Bourbon Bitch

Basil Hayden’s and politics, usually together. Legally trained and paper trained. Brilliant at breakfast. Econ/Finance/Law. And tennis.

[Bourbon Bitch @BourbonNow]

@DavidJollyFL @soledadobrien At this point, the Republican Party @GOP is n̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶n̶ ̶ a fringe cult.

[Bourbon Bitch @BourbonNow]

FA, FO

[Knox News @knoxnews]

University of Tennessee to pay $1.9M to professor fired over Charlie Kirk comment https://t.co/56uuKPk89Z

[Fellarina Bavovna @Fellarina4Ua]

@factpostnews How many times does he have to tell the American people; he's just not that into us.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Q: What are your plans for the housing affordability bill?

Trump: I don't know. It's so unimportant

[Bourbon Bitch @BourbonNow]

@mpk62 @jam_croissant Okay, I like Newsom but that was good.

[ProPublica @propublica]

When the Pentagon announced a $620 million loan last year to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr., defense officials and the company tried to tamp down suspicions of cronyism.

We found that the request came directly from the White House.
https://t.co/ejXPkLasNM

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

So this admin lets a private company, that the president owns stock in, use the White House and grounds for a pay-per-view spectacle using troops & staff, rents out ads everywhere, and has it streaming on the company whose monopolistic merger it just approved.
Grift never ending

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Goodable @Goodable]

Breaking News:

For the first time ever, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood has officially launched a YouTube channel.

Full episodes. Classic Clips. 100% wholesome.
💗

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I’m Kid Rock.”
“I’m Naomi Wolf.”
“I’m Kanye West.”
“I’m Matt Taibbi.”
“I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Bridget Hunnicutt @bhunni]

@DylanByers @JCassid69022617 Reminder that Larry Ellison (the new owner Pelley refers to) also helped Musk take over Twitter.

Oligarchs and foreign adversaries invest heavily in polluting and destroying America’s information ecosystems because they know that an informed and united citizenry can stop them.

[Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait]

"Do you have experience in counter-terrorism?"
"Well, not COUNTER terrorism, but--"
"Close enough!"

[Bourbon Bitch @BourbonNow]

@gtconway3d What woman doesn’t enjoy having a breast smashed during a mammogram?

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

It goes beyond anti-diversity. The Trump administration wants to make multiracial democratic America into a White Christian ethnostate, with leadership on that model.

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

FYI: the majority of white women in the military voted for Trump.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Helis Bor @helisbor]

@LeadingReport The evil deeds that Peter Thiel, Trump, Elon Musk, The Heritage Foundation, the Federalist Society, and the Republican Party have done are the main reasons to have concerns about the United States future.

BTW, the Nazis also fled to Argentina.

[Bourbon Bitch @BourbonNow]

F-ck around, F̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶Leave

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Peter Thiel has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina, enrolled his children in school there, and bought property, partly due to Thiel’s concerns about the United States’ future, per NYT.

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

Sensible recommendations from Pope Leo re AI and Pax Silica:

"government regulation of the private companies that are driving the development of A.I.

protection and retraining for workers whose jobs are threatened

education to help students think critically about the technology

action to protect children from violent, hypersexualized or fake information online that is often generated by A.I.

safeguards to ensure that humans, not artificial intelligence, remain responsible for all decisions regarding the use of weapons."

https://t.co/LzUCamV7yK

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Let us establish standards for discernment — the dignity of the human person, the universal destination of goods, the preferential option for the poor, care for our common home and peace — and let us translate these standards into practices such as responsible planning, the assessment of human and social impact, the inclusion of the most vulnerable, the promotion of digital literacy and guiding research and industry toward justice and peace.