🚨🇺🇸 Taylor: "The day I decided to resign from that administration, one of my mentors from Capitol Hill, John McCain, died. Flags were at half-staff across the country, and the president was trying to call us in Australia, on the other side of the world, to tell us: Don't issue a statement honoring John McCain. Raise the flags.
I don't care whether you agree or disagree with John McCain. Like Bob Mueller, he served this country in uniform and was a U.S. senator. He deserved to be honored with flags at half-staff.
For the president of the United States to be so petty, so small and petty, as to order us to raise the flags in an act of blatant disrespect tells you everything you need to know about this man and his lack of integrity and character."
The only way the Republicans can win is by cheating! 🤬 What kind of scum party does everything in their power to prevent American citizens from voting, which our right and obligation?
Why is this dishonest, deceitful, SUBVERSIVE South African immigrant asshole allowed to stay in OUR country? When he should be arrested, DENATURALIZED and DEPORTED for interfering in OUR cherished electoral processes.
The fact that the House just declared a recess partly to prevent the new Epstein petition by Massie from being discussed before midterms, should be a bigger story.
The fact that Todd Blanche keeps refusing to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and then we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup that should be a holy shit story, most significant of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should have ended his presidency, and at any other moment of our last 250-years, it would have.
💥💥💥BREAKING💥💥💥
Canada has just announced,
They’re naming one of the Great Lakes after President Obama…
No signs or maps will be changed.
It’s called Lake Superior.
I manage a local daycare with a firm rule: pick-up is 6:00 PM, and late arrivals pay $2 a minute. One night at 6:45 PM, a young mother rushed in wearing hospital scrubs, looking completely worn out. Her fine came out to $90. Clutching her toddler, she apologized through tears and explained that severe understaffing forced her to stay for shift change. She accepted the fee, but begged me not to drop her child from the program.
Seeing how exhausted she was, I opened the billing system and cleared the $90 charge. Then I went to the kitchen, packed up three leftover plates of baked ziti, and handed her the warm food. "According to the system, you got here at 5:59," I said with a wink. "Take this home so you don't have to cook tonight." Rules keep things in order, but empathy keeps us human.
Trump and DOGE fired 3,000 people at CDC, 3,500 at FDA and 11,000 food safety inspectors and now we have over 160 food recalls with 24,000 sick, 740 hospitalized and several dead. Trump and Republicans #CostOfCorruption is killing us. Vote these fools out in November. LFG‼️🗳️🗳️
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting after a Missouri police officer who STARVED his own K9 partner to de*th and abused a another K-9...
...received just 15 DAYS in jail for doing so
The dog, Apollo, lost nearly 40% of his body weight, his ribs and spine were poking through his skin, and he passed away from "terminal starvation and dehydration" in a kennel in the officer's backyard.
His punishment? FIFTEEN DAYS in jail.
His name is Derrick Durall. He was the K9 handler for the Dexter Police Department in Missouri.
His partner was Apollo, a Belgian Malinois the department bought in April 2023.
In September 2023, a veterinarian examined Apollo. Her words, in the court record: a "perfectly healthy police dog." 67 pounds. Body condition: "perfect."
Five months later, on February 18, 2024, Apollo was found de*d in his kennel outside Durall's house.
He weighed 41 pounds.
Twenty-five pounds, GONE. His muscles wasted away. His eyes sunken into his skull. The state trooper's photos show his ribs and vertebrae protruding through his skin.
The necropsy: "terminal starvation and dehydration."
The police department PROVIDED the dog food, for free. It was sitting right there.
He just... didn't feed him.
When investigators asked, Durall claimed he "had not noticed the health decline" of his own partner.
A dog that lost nearly 40% of its body weight, in his own backyard.
It gets worse. There was a SECOND dog.
Retired K9 Knox lived in the kennel next to Apollo.
When they found him, he had severe heartworms, teeth worn down, and he had lost 10 pounds and had not seen a vet in over a YEAR.
Investigators said he smelled so bad the stench wouldn't come off after washing him FIVE times.
Now here's where I need you to pay attention, because this is the accountability part.
Prosecutors charged him with TWO FELONIES for animal abuse, alleging the suffering was "torture, consciously inflicted."
A jury trial was set for this summer.
And then, last week, it all evaporated.
He was allowed to plead guilty to two MISDEMEANORS. T
he felonies vanished and a judge sentenced him to one year in jail... and then SUSPENDED it.
Fifteen days. Two years probation. $8,900 to the city.
That's it.
It gets worse.
Missouri has a law called Max's Law.
If YOU, a regular citizen, knowingly m*rder a police K9, it's a Class D felony with up to SEVEN YEARS in prison.
Attack a police dog and you could do seven years.
Starve one to de*th in your backyard while wearing the badge... fifteen days.
Apollo couldn't open the food bag.
He couldn't turn on a faucet.
He couldn't call a vet.
He was completely dependent on the one man sworn to take care of him.
And that man let him waste away to 41 pounds and starve in the cold.
Pure evil.
Of course this happened in Florida, and of course it was three white thugs that abducted, assaulted, trafficked, and held 163 children hostage, some as young as two months old. 🤬 These disgusting POS’s need to be put down like a rabid animal. https://t.co/TcgwASJ4Dq
🚨 TRUMP ASKED WHY OIL PRICES ARE RISING — THE REPORTER HAD ONE ANSWER. 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Trump: “I don't understand today's oil price spike.”
🇺🇸 Reporter: “You caused it.”
🇺🇸 Trump: “How?”
🇺🇸 Reporter: “You waged a war, Hormuz has been closed for 6 months, and you said you'd finish it in 48 hours.”
🇺🇸 Trump: “Get lost, fake news.”
He asked for an explanation.
The reporter blamed the war, the Hormuz disruption and Trump's own timeline.
Trump's response? “Fake news.” 💀
That reporter came prepared. 😭👏
They just rescued 163 kidnapped kids in underground cages with duct tape over their mouths from a human trafficking ring in Florida and it hasn’t been on the news once because it’s 3 white maga Christian dudes that ran it. Take all the time you need with that one
Every veteran that served in Afghanistan should watch Rachel Maddow tonight.
When a president who never served, and his fascist little advisor who never served, deport the Afghan allies who risked their lives and their families lives to help our soldiers...
and when a Marine Colonel must speak out on their behalf because our government betrayed its promise, every veteran, every American should be incensed.
This administration is a disgrace.