Elected Democrats are now being investigated by the DOJ for refusing to lick the boots that are kicking their constituents. With Trump, we are living in a post-Constitutional America. He has no use for democracy or the rule of law. Only brutality and intimidation.

World War 3 is spinning up, with Stephen Miller at the epicenter. We all better hope the Venezuela situation evolves such that the Trump administration loses confidence in the Trump empire, or things are going to get really ugly.

Trump conducted an invasion of another country from a private resort (which has an international clientele), not from the Situation Room.

He's an incoherent mess and he's getting worse each month. #25thAmendmentNow

The current rise of Chinese auto makers is reminiscent of the rise in the 1970s of Japanese auto makers. Japan went from making cheap hardware to being a world leader in new tech. Is China on a similar trajectory? Reviewers are saying their EVs are not just cheap, but *good*.

It's frustrating that people who should have known better instead chose to give this malignant kakistocracy the benefit of the doubt, enabling them. But after nearly 12 straight months of horrors, can we finally unify around the need to restore science & expertise?

Noem is worried that DHS activities are causing people with guns to get angry. Instead of working to de-escalate tensions provoking people to violence, she wants to create a DMZ around DHS. She plans to keep provoking violence.

I guess we're supposed to believe that Trump is now shaking hands ambidextrously to the point where his hands need medical attention? And how is it that the most powerful man in the world can't seem to find a makeup artist capable of making either his face or his hands look normal?

The Heritage Foundation has declared itself for White nationalism as an agenda, and this has caused 15 staffers to resign because they preferred their White nationalism to be less overt. The Heritage Foundation has become a branch of the Klan with college degrees.

What is striking to me is "independents": Trump is polling at just 25% with that group. His overall 36% is maintained because registered Republicans refuse to adjust their position, no matter how ugly things get. But he has lost almost everyone outside of MAGA.

Weiss claims she censored the segment because the Trump administration had not yet weighed in. She's omitting, however, the obvious reality that the Trump administration was never going to respond to 60 Minutes' requests for comment. She's licking boots here and she knows it.

We're at that stage of fascism where news critical of official use of torture gulags has to be leaked out in foreign venues before being fearfully pulled. The United States keeps descending deeper into authoritarian madness.

American News media has bent the knee to fascism. Diversify your sources to escape the propaganda, y'all.

There are good reasons to redact files that might be used in a future prosecution, but DOJ has not so much as opened an inquiry. Regardless, there is never an excuse to redact even a single page in its entirety. This is a confession of guilt.

How does he figure Venezuela "stole" oil from the US? Even when US oil companies were extracting oil from Venezuela and the gov't there seized it from them, the oil itself was Venezuelan and the contract violations were with private companies, not the USG.

Trump's need to be deified is pathetic. He needs assisted living care, not the power of the Presidency. #25thAmendmentNow

While the NSS is, historically, more poetry than policy - the new NSS is quite a nasty document. It is an unhinged White nationalist screed, framing US national security priorities entirely around a core philosophy obsessed with preventing the dilution of White power. A stunningly ugly document.

Tesla ranked dead last (out of 26 auto companies) in terms of long-term reliability. Caveat emptor. And Europeans have lost interest in Tesla: sales are down 50% there due to Musk's politics. Remind me again how Musk is worth $1 trillion to Tesla shareholders?

At least nobody can accuse him of being woke. #25thAmendmentNow

GOP officials are saying they'll continue to lick Trump's boots until they know they can't be primaried by him. This is what 'courage' looks like in the GOP these days. Vote them ALL out of office; they've abandoned any pretense of representing citizens.

Uh, so the Pentagon is acknowledging that this is drug trade between countries nowhere near a US border, with neither vessel intended on heading toward us. These victims pose zero threat to US national security. The Pentagon is admitting to outright murder as routine practice now.

I realize that in the moment many on the Left are referring to MAGA - especially the pro-ICE wing - as Nazis. Years from now, when this ugliness is behind us, do you think people will use MAGA as a similar epithet to label other post-factual nationalists?

The press should ask AG Bondi why this isn't enough of a predicate to open a murder investigation against a SecDef who insists on being called the Secretary of War. They don't need a detective for this one; the murder is on camera, with ample documentation.

There are 2 big problems with this claim. First, "continuing drug mission" does not directly threaten lives and therefore does not justify the use of lethal force. Second, they weren't continuing a drug mission; they were getting back on their only ride out of the kill zone. This was murder.

We're entering into the midterm election pre-season, and I think there's a bit too much willingness to read the tea leaves. A lot will happen between now and next November. While the current moment shows a blue wave, Dems have a bad track record of sustaining momentum.

Congress should subpoena the White House physician to testify under oath about Trump's droopy face, whether it precipitated the MoCA, what follow-on tests were ordered, what concerns the MRI was used to investigate, and why an MRI was not done of his brain.

