Libéral, C'est Moi ☯️ ☮️

Fear does not stop death. It stops life. 🔸#TheResistance🔸#Indivisible 🔸#BlueWave

[Libéral, C'est Moi ☯️ ☮️ @abramsgrammy]

"Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."

[Libéral, C'est Moi ☯️ ☮️ @abramsgrammy]

Well said.

[Greg Olear @gregolear]

Yes, Trump has eclipsed Mitch McConnell as the worst American of my lifetime. So have other monsters Donald has empowered: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Stephen Miller, etc.

But without Addison Mitchell McConnell III, there would be no Donald Trump. Remember this: Mitch fed the cancer. He nurtured the tumor. He prevented the oncologists and surgeons from administering treatment. And knowing he possessed the singular cure, he chose to sit on his hands as the terminal disease ate away at our democracy.

That is the sum of his life’s work. That is his ignominious legacy.

For shame.

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[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

WE paid the tariffs but the businesses get the refunds. As long as I live, I’ll never understand why millions of Americans voted to get fucked over by this child-raping piece of shit.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s government committed up to $1.6 billion of your tax dollars to a tungsten mine in Kazakhstan. Then the sons showed up.

Eric and Don Jr. tied to a 20% stake. Lutnick’s sons also cashed in.

The fathers negotiate, the government pays, the children profit. They are not even hiding it.

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

The craziest thing about Vivek Ramaswamy is that he’s trying to win a state where he constantly disrespects its people and way of life.

Moves his business and its jobs from Ohio to Texas.

Calls us lazy and mediocre.

Says we’re not working hard enough and that affordability is a “buzzword.”

Spends our nation’s 250th in Paris and Geneva…not Ohio, but Europe.

Looks down on us from his fancy private plane.

Wants to cut Medicaid and Medicare — core healthcare services millions of Ohioans rely on.

Wants to axe colleges and universities that educate so many Ohioans.

Takes millions from a billionaire who wants to gut schools that anchor communities across Ohio.

Won’t protect our parks and farmland.

Wants to eliminate unions he doesn’t like.

Tried to celebrate with the NY team that beat the Cavs.

Opposes contraception and reproductive freedom even when 57% of Ohioans voted to protect both.

Insults victims as a slogan.

On and on and on.

Why should Ohio like this guy when he doesn’t even like us?

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.

[Libéral, C'est Moi ☯️ ☮️ @abramsgrammy]

Long, but worth the read.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

There is some great language in Judge Williams' opinion in the Trump v. IRS case. Here are some excerpts:

Lead Plaintiff and Defendants are public servants—the pinnacle of the Executive Branch—sworn to uphold the law, faithfully perform the duties of their office, and protect the interests of the American public. The issue before the Court is whether, instead, they ignored ethical norms, court rules, and legal authority to manipulate the judicial process. The issue is whether they did so to gild their efforts to gain unprecedented access to the public fisc with the patina of legitimacy. There is nothing “ordinary” about this case; it is the very definition of sui generis.

. . . . .

In dismissing the non-parties’ claims of collusion, Plaintiffs reveal the true position of the Parties and say the quiet part out loud: “Regardless of whether Plaintiffs had ever filed this action, the Government and Plaintiffs still had the power to resolve all disputes between the parties.” (DE 89 at 15). The power to resolve was never a question before this Court. Whether Executive Branch actors can privately agree to give themselves and their former clients blanket immunities and billions of dollars in tax monies for legally undefined grievances was never an issue advanced to this Court. The question is whether the Parties could do so by claiming to be adverse and engaging the legitimacy of a court proceeding. The answer is a resounding “no”: the Lead Plaintiff and the Government are one, a fully realized unitary interest. Because “Plaintiffs have no answer for the fact that the [L]ead Plaintiff, President Trump, directs and controls the Defendants[,]” this “renders this lawsuit non-adversarial, collusive, and jurisdictionally improper.” See DE 94 at 4.

And because this fact was so obvious and so insurmountable, the Court finds that this matter was brought for an improper purpose—to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a “settlement” that had no viable basis in law or fact. As was observed in another matter brought in this District, “this case is part of Mr. Trump’s pattern of misusing the courts to serve political purposes.” Trump v. Clinton, 653 F. Supp. 3d 1198, 1219 (S.D. Fla. 2023).

. . . . .

Plaintiffs acted in bad faith and for an improper purpose by “collusively filing a lawsuit with claims subject to multiple dispositive defenses solely to provide cover for a collusive settlement.” (DE 94 at 12). The Court agrees. See Trocano v. Vivaldi, No. 25-11813, 2026 WL 446510, at *6–7 (11th Cir. Feb. 17, 2026) (explaining that the “district court may in its discretion impose Rule 11 sanctions against a party or lawyer who pursues a claim that is obviously barred by a waivable affirmative defense like the statute of limitations.”). Accordingly, the Court must now determine what sanctions, if any, are appropriate. See id. (noting that “Rule 11 sanctions are discretionary” and therefore “just because a district court can impose sanctions does not mean that the court is required to do so.”) (citation omitted).

. . . . .

The conduct of the Parties triggers the Court’s inherent authority. As to Plaintiffs, they filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit asserting claims that they knew, or should have known, were time-barred and for an amount of damages unsupported by facts or law.64 Plaintiffs could make no connection between the billions of dollars they sought, and the recovery authorized under the governing statute. See 26 U.S.C. § 7431(c)(1) (providing for damages in the amount of “$1,000 for each act of unauthorized inspection or disclosure.”). Generally, the “central purpose” of a lawsuit must be to “vindicate rights through the judicial process.” In re Kunstler, 914 F.2d 505, 520 (4th Cir. 1990). This lawsuit was not brought to vindicate rights; it was brought to manipulate the judicial process to pursue benefits unavailable in litigation because the Parties were not adverse.

