I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

People will call this weak and cringe but it’s what Dems need after today. Time to buck up if they want to win in the fall.

NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”

In case you’re wondering who’s really “begging for a deal”

A win! Prosecutors in Washington are dropping charges against three more defendants who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Changed my name from Mueller, She Wrote to my actual name, Allison Gill. Hoping I can get my blue check back. @joshpetri.bsky.team can you help?

Okay! So hello. My name is Allison Gill. For the last 9 years, you’ve known me as Mueller, She Wrote. I used to have to be anonymous. But not anymore. So, hello world!

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

Changed my name from Mueller, She Wrote to my actual name, Allison Gill. Hoping I can get my blue check back. @joshpetri.bsky.team can you help?

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FYI: Blanche rescinded the ORDER establishing the slush fund, not the underlying “settlement.” The settlement says any changes must be agreed to by ALL parties, not just Todd. This “rescission” isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

wow i can't believe that mitch mcconnell died tomorrow

After Max Miller’s statement, Bernie Moreno finally issues a statement denouncing Miller, saying he needs psychological help and should not be in Congress.

RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim

Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show

medpagetoday.com

DEJA VU?: Trump says, again, that he's calling off a massive wave of attacks in Iran due to a purported agreement in principle of some sort with the Iranian regime, that he just called "crazy."

Literally the ravings of a madman. How is it possible that he has not been stopped? I don’t care if you think it’s hopeless, if you are a member of Congress or a newspaper editorial board or a city council or a company or anyone with any kind of pulpit you should be demanding that he be removed .

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Dear lord, WaPo, have some self-respect. He might as well be insisting that the moon is made of green cheese. Would you print that, too? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump insists vandals damaged Reflecting Pool, blasts DOJ for dropped charge

The president acknowledged “there may have been some contractor difficulty” but said he disagreed with U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro for dropping a criminal charge against a former Olympian.

washingtonpost.com

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4d ago

What do you even call it when he continues, despite all evidence, to insist on something that doesn’t exist? “Lie” isn’t sufficient. A deception campaign? The sign of a mental disorder? Delusion? Attempted gaslighting? Self-gaslighting? (Does he really believe it?)

I don’t think even many of those who have come to recognize Donald Trump's extreme narcissism and his sociopathy have any idea how dangerous this phase of his pathology is. When malignant narcissists go down, they try to take as many people as they can with them.

The President of the United States repeatedly lying about American citizens and trying to lock them up in a pathetic attempt to cover up a botched renovation of the Reflection Pool that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars should be a much bigger story in the news.

He lied. Yet another major scandal for the Trump regime. Everyone involved should be fired and brought up on charges.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

I keep waiting for Fox to talk about this story. Maybe tomorrow.

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We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

At any other time, the false Hearn indictment under the demand of the president would result in impeachment and removal. But naked corruption and thuggery doesn’t matter anymore and this isn’t even the worst scandal of the day after Trump accused MN of domestic terrorism.

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

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The fact that Blanche refused to terminate the slush fund in writing for Trump’s criminal cronies as well as his IRS immunity deal proves that his testimony at his confirmation hearing that these things were “dead” was always a lie. They were dead only until he got confirmed.