To be clear, the White House has not, in fact, revealed new details on the MRI. They've issued an absurd summary. Show us the MRI.

This is a real challenge. The USG leveraged a lot of foreign nationals willing to risk their lives for our missions, repeatedly, and while it was good that we helped at least some of them escape Taliban retribution, that's just the first step of the process.

Trump is not bothered by crime in general - he is only bothered by crime that does not benefit him. That's what it means to be a malignant narcissist corrupted by power. The things that make these actions hypocritical are things about which Trump does not care. #25thAmendmentNow

The conservative National Review is arguing that Trump's Pentagon is analogous to Japanese war crimes during World War II, and concludes with "If you can explain the moral difference to me without reverting to the repulsive logic of immoral regimes, then please try."

Hegseth better hope for a Trump pardon if this story is true, because that's a war crime even under US law. Trump's dementia isn't exactly slowing down, though, so the clock is ticking for Hegseth. #25thAmendmentNow

I did not have that on my bingo card. Figured she would have held out at least until the effect of the Epstein scandal had time to present itself. This week ended with wild news: Trump saying nice things about Mamdani and MTG yanking her political ripcord less than 1 year into Trump 2.0.

Reporting the news ought to involve at least some application of logic and fact-checking. If the administration cannot explain how they arrived at the 1.6 million figure, do not quote it. You are amplifying their propaganda, not reporting the news. You know better than this, NPR. Do your job.

In all fairness, it's not like decent people were lining up to listen to anything Bannon had to suggest.

If they were fine with Carlson before Fuentes, what they object to isn't White nationalism, it's having the public associate them with White nationalism. Nobody who has listened to Carlson should be surprised to learn that he is a Groyper.

While I agree with the basic assumption that Newsom is the Democratic Party's front-runner for 2028, his ascendancy is not a good thing for the Democrats. Sure, Newsom has been effective at turning the tables on Trump. But we won't recover from Trump by empowering a left-leaning version of Trump.

... And his Cabinet is complicit in shielding that child sex trafficking ring from facing justice of any kind. Trump has convinced the federal government to enter into a conspiracy with him to protect pedophiles and rapists. GOP voters refuse to acknowledge this, so the abuse continues.

The fact that the Trump administration is using the Sit Room to resist release of the Epstein files is quite the confession for how big they think this is going to be. They believe the evidence is so damning it could end his Presidency. They've seen the evidence, and think it's an emergency.

People on the Left are going to gnash teeth over the decision by 7 Democratic Senators + 1 independent to let the GOP gut the ACA. Don't get discouraged. Our side is going to make mistakes. Call them out on them and put your support behind stronger bets, but don't waste energy chewing our flanks.

I think this might have been the real reason so many Democrats (nationally) tried to undermine Mamdani's credibility as a candidate: fear that the party itself is about to experience a sea change. But we want things to change, right? I mean, the old way got us Trump in the Oval Office twice....

Congratulations. Now do Schumer and Jeffries and anybody else in Democratic leadership who dragged their feet to support the Democratic primary winner for NYC governor.

Why does the news waffle on facts? These aren't "deadly strikes," they're unambiguous acts of war that are also war crimes. They violate both international and US laws on the subject. This is why DoD lawyers did not testify before Congress when requested.

Republicans who insist the GOP is not fundamentally racist should stand up and kick these figures to the curb. Instead, they're mainstreaming White nationalism in the party's political discourse. Take note, America.

A truth so obvious even MTG has to acknowledge it: House Republicans are refusing to work because doing so would mean releasing the Epstein files and Trump doesn't want that.

Senator Schumer refused to say which candidate got his vote for mayor of NYC. That's functionally an admission from the leading Democrat in the Senate that he did NOT vote for the Democratic party nominee for mayor. Schumer has to go, New York. He's no longer respecting the voices of NY voters.

We need some neurologists and/or psychologists to help the public understand the risks if Trump is experiencing actual dementia. He's behaving the way my dad did at stage 4 of dementia and the progressive loss of cognitive function from here on out is dangerous.

Fascists gonna fash. They know their policies are causing great harm to Americans and they keep escalating every disagreement into open conflict. No wonder they are kicking military officers out of homes and quartering themselves there instead. Bullies are fragile like that.

Our status as a banana republic just went up another point. Trump is intentionally blocking food aid to 42 million hungry Americans, setting the stage for some to die of starvation. His focus, however, is on his latest ego-driven bathroom remodel.

Bill Kristol endorses a socialist because he's the only candidate in that race who isn't brazenly corrupt. We should all take this lens and apply it to our own ballots. Do not support any candidate known to be corrupt, because they will bend the knee to fascism every time.

Unsurprisingly, the Pentagon is restructuring the National Guard to be a domestic suppression brute squad. Part of their Make Americans Grovel Again grand plan, I suppose.