someone liked The Odyssey
Craig R. BrittainTrump: "We're having the single greatest year we've ever had as a country."
Just listen to Donald Trump. He’s utterly incoherent. He can’t follow the questions, can’t maintain a train of thought. He couldn’t run a lemonade stand at this point.
Aaron RuparTrump just blamed Biden for low weapons stockpiles, said he'll ask Putin if he's helping Iran target US troops but takes his word for it that he isn't, refused to say where the money he's pillaging from VZ is going, threw Bibi under the bus, & capped it off by snapping at a woman reporter Supercut:
tell me more about conservatives and small government. trump administration now demanding that hospitals hand over "personally identifiable medical records of all patients who seek help at their emergency rooms..." www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/h...
"This erratic approach to decision-making is what you’d expect in a personalist dictatorship. But Republicans have implemented the unitary executive theory under the reign of a man bored by policy, who lives in a self-contained narcissistic fugue of grievance and ego wounds." — @nberlat.bsky.social
NEW: DHS' top number-cruncher just left the department -- and blasted the administration's "war on immigrants" on the way out. He's one of the very few DHS officials to step down and speak out publicly against this White House. Me in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...
“Now 75 people have died at the hands of ICE… They’re targeting communities, they’re targeting people of color. It’s fascism. … Anybody who cares about humanity should care about what’s happening.” — @nelaindivisible.bsky.social
I don't know why these two particular episodes (out of so many) stick out in my memory, but: the Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan & Claudine Gay "plagiarism" "scandal." *No* Trump scandal has received the quantity or intensity of mainstream press fury that those two attracted.
but the ballroom
Peter BakerHave been a member of the @whca.bsky.social almost continuously since the 1990s. Our mission is to defend the First Amendment rights of White House correspondents to report on the president without fear or favor. Unfortunately last night did not advance that cause. Time to rethink the dinner.
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
Who could have predicted that Iran would retaliate if the US attacked and the US would then burn through interceptors? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
"DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state, i.e., whether the recipient's location and/or place of performance was in a Blue State or a non-Blue State."
It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):
Another opportunity to play everyone’s favorite game: “What if a Democrat did it!”
tony rommNEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
NEW: After years of searching for any scrap of evidence that suggests the 2020 election was stolen, the Trump White House still hasn’t found it. The @lawfaremedia.org team on everything Trump's election speech did not prove. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ever...
Trump’s DOJ… lied??
Anna BowerFor nearly an hour during the hearing, Judge Arun Subramanian grilled DOJ attorneys over their handling of the subpoenas and accompanying docs. DOJ admitted that it made statements that were “not correct” in its filings to the magistrate judge, but claimed the errors were “inadvertent.”