BREAKING NEWS: Justice Dept puts prosecutors on leave, hours after court filing acknowledged severity of Jan 6 riot and the “conspiracy theories” surrounding Jan 6 Here ===> youtube.com/shorts/7Vr2V...

Speaker Johnson and the GOP majorities may have given the power to send US taxpayer dollars to a foreign country to the executive branch, but the Constitution clearly gives that power to Congress. (This is why I’ve had to teach my US foreign policy class this semester as a sort of before-and-after)

the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in

She has the receipts.

Note: This is me — I asked this question. You’ll hear me say “yes you have” here — because Johnson was already *directly asked* about one of these instances (when the Presbyterian minister was shot in the head with a pepper ball) in one of earlier shutdown press conferences.

A federal agent told a combat veteran, "You're dead, liberal," and pointed a gun at his head during an ICE encounter, a lawsuit alleges. blockclubchi.co/3LxF3Nb

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

There's no spinning this.

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

I wish a reporter would ask Mike Johnson if he has any self-respect. But I suppose that would require a Capitol Hill reporter to have some self-respect too. Damnit.

“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

A billionaire who thought we shouldn't give the poor free COVID vaccines, and hung out with Epstein, wrote some weird, vague stuff about how climate change "isn't that bad" and now the media is covering that rather than a record climate fueled hurricane. The age of oligarchy sure is exhausting.

It is a miracle that these idiots haven't killed dozens of people by now. They sure seem to be *trying*

"Until nine years ago it never dawned on me that my children might come of age in a country where the president talks about vermin poisoning the blood of the nation…[and] openly flirts with a third term and the Insurrection Act. Where police wear masks and round people up on the streets."

Freedom of religion only means Christian in their eyes.

The opposite is true. When you cease payments for a program like SNAP, your intention is to create the greatest possible immediate pain in order to generate leverage. It’s fascinating he’d blurt out “pain dials” publicly like this, indicating possible consciousness of guilt.

Tucker Carlson is who we said he was. www.mediamatters.org/white-nation...

We live in an episode of Veep

Maybe they should watch Russell Crowe’s new Nuremberg movie when it comes out next week. Just some helpful advice.

Crockett: You have a president who consistently is obsessing over two women of color that are members of the house, I don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey, but it is really taking him through it.

Has Mike Johnson ever considered holding his daily presser an hour later to give him time to read a paper?

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I think this is basically right, though I'd imagine it's not Trump himself, but rather Miller and other people behind the throne who are concerned about MAGA splintering into camps and fighting over who gets to wear the crown next. Trump legitimately thinks he's a Special Boy who deserves it.

Something to look forward to in the US.

It’s always been in Trump’s rhetoric to some degree, but seeing more and more statements and imagery of immigrants as wartime enemies. This type of shit is the doorway to atrocities.

I forgot how badly the media wanted a Biden recession. They were dying for it.

Clarence Thomas smeared his own sister as a welfare queen newrepublic.com/post/172494/...

MUST WATCH: He thinks Hitler may have been right, now he wants a Whites-only community in Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

I'm halfway through this article and I have two questions that are not a critique of the article. The first: why don't we openly talk about these kinds of approaches as what they actually are - experimenting on children with little oversight and the potential to cause real lasting harm?

Remember how 20-year-olds barged into federal buildings and stole our most sensitive data? Shortly after, a masked army kidnapped hundreds of people and trafficked them to a concentration camp overseas. That secret police—along with the military—now occupies our cities. This is an attack on the U.S.

So while even Josh Hawley is willing to bring a bill to the floor to make sure the most vulnerable don’t starve, Thune wants to use hunger as leverage to force a Dem surrender.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

That's a very low bar. Those most affected by climate change are those who have contributed the least to global CO₂ emissions.

Trump Says He Won’t Rule Out Third Reich

So that Mellon guy who gives away cash from his inheritance doesn’t have any left for SNAP?

SNAP is functionally a way of subsidizing the corporate desire to not pay a living wage

one of the most deeply infuriating aspects of american politics is close to half of americans would love if 20% of the country starved to death

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

If you're married to a neo-Nazi and you don't divorce his motherfucking ass, guess what that makes you

When a Gilded Age name like Mellon is dominating the news, it’s hard to resist framing the current moment as runaway billionaire-ism. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

As expected, DOJ moves to quash a subpoena for Todd Blanche to testify at Kilmar Abrego Garcia's vindictive prosecution hearing. In the conclusion, Nashville's top federal prosecutor Robert E. McGuire says he'll be taking the stand. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people: Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.

HEPATITAS?!

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD (apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)