Nicole LaFond
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Trump Wants to Scrap the Filibuster Because He Doesn’t Care About the Republican Party
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November 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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It might be too much to expect MAGA world to realize that its incessant attacks on its enemies and welcoming embrace of the fringiest of figures might not play well with voters. What, after all, would MAGA be without enemies and fringe figures?
MAGA Suddenly Worried It’s Not Talking About Affordability Enough
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November 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It might be too much to expect MAGA world to realize that its incessant attacks on its enemies and welcoming embrace of the fringiest of figures might not play well with voters. What, after all, would MAGA be without enemies and fringe figures?
The disinfo wave around Mamdani reflects a confusion in both parties about exactly how to explain the 34-year-old insurgent candidate.
Zohran Mamdani Congratulates Cuomo on Trump Endorsement
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November 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The disinfo wave around Mamdani reflects a confusion in both parties about exactly how to explain the 34-year-old insurgent candidate.
It appears that DOJ employees who use language to accurately describe the events that took place on Jan. 6 — but language that does not, of course, line up with Trump’s white-washed narrative on the attack — are being punished.
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Federal Prosecutors Suspended for Not Using MAGA-Approved Verbiage to Describe Jan 6
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October 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It appears that DOJ employees who use language to accurately describe the events that took place on Jan. 6 — but language that does not, of course, line up with Trump’s white-washed narrative on the attack — are being punished.
More in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand here:
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Trump has publicly weaved his visions of deploying the military domestically and training its might on civilians before, but Tuesday’s remarks put that aspiration in starker terms.
Trump Again Promises Greater Retribution Against Dem-Led US Cities on Global Stage
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October 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Trump has publicly weaved his visions of deploying the military domestically and training its might on civilians before, but Tuesday’s remarks put that aspiration in starker terms.
From my colleague, @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand: "The Trump administration has seen its appellate court victory delayed for days, hamstrung in its effort to flood Portland with armed troops, all due to its own baffling legal blunder."
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Trump Admin’s Laziness Is Messing Up Its Effort to Deploy the National Guard to Portland
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October 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
From my colleague, @kateriga.bsky.social in tonight's edition of Where Things Stand: "The Trump administration has seen its appellate court victory delayed for days, hamstrung in its effort to flood Portland with armed troops, all due to its own baffling legal blunder."
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The White House has been courting Indiana GOPers since August in an attempt to force them to redraw district lines for the 2 seats that Indiana Dems hold in the House.
Vance has visited the state twice to make the administration’s case. And, yet, they still don’t have the votes to pass new maps.
Vance has visited the state twice to make the administration’s case. And, yet, they still don’t have the votes to pass new maps.
Trump and Vance Hit Unexpected Snag in Indiana
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October 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
The White House has been courting Indiana GOPers since August in an attempt to force them to redraw district lines for the 2 seats that Indiana Dems hold in the House.
Vance has visited the state twice to make the administration’s case. And, yet, they still don’t have the votes to pass new maps.
Vance has visited the state twice to make the administration’s case. And, yet, they still don’t have the votes to pass new maps.
While it is significant that a few Republicans are at least vocalizing that something about how the Trump administration is handling the shutdown is maybe probably perhaps not legal, it’s unlikely to change anything.
Some GOPers Are Queasy About Trump Lawlessly Moving Money Around During Shutdown
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October 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
While it is significant that a few Republicans are at least vocalizing that something about how the Trump administration is handling the shutdown is maybe probably perhaps not legal, it’s unlikely to change anything.
My colleague @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's Where Things Stand:
"The '3.5 Percent Rule' refers to the idea that no government has survived a challenge against it from a nonviolent mass movement that brought together at least 3.5 percent of the population during a 'peak event.'"
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"The '3.5 Percent Rule' refers to the idea that no government has survived a challenge against it from a nonviolent mass movement that brought together at least 3.5 percent of the population during a 'peak event.'"
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Donald Trump, ‘No Kings,’ and the ‘3.5 Percent Rule’
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October 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
My colleague @hunterw.bsky.social in tonight's Where Things Stand:
"The '3.5 Percent Rule' refers to the idea that no government has survived a challenge against it from a nonviolent mass movement that brought together at least 3.5 percent of the population during a 'peak event.'"
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"The '3.5 Percent Rule' refers to the idea that no government has survived a challenge against it from a nonviolent mass movement that brought together at least 3.5 percent of the population during a 'peak event.'"
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The Trump administration is stepping into legal gray areas, finding ways to move money around to keep the things it wants to keep operating operating — whether that is to score rhetorical points against Democrats or to keep their policy agenda creeping forward.
The Trump Admin’s Very Telling Decisions About Which Government Programs to Fund
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October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The Trump administration is stepping into legal gray areas, finding ways to move money around to keep the things it wants to keep operating operating — whether that is to score rhetorical points against Democrats or to keep their policy agenda creeping forward.
Trump allies have used Kirk's death as a springboard for acting on Trump's longtime vows of retribution against his political foes. Charlie Kirk’s podcast is the forum they’re using to broadcast those schemes.
Charlie Kirk’s Show Is Now the Trump Admin’s Forum for Detailing How It Wants To Target the Left
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October 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Trump allies have used Kirk's death as a springboard for acting on Trump's longtime vows of retribution against his political foes. Charlie Kirk’s podcast is the forum they’re using to broadcast those schemes.
