Noteworthy that the two guys behind Trump were mediocre musicians who became famous in the 70s by putting on makeup, high heels, and one piece jump suits…while writing seductive love letters to their largely young, male fans.

The Kremlin probably can’t believe its luck. Russia’s military is having a lot of trouble against smaller Ukraine, and has lost a lot capacity. Its GDP is smaller than EU member Italy, or US state Texas. Yet all they needed was racism, corruption, and a means of propagandizing Westerners directly.

Elon Musk shares the Russian govt’s goals in Europe, and uses his platform to advance them, with Musk’s motive anti-democracy white nationalism. The current US govt shares Russia’s goals in Europe, and published a National Security Strategy explaining the reason is anti-democracy white nationalism.

This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.

TRUMP: *calls Somalis "garbage"* OMAR: The president is a bigot NEWSMAX:

"Move to the center. Inject some civility into your hate speech."

“We knew very well what we were electing” isn’t a defense of Trump’s actions. It’s an admission of your complicity.

FT: America's affordability crisis is completely real and completely the product of Trump's reckless policy choices. www.ft.com/content/e569...

Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it

Duckworth: "It is a war crime. It's illegal. No matter how you put it, it's all illegal. I've been shot down behind enemy lines. Under the laws of war, you are supposed to help render aid to that individual ... you're not allowed to go back in and kill them."

America’s economy is at the mercy of crony capitalism on.ft.com/4puQYe6

I recommend that this is how people of color should respond to Stephen Miller and MAGA from now on. Don't be afraid. Don't be silent. And challenge them head-on. Clearly, they hate America and the Constitution. Why are they here? Go to Hungary or Russia.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Not much daylight between what white nationalist Elon Musk regularly posts on the social media app he purchased to serve as a vehicle for his far right propaganda, and this late 1960s flyer sent to a few thousand people by the fringe neo-Nazis in the National Renaissance Party. CW: racist imgagery

Incidentally, Trump putting the medal on himself was inadvertently one of the most honest things he's ever done.

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

Daniel Boris

"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime." Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod): charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...

This is a real photograph of someone who wasn’t vaccinated for Hepatitis B at birth

These blatantly skewed maps in states like Texas & Indiana are direct result of Roberts Court decision in 2019 essentially legalizing extreme partisan gerrymandering which doesn’t get enough attention as one of worst things court has done www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"In the days following the event, the woman says she hasn’t been able to sleep, is in physical pain from the way she was handled by the agents, and keeps reliving what happened. “The way I was treated left me feeling traumatized, humiliated, degraded, and unheard.”"

A 2011 poll found that only 28% of Republicans believed Obama was born in the US. This was BEFORE Trump began promoting birtherism . www.politico.com/story/2011/0...

How many people who watch Fox News know Trump pardoned a man who helped bring 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.? Hardly any of them, I suspect. Sometimes the right wing murders the truth, sometimes is just kidnaps it and throws it in the basement.

Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks. They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.

A good depiction of how Trump's operations surrounding Venezuela are seen by the world. More accurately than they are portrayed in US media.

When he shows you who he is, believe him. www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

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This is what really happened yesterday….

I guess now that Trump got the FIFA peace prize and strapped the medal around his neck he can expand his murder operation in the Caribbean with more gusto.

Layoffs have hit over 1.1M so far this year — the most since the pandemic. Yet corporate profits continue to hit record highs, with corporations increasingly spending those earnings on stock buybacks to enrich execs and shareholders. This is what a rigged economy looks like.

it cannot be said enough, and should be shouted from the rooftops: this is a fake legal issue that's been backstopped by on-demand scholarship from academics who are part of the same project as the conservative justices. the "authority" they will cite is no better than citing AI slop.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

Also he can barely walk now

2/2 I am really old. (Though still younger than all US prez except Obama.) But not *within my lifetime* has a Democratic president appointed a Chief Justice of Supreme Court. The most recent one was almost *eighty* years ago — Fred Vinson, appointed by Harry Truman, in 1946. Before my time.

There is no reason to be polite or decorous about this any more. The current Supreme Court is corrupt. US democracy cannot survive unless it is reformed.

A Honduran president/drug kingpin. A murderous Saudi prince. Putin. Ruthless billionaires. "These are the kinds of people Trump loves. The rich. The powerful. The corrupt. The murderous. Everyone else he barely tolerates if not openly despises." www.americaamerica.news/p/president-...

The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.

The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...

“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”

an example of starting to believe your own bullshit. does anyone think being a drug smuggler is a "fight"? It's a business. they're so deep into this "narco-terrorist" language they're thinking these are some kind of hardened cocaine ideologues. theyre all eager to join Mar a Lago.

I wish I were kidding. Imagine lecturing district court judges for not assuming the Texas Republican Party was full of honest public servants who sincerely have the best interests of their constituents at heart.

What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?

If you see John Roberts in person, be sure to tell him he’s a worse Chief Justice than Roger Taney (pronounced “tawny”). That’s a nerd burn that will hit him where it counts.

RIP Steve Cropper 🎸

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full. 25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan. Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge. They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

We are so far off the playing field here we can't even see the stadium.

This man may be the most racist president this country has ever had, and twelve presidents owned slaves

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."