45.5% of households did not earn enough to cover necessities. I'd like to see a cross reference for those who voted for lardass. www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...

Hey Jared Polis, did you catch her interview with Steve Bannon yesterday? You made a big mistake commuting her sentence my friend, and I still don’t understand why.

What comes next? Are we going to have the Donald Trump and Vietnam War Memorial? @preetbharara.bsky.social & I discuss Trump’s efforts to rename the Kennedy Center on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider episode: cafe.visitlink.me/E3aMFK

EXCLUSIVE: Top Democrat on House Judiciary Cmte Pushes National Law Enforcement Memorial to Add Names of Police Who Died by Suicide After Jan 6 Siege open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

Please do not laugh at this. @polymarket.extwitter.link is on to something here. I engage with hundreds of folks from the GOP base every day. Been doing it for years. Tucker’s odds at getting the GOP 2028 nomination will only continue to increase. He has a devoted, growing following in that base.👇

Rep. Crow on war powers vote: "I think we have a chance of passing this resolution tomorrow. Every time we put these up for a vote, it seems like we pick up some additional Republicans, and I think that's actually a reflection of the fact that Americans are souring on this war."

"Here is why Scott Pelley’s stand was so important: He didn’t just refuse to be party to Bari Weiss’s lie—he stood up and exposed it. Even though she has the power and he does not." Unlike so many others who knew and wouldn't say something.

Sen. Van Hollen on DHS making false statements under Kristi Noem: "There was a pattern." Mullin: "You say there's a pattern. There's not a pattern." Van Hollen: "I would say three in a row is a pattern." Mullin: No, sir. That's not a pattern."

The challenge for great powers has never been identifying the most important threat, but managing multiple threats simultaneously without dropping one while reaching for another. Let's act like a great power.

“Jawdroppingly unqualified” “Trump puppet” “Is this a joke?” Tough first day reaction at Capitol to the nomination of Trump-loyalist Bill Pulte to be Director of National Intelligence youtu.be/7evLElV51Go?...

BREAKING: Blanche says the tax immunity for Trump and his family is STILL IN EFFECT. "I can't answer it yes or no. The ONLY document we're not moving forward with is the fund."

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Blanche on Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund: "We are not moving forward with the fund." Rep. Meng: "We hope to see this in writing." Blanche: "I think there'll be a transcript of what I say here. So that will be in writing."

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Ken Paxton could be in big trouble, seems like a lot of Texans have had enough!!!

L - GOP Rep and MI senate candidate Mike Rogers actual photo from the campaign trail. R - Photo put out by staffer.

Sen. Booker: "Even our own State Department personnel that I've talked to are saying we're less prepared for a global outbreak than we were before." Rubio: "I don't agree with that assessment. I don't know who told you that at the State Department."

Sen. Booker: "Our adversary and our enemy, who's causing havoc in the region, who is funding proxies and terrorists, has discovered, thanks to you all, the power of shutting down the Strait of Hormuz." Rubio: "No, they didn't. They knew that a long time ago."

Sen. Duckworth: "That's an astonishing figure worth repeating. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much, if not more, money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

Van Hollen to Rubio: "Let's face it, Mr Secretary, the Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire"

This is really well done by @vanhollen.senate.gov. A litany of Trump’s foreign policy disasters and documentation of Rubio’s hypocrisy. You all ought to take a few minutes and have a listen.👇

"People sometimes ask me why I’m so hung up on Bari Weiss and the answer is that it’s because her project is essentially the same as Donald Trump’s project." Scott Pelley gets it, too. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social (link in bio):

Van Hollen to Marco Rubio: "This is your first public hearing since President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched an illegal war against Iran. Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this...he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him."

Sen. Schatz: "It's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening."

Whether or not the "weaponization" slush fund is dead, every word of this remains true and worth reading:

Republicans are attacking James Talarico bc they can’t find any crimes, affairs, indictments, impeachments, whistleblower complaints from his own aides, humiliated wives, preferential treatment for child rapists, or coup attempts to pin on him. johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/the-texas-...

