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 couldn't believe David Ellison had the audacity to say that he "can be trusted as a steward of Warner's CNN." If Bari, and now Douthat, is indicative of his stewardship, why should anyone take his assurances about CNN seriously?

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · yesterday

David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS

This is based on Q1 2026. Maybe the right hates California so much because they’re jealous.

Trump attacks the Smithsonian for not portraying history the way he sees it anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-orde...

CNN montage of Trump claiming for months that Iran wants to make a deal

"If you're involved in any of this [corruption], next year, you'll be swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth & nothing but in the truth, so help me G-d, in front of the United States Congress!" @ossoff.bsky.social goes OFF on corrupt officials & promises to make them answer for their crimes

I really believe James Talarico and some other Dems, like Jon Ossoff, are developing a new kind of moral language and politics for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. Case made below. (discussing work by @jenszalai.bsky.social) newrepublic.com/article/2125...

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice." ~ Baron de Montesquieu

"SCOTUS Has Her Back" by Andrew Winters (USA).

Ossoff: "Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern history. It's unleashed a flood of secret money, corporate money, billionaire money. Trump's rise is a symptom of this deeper disease. Our task is not just to contain his wickedness, but to cure the rot that gave rise to it."

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family

Even in today's climate, there should be one fundamental principle everyone respects: whatever you think about someone in politics, you leave their kids alone.

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AP: Trump refuses to sign a bipartisan housing bill into law. When will people face the truth that Trump doesn't care about them? Has never cared about them? Will never care about them? #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

(cartoon Dave Granlund) #politics

3...2...1... "The sneaky vandal of my perfect Reflection Pool isn't shown on any of the security cameras because, people are telling me, he wore one of those Harry Potter invisibility cloaks. These people are so devious and sneaky, they will stop at nothing—even magic—to make me look incompetent."

"Everything Trump touches turns to crud...The idea that the world’s oldest republic...the nation that invented republican values...puts up with it, that’s what really shocks me." On the pod, @pkrugman.bsky.social is just brilliant on Trump and our national decline: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Krugman: Trump’s Unnerving Mental Breakdown Signals Nation in Decline

Economist Paul Krugman discusses all the ways Trump is causing our country to deteriorate—and what it means that our country puts up with his worsening megalomania and desecrations of our republic.

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“There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.” My kids grew up to this speech & my son is now a USN sailor. He’s the kind of man who will change the world, for all people. Measure a person by the size of their heart. #Pinks

Speech To Change Your Life Today! Admiral McRaven "Make Your Bed" Motivational Words Of Wisdom

YouTube video by Nate Wylie Studios

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“So Macron says to him… why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?”

One of my favorite moments of the day. If you missed it, take a moment… 🤎 John Legend and Common performing “Glory.”

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Trump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."

Russian attacks like the one on Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO world heritage site and one of Ukraine’s most significant cultural and religious sites, show just how desperate Putin is. He’s losing on the battlefield, so he resorts to terror. Ukraine is winning.

The art of the deal is backing yourself into such a corner that you have to give away $324 billion of taxpayer money just so you can brag about losing a war in the Octagon on your birthday.

Rep. Brian Mast: "Ok, maybe they do end up getting $20 billion, let's say. Let's say we're still $300 to $500 billion ahead considering we destroyed their navy, destroyed their air force ... " (So American taxpayers paid both to bomb Iran and then for Iran's reconstruction ... )

@slyngstad.bsky.social

Several years ago, Elon tweeted about how he came up with the name Tesla, only to be reminded that the company's *real* founders, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, came up with the name long before Musk got involved with the company. Yes, he is a fraud.

President Obama gets a standing ovation. Trump gets booed. Same office. Very different legacy! One earned respect. The other demands it. Respect is earned, not inherited! The contrast couldn’t be clearer! #SheShed

Make no mistake: in California, our democracy is working as it should. But our President is doing everything in his power to make you doubt that with constant lies. His baseless, anti-democratic rhetoric has no place in our electoral process.

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.