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I will never get used to a president talking about his own country’s biggest cities this way
Aaron RuparTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
Ten years too late. The damage is done. We will not recover from the Trumpian disaster in any of our lifetimes - not even if every Republican loses every election for the next 25 years.
Hungary ousted Orbán and the majority party both - they had an incredible 80% turnout. We need to do the same. In the words of the great Canadian band Rush: “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” We must get people to care enough to vote, in numbers too big to manipulate. 2/2
New polls show Trump losing support among the groups at the heart of his supposed 2024 political realignment, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/IgEG1z6R
Deborah Sandidge "Great chicks in the nest are getting very sleepy after a busy day at the wetlands. The late afternoon sun and sounds of the wetlands eventually lulls them to sleep as the parent stands close. Big yawn for a little baby bird looking like a roar from a little green dinosaur"
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
A win! Prosecutors in Washington are dropping charges against three more defendants who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
Everyone not demanding impeachment, R or D, is blatantly shirking their duty.
Sahil Kapur"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland
Donald Trump in 2024: “Under the Trump administration, the government will pay for all IVF costs.”
FactPostSenate Republicans have unanimously blocked a proposal to expand IVF coverage for military families.
“How can any decent person possibly vote for Todd Blanche as AG?” Decent people won’t vote for him. Republicans will. There’s no such thing as a decent Republican. Todd Blanche is a corrupt, megalomaniacal bastard— and the people who’ll vote to approve him are just as awful.
Here we go. 88 million dumb MFs who stayed home to protest.... Look at what you have done.
“Trump allowed 17 Sinaloa cartel members into the US. In May he commuted the 6x life sentences of the Gangster Disciples, most notorious drug trafficking gang… Now Honduran drug trafficker Hernandez. Is Trump setting up his own drug corridor?” @denisedwheeler.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/deni...
Adam Rifkin 🐼“There has never been a president in American history who has gone out of his way to free more criminals and accommodate more crimes than Donald Trump.” @chrislhayes.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/alli... Trump pardons criminals and he’s blocking local funding for police.
Peter Thiel exchanged 2,000+ emails with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein invested $40 million in Thiel's Valar Ventures funds. They swapped strategies to avoid IRS tracking of hidden wealth. When billionaires teach each other to hide wealth from the IRS, that's not tax planning.
We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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