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MTG & Trump: at war.
Mamdani & Trump: chummy.
"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius
Mamdani & Trump: chummy.
"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius
November 22, 2025 at 2:12 AM
MTG & Trump: at war.
Mamdani & Trump: chummy.
"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius
Mamdani & Trump: chummy.
"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible, the predictable unpredictable, and the inevitable unlikely." - Laurent Fabius
🚨TRUMP THREATENS MORE SNAP DELAYS:
- He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings.
- NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:
- He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings.
- NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🚨TRUMP THREATENS MORE SNAP DELAYS:
- He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings.
- NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:
- He’s asking “the Court” to instruct how the admin should proceed, in light of the rulings.
- NOT THE JUDGES’ JOBS. Trump is in charge of exec branch, and running agencies. He has the Orders. His job to make it f’n happen. This is wanton cruelty for those in need:
Rand Paul isn’t wrong. 😱 Remember the Clinton-Gingrich budget deal? What’s required for unexpected agreements isn’t the expected personalities. What is required: simple intent. Intent to meet, and work, and to keep working, until you achieve compromise. Trump: MIA. Spkr Johnson: AWOL.
October 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Rand Paul isn’t wrong. 😱 Remember the Clinton-Gingrich budget deal? What’s required for unexpected agreements isn’t the expected personalities. What is required: simple intent. Intent to meet, and work, and to keep working, until you achieve compromise. Trump: MIA. Spkr Johnson: AWOL.
🚨“shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Pregnant women describe miscarrying and bleeding out while in ICE custody, advocates say
The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🚨“shackled and restrained while they’re actively miscarrying”
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Someone make it make sense
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Someone make it make sense
One of the most conservative Editorial Boards:
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
One of the most conservative Editorial Boards:
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
October 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Sen. Ernst isn’t in DC to fix the healthcare premiums crisis, and reopen govt. No, she’s in DC to do cable hits, and to “get to the bottom” of First Amendment events—ones that even police depts across the country thanked for peaceful conduct and cooperation.
October 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Sen. Ernst isn’t in DC to fix the healthcare premiums crisis, and reopen govt. No, she’s in DC to do cable hits, and to “get to the bottom” of First Amendment events—ones that even police depts across the country thanked for peaceful conduct and cooperation.
Trump is eager to help Argentina's ranchers…While U.S. soybean farmers wait…While Argentina takes advantage of our soybean farmers:
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Trump is eager to help Argentina's ranchers…While U.S. soybean farmers wait…While Argentina takes advantage of our soybean farmers:
Quiz: Name Putin’s favorite dog.
www.ft.com/content/7960...
www.ft.com/content/7960...
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Quiz: Name Putin’s favorite dog.
www.ft.com/content/7960...
www.ft.com/content/7960...
Chants of “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC. (Clip by me)
#NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings
#NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Chants of “USA! USA!” at what Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson called a “hate America” protest. 14th St, Washington DC. (Clip by me)
#NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings
#NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKings
“one of the U.S. officials…said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“one of the U.S. officials…said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
“This is a case that DOJ should have given up when they were no-billed. But because Jeanine Pirro is a stubborn bully, she persisted”
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
Revenge of the "Lib Tard:" Jeanine Pirro Wins First Humiliating Acquittal - emptywheel
After fuck-up after fuck-up, Jeanine Pirro's prosecutors got an embarrassing acquittal in their effort to jail Sydney Reid for filming an ICE arrest.
www.emptywheel.net
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“This is a case that DOJ should have given up when they were no-billed. But because Jeanine Pirro is a stubborn bully, she persisted”
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/16/r...
GOP excuses for the Nazi chats now invoke, without irony, “safe spaces”:
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
GOP excuses for the Nazi chats now invoke, without irony, “safe spaces”:
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...
Remember all that talk about opioids and fentanyl, esp in rural America?
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Remember all that talk about opioids and fentanyl, esp in rural America?
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...
Next week in “America First”!
October 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Next week in “America First”!
But Argentina is special! For some reason!
October 10, 2025 at 3:43 AM
But Argentina is special! For some reason!
MTG as polished bipartisan stateswoman? She’s making a serious play for stature vis-a-vis the current GOP leadership (note the barbs reserved for them). She’s taking the oppty to build national political capital, plain and simple. Shrewd.
October 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
MTG as polished bipartisan stateswoman? She’s making a serious play for stature vis-a-vis the current GOP leadership (note the barbs reserved for them). She’s taking the oppty to build national political capital, plain and simple. Shrewd.
Stunning numbers: Americans overwhelmingly believe one thing…but because a bloc of extremist Republicans believe the opposite, THAT’S the crackpot agenda shoved down our throats:
www.kff.org/public-opini...
www.kff.org/public-opini...
October 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Stunning numbers: Americans overwhelmingly believe one thing…but because a bloc of extremist Republicans believe the opposite, THAT’S the crackpot agenda shoved down our throats:
www.kff.org/public-opini...
www.kff.org/public-opini...
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“It’s difficult to believe, but Project 2025 is a relatively sanitized document,” said Truth Wins Out’s Besen...It is in the musty corners of their web pages and conferences where the extent of their discriminatory and authoritarian nature can come into focus.”
truthwinsout.org/two-releases...
truthwinsout.org/two-releases...
TWO Releases ‘Behind the Mask: The Project 2025 Organizations Reshaping America’ - Truth Wins Out
Report is a ‘Who’s Who Guide’ to Knowing Your Enemy
truthwinsout.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“It’s difficult to believe, but Project 2025 is a relatively sanitized document,” said Truth Wins Out’s Besen...It is in the musty corners of their web pages and conferences where the extent of their discriminatory and authoritarian nature can come into focus.”
truthwinsout.org/two-releases...
truthwinsout.org/two-releases...
“exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: ‘No one has died’ because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.”
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
apnews.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: ‘No one has died’ because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.”
apnews.com/article/myan...
apnews.com/article/myan...