"The most underappreciated aspect of the Trump era is the extent to which Trump demonstrated the inadequacy of law as a mechanism for protecting the government from unscrupulous presidents." We published this *before* Trump began his second term.

ICE employee Alexander Back arrested after trying to pay for sex with a child. According to police, his response was: “I’m ICE, boys.” The agency that increasingly seems to attract people who believe a badge, puts them above the law. FIGHT ICE. PAXIS IS YOUR AMMUNITION: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

Whut? Is he taking DAILY cognitive tests now?

After spending a year mocking AI safety concerns and calling them anti-American, the Trump Administration has finally conceded that guardrails are needed. This EO is nowhere near California’s approach, but at least Trump is starting to acknowledge that AI shouldn’t regulate itself!

"Can the president create a humiliation so large his congressional allies can’t swallow it? Remarkably, in this case, the answer now appears to be 'yes.'"

The new Director of National Intelligence is... William J. Pulte? @eggerdc.bsky.social and @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social discuss how this new replacement for Tulsi Gabbard is severely under qualified and is mostly put in place to try and find a way to subvert the midterm elections.

Sen. Murphy to Markwayne Mullin: "You've spent the first two months of your tenure threatening to suspend international arrivals in states represented by Democrats. Not only would that throw our entire air travel system into chaos. It's completely illegal."

Sen. Murphy: "On 96 occasions, DHS was caught violating the law, was ordered to obey the law, and 96 times ignored the judge in one state. That is stunning, and it should be unacceptable to anyone on this committee who claims to care about the rule of law."

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" is what you call it when someone has to LIE about #DonaldTheDictatorWannabe actions and pretending all the norms he's breaking is all cool. PLUS the GOLDEN STATUE really says it all don't you think?! #CULT www.samsung-news.com/articles/FSq...

Now this is a concert. 🎵

Judge Emmet Sullivan sets June 30 hearing in Katie Phang lawsuit against the Justice Dept, in which Phang is seeking a court order to require the release of more of the Epstein files

A pivotal showdown is unfolding inside “60 Minutes” Pivotal for the future of broadcasting and legacy media JUST FILED ====> youtu.be/7BvUDk-fbbg?...

Pulte has no national intelligence expertise. None. Loyalty, not competence. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

I was a Republican with strong union support — and I'm proud of it. The working class built this country. They deserve a fair share of it. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"It would be fitting if Freedom 250 turned into a cursed festival....But I hope what we get instead is pure, uncut MAGA. On the biggest stage. For all the world to see."

NEW: House Oversight Cmte ranking member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) asks panel chair to call Todd Blanche for transcribed interview re: Epstein Files mess Garcia: Pam Bondi "invoked Blanche’s name more than 30 times, pointing to him as the person responsible for DOJ’s actions"

We can do better than merely hope for a brighter future. We can refuse to allow Trump’s desecration of our 250th to be our desecration. How? Celebrate the Fourth of July as usual. Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4eg8S0K

IF Biden had weaponized the Justice Dept. the way Trumpet has, his cases would've been thrown out, dismissed, etc. the way Dumpty's are. Biden's Justice Dept. had many GUILTY VERDICTS BY A JURY OF PEERS. There was no weaponizing when there were ACTUAL CRIMES TO BE ADJUDICATED! Period. Full-stop. 🖐🏻

"Scott Pelley stood up and went toe-to-toe with the new guy to call out Bari Weiss and the Ellisons, and what the corporate overlords are doing in order to try to murder '60 Minutes.'" @jvl.bsky.social and @willsommer.bsky.social discuss the corporate war inside CBS.

This war is going so badly Trump is leaking this to put distance btw himself and Netanyahu.

"I just don't think Trump is gonna fight tooth and nail for this one at the end of the day... he doesn't care about these people the same way that he cares about himself." "I don't think it's dead." @eggerdc.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social on the court order pausing Trump's slush fund.

"Supposedly this is all for the sake of the patients, given that it will be easier to get American patients infected in Africa to Kenya or Europe than all the way back to the United States." Ebola experts aren't so sure.

“What I think about it: I think that good, positive thinking Southerners are going to continue this thrust toward a more perfect union, irrespective of those people up in Washington" - Jim Clyburn