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Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

Opinion | I never personally had a Nazi-curious phase. But as a fair minded journalist, it’s my job to pretend this is a normal rite of passage for American men who might later go into politics.

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Attorney General Pam Bondi came before the Judiciary Committee today. But she refused to answer a raft of important questions. On Tom Homan's bribe. On Donald Trump's new luxury plane. On January 6th pardons. On illegal strikes in the Caribbean. On Epstein. The stonewalling was staggering.

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

"There's artificial intelligence, and then there's actual intelligence."

Hillary Clinton referred to SOME Trump supporters as”deplorable,” and the political media had a meltdown. Trump refers to all Democrats as anti-American radical communists and “the enemy within,” and it’s no big deal. His reckless and dangerous demonization has been fully normalized.

Yes, @joshtpm.bsky.social gets at the heart of the constitutional crisis / crisis of democracy — the abject corruption & unchecked power of SCOTUS. And, yes, reforming the court to check its abuses must be the core premise and promise of opposition politics: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-c...

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Pay very close attention. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epstein’s close friend, he’s calling it a “hoax.” Miss me with that bullshit.

That Trump and Trumpism are fascist doesn’t explain the sheer vandalism of unleashing mass murdering mayhem via RFK to replace medical/scientific institutions of immense value and prestige with medieval peasant superstitions. That is a criminal madness facilitated by but above and beyond fascism.

This is not (merely) the ranting of a fevered extremist. This is the man who has the ear of the President of the United States. And we are seeing the consequences rolled out on a daily basis. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

someone please print this out for Schumer & Jeffries

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.  That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

Literally everyone is responding to this with such naivete. It's not the pee tape (and never was). It's not Epstein. Putin has used Trump to destroy every aspect of the United States that he loathed: rule of law, free market, human rights.

Defying Trump: Lessons From 1933 Germany (Part One) open.substack.com/pub/gregolea...

It drives Jonathan Turley crazy when I remind everyone that he is just Mike Lindell with tenure. So, please make sure not to amplify this message.👇 Jonathan Turley is just Mike Lindell with tenure.

New Column: It's not enough to chronicle the demise of democracy. At some point, the free press must take an affirmative stand against it. Otherwise, eventually, there will be no free press in any meaningful sense. newrepublic.com/article/1987... via @newrepublic.com

Every sinew stretched to keep the team in this tournament. Agility. Athleticism. Sacrifice. The Germans have a phrase for it. Oh yeah, it’s ANN KATRIN BERGER 🤯

Democrats passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and white people rewarded them by never voting in the majority for them again. So all your takes in 2025 don't hold water.

The irony is that I was actually VERY skeptical about the files or the existence of a client list. After reading this, I'm not skeptical at all.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Our last secretary of defense didn’t inform the White House that he was going to the doctor and republicans had hearings about it. www.cnn.com/2025/07/08/p...

The thing to understand is that district court judges have to follow the law and Supreme Court Justices get to just make up the law.

For 50 years GOP has relied on 3 big scams: *deficits pose civilizational threat (when Dem is in WH) *tax cuts for rich pay for themselves *safety net cuts needed to purge welfare cheats w/this bill, Trump's "working class GOP" is supercharging all three New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1976...

He knows it doesn't matter what's in the bill because they can just lie and say it does what they say it does and tens of millions will believe it. We know it didn't matter that Biden did many things FOR the people. Now the question is whether it w/matter that the GOP is doing many things TO them.

Echoes www.loc.gov/item/2021771...

In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer. I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.

Juneteenth calls us to understand the realities of our past, celebrate the resilience and achievements of Black Americans, and align the course of our country toward its founding creed of liberty and justice for all. Wishing everyone a meaningful Juneteenth!

The whole idea of Trump as antiwar rests on a confused reading of his hatred of multilateralism, the international order and the Deep State. He doesn't hate those things for good "dovish" reasons. He hates them for degenerate, corrupt reasons. Here's a corrective. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/1969...

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III, and I count at least 15 of them that Donald Trump has also committed in whole or in part. Particularly notable right now: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Happy ANTIFA Day to those who celebrate.

References on Fox News live programming, Thursday, June 5. "debt": 16 "deficit": 12 "Medicaid": 20 "Biden": 206

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

Just stunning at how quickly Greece has transformed it's energy mix. In a decade, coal has been pretty much driven out from 50% to 6% More to come as solar expands 👍 #energysky

Some say that Trump has changed the norms of American politics forever. But the truth is, when Democrats return to power, the press will go back to freaking out about the debt and Senate parliamentarian.

We must stop this

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A lot of people know about the Germans in the space program, but the more relevant engineer might be Qian Xuesen, the MIT/CalTech aerospace professor who co-founded JPL and was sent to recruit the Germans. We deported him the 1950s. He became the leader of China’s missile program.