My take on what just happened. With a ray of hope.

The Dems stomping on their own grassroots momentum by going belly up is so Dems.

CBS aired a condensed, 28-minute version of a 73-minute interview for “60 Minutes.”

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Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

This would all matter if not for the fact that he doesn’t care, that he’s rigging the House seats for ‘26, and that he has no intention of leaving in ‘28.

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Ah, hate to tell ya, this video is from the first NK rally in June. Today’s march went in the other direction. Let’s at least be accurate.

So no terrorism then?

Qatar is such a dangerous terrorist threat that several neighboring states sanctioned it for years. This is like letting Russia open a military base on US soil, which could also happen. Trump sells the US to foreign adversaries

Imagine if Obama had OK’d a Muslim nation building an air base on American soil in a red state…oh what’s the use…

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Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

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PBS News is doing more to expose the facts than the FBI… 📌 Many young extremists who grew up on social media and never knew life without school shootings now see public violence as a way to go viral. So the chaotic confusion we are seeing right now is possibly by design.

In the brilliant sci-fi show "Andor," one legislator dares to speak out: "The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil….we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest." But to watch it, you need Disney+...which just ripped a show away from Kimmel. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

The Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow

Bill Cassidy's line of questioning was clever -- he pressed Kennedy on how he can praise Trump for Operation Warp Speed while at the same time denigrating vaccines. Here's the beginning of the exchange.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is trying to phase out COVID vaccines. How much damage can he do? A leading vaccine expert warns of the Trump Administration’s effort to limit COVID shots at pharmacies, which would be “disastrous” for the American public.

Re the rumors: If Trump were to die, how long would it be before they announced it? Serious Q. But I’m reminded of Woody Allen’s comic-futuristic “Sleeper,” where nobody knew The Leader was dead and that the only remnant of his body - a national security secret - was his nose.

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NEW: Gerrymandering California may pleasure Democrats who want do something to fight back against Trump. But it won’t rescue them from the political wilderness. Not that Gavin Newsom much cares. For him, it’s all about 2028. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

California has walked the walk on independent redistricting at the state level for 15 years. But we cannot unilaterally disarm while other states throw out the rules to gain power. With one vote, Californians can punch back and also demand nationwide independent redistricting.

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@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."

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Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

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If you’re distressed by the death toll in Texas, think how many more deaths, especially those of children, are yet to come. The rejection of science, the vilification of public service and the vandalization of the common purpose and action we call government guarantees a lot of needless tragedy.

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So the Epstein files were on Bondi’s desk… and also there are no Epstein files… and also Obama and Hillary created them? Do we have that right?

"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead." Tom Stoppard, born on this day in 1937

“But are there not many fascists in your country?" "There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes.” Ernest Hemingway, "For Whom the Bell Tolls

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If only he had a way to vote in accordance with his stated beliefs!

I mean, look, if Mamdani actually had invented time travel, went back in time and invented Twitter so it existed six years before it was created, to tweet about something that happened when he was 9 yeas old, with a picture of him at age 33, well... then maybe it's something to talk about...

The drunk ape at DOD decreed yesterday: "President Trump directed the most complex and secretive military operation in history, and it was a resounding success." Gee I dunno, wasn't Gen. Eisenhower's D-Day a tad more complex and successful? Or am I just guilty of using a fact?