Like all his Communist- and-fascist friends and role models (like Kim Jong-Un, President Xi, Mohammed bin Salman and Vladimir Putin), President Trump tries to control the news and repress the press. His response to bad news about his catastrophic wars, tariffs, debt and corruption is to expel media from the White House.
Everyone who wants to preserve constitutional democracy must denounce the assault on MS NOW, CNN and Politico. The free press is not the enemy of the people, but the people's best friend.
The 76 year old Ohio Democrat has been pepper sprayed for protesting the killing of George Floyd and arrested at a voting rights demonstration on Capitol Hill. She chaired the Congressional Black Caucus and helped secure Juneteenth as a federal holiday. But Rep Joyce Beatty is now best known as the unlikely leader of the opposition to Trump’s push to rebrand the Kennedy Center in his own honor.
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Abdul El-Sayed: “We don’t live in capitalism. We live in corporate socialism. If you’re a corporation, you can buy a politician to get that politician to rig the system for you so you make more money and you ex out every other market in which you compete. You need good healthcare. You need a good education. We need childcare. We need good roads and bridges. We don’t need to send our money to big corporations to subsidize them, we need to be invested in people so they have the human capital to be able to do all the things as they graduate and come out”
#BREAKING: Hayes: TX Governor Greg Abbott is running for his fourth term. He has won by double digits every time he’s been on the ballot. He has NEVER even pulled behind a Democrat in an election year. A new poll has Democrat Gina Hinojosa LEADING Abbott by four points. 😳
This is wild.
Ken Paxton has been in office in Texas since 2003, and he’s trying to blame Talarico for China owning 162,000 acres in Texas?
The ease with which they lie is pretty insane.
People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
When Donald Trump tried to throw out our votes after the 2020 election, I met him and his allies in court 43 times to protect your right to vote. He went 0-43 — I went 43-0.
Six years later, Donald Trump is still trying to undermine our democracy – and we're still beating him and protecting our free, fair, safe, and secure elections.
Jon Ossoff:
“I want the president’s remaining supporters to hear this because it was all a lie. They made you pay more for everything and took us to war on lies and spent most of last year trying to cover up for the world’s most famous pedophile while the crook president and his crook family raked in billions.”
TWEEPS: Every time trump touches the levers of government, somebody in his orbit gets richer. Loyalist pardons, backroom deals, conflicts of interest stacked a mile high.
This is corruption, plain and simple. #StopTrumpCorruption
After nearly two years of economic failure and broken promises, JD Vance’s midterm pitch these closing weeks is “give us another chance.”
The American people cannot afford another round of this - and the good news is we don’t have to.
Taxpayer $ flowing to private golf club contractors. Foreign dignitaries funneling millions into Trump-branded properties. Secret Service billed astronomical rates at his own resorts. Trump views US Treasury as his personal ATM. In 46 days we can end that. #StopTrumpCorruption
In America, we have no kings, no dictators, no despots, no nobles, no slaves, no serfs, no subjects. Just "We the People."
We are not one race, one ethnicity, one religion or one party. But we have one Constitution and one Bill of Rights.
Happy Constitution Day, everybody!