It only matters if the DNI has intel gathering and analysis experience if the mission the president wants to pursue has to do with gathering intel and analyzing it. If the mission is purely partisan--to destroy files implicating the president & use intel to promote conspiracy theories against...

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

The U.S. government handed a 3-year-old to an abuser to torture him to death, and then his mother was allotted one hour for his funeral.

“Glory Days” turns 41 today. Based on a real-life, chance encounter with an old high-school friend. “The first verse actually happened,” Springsteen once said. “The second verse mostly happened. The third verse, of course, is happening now." 🎸

New: A top White House aide intervened to get a $620 million Pentagon loan for a company tied to Donald Trump Jr. “The call came from the White House: We have to get this done,” said one person involved. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

Some context: there's a 6-year statute of limitations on false claims. The Trump administration can dismiss any individual case (known as a qui tam case) but they won't be able to do that throughout. Dem candidates can say right now that they would pursue this or not stand in the way of qui tams.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

nice job, Donald Trump

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

The tell that some maga douchebag is spitting utter bullshit is the use of the nefarious “they”. The mighty antifa, leftist cabal, the deep state, some evil presence referred to as “they”. “They” didn’t leak trumps return to discredit him, a lone contractor released 400k returns, 1 was trumps.

MAHA was just another con. The corruption of the Trump admin is absolutely staggering.

If releasing your tax returns and the Epstein files would end your presidency, then your presidency must end. It’s that simple.

Democrats should be saying in ONE loud voice that any deals Trump's personal lawyer/AG Todd Blanche makes with him will be reversed on Day one. Plus that they will sue to get back all the $ Trump gives to the Jan 6 terrorists from the taxpayer fund. And all Trump's J6 pardons are invalid!

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

The grifter in Chief

Trump has set up a white grievance reparations fund for insurrectionists. Fine. Fine. But now he's set the precedent for how we're going to compensate the victims of his cruelty when we get the chance. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"Donald Trump filed a fake lawsuit against his own government so that that he could 'settle' it and give $2 billion in taxpayer dollars to reward January 6 rioters" is the kind of story that makes you sound unhinged if you say it out loud, but is also 100 percent accurate

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Trump sued the IRS over the unauthorized release of his tax returns, then he dismissed the frivolous lawsuit so that a judge wouldn’t have to sign off on the terms of the agreement. It's not really a settlement. He's just ordering the DOJ to give him money.

No I'm not literally cheering on the downfall of America, but ask anyone in recovery and they'll tell you: You can't get clean until you've hit rock bottom and want to get clean for yourself. Payout to J6ers? Hell yes. $8 gas? LFG! SCOTUS bringing back Jim Crow just before the midterms? Yessir!

I don’t think DOJ should hand the president a multi-billion dollar slush fund he can divvy up between criminals he likes and his private bank account, nor that he should be able to buy stock then use taxpayer funds to boost that company. It’s corrupt. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Reminder: NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, who must keep us safe from Hantavirus, is an economist. He got an MD but never did residency. He's never cared for a sick person. Never did medical research. He went covid contrarian in 2020 and enjoyed the attention. This is his first real-world crisis ever.

GOP's message for 2026 midterm: If you love inflation, the Iran war and Trump's new taxpayer funded billionaire dollar ballroom then vote for us and we will deliver even more of that!

This hit me so hard this week.

Deliberate destruction of American power and prosperity by the Trump regime

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

This is unhinged and also hilarious. @michellekinney.com brilliantly strikes again.

If racism is no longer a problem, then why are all the states rushing to redistrict after the Supreme Court ruling all in The South? And all the people pushing to redistrict all White? 🤔🤔🤔

China's big bets: Solar power, high-speed rail, inexpensive high-quality EVs. US big bets: Bomb Iran, protect domestic car industry, dismantle wind power, the Freedom to Drive initiative. Who do you think is making the smarter bets?

Once in power, Putin cut taxes for elites, consolidated media (directly or via loyalists) & sought to manipulate the electoral process. Sound familiar? Some parallels are hard to ignore. The difference? The US has strong checks, an active civil society & deep democratic traditions—that gives me hope

Then and now. So back in 2022, when the original Louisiana map was struck down 5.5 months before the election, Louisiana argued to SCOTUS for *eight* pages that it was too close to the election to change the map. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21...

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

@hcrichardson.bsky.social It wasn’t an election for Tim Sheehy. It was a purchase. dailymontanan.com/2026/04/28/i...

See this over and over over with conservatives: They don't believe problems are real until the problem impacts them personally. Then they're like, "wow, how come nobody ever told me??"

Epstein Class solidarity at work: Texas AG Ken Paxton fought to lower the sentence for a multiple-time pedophile (and friend of his) from a felony and life in prison to thirty days in county and two misdemeanors. For "years of molestation." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

A Supreme Court that upholds gerrymandering in one breath and denies any protection from the overt use of race in the next is as destructive to this republic as any court that ever beat down Homer Plessy or Dred Scott. This is a betrayal of everyone who ever fought or died for American civil rights.

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The core problem with MAGA is they’ve swapped patriotism for personality worship. They love Trump more than America. When he attacks our institutions, mocks our military, or puts himself above the Constitution, they cheer. That’s not conservatism. That's a cult. Real patriots put country first. 🇺🇸

Just to put it all in one place 1. Posted a picture of Biden hogtied. 2 Mocked Paul Pelosi 3. Said he was glad Mueller died 4. Threatened the entire Iranian civilisation with being wiped out 5. Fomented an actual coup with extreme violence 6. Is a rapist But the left should tone down the rhetoric

Counting tomorrow, Trump will have hosted a grand total of 4 state dinners over his two terms, the fewest of any modern president. Obama had 13. Reagan had 59! But, you know, without a ballroom we won’t even have a country.