Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

¿Esto es malo? ¡Parece malo! apnews.com/article/hisp...

So what would stop Trump from waking up in the middle of the night, saying "fuck it," and ordering that the rest of the White House be torn down and replaced with a tall golden tower in the shape of a T? abcnews.go.com/Politics/his...

it's hard to Nazi what's going on here

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Portland OR friends: any ideas here? Also @weratedogs.com @darthbluesky.bsky.social help needed here pls.

🚨NYC is showing us how it’s done! ✊🏼 1/2

He’s just gonna keep going and take down the whole White House, isn’t he

Arizona Attorney General Is Suing The House Over Its Failure To Seat Adelita Grijalva

Who is this person? 🤷‍♂️

A feud is brewing between the president and cattlemen who expressed concern over his plan to import Argentine beef.

It's so hard to tell if they're awful or idiots.

No evidence. No riots. Ted Cruz is deeply damaged, dishonest trash.

While people continue to struggle to get FEMA aid approved after their lives were destroyed by natural disasters.

The brand new GOP position this morning, apparently, is that old white people suck. I kid you not. #NoKings

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

ICE increased weapons spending by 700% — including purchases of chemical weapons and guided missile warheads. ICE was always going to be Trump’s private military to deploy domestically against Americans. Pay attention.

Goldman: The notion that Tom Homan does official consulting business by receiving $50,000 in cash in a Cava bag is preposterous. And the fact that they closed that investigation while charging Jim Comey and Tish James with bogus charges at Trump’s direction is completely destroying the DOJ.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had enough of the right wing-lies. As Dems continue to show up to try and make a deal to reopen the government, Pelosi was confronted by a reporter asking about January 6th. Pelosi snapped back telling her to "shut up".

If you’ve recently awoken from a coma, the Speaker of the House is stalling the swearing in of a newly elected member from Arizona because she would be the deciding vote in the discharge petition to release the Epstein files, which would be trouble for his boss. You’re caught up. Ps: Welcome back.

Solidarity is the only way

Things to do in the future: 1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague 2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again 3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies. NO MORE BULLSHIT.

According to eyewitnesses, armed ICE agents dragged kids out of their beds in the middle of the night, zip tied them and put them in rented vans while raiding an * entire apartment building* on the South Side of Chicago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXO...

Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE. Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee. And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me. It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Supreme Court RULES that election officials violated voter’s rights by rejecting mail-in ballots with technical errors without notifying voters. Voters must be given notice their ballots won’t count so they can challenge the disqualification or cast a provisional ballot.

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

You’re about to see a push on the right to designate a bunch of nonviolent people on the left as ANTIFA because they don’t like their rhetoric. Dangerous times.

There are weeks that feel longer than they are, and weeks when every single day is hard. This was a long, hard week. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...

This isn’t garden-variety incompetence. This is “the FBI is being run by a guy who looks like he wandered in after losing a bet at Buffalo Wild Wings” incompetence. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

If we don’t keep telling this story, it will disappear. The media is already turning away. That’s not an accident—it’s part of the plan. Trump, Putin, and their allies want silence. They want us to give up belib.org/EZG1lc6

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

So they haven’t caught the guy and you don’t have a ton of leads? Maybe sending all your federal law enforcement agents to help ICE and dismantling the JTTF and firing the head FBI field office for political reasons wasn’t the best idea.

Rand Paul argues to Will Cain that killing people withou process is bad: "Let's say there's a house in your neighborhood & they're selling fentanyl & thousands of people have died & you're mad, do you go over there and just kill them or burn them? No, you go to a judge and you get a warrant."

weird to compose a thread on the semiotics of polo shirts and then return to my timeline and see "world war 3 has started"

They shout “America first” but are always putting Americans last. Cutting SNAP and food assistance doesn’t make children healthy. You can’t talk about making America healthy again while taking food out of their mouths

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