Fact check: Lindsey Halligan is not and never has been US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

Kash Patel must have forgotten to tell the American people this part yesterday. Must have slipped his mind.

I love adding this one data point to economic charts. It works every time.

Why did they make such a big deal about it? He pardons turkeys every day!

A reason not to pick your lawyer based on looks.

Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position

If you think women here can't be forced backwards... These are women in Parliament in Iran in the mid-1970's. Their decline feels familiar. A reaction to women having too many rights. A fear of what was happening to traditional family. A desire for younger wives. A closing of the fist. #Pinks

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This is a stunning thing to even have to see Members of Congress say out loud. Absolutely chilling. And inspiring.

Which is why any deal that doesn’t fix the ACA subsidies is a non starter.

It’s almost like this government is no longer beholden to the people it was meant to serve

The nexus of bank exposure to NBFIs & the exposure of both banks/NBFIs to the web of AI/crypto companies is going to cause the next systemic financial crisis. It's really only a question of how & when at this point.

I've given my new Senator a lot of shit on here. But I don't think anyone with power has laid out the stakes of what we're facing as clearly as she does right here. And if she's saying this, it's because she feels she must.

Ah, anonymous only to those of us not in on the secret.

Democrats are furious that the Trump Administration held a briefing on Capitol Hill today about U.S. military strikes on suspected drug boats. Only Republicans were invited. This is from Sen. Mark Warner D-VA.

Tell me a scenario in which Trump accepts that his completed ballroom is being used by a Democrat or a Republican he hates. This is, literally, a monument to permanence. It’s not the action of someone planning to leave.

Does seem like there’s a non-zero chance that the shutdown never really ends and that Congress has already abolished itself.

Denver!

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

What a despicable little man who is lying through his teeth to try to incite violence against Americans who will be peacefully assembling to protest the Trump regime’s anti-democratic rule.

Texas proudly invading Illinois. It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

Even if you support massive deportation operations, under no circumstances should ANYONE be ok with US citizens being forcibly removed from their homes and detained without explanation. This is a clear violation of their constitutional rights and should universally condemned.

BOLDUAN: When I was asking you about Comey, you've twice now brought up the Epstein files and Tom Homan. Why? RASKIN: Because the DOJ is in full coverup mode

🧵 Gentleman in DC on the suspension of @jimmykimmel.com: “But you know who the real villains in this whole thing are? The 60-some percent of American voters who didn’t [vote].” LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK. 1/

Same would be true if we did it for every child.

So it’s Tillis, a senator leaving office and the most he could get himself to say was “There are two in particular,” but he lacks the guts to name them.

Never though I'd be saying, "I agree with Rand Paul," on anything, yet here we are.

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In any event, if he does try this dumb stunt, an obvious and correct response would be for governors among others to ignore anything purporting to be from a "Department of War" or "Secretary of War" on the objectively true grounds that neither of those things exist.

Still laughing.

Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many of us, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is what dictatorship looks like.

Pentagon Fires the Defense Intelligence Agency Chief www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u... Thus discouraging anyone else to do their job

Great story - thanks for sharing it!

I think the fact that the president can make up a bullshit pretext about crime, activate various states' national guard units and invade a major city with basically minimal pushback of any kind reflects very poorly on Americans generally

Clark can (and surely will) appeal the D.C. Bar’s determination to the D.C. Court of Appeals (not to be confused with the D.C. Circuit). But Ryan is 100% correct—this is a big deal.

Wow.

At this point, we’re just a joke. But it’s not a very funny one. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

He slides out of every question. It’s an art form with him.

So the current story from the president is that Those Damn Dirty Democrats created the Epstein Files, put a bunch of incriminating stuff about him in there and then … never released it?

We are paying dearly for the absence of civics education.

Cry me a river. Maybe they’re burned out from terrorizing families & traumatizing kids. From dragging moms out of courtrooms. Or chasing day laborers through parking lots like it’s a game. If that’s what’s breaking them, maybe they should ask themselves who they’re really serving.

Why are the New York Times editors asking this question when they know the answer is no? It’s fear of telling the truth too directly. Even when NYT stories make strong points, the headlines fuzz things up.

Trump spoke of “shylocks,” which is one of the most recognizable antisemitic terms in modern English. Watch who tries to explain this away.

Disgusting