Marc Hershovitz
@hershovitz.bsky.social
Attorney / Legal Consigliere / UGA Football Fan
The U.S. government should need a warrant to look in your phone, even at the border, @adamserwer.bsky.social argues.
Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone
Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.
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Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
Trump desperately tries to hide his failures, and nearly everything he does is a failure.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h agoLet's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...
This "diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle," Judge Mehta
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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This is what hou get when a stupid, evil, malicious, lying scumbag fills his administration with stupid, evil, malicious, lying scumbags—a shitshow where the participants look like the clowns they are and where the American people suffer. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
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And narcissistic personality disorder, and, at this stage, psychosis.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."
It sure looks like the U.S. has spent $100 billion and left 18 Americans dead and 600 injured in order to hand control of the Strait of Hormuz to Iran and do nothing about nuclear proliferation except encourage it.
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. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
It says something unflattering about our country that so many Americans are not concerned that the nation’s president is a money launderer who rapes both adults and children.
The Republicans have already shown themselves to care not at all for our Constitution. There’s apparently no bottom to this if they confirm Blanche, who has weaponized the Justice Dept to be a personal legal arm for Donald Trump, protecting his wealth and lawbreaking and persecuting his opponents.
Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.
Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
Trump has made big threats and given Iran a one-last-chance at least 8 times now, backing off without getting anything every time. "A whole civilization will die tonight" was April 7! He has claimed Iran is making concessions, desperate for a deal, and a deal is imminent too many times to count.
‘One last chance’: The times Trump threatened Iran, said deal imminent
US president has claimed Iran 'desperate' to do a deal or given Tehran 'last chance' on multiple occasions.
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The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.
Sen. Rand Paul: "This was a war of choice, and it wouldn't have been my choice ... they've militarized the strait. The strait has never been militarized ... I think that really we, by any objective viewing, are worse off now than we were before the war"
Trump is the classic example of the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
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
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places The wonton destruction in the name of America’s Hitler is what he wants. To him, this is a positive. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Park Service Finds Trump’s Arch Could Detract From Dozens of Historic Places (Gift Article)
The 250-foot-tall edifice would alter views across Washington and Arlington Cemetery.
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Donald Trump is a f***ing moron and a complete and total failure. He led the United States into a war and suffered a humiliating defeat in record time, permanently weakening the United States and destroying its reputation. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
An Emerging Deal Between Iran and Oman to Reopen Hormuz Would Come at a Cost for Trump (Gift Article)
The deal would address President Trump’s most urgent political problem by allowing ships to move again. But it would give Iran strategic leverage it did not have before the war.
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ICE agents raided the family dormitories at the Dilley detention center and snatched this Bluey coloring page from a child before they could finish. I sued ICE to get these drawings back. You can what they sent me here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...
Easy to see how he won 43 Club Championships with this masterful putting stroke.
Tillis and Cornyn’s acceptance of a loophole-filled deal with Trump and Blanche reminds us that every prominent Republican politician who has stuck with Trump over the last decade is a traitor.
Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)
The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.
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Is Todd Blanche’s nomination back on track after he allegedly “rescinded” the $1.8 billion slush fund & limited the tax immunity provision in the “settlement agreement” in Trump’s collusion w/the IRS & Treasury Dept.? There's no enforceability to what Blanche has done: youtu.be/Em09xu3UGxQ?...
🚨AG Blanche SCRAMBLES and Pulls LAST MINUTE STUNT To SAVE His NOMINATION!!
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"Americans like their health insurance" - that's because they're stupid. Only utter fools like the American health insurance system.
I repeat: this IS NOT AN AGREEMENT WITH TRUMP so it doesn't even matter that it's not binding. This is the DOJ saying it's withdrawing its own order establishing the fund. But the settlement still exists, and Trump's motion on Friday makes it clear he intends to enforce it, meaning the fund remains
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d agono agreement with trump is binding, it's impossible that anyone at this point fails to understand that. All that's happening here is spineless toadies folding as anticipated bsky.app/profile/matt...
The media and MAGA like to write off Trump’s outrageous comments as “joking” when he’s actually telling us the ways he intends to ruin our country. My Stop the Presses newsletter.
Stop saying Trump is joking when he’s not
Will he rig the midterms? Seek an illegal third term? We need to take him seriously
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The switcheroo on this one once Cornyn and Tillis are gone next year is gonna be epic www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Blanche Formally Rescinds ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund in Bid to Smooth Confirmation
Two holdout Republican senators who were blocking Blanche’s nomination over the fund say they now plan to advance him.
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Blanche's statement simply disregards the main point Cornyn's questioning of him established. If the slush fund/amnesty agreement were legal -- rather than the product of a a bogus collusive prosecution -- it would give Trump the legal right to enforce, and DOJ couldn't unilateraly abrogate.
