Bruce Sanders

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

We are witnessing an American president plunder and pillage our country, yet because the Roberts Supreme Court has ruled that he is above the law — Trump has ZERO fear of ever going to prison for the crimes he is committing in broad daylight.

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Police crashed into a man’s van twice on purpose, fired 27 shots at him, and while the vehicle lay on its side, burning, at least eight cops watched as 34-year old Navy veteran John Andrew Jenuwine bled out and died inside. It turned out police chased the wrong man.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Putin is losing to Ukraine as Moscow burns.

Trump was outmaneuvered by Iran and surrenders.

Netanyahu is politically abandoned and friendless.

Turns out bullying the world isn’t much of a long-term strategy. What a spectacular fucking collapse for these three losers.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Michelle Obama to Barack Obama: You were doing the people's work. Rescuing our economy. Expanding healthcare. Ending a war. Ordering the Bin Laden raid. Saving the auto industry. Winning a peace prize. Keeping us safe from Ebola. Regulating the banks. Standing up for marriage equality. Listening to science. And comforting an entire nation. And you did it all with such grace, and class, and cool.

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: The words we didn't hear from these remarks today, sucker, loser, piggy, stupid fake news, idiot. President Obama, first lady Obama didn't invoke the name calling that has gotten in a cancerous way into our political bloodstream

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: “…what we were hearing last night…was that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative…one of its offices in Cleveland was targeted and raided by FBI agents yesterday. In addition to that, what we learned was that a series of FBI agents were fanning out across the state…to interview people and approach them at their homes, who had worked as volunteers registering voters, or as canvassers for the collaborative, and those interviews, if you can call them that, were conducted often WITHOUT warrants…So FBI agents were essentially just going into people’s homes and saying we’d like to ask you a few questions, which is NOT how the FBI normally investigates these kinds of matters…their great concern is that this is part of a larger Trump administration effort to basically target swing states and to target pro democracy organizations who might register Democratic voters, or help them register to vote, and question and sow distrust in those swing states in the integrity of the elections.” 😳

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Prominent Rep. Jamie Raskin exposes a horrifying reality.

He confirms Donald Trump mass pardoned 97 violent criminals, including a man who went on to sexually assault two children.

The administration is actively protecting the most depraved predators!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “Susan Collins votes for the rights of rapists over the rights of rape victims. Stop with the purity tests and all this bullshit. It’s nauseating, nobody likes it. We need to be completely locked in, dark woke, in the gutter, fuck these people”

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Some Palantir lobbyist just got a bonus.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It's a cult that denies reality.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump can’t accept that the people of California would reject him over and over and over again, Marc Elias says.

That’s why he and the GOP want an excuse to ignore the results of elections where Democrats win.

“We must not let them succeed.” https://t.co/w4yl5AILft

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

I recommend reading the New York Times piece “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files,” by Haberman and Swan. Briefly, it documents how the Epstein files triggered an internal crisis in the Trump White House: Vance calling it a “huge problem,” senior aides holding repeated Situation Room meetings (often without Trump) over a political scandal, officials pushing transparency moves like unsealing grand jury records that they privately knew would produce nothing new, discussions about deploying the imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell to publicly defend Trump, and internal warfare between Bondi, the FBI and others over messaging. Throughout, the dominant fear was losing the MAGA base, not anything Democrats might do. 

And here is what struck me reading it. Across all those Situation Room meetings, in a room normally reserved for wars and terrorist attacks, not one item on the agenda was the victims. Not one discussion about fulfilling legal obligations to disclose, not one about identifying who committed crimes, not one attempt to document what actually happened to the girls at the center of the case. The “transparency” strategies were chosen precisely because they would reveal nothing. The one Epstein insider they considered putting in front of a camera was a convicted trafficker, and her job would have been to defend the president.

An entire administration mobilized its crisis machinery around a child sex trafficking scandal, and the only victim anyone in the building was trying to save was themselves.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Maine Voters re Platner: “For all his faults, I mean we all have faults, he’s at least talking about the issues that matter, healthcare, decent jobs, that kind of thing.”

“He’s the most progressive candidate and while I agree that there are some issues that have been coming up…I do think that anywhere leaning more progressive as we possibly can right now, is the direction we need to go.” 😳

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.

Alzheimers.

One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.

He's not interested.

He's a nasty piece of work.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins put Brett Kavanaugh on the court and he demolished abortion rights in America.

And she has never regretted it for a second.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Beyond parody.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Serial transphobe Nancy Mace lost her GOP primary for South Carolina governor. This will give her more time to spend in public restrooms, to peak beneath stall doors, so she can verify everyone’s gender.

What’s the female equivalent for peeping Tom?

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

🚨 Cop Punches Driver 6 Times in The Face

A Long Island motorist is suing the Suffolk Police Dept. after he was beaten in a traffic stop earlier this year, with his legal team releasing footage of the incident. "This was unnecessary, unreasonable use of force."