Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

All these people are saying “wait to you think he’s REALLY a Nazi,” and my response is “no I think it’s more likely he’s an irony-poisoned edgelord douchebro, another group that’s absolutely ruining the fucking country.”

This is a crime enterprise pretending to be a government. —Malcolm Nance

Mamdani hasn’t been elected yet and he’s already driving criminals out of New York.

As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema. Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters. Liar.

It’s going to be like the Taj Mahal of vulgar pseudo-classical-brutalists narcissism

Ouch

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified. So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life. Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

The man should be in prison. But sure, let's pay him a quarter of a billion for being a criminal.

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

I too would like to be elected President so that my appointed officials can give me money.

Our Left Prime Minister in Australia bought a Bahn mi for $10 and copped 48 hours of front page news and algorithm saturation for being out of touch in a cost of living crisis 😂 Right leaning commentators will target the most ridiculous stuff. www.news.com.au/finance/econ...

So is Qatari-funded a problem or not? Because I know a guy who is super excited about his Qatari funding and Qatari toys and Qatari camp on base and that guy doesn’t like Mamdani…

i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife

Eventually. Eventually exiles them. For all our modern technology, the exilings have gotten much slower. Also we used to pack them off to France or something, quick smart, but I suspect the French were like........ non

Re DHS point person on “election integrity”: “Election officials from nearly all 50 states gathered on a call last month…eager to hear how the woman filling a newly created Trump administration position might help safeguard the vote ahead of next year’s midterms. But many of them left alarmed.” 🎁🔗

Raskin with Jeffries: "It's an alarming situation where now we have many of these January 6 defendants who have been picked up on other defenses. The Department of Justice is not zealously prosecuting them for other crimes they have committed ... it's a very dangerous situation."

After kicking 99% of media off the Pentagon, SecDef DUI is now focused on consolidating power. All DoD personnel, except for IG, MUST OBTAIN APPROVAL before communicating with lawmakers to “achieve our legislative goals”. Shades of Werner Von Blomberg if you ask me. [Adding that context here].

“Speaker Johnson, can you name the planet upon which we all live?” “I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that particular celestial orb, so no, I cannot.” “…” “Of course, I’d be happy to talk about all the posts on Adelita Grijalva’s TikTok account.”

He bulldozed the White House. During a shutdown. To build a ballroom.

Information on the websites of federal agencies or sent via email should be neutral and factual. I have introduced an official Resolution of Inquiry demanding answers as to why false, partisan messages are being posted on agency websites.

I am now ready with a take: It is good when negative things about candidates come out before people vote rather than after they vote.

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

Important to note that it's New York STATE that brought charges against the J6er that threatened Hakeem Jeffries. Not the DOJ.

Exactly. The argument was he could call Seal Team Six to kill anyone he likes....at some point people might have thought that was illegal too, but the SC said firmly, if he does it, it's fine. He cannot be held accountable, ever. This is what full immunity forever looks like. Cool right?

Let’s stop making excuses for adults Republicans support Trump because he’s the shittiest fucking human that has ever existed and they are shitty Fucking humans and love him for it.

Asking earnestly, how is the ballroom project at all legal under the Anti Deficiency Act? www.gao.gov/legal/approp...

For a campaign finance violation, not for instigating an insurrection or trying to steal an election. www.wsj.com/world/sarkoz...

Kim: We need someone who’s clearly going to stand up for the people of New Jersey — not someone like Jack Ciattarelli who says he can’t think of a single thing he disagrees with Trump on…That’s not the kind of guy we need at the helm to take on the attacks we’re seeing from Trump on our state.

Thought experiment, how much of the White House could the president tear down before anyone in power did anything meaningful to stop it? Like if he just kept going?

"In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump." Nate White THE LONDON DAILY

I don’t understand why anyone’s debating this — a Nazi tattoo is a non starter, full stop. This is a race for a U.S. Senate seat. The bar for candidates to clear doesn’t have to be insanely high, but it should at least be off the ground

It’s Day 21 of the Trump-Epstein Shutdown

DOJ declined to bring charges against two people who threatened to kill @ericswalwell.bsky.social this year, @nbcnews.com reports: www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

I do a fair amount of international construction arbitration (God knows how that happened). I told a construction lawyer friend from another country about the White House. "They tore down the historical facade? How can they do that?" I quoted Mel Brooks. "It's good to be the king."

I live down the street from a Trump hotel and every single day I walk past this hotel and I see people taking selfies with this exact pose and I feel like I’m doing a little bit for humanity when I say “would you like me to take your picture for you.?”

lol, lmao even www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

I am trying to figure out if legacy media lets Republicans lie without correction because they think it's good journalism or because they don't know the facts well enough to point them out. Either way, if you value the truth and pro-democracy coverage, support Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Facts

In-the-closet Mikey won't swear in Adelita Grijalva and claims her time would be better spent "serving her constituents" which she can't do until she's sworn in.

Raskin: "Speaker Johnson described the exercise of 1st Amendment rights across the country by 6 or 7 millions Americans as part of No Kings as a 'Hate America Rally.' The Hate America Rally happened on January 6 ... there were more than 140 police officers who were wounded."

The grown up version of the Classic schoolyard bully.

He raped underaged girls. He raped grown women. He virtually shat on America. He’s currently assaulting The People’s House. Release the Epstein Files.

You simply cannot be a political journalist today if you don't know the deep ins-and-outs of the nonsense conspiracy theories. Because people will just constantly say stuff that is blatantly false and you NEED to be ready to call it out with receipts.