Defendants’ conduct is equally untenable. It is telling that the DOJ, which is tasked with enforcement of United States law, has remained conspicuously absent and silent when serious questions about this matter have been raised. See generally Ponzi v. Fessenden, 258 U.S. 254, 262 (1922) (explaining that the Attorney General is the head of the DOJ and that he, acting through United States Attorneys, “is the hand of the President in taking care that the laws of the United States in protection of the interests of the United States in legal proceedings . . . be faithfully executed.”) (citations omitted). And when representatives did choose to expound on the Department’s conduct, they offered misleading explanations of the facts and the law.65 In abdicating its responsibility to zealously defend the interests of the United States, the Government entered into a “settlement” that deviated from its litigation posture in similar actions, disregarded DOJ policies, and accomplished objectives beyond those authorized, as well as those specifically prohibited, by law. Under these circumstances, the Court may reasonably infer that the Government failed to defend this lawsuit or to respond to the Court’s jurisdictional inquiry because its position would not withstand judicial scrutiny and because resolution of the threshold issues identified by the Court would not have favored its preferred outcome to this case.

. . . . .

The Parties used the existence of federal litigation as a means of conferring legitimacy upon a course of action that they were unwilling to subject to judicial review. The context of the “settlement,” the relationships of the people involved in negotiating and approving it, the ethical implications of their conduct, and the Parties’ swift efforts to dismiss this case after the Court raised fundamental jurisdictional questions all support this conclusion. Accordingly, the Court expressly finds that Plaintiffs acted in bad faith.

. . . . .

Finally, the Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to mail a copy of this Order to the State Bar of New York, of which Acting Attorney General Blanche is a member (No. 4192456), AND to the District of Columbia Bar, of which Associate Attorney General Woodward is a member (No. 997320), where disciplinary proceedings are currently ongoing.

. . . . .

This action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute. The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law. The President may be the functional “dominus litus” of the Executive Branch, but as a party to a civil suit, he, as well as all the parties and lawyers before a court, are bound by the rules. Ensuring that our courts are used only for the express purpose created by the Constitution is the obligation of every judge and an obligation that this Court must discharge in light of the matter before it.

In sum, the facts before this Court demonstrate there was never adverseness between the Parties; there was never a case or controversy; and there was never a question as to who would prevail.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: So let me ask you a version of the question that I asked everybody when I was running around this state eight years ago, when nobody could say my name right, which is: What’s it going to be like the first time the sun comes up over this country and the current president has permanently left the political scene?

It’s an appealing thing to remember that that day will come, but it also represents a huge challenge. Because what do we do then? Then what?

The answer to that is what we’ve got to hold in our minds right now to campaign and to win—and, most importantly, to govern. Because we need to immediately get to work to build something better.

Like a political system where everyone’s vote counts the same, and the person who gets the most votes wins the election. It looks like a Supreme Court that is legitimate and trustworthy in the eyes of the American people. It looks like a Congress composed of representatives who actually represent the people they serve, capable of standing up to abuses from other parts of the government. And it means state and federal governments capable of standing up for people’s rights.

The right to live your life as you see fit, so long as you’re not hurting anyone else. The right to carry a sign or write an op-ed or criticize your government. The right to make your own health care decisions. The right to be who you are and love who you love and raise your family in peace.

That’s what it looks like. And it’s not too much to ask. And it’s not too much to ask for public integrity.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I see the "Fuck Your Feelings" crowd is out policing civility this morning.

Remember when Lindsay blasted Trump for mocking Robert Mueller's death? Or Colin Powell's? Or John McCain's?

Odd...me either.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Isn't it funny how the mainstream media suddenly loses interest when the truth destroys one of its favorite anti-Biden narratives.

Yes, you read that right: @HunterBiden won a defamation case over bullshit claims that he was corrupt.

And remember the FBI informant who claimed Joe and Hunter Biden took bribes from Burisma? He pleaded guilty to lying. But you probably didn't know that because it only made it to the back page headlines at the time.

The press gave the accusations endless headlines and wall-to-wall coverage. But when the stories collapse, the accusers are exposed, and the Bidens are vindicated?
Crickets.

Because the lie was profitable. The truth was inconvenient.

The lie gets the headline. The Bidens get smeared. The truth gets buried.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF CONGRESS HELD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE FOR TRYING TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT 6 YEARS AGO 🙄

[𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐦 @Malcolm_Pal9]

This statement from Liam Cunningham depicts the real conditions in Gaza.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Nothing justifies killing ~22,000 children in Gaza. Nothing justifies burning children alive while they sleep in tents in refugee camps. Nothing justifies starving nearly a million children. Nothing. Not self defense. Not human shields. Nothing.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

He has Nazi tattoos and sexually assaulted some women but you can't tell if I'm talking about Graham Platner or Pete Hegseth

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

The most disturbing thing about the Platner situation is that Donald Trump is a rapist.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) donated all profits from ticket sales and additional pledges for their World Cup qualifying match against Israel to Doctors Without Borders for relief work in Gaza.
The match was played in Oslo, and the proceeds were specifically earmarked for the organization's emergency relief work on the ground in Gaza and surrounding areas affected by the war.

[Libéral, C'est Moi ☯️ ☮️ @abramsgrammy]

@mmpadellan “Cheated and Defeated”… Let’s do the same with Trump and the Republican Party in November!

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Normally you'd think, no one would possibly lie about this.

But with Scott Jennings, you'd be foolish to discount the possibility.