RULE ABOUT AMERICAN FLAGS:

If you burn the fabric part, you're looking at jail.

But it you use the pole part to assault a police officer, you get a presidential pardon, praise, and some cash.

Major media seem flummoxed about what to do when Trump shares a fake video of Obama getting arrested. Maybe they think the options are A) take the bait, or B) ignore it. But there's a 3rd option: Gather all the crazy examples and write big, loud stories about how the president is mentally unhinged.

You don’t like politicians with a finger in the wind, always looking at polls to see how to vote? You want a party that cares about substance? Well here you go.

This abomination is the fulfilment of Republican dreams, so they’ll take the political risk.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-they-d...

If only plans to give even more to billionaires ever got the pushback of free school lunches.

Headline juxtaposition doesn't get much more Orwellian than this

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

*Owner's box

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.

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Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Biden's pardon of his son could have a chilling effect on future Republicans' ability to bully the DOJ into prosecuting the children of Democratic politicians.

It took a humiliating military defeat, crushing sanctions, and a historic economic collapse to turn Germany fascist. All it took in the United States was the election of one Black president.