The North Carolina GOP is notorious for ratfuckery:
Trump’s Midcycle Gerrymandering Disease Spreads to North Carolina
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October 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The North Carolina GOP is notorious for ratfuckery:
Republicans have developed a newfound interest in mothers who rely on federal nutrient assistance programs like WIC to feed their children — the types of social safety net services and programs that Democrats champion and that Republicans have been hellbent on gutting for decades.
In Shutdown Spin, Republicans Are Pretending They Care About Mothers on WIC Now
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October 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Republicans have developed a newfound interest in mothers who rely on federal nutrient assistance programs like WIC to feed their children — the types of social safety net services and programs that Democrats champion and that Republicans have been hellbent on gutting for decades.
Republicans are pretending they care about mothers on WIC after including cuts that make the program less accessible to women and children in the "big, beautiful" bs earlier this year.
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White House Uses Shutdown to Carry Out Trump’s Retribution Agenda
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October 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Republicans are pretending they care about mothers on WIC after including cuts that make the program less accessible to women and children in the "big, beautiful" bs earlier this year.
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There are a few Trump II retribution threads converging today in the hours since the government shut down after the fiscal year ended at midnight Wednesday.
No Money for NYC With or Without Zohran!
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October 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
There are a few Trump II retribution threads converging today in the hours since the government shut down after the fiscal year ended at midnight Wednesday.
These remarks nod at a few things we’ve been tracking for some time.
Trump Tells Generals to Prepare for War on Dem-Controlled Cities
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September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
These remarks nod at a few things we’ve been tracking for some time.
Trump has been looking for ways to withhold federal funding from NYC and blue cities since he came back into office. He’s been doing it under the guise of a clampdown on municipalities that have sanctuary protections in place that might interfere with his mass detention and deportation campaign.
Trump Tries to Convince New York That He’ll Do Some Extra Retribution If It Elects Mamdani
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September 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Trump has been looking for ways to withhold federal funding from NYC and blue cities since he came back into office. He’s been doing it under the guise of a clampdown on municipalities that have sanctuary protections in place that might interfere with his mass detention and deportation campaign.
Democrats are using what little power they have in the Senate as a government shutdown nears to hold the Trump administration to account for some of its abuse of power.
White House Tries to Smush Dems’ Backbone With Threats of Mass Firings During Gov’t Shutdown
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September 25, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Democrats are using what little power they have in the Senate as a government shutdown nears to hold the Trump administration to account for some of its abuse of power.
As we saw in the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, the Trump administration is looking to markings on bullets and grasping at any other early information they can grab ahold of to blame some amorphous, leftist, anti-Trump entity for another act of violence.
Trump Admin Immediately Politicizes Killing of Immigrant Detainees in Texas
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September 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
As we saw in the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination earlier this month, the Trump administration is looking to markings on bullets and grasping at any other early information they can grab ahold of to blame some amorphous, leftist, anti-Trump entity for another act of violence.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Mullin accused the ousted official of lying about her conversations with RFK Jr. and even suggested during his questioning time that there was some sort of recording of the conversation that would prove she was misleading congress.
Sen Markwayne Mullin Is Confused 🫥
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September 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
During Wednesday’s hearing, Mullin accused the ousted official of lying about her conversations with RFK Jr. and even suggested during his questioning time that there was some sort of recording of the conversation that would prove she was misleading congress.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today got FBI Director Kash Patel to confirm a key detail about the extent to which the traditional firewall between the Department of Justice and the White House has collapsed.
Dem Senators Prod Patel to Acknowledge FBI is Coordinating With White House on Personnel
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September 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today got FBI Director Kash Patel to confirm a key detail about the extent to which the traditional firewall between the Department of Justice and the White House has collapsed.
In remarks to the media on Sunday, President Trump made it clear he will continue to use the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as grounds to investigate those he sees as his political foes. In fact, he suggested, that work is already underway.
Trump and Vance Use Kirk’s Killing to Announce Ominous Plans to Investigate ‘the Left’
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September 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
In remarks to the media on Sunday, President Trump made it clear he will continue to use the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as grounds to investigate those he sees as his political foes. In fact, he suggested, that work is already underway.
“The Missouri GOP is aiding and abetting the systematic destruction of our democracy by an authoritarian regime led by a geriatric con man who knows the only way he can win is to cheat,” Democratic state Rep. Ashley Aune said of her colleagues' subservience to Trump just before the final vote.
Missouri House Advances Gerrymandered Map for Trump
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September 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
“The Missouri GOP is aiding and abetting the systematic destruction of our democracy by an authoritarian regime led by a geriatric con man who knows the only way he can win is to cheat,” Democratic state Rep. Ashley Aune said of her colleagues' subservience to Trump just before the final vote.
Two weeks ago, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe unveiled the new congressional map — which he called a “Missouri First” map, in MAGA fashion — and called for a special session for the map to be approved.
Missouri Republicans Now Also Poised to Do Trump’s Mid-Cycle Redistricting Dirty Work
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September 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Two weeks ago, Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe unveiled the new congressional map — which he called a “Missouri First” map, in MAGA fashion — and called for a special session for the map to be approved.