1/ On Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., read our reporting into the congressional record during a committee hearing on Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
Aleks, no X
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It’s always punching Nazis in the face season. Ranting online for my mental health. 😬
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"
This is just ludicrously bad. Drag is performance, performance is art, art is expression, expression is speech. Government shall not abridge speech.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · yesterdayBREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
Schiff: "The president is entitled to his own views about me or anybody else. He is not entitled, however, to use the DOJ to go after his political opponents. The day we say that's ok and the day we confirm an AG who says that's ok is the day the rule of law becomes merely an unenforceable idea."
Schiff: "This is someone who has violated his code of ethics blatantly, misled this committee, supported establishment of a fund for cop beaters, covered up docs implicating president in the Epstein files, use DOJ to enrich the president. Is this who we're prepared to confirm as AG? It appears so."
The most pathetic cuck caucus in history of Congress.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterdayBREAKING: The nomination of Trump's former personal lawyer to be Attorney General just advanced to the full Senate. Judiciary Republicans caved: All 12 Republicans voted in favor of Todd Blanche. All 10 Democrats voted against.
This is what your tax dollars are funding.
Abuse of Power Watch@abuseofpowerwatch.bsky.social · 2d ago📍 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐉𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐄𝐘 Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a father, is now the 22nd person to die in ICE custody this year. He was held at Delaney Hall, which has been under national attention earlier this year for allegations of physical abuse and spoiled food. #AbuseofPowerWatch
He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Whitehouse: "Today, I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee. As it looks like on a party-line vote, we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general of the United States..."
"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
If not for Perkins, Social Security, as Americans understand the program today, would not have been created. prospect.org?p=142008
A corollary to all this that is not discussed enough is how much damage the Trump-Miller administration's atrocities against immigrants has done to the country. From the deficit, to healthcare services, to college finances and anything driven by demographics, we are in worse shape and headed down
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoMAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Complaint: charging an applicant $500 for a TPS category work permit and then sitting on the application for 690 days should be some kind of violation. Refunds. Apologies. Maybe a path to citizenship he said hopefully.
Trigger warning for violence. Read this headline, and then the article. Then read the headline again. And people ask what we mean when we say reporters or editors blame victims? abc13.com/story/cyclis...
Cyclists gestured, yelled at driver before he reversed into them, killing boxer Hannah Rapp, court documents allege
Court documents allege that the severity of the damage to the vehicle that killed boxer Hannah Rapp contradicted the driver's claim that he reversed at a low speed.
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The only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century Celebrity Tournament in 2006 at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Stateline, Nevada., he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d agoHow come Trump has won every golf tournament held at one of his own courses but has never won one on any other courses?
He hates America. Almost all cities are blue. Majority of Americans live in cities. He hates America.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday blocked the Trump administration’s ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized U.S. citizens register to vote — finding the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Court blocks Trump ban on voter registration help for new citizens, finding likely intentional discrimination
Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.
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This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
