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People in authoritarian regimes don't wake up thinking, "I'm in an autocracy!" Leaders never declare, "Hey, I'm a dictator!" They stage "elections" like Russia's sham votes. Folks just live relatively normally: binge-watching shows, catching movies, chilling with loved ones, scraping by.
But insidiously, free speech erodes. Minorities face persecution. Political opponents are targeted. History gets rewritten. Troops patrol streets. Businesses bow to state pressure. Independent media silenced. Judiciary packed with loyalists. Dissent labeled treason.
Sound familiar?
On Monday I’m introducing the FAIR BET Act, the Fair Accounting for Income Realized from Betting Earnings Taxation Act, to permanently restore the 100% loss deduction from gambling winnings.
I welcome all other members to join this common sense fix.
Republicans hurt Las Vegas gamblers and the gaming industry with their BS budget.
I am working on a bill now that would reverse this unfair anti-gaming tax provision.
Buried within the BS Republican Budget bill is a provision that harms poker players and those who gamble by limiting loss deductions. I’m working on a legislative fix that fairly treats gaming losses in the tax code.
🚨🚨🚨This is exactly how I feel. 🚨🚨🚨
CHARLES PIERCE WRITES:
“In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, "And we shall overcome."
I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over.
I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City.
I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job.
They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators.
Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides.
We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents.
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There is no America as we know it without the stories and ambitions of immigrants.
NEWS: Chief Justice John Roberts has issued an administrative stay pausing the court order requiring Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a man wrongfully sent to an El Salvadoran prison camp, to be returned by midnight tonight.
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: the Republican-majority on the N.C. Court of Appeals rules to overturn the decision of the Wake County Superior Court (and the voters in the state) in a 2-1 decision to disenfranchise more than 65,000 voters from LAST year’s election. ⬇️
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So let’s recap:
-DoJ found “Operation Good Ol USA” of Russia spreading Ukraine disinfo in the US
-Sec of Def Hegseth has a Russian burner phone and email that has received payments from National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
-DNI Gabbard is constantly retweeting Russian state propaganda from RT.
-Gabbard also has a multi-decade long history of supporting Russian causes, meeting with Russian lobbyists and was an FBI person of interest in the DNC email hack.
-Multiple former Trump campaign officials pled guilty to being unregistered foreign agents for Russia.
-Trump, Vance and Rubio ambushed Zelensky in the Oval Office.
-Trump has repeatedly withheld Ukrainian aid and support to coerce Ukraine, while doing nothing to Russia.
-Trump refuses to directly be critical of Russia.
-Musk has been lobbying Russia for access to rare earth minerals.
-Musk shutdown USAID while it was investigating Starlink for misconduct on its Ukraine grant, including shutting off access on Ukrainian troops.
-After months of strength in Kursk, Ukrainian forces suddenly started having positions compromised after connecting to Starlink.
-Trump has discussed easing sanctions on Russia, leaving NATO, and directly vetoing Ukrainian involvement in NATO.
-Trump has repeatedly promoted Russian talking points as the cause of the war.
-Trump has threatened to invade Canada and Greenland, which provide NATO security monitoring of Russia and blockade any Russian shipping through Northern passages.
-Trump has threatened to invade and take control of the Panama Canal which doesn’t allow Russian ships.
At this point, anyone who turns a blind eye from how compromised this administration is, is complicit.
Whether through stupidity, greed, or kompromat, Russia has infiltrated the highest levels of the US government, and Congress must meet its obligations to investigate and hold accountable every last traitor.
I went to the Senate floor to lay out for my colleagues the stunning story of brazen, open corruption during the first 6 weeks of the Trump presidency.
I think it's a story everyone needs to know.
1/ So a🧵with the highlights from the speech.