Napoleon: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self‑appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

i wonder where she is

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Credit: David Horsey, 2 time Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist. Originally published in The Seattle Times.

There has never been a clearer example of the fact that we do not have a legislature in the United States right now. Trump tells them to vote no, so they all vote no. Then Trump changes his mind and they all change their votes. That is autocracy. Vote them out!

As energy bills soar, past due balances to utility companies jumped nearly 10% from last year. Instead of working to bring down prices like he promised, Trump is instead boosting power-hungry AI data centers that enrich his Big Tech billionaire allies.

Trump "encouraging" Congress to pass the discharge petition is all theater. Trump doesn't need Congress to release the Epstein Files. DOJ reports to HIM. And Pam will do as he commanded—not release the files, or at least any that are embarrassing to him.

Today Donald Trump saved us from some of the tariffs he put in place, in order to bring down the price of groceries he said never went up.

Well, yeah, you could look at it that way.

This comes hours, weeks and months after multiple business deals were announced between the Saudi global wealth fund and Trump Org worth several billion dollars. The Saudis are one of the Trump family’s biggest business partners.

Yep. He'll sign it, and tell the DOJ not to release the files because there's an open and ongoing investigation. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

You can’t be a public servant if you don’t serve the public. Today at POTS Bronx, we saw how New Yorkers show up for each other. It’s time that city government shows up for them too.

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

Mike Johnson is not the Johnson who spent July 4 in Moscow, that was Senator Ron Johnson. If you're having trouble keeping your Johnsons straight Lauren Boebert will be happy to lend a hand.

Checkmate, Mr. President

Or as Government by organized religion.

Gore v Bush taught Republicans to steal entire elections by acquiring the Supreme Court.

All skin folk are not kin folk

Pro tip: Never participate in your own dehumanization.

National media: “YES, give us every detail from DNC/Hillary emails hacked by opponents trying to destroy her—we will file daily stories!” Also: “Hacked emails about Trump and little girls? Nah…he’s too good for business, let’s move along, shall we?” Conservatives: “The media is biased against us.”

New term to me: “National conservatism” sounds like national socialism (Nazism) but insists it’s not.

"What did Trump think Epstein was 'stealing' these girls for? Epstein did not own a resort hotel. The answer is that he was recruiting them for his sex trafficking operation. The idea that Trump would have had any uncertainty on that point is absurd." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

NEW: OMG. Halligan shit the bed in her grand jury presentation in the Comey case. She violated the constitution 9 ways to Sunday. Adam Klasfeld and I will discuss LIVE on substack in about 25 minutes. Muellershewrote.com

Remember 2021, when MTG tried to start an America First caucus, dedicated to “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and had it rejected by her own party as racist and nativist?

It is a little-known fact that Theodore Roosevelt ran on the Republican ticket to be Mayor of New York City in 1886, and came in third to Henry George, the land reformer and popular political economist who ran as a 3rd party labor candidate, and Abram Hewitt, the Democratic candidate, who won.

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My Pope Leo’s guilty pleasure films: Eight Men Out (White Sox) Blues Brothers (Chicago) Lincoln (Illinois) Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Midwest) Men with Guns (Latin America)

I am so here for this 🤣🤣🤣 The evil cabal is a crumbling 😂😂😂

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Trump on Putin in 2016: “If he says great things about me, I’m going to say great things about him." I'm detecting a pattern. www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...

Same calories per person fed. Feeds more people. Better food. Better price. Yep. It’s a better deal.

Inequity breeds iniquity. Filthy rich guys like Trump and Musk believe that rest of US and even the Earth isn’t good enough for them.

“Immigrants from South America are bringing their cattle with them as they come here and they are infected with diseases.”

To be clear: Trump is only calling for the GOP to release the Epstein files because he was told he’s about to lose 150+ republicans on this vote.

Look who just realized the vote is easily going to carry and is suddenly changing his position to pretend he always supported the vote...

I was told we would be greeted as liberators

If the parties were reversed here, we’d currently be blanketed with ads and speeches detailing all the crimes that were later committed by people who assaulted police but were pardoned by the president. Think Willie Horton, but true, and a much larger scale and, uh, not racist?

Interesting. I don't know any details or who is behind this, but someone has built a music app on top of ATprotocol/Bluesky. www.lyrc.app Currently in beta and only iOS so I can't check it out yet, but love to see all the building...

I knew they blamed immigrants for everything, but I didn’t think they would blame immigrant cows for hamburger prices.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors released a new video urging Congress to vote to release the Epstein files

Remember: The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

Last month he was a soybean farmer, this month he’s an expert on intercontinental cattle drives.

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?