He might think there's no way to rein in the president, but I bet he knows six ways to Sunday to rein in the donations and line up a lucrative post Senate job.

General Strike@ivanasstaircam.bsky.social · yesterday

Never forget: republicans not only sold their souls, they sold out the country, the rule of law and your freedom. It’s their job to rein him in. They chose not to.

The only people she's fooling with this virtue showing vote are the people who want to be fooled and have bought her act for her last five terms (after promising to only serve two terms in 1997).

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h ago

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

He doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as either of these two, much less compared to him. Patton would have slapped Trump silly. MacAuthur would have kicked his ass into next week for turning his disciplined, professional army into an armed mob that bombs children and fishermen.

Mindcite💥@mindcite.bsky.social · 18h ago

Fixed it. Repost patriotically! 🇺🇸

There are none so blind as a senator who refuses to see. It's pretty obvious that Cornyn is far more concerned with preserving his post Senate job prospects than he is the country's democracy.

Joe Dudek@joedudekjd.bsky.social · yesterday

Roughly a third of the Constitution is just a list of ways you could rein in the president.

Let's all pretend it was a democratic senator who had been absent under highly suspicious circumstances for two months with no verifiable contact with anyone. I wonder what the GOP and McConnell would be doing now? Patiently waiting? Writing a stern letter? Going on the media to moan and groan?

I think his outrage is misdirected, especially when he has no problem supporting a President that gives away nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, the country financed the atrack and where 15 of the 19 terrorist were from.

Freethinkers United For Change@freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 6h ago

GET READY FOR SHIT LIKE THIS! These motherfuckers are out for blood, we have to be ready with tactics to defeat their ground game. GET. THE. VOTE. OUT! REGISTER PEOPLE TODAY! Start now! DO NOT WAIT! Phonebank if you can't get to MI. Donate!

Wait, when did that get approved by Congress?

Trump has already already made his mind up. Don't bother him with facts. Who are we to question his judgement just because the facts show something different? If Dear Donald says vandals caused the damage and Hearns was one of them, then dadgummit, that's who did it.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h ago

It’s a direct attack on rule of law from the highest levels, aimed at permanently ending US Constitutional democracy and imposing a dictatorship. Always has been. Anyone who tries treating it as something else—as if they’re dealing with mistaken impressions rather than lies—gets egg on their face.

If we can afford to pay a slush fund, a senator not working and still getting paid, a billion dollar a day war, we can afford healthcare for all. #Blues

Larry Colvin@larrycolvin.bsky.social · 9h ago

Health insurance works best when everyone has it. If people are forced to drop out, the health of the pool drops. Premiums rise. More people are priced out. Everyone in the USA should be allowed to have affordable healthcare. #Blues

Conditions aboard the Abe Lincoln are SO BAD that doctors fear mental breakdowns if they don't get to port soon. Moldy showers, food shortages, lack of SOAP ffs, and weeks of overtime have morale at a breaking point. Donald & Pete: YOU DID THIS! You started a stupid war with NO plan and no SKILL!

'Ripe for accidents': Families fume at Trump as ship doctor warns sailors may go insane

Families of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are raising urgent concerns about deteriorating conditions on the aircraft carrier, which has now spent nine months at sea and five conse...

rawstory.com

Pouring boiling water on your wife and beating your daughter strikes me as more than just a mere family argument. Is this more or those famous traditional values I keep hearing about all the time from the party of family values?

Middle Age Riot@middleageriot.bsky.social · 7h ago

Donald Trump told reporters he feels "badly" for Max Miller, a Republican congressman accused of abusing his wife, and hopes Miller can "work it out." The only thing less surprising than a Republican politician abusing his wife is Donald Trump empathizing with the abuser.

The only strategy Republicans have ever used is to do everything in their power to stop, dismantle or cripple social security whenever and wherever they can in any way they can, usually in dark rooms far from prying eyes, and deny that's what they're doing in public during election cycles.

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org · 7h ago

Democrats have legislation that will make Social Security solvent for as far as the actuarial eye can see without cutting benefits. Where's the Republican proposal? It doesn't exist. - @whitehouse.senate.gov

Morten Mørland, The Times

Germans also speculated about the cognitive state of an aging, shameless, satanically persuasive liar who never stopped doubling down on his raging hate and egomania until he evaded accountability by killing himself. But they didn't have 90 years of evidence showing how he gained and used power.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · yesterday

And narcissistic personality disorder, and, at this stage, psychosis.

It's the "Department of Just Us" for Trump and his willing lackeys in the former Justice Department.

Mindcite💥@mindcite.bsky.social · yesterday

Don Corleone and his lawyer Tom Hagen were fiction. Don Trump and his lawyer Todd Blanche, who defended his client when a jury convicted him of more felonies for financial fraud than Capone, Gotti and Gambino combined, is REAL. SO is voting Blue in midterms to fight this corruption‼️

As a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Booker fought to make KY a place where all could thrive. He wants to take the fight to the next level …. the U.S. Senate @booker4ky.bsky.social #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1 #SheShed

Any Senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche is also siding with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell – and is actively participating in covering-up their numerous and heinous crimes.

Dollars to donuts they rediscover their dislike for deficits if and when the democrats get back in power and we have to pay for their spending orgy and once again we have to wipe up their messes. Once again, all we'll hear is their old refrain "we aint got no money".

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

BREAKING: Republicans are no longer worried about deficits and debt Bessent: "I'm not as bothered by it ... if '26 is flat to slightly up, this isn't wasteful social spending "

Boo hoo. He knew, or should have known, the tariffs were illegal and were going to have to be refunded eventually. As much as he wishes it existed, the constitution doesn't have a "because the potus wants to" exception to the rule of law. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

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."

Blanche meeting privately with a convicted sex trafficker for over 9 hrs, for reasons unexplained then or now, but refusing to meet with her victims until he was shamed into a box-checking 30 minute meeting where he told them to "get to the point" is more than enough reason to send him packing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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."

I’ll bet you a hot cup of coffee that Todd Blanche’s assurance that the slush fund is off the table will turn out to be utter bullshit. We will see it in some other form and convicted felons will be paid. Watch.

It's the patented Collins Two-step Boogie she's perfected over the years to maintain an illusion of independence while shifting her votes from one position to another so she can pretend to not be one of Trump's most loyal politicians when it really matters.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h ago

The same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Cornyn: “There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president.” W T F… A dictatorship doesn’t just evolve. It happens because people like this spineless coward allow it to happen.

Maybe taking a drunken rapist Fox News host, whose only management experience involved running small non-profits into the ground, and putting him in charge of the US military was a bad idea after all?

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · yesterday

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

12 states had their water systems compromised by a country we are at war with and instead of pursuing the culprits of the hacks, the FBI is more concerned over the nonexistent vandals of the reflection pool and investigating people who haverh3 nerve to criticize Dear Donald.

At least 12 states face cyberattacks on their water systems, sources say

Possible cyber intrusions targeting water and wastewater utilities have now been reported in at least a dozen states, multiple sources told ABC News.

abcnews.com

First-degree burn from the crowd that looks like melted action figures drawn from memory

🧵While Republicans indicate "there is nothing they can do" and Dems stand idly by, the Kleptocracy we are witnessing is astounding. This not just an authoritarian regime but an organized criminal enterprise, built for money laundering and bribery. #ImpeachIndictRemove #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance