Two things can be true. The decision to secretly evacuate the President was the proper course of action, even if CIA had doubts. The decision by Trump to utter repeated lies about the situation and target the journalists reporting on it made this the story that it is.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Even CIA leaking to make him look like a scaredy cat played by Netanyahu. Who knows how serious the threat was but the fact that someone(s) at the agency felt like sticking it to him this way is telling. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump: “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting, and it was a bad one.” Fact-check: False. There was no conflict between Cambodia and Armenia.

Show me where in the U.S. Constitution it details your right to fly on an airplane or get unlimited pasta at Olive Garden. I will wait.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Scalise: "Anybody that gets on an airplane has to show a picture ID to vote. Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden and get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID. This isn't complicated stuff."

I’ve spent 20 years protecting federal officials and defense contractors in personnel and clearance proceedings. I don’t have words, folks.

Rachel Bitecofer@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · last mo.

Unearthed audio reveals David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed a man in Maine, threatening to slit his ex-wife's throat: "Every single female in your bloodline is nothing but a disgusting, fat [bleep]. All of you should have your throats slit."

This is the actual unclassified version of the intelligence community’s review of the 2020 election. It is accurate. Trump will try to convince you it is not. www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

A paid membership card. Not my driver's license.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Rep. Ryan Zinke on voter ID: "You need have an ID to go to Costco!"

"Be quiet or we'll keep killing you" is one hell of a message for the midterms.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

And the people bowed and prayed To the Neon God they made

The corruption is staggering.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

"Funding cuts haven't made the job easier." Call it Republican diarrhea.

We literally never ratified the treaty and have never been part of the ICC.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

State Dept spokesperson Tommy Pigott: "If the ICC continues to try to threaten our sovereignty, they will know the full power of American resolve" (are we going to, like, bomb the International Criminal Court?)

I wrote this knowing a lot of my old friends in Washington are going to hate this one, but it's necessary. The Power Addict: A Cold-Eyed Look At Lindsey Graham www.againstallenemies.net/p/the-power-...

The Power Addict

A cold-eyed look at Lindsey Graham

againstallenemies.net

The Three Amigos are all gone now.

"Every day that the USDOJ withholds these records, the foundation upon which a New Mexico prosecution could be built erodes. Witnesses relocate and become unreachable. Memories, already strained by years of trauma, fade further. Physical and documentary evidence degrades, is lost..."

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

The New Mexico Attorney General is claiming that the Justice Department — effectively acting at the behest of Trump — is obstructing the investigation of Epstein's former Zorro ranch.

This was always the goal

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since the FCC began investigating The View over political bookings, it "hasn’t featured a single political candidate running in a competitive midterm race...the show’s staff noted that it was proceeding cautiously with political candidate bookings while the FCC’s equal time inquiry was progressing."

Left: his altered photo on Tindr Right: when you meet him in real life

OK Uncle George Soros, open up that pocket book even wider. SCOTUS just greenlit it.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next up is NRSC v. FEC. SCOTUS strikes down limits on coordinated expenditures between parties and candidates. 6-3 by Kavanaugh. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

2028 needs to be Dems' version of 2016 was for GOP on federal judiciary. We were *that* close to upending the 14th amendment. I guarantee you that a President Vance or President Rubio will try again if Roberts retires.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

ewwwwwwww

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump is now being accused of having an unhealthy relationship with his 34-year-old aide Natalie Harp. A new book says Harp left Trump adoring notes in private spaces, including one that reportedly read: “You are all that matters to me.” Her own brother called the relationship “very unhealthy.”

Step one: deport Miller

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

Stephen Miller: "One way or another, this nation has to end birthright citizenship."

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

EXCLUSIVE: White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near

The report does not say the vulnerabilities have led to votes flipping.

reuters.com

I can’t wait to watch President @jbpritzker.bsky.social use this authority to nullify Trump’s pardons.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Comer calls on all of Biden's pardons issued on the last day of his presidency (especially the one for Fauci) to be "declared null and void"

@joshuajfriedman.com hi there do you know why popehat is suspended? @kenwhite.bsky.social ? thanks for any info.

why suspend @kenwhite.bsky.social, @bsky.app?

when republicans start their inevitable whining about people making a big deal over the paint peeling algae infested reflecting pool remind them who made it a big deal in the first place lol

Streets will look like this when we get rid of the Orange Menace

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2mo ago

KNICKS IN FIVE KNICKS PRIDE BROOKLYN

Just say only white people should be trusted to vote and get it over with. We know that’s what you want to say anyway, Sir

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Comer: "What we're seeing especially in the blue states is there is rampant fraud, especially in the minority communities"