Taylor Dudney

Husband • Father • VFL • Tech Nerd • Sr UX/UI Designer at GE Appliances

[Sean O’Meowlly🍭 @NeedMyNutsLickt]

I’m a now deleted post by Daniel Cormier, Eric Trump DM’d him and asked him “are any of the fights tomorrow rigged?” 👀
#UFCWhiteHouse

[Taylor Dudney @tdudz]

What a joke of a country. This is the level of corruption we’ve seen in places like Russia and Belarus but it’s truly insane to see it here.

[Axios @axios]

DOJ settlement prevents future tax investigations of Trump and his family https://t.co/clQvlti61k

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NEWS: Pam Bondi will NOT appear before the House Oversight Committee in its Epstein probe.

DOJ says Bondi was subpoenaed in her capacity as attorney general and, since she's no longer AG, she will not appear.

Democrats wanted Bondi to testify regardless of her status as AG.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: For 50 years, the religious right convinced our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage—two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible.

Jesus tells us exactly how we're going to be judged: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, and by welcoming the stranger.

Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I’ll tell you what you believe. Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.

There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔

Nothing to see here, folks!

We are being looted so hard by these crooks

(H/T @TheMaineWonk)

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The DOJ is once again purposefully muddying the waters on who was a predator and who was mentioned in an email.

To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, in the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child pornography, with no clarification of how either was mentioned in the files is absurd.

Release the full files. Stop protecting predators. Redact only the survivor's names.

[Quiver Quantitative @QuiverQuant]

JUST IN: Thomas Massie vs. Pam Bondi on Epstein

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general

[Taylor Dudney @tdudz]

We are getting dumber by the day.
https://t.co/8Q5dQx6nuY

[Tad Carpenter @TadCarpenter]

Good vibes, even better message

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

Notable exchange between Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.) and Bessent on how exactly Treasury is holding Venezuelan assets “in custody” post Maduro capture. It’s the most detailed exchange on these mechanics I’ve seen.

[Taylor Dudney @tdudz]

This should end multiple careers but its just another day in the Trump Administration. The Republican Party is dead and all we have is #TrumpBrainRot

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter https://t.co/fckdxgOCug

[Taylor Dudney @tdudz]

https://t.co/sJoFQN97I0

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

An insane encapsulation: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Important statement from Chief O'Hara on the man fatally shot by immigration agents: "We believe he is a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry."

And said no interactions with law enforcement besides traffic tickets.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I typically don't like to be alarmist but any student of history would tell you: all the lights are blinking scarlet red.

I mean:
- Massive military expansion: check (see below)
- Annexation threats: check
- Demonstrated willingness to use force unilaterally: check
- New imperial doctrine proclaimed: check
- Withdrawal from international organizations and international treaties: check

At this stage we're not even watching warning signs anymore. We're watching the thing itself, in motion.

The only way the world stops this train is to put differences aside and form a balancing coalition. Otherwise the dominos will keep falling one after the other.

Hope of self-restraint of a rogue great power isn't historically a very successful strategy. Self-restraint requires either institutions (now being exited) or norms (now being shredded). The only thing that can bring it back is fear of consequences.