I’d rather be traveling, gardening & lunching. But the threat can no longer be avoided. So I have a new job, unwanted, with the lousiest benefits. A whole generation of people got the same dreadful call not so many years ago…
NEWS: A @lawfare report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.
Incredible work from Katherine Pompilio:
https://t.co/AJMPxwb1al
Oh, MAGAs are surprised and angry about self-mythologizing, shirt-rending, taxpayer-compensated grifter and ersatz America Firster Michael Flynn turning out to be a highly paid foreign agent for a Kremlin ally?
My eyes just *rolled out of my fucking head* https://t.co/KBGDO5CFMF
The administration saved pennies with its Doge lunacy and other public health cuts. Now we will lose lives and billions fighting Ebola, measles and screwworm, and consumers will pay more for beef. #SelfInflictedWounds
Trump, Musk and Rubio slashed aid and scoffed that it was woke nonsense. Now they're seeing that it not only saved one life every 10 seconds but also protected us from diseases like Ebola. Their actions constituted a security failure as well as a moral one.
More broadly, their fecklessness contrasts with the courage and humanity of doctors and aid workers in Congo and Uganda, lacking adequate PPE but still risking the virus to care for fellow humans.
Trump, Musk and Rubio might learn something from them. https://t.co/kPKj7fqJFZ
Proud to be the first high school student in the world to ever be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption. It just proves that the work I’ve done to expose Russias sanctions evasion stablecoin, A7A5, has touched a raw nerve.
https://t.co/b0voHBkqG7
Ossoff: "If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent, loyalist nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority."
I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed
Before his big victory in Iowa last night, Paralympian Josh Turek showed CNN’s @jeffzeleny how he campaigned door-to-door by wheelchair to try to win every last vote in the Senate primary.
Richard Gere on Trump: “We’re living in the darkest moment that I’ve experienced on this planet. Whoever thought America could turn like this? Whoever thought that a maniac like this would be president and dismantle all the good things? America’s never been a perfect place, but it has a perfect ideal. First day this guy dismantled almost everything that was good about the US government and people”
⚡️ Budapest has reached an agreement with Kyiv on the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.
This opens the way for Ukraine’s EU accession. Hungary will no longer block it.
The idea that Talarico is politically vulnerable because of supposedly ‘woke’ comments he made about gender six years ago but Paxton isn’t politically vulnerable because of this is insane.
@jimstewartson@KarinChristoph6 It is FITTING. The event will document better than 10 books, the barely literate, radicalized, misogynist, racist, bloodthirsty, tiny-dick mob — to which WE THE PEOPLE handed power. Only Americannots fail to grasp what an idiotic joke we’ve become. Let all who have eyes SEE.
@thejackhopkins@DkBlueNite Sorry to say, DEMOCRATS of NewMexico are responsible for shutting it down. A woman journalist, @alisavaldes / The Pugilist (on Substack) has the timeline & evidence documented. Her reward? She was threatened by D Gov Stansbury, attacked, and is currently fleeing for her life.
@GregTSargent@PatrickDowns@dceiver you should sideline the name tRuMp, he is a non-entity at this point. he exists to ring his personal cash register which he will continue doing until his last breath, unimpeded. please always lead with “GOP” as the perpetrator b/c that is the truth.
GOP has "abandoned the idea of crafting policy. They are a full-time media operation, trolling and creating content. The president is checked out. There is no turnaround coming as long as Trump/GOP are in power."
On the pod, @dceiver nails the moment:
https://t.co/LQao2e90fV
Absolute masterclass on 60 Minutes. Famous actress Sally Field delivers a profound reminder of the First Amendment.
As the Zionists tries to silence dissent, she powerfully defends the absolute right of the people to peacefully protest without fear of any retribution.