Michael Stehle

Just a guy living his best life

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

It’s been quite a row, thank you for making it so special 🚣🏼🇳🇴❤️

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in MARCH: "Goal of the war is to change the regime."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in APRIL: "Goal of the war is to stop 🇮🇷 Iran from making nukes."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in JULY: "Goal of the war is to return everything 'back to the way it was,' including the Strait of Hormuz." 🤣

Americans have elected a bunch of clowns

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It’s not complicated. Trump doesn’t believe in democracy.

He hates democratic Europe and loves the oligarchic dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar.

He wants to stifle dissent in the media and arrest his opponents.

ALL Americans must unify against authoritarianism.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today.

The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

A Supreme Court saying that a president, even if he used the government to murder someone, could not be held accountable for the crime.

Nine out of ten House races drawn so that you know who’s going to win before the first vote is cast in a 50/50 country.

This is not an academic concern. This hurts us. This is why things aren’t working properly. This is how they can make you pay more at the pump for a war you never asked for, how they burned down the Department of Education while we’re worried about kids who can’t do math or read like they’re supposed to.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. And that’s what we’re here to do something about.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Browder: Putin stole too much money. He knows one day a million people march on Red Square — and it won't be an elegant exit, it'll be violent and bloody for him personally.

He can kill Navalny, kill Nemtsov, imprison individuals. But not a million people.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

So Trump yanked Kash away from his weekend date because Trump wanted the FBI to harass the NYT reporters who found out that Trump’s used Qatari jet wasn’t safe enough to fly during a war.

So Kash ran an “investigation” from the White House & subpoenaed them.

We have a Mad King—with a small, googly-eyed jester.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Notice what this administration didn't do. It didn't argue the food insecurity numbers were wrong. It didn't publish a competing methodology. It just canceled the survey and, in its own words, called three decades of USDA data collection "fear mongering."

That's the tell running through every example in this piece. Not correction. Deletion. A pregnancy risk tracker the CDC used to fight infant mortality, made inaccessible through staffing cuts rather than any stated policy change. The CIA World Factbook, gone. Weather balloon launches quietly reduced in the western United States until meteorologists themselves started saying their confidence in the models had eroded.

Jerome Powell called it "driving in the fog" last year, when a government shutdown delayed jobs data the Fed needed to set interest rates for the entire country. That fog isn't an accident of budget cuts anymore. It's becoming the operating condition. When the public can't see the data, the public can't check the claims, and an administration that doesn't want its claims checked has just found the cheapest way to arrange that.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I've beaten Trump and his allies in court so many times I've lost count. But I am still not tired of winning.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in:

California
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
New Hampshire
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Wisconsin

DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The New Mexico Attorney General is claiming that the Justice Department — effectively acting at the behest of Trump — is obstructing the investigation of Epstein's former Zorro ranch.

"Survivors of serious criminal conduct at Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in New Mexico are being denied justice. That harm is a direct consequence of the USDOJ's continued failure to comply with the NMDOJ's outstanding records request." https://t.co/ZEVtUjPpKI

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! James Talarico just packed the Plano Event Center in Collin County—blew the roof off Ken Paxton's own backyard—with 4,000+ people, standing room only, and lines wrapped around the building.

This is the county that launched Paxton's career, the same county where his securities fraud mugshot was taken 15 minutes up the road, and the same county Republicans called "unflippable."

And a Democrat just brought the house down in it.

Talarico looked at that crowd and said what we're all thinking: "They're afraid of this movement. They're afraid of this crowd in Plano, Texas."

Damn right they are.

Paxton's out here calling him "Talafreakco" like a middle school bully while Talarico's selling "I'm a Talafreako" shirts and outraising every Senate campaign in Texas history.

First quarter: $28 million, more than double Beto and Colin Allred combined.

Real men don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't scam their own friends for a quick buck. They don't serve themselves—they serve others. Ken Paxton has escaped accountability for 4,000+ days. But accountability is coming November 3.

Democrats, pay attention. This is what it looks like when you run on corruption, not away from it. This is what it looks like when you fight in their backyard and win the crowd.

The suburbs are shifting. Collin County is shifting. Texas is shifting.

Retrumplican crook politicians don't own you. You own them.

LFG TEXAS!!!

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Hunter Biden has been awarded $1.7 MILLION in a defamation lawsuit against Trump adviser Patrick Byrne, who falsely accused him of seeking an $800 million bribe from Iran in exchange for influencing U.S. policy.

Lies have consequences.

After years of reckless smears, accountability is finally catching up.

Good for Hunter Biden.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP.

DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. https://t.co/35wTb8gBDB

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Trump just dropped the charges against another crypto scammer behind a $722 MILLION Ponzi scheme.

This guy was guilty as fuck, and the case was about to go to trial. But I guess he put enough money in Trump’s pocket to stay out of jail.

Not surprising. Still infuriating.

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

A lawyer has now spoken separately to the 3 men who were w/ Salgado Araujo in the van when he was killed. All 3 contradict ICE's account. All 3 say no ICE vehicle was ever in front of them and that agent just got out of the car and started shooting from the side. No ICE agent was wearing a body cam.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

I’m tired of people acting like someone’s life matters less because they weren’t an American on paper. He spent 35 years here, raised three American children, and built his life in Houston. He was an American in every way that mattered.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Not enough people are talking about this.

The Trump Administration is impeding the only active criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

For the first time since 2022, Ukraine has a coherent theory of victory. Instead of grinding down the Russian army at huge cost, Kyiv now destroys Russia's capacity to wage war.

It targets the revenue, fuel, and the supply lines that feed the front — Christian Caryl, FP. 1/

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Trump ousted all three members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, a bipartisan agency that works with state officials to ensure free and fair elections.

Nice try, Mr. President.

We won't let you sabotage the midterm elections. This is a democracy, not a dictatorship.