Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
As someone who was a classmate of the monstrous Ted Kaczynski in the Harvard Math Department in the Class of 1962, I was gobsmacked to hear President Trump lie that Ted was an MIT student.
If you are worried that Trump will cancel the midterm elections, just do the math:
435 House seats and 35 Senate seats all EXPIRE on 1/3/27, so ordering the 11/3/26 elections not to take place would sentence the HOUSE to DEATH. It would also strip 35 States (including swing States like Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, and North Carolina, and red States like Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming) of their right to EQUAL REPRESENTATION in the Senate.
To avoid ending up in 61 days with a unicameral (and indisputably unconstitutional) 34-31 Democratic Senate and NO House of Representatives, even today’s House would impeach any President purporting to decree that result and even today’s Senate would convict, remove, and permanently disqualify that President.
So the real threat isn’t Trump’s cancelling the midterms: It’s his abusing his military and other powers to ensure that the midterms go his way.
Let’s be clear about what this means.
Elon Musk is sitting on dirt.
The kind that gets leveraged, not tweeted.
The kind you use when you want to remind someone that you could end their career, or worse.
This isn't about restraint.
It’s about leverage.
My thoughts go out to Minnesota, the families, friends, colleagues, and everyone impacted by last night’s horrific and cowardly acts of political violence.
Democracies have a fundamental responsibility to ensure that anyone who chooses to serve politically can do so free from both violence and threats of violence. Without that freedom, democracy cannot long survive.
30% of American jobs do not offer health benefits, and 49% of employed workers can’t afford healthcare without going into debt.
Trump’s cuts to healthcare are trading American lives and prosperity for more tax breaks for billionaires.
Genocide mania has reached the stage where a woman is being vilified 24/7 for weeks on end by the Hasbara Philharmonic Orchestra and its media, solely for demonstrating empathy with Palestinian children.
The mass hysteria required to reach this level of depravity easily equals that of Nazi Germany.
@krassenstein it’s a missile straight into the heart of the establishment.
If Trump is in the Epstein files and that’s why they’re hidden, the American public deserves the truth, not protection for the powerful.
They burned down his house, killed him and his husband’s dog, showed them the dead dogs skulls, called them homophobic slurs, and then shot them. That’s not a fucking argument and NYPost should feel fucking ashamed to have posted this.
A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake, the man's cousin said Friday. https://t.co/UImlznrLel
So, Republicans are about to vote on a budget that takes away healthcare from 10 million people & today we learned a cabinet official doesn’t know what habeas corpus is. Yet the media is talking about Biden’s age incessantly? It’s getting really sick and tiring.
Breaking WSJ:
The newly appointed head of FEMA acknowledged in private meetings that with two weeks to go until hurricane season, the agency doesn't yet have a fully formed disaster-response plan. https://t.co/Lz8XajaoFX
Breaking:
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says she supports the Trump admin suspending habeas corpus.
Habeas corpus refers to people's right to challenge their detention in court.