresh blow to the administration’s economic agenda

Maybe voters felt they had a bargain with Trump: he can have his corruption, they can have their Trump economy. If so, Trump has fallen short on one of those.

More Trump tariffs - taxes on consumers of imported goods - are ruled illegal by the ITC. So much winning for the President and his so-called Golden Age. It is a win for consumers, however. Consumers are also voters, who will remember this November. libertyjusticecenter.org/pressrelease...

The sad truth is that what happened today in Tennessee is just the beginning. Maya Wiley joins April Ryan on The Tea to explain. Catch the show at 5pm ET on Substack: https://open.substack.com/live-stream/193428

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

The GOP’s New Solution to Fund Trump's Ballroom: Your Money Read the latest Press Pass from @cheetah.bsky.social only @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-gop-ne...