Blanche’s appeasement is hollow. Trump still gets immunity from tax audits worth $100 million. And last week’s payout to abortion clinic blocker shows the path to payouts to rewrite history will be individual settlements instead of one designated fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal (Gift Article)

Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

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EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) tells MeidasTouch that Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) should resign

GOP Senator Calls on Rep. Max Miller to Resign

Roger Marshall states the the Ohio lawmaker should step down

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"Had Associate Justice Eddins stopped there, his opinion would have amounted to an unremarkable affirmation of a basic principle of federalism. But what comes next is nothing short of astonishing." @kimwehle.bsky.social on a striking Hawaii Supreme Court decision: www.thebulwark.com/p/data-cente...

I take no pleasure to report that I have a hobby

This is how political debates are done...

After listening to this guy, methinks we should all have free access to mental healthcare.

Proud to be an American…

"Women are too emotional to be president" said the people who elected the most emotionally unstable man that they could find and thought that his emotional instability was exciting.

Fact check: TRUE. ✅ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

"To Rep. Jamie Raskin, the policy’s real stakes are a larger institutional usurpation. 'Maxwell is just a small window into the kind of total power the president wants to exercise over the penal system,' he said."

Todd Blanche’s New Grip on the Federal Prison System

Critics worry a little-noticed policy shift could let the attorney general reward allies, punish enemies, and sideline longstanding Bureau of Prisons processes.

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Rand Paul calling the 5th amendment a "privilege" and threatening to punish those who invoke it is QUITE the look for a so-called "libertarian" #FuckTheseFascists

A true Confederacy of Dunces.

Sounds about white.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I miss the Department of Defense. Our security is best advanced when we deter wars, not when we start them. That’s defense, not offense. Hope we get back to that mindset.

What “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?

USA Asset Mgmt: 🇺🇸 > @scottlincicome.bsky.social

The #Fauci hearing is just another #epsteinfiles diversion

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

My thinking is that we shouldn't elect stupid presidents.

"Forever wars only happen to stupid presidents."

It’s Groundhog Day in Iran

If at first you don’t succeed . . . and second . . . and third . . .

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Zelenskyy claims Russia is sharing satellite imagery of U.S. military bases with Iran. Trump's response when asked about this? "I'll ask Putin." That's an embarrassing answer from the president of the United States.

Secret Service agents are trained to take bullets for a president but not this shit

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism

It’s all there in a new CNN poll, and it’s heartening to see: Large majorities are sick of Donald Trump’s vanity, venality, and megalomania.

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Political Cartoon of the Day by Jeff Danziger.

“At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through his terrible moment.” Read more: www.huffpost.com/entry/george...

Wildfire Forces George And Amal Clooney To Evacuate Their French Home

“At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through his terrible moment.”

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Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

Something to bear in mind is that the complete destruction of the Democratic Party and its accomplishments is currently the lodestar of Donald Trump's Republican Party. They want for nothing else.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · last wk.

Fixing what Republicans break is better than nothing. But making Republicans regret breaking things should be the lodestar of the entire Democratic Party at this point. This gluttony for punishment is demoralizing. www.offmessage.net/p/obamacare-...

Here’s the thing. It’s not a truck. It’s a giant billboard that says “oh what a dick am I.” And frankly it is extremely good at doing that. Best in the world. Nothing else comes close. And that is quite something.