DEAL! I'll chip in so you can buy the bricks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 59m ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

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

Mainstream media is tossing “socialist” around left and right - Dems need to get a jump on defining that word and taking it back tout de suite. “Socialism just means that the government uses your tax dollars to provide you services, instead of giving it to the billionaire class.” Or something.

Trump's guy is losing to someone who isn't even running anymore because his name is Amir Hassan and though he's an evangelical Christian, MAGAts assume he's Muslim. Who could've seen that coming?

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 17h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

This doddering nutball is going to absolutely destroy Republicans’ midterm chances. He’s feeding Democrats free ads every time he opens his mouth, and it is glorious.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Trump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"

Trump’s poll numbers are amazing, and my abs have never looked better! My column on the joy of abandoning reality: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump's polls plunge, but delulu Donald doesn't live in reality | Opinion

Donald Trump isn't living in reality. He's not allowing real poll numbers or facts about war or high food prices to permeate his bubble.

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Always read @markjacob.bsky.social:

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2d ago

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.

is the algae in the box

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oh shit she got the white "pack up your shit" box

I’d go outside in my big, blue city, but the president of the United States informed me earlier today that all the trees are gross. Can’t believe the libs ruined trees.

Reader Fan Mail - Maximum Cope Edition:

As I wrote today, "If these mopes had video evidence of teams of boxcutter-wielding antifa frogmen descending on the Reflecting Pool under cover of darkness to do massive destruction, they would have aired it everywhere and quite literally never shut up about it." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion

It takes a special kind of stupid to turn the rehabbing of a monument like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a presidential scandal.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Jeanine Pirro made a mistake. It was vandalism."

If your immediate response to this isn't "fuck you, old man," you should just leave journalism entirely.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

"Sir, is Iran in the room with us right now?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says talks with Iran "are going on right now" (Iran says no talks are happening)

Strongly agree.

George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸@gtconway.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is such complete and utter bullshit on the part of Thom Tillis and John Cornyn. Giving the Trump crime family immunity from tax audits remains as corrupt as anything we’ve ever seen in this country. Todd Blanche should be impeached, not confirmed.

Did you ever stop to think about how outrageously stupid the whole Reflecting Pool thing was, and how a man's life was turned upside down over a lie? The great @rexhuppke.bsky.social did www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion

It takes a special kind of stupid to turn the rehabbing of a monument like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a presidential scandal.

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Welcome to the Trump vs. Pirro vs. Burgum Reflecting Pool clown show! Please excuse our inexcusable mess. My column on the crumbling, infighting, lying Trump administration: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion

It takes a special kind of stupid to turn the rehabbing of a monument like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a presidential scandal.

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They have received written assurances from the wallet inspector and are ready to proceed.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

Chasing ghosts. How much more evidence do folks need to see to figure out this is bad business.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This MAGA makeover at the WaPo opinion section is very similar to the right coded shift at CBS News. Both chasing Trump's approval AND a MAGA audience.

Chevron made $12.1 billion in the second quarter. So I, an oil executive, asked the people I pay to form a human abacus on my second mansion’s third polo field to calculate how big a jump that is, and they said it’s almost fivefold! I am LOVING the Iran war! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Stop complaining about the Iran war. I'm making bank! | Opinion

Are we seeing these extravagant earnings because President Donald Trump started an 'unnecessary' war with Iran that has proven 'intractable'? YES!

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When this is all over, @willbunch.bsky.social’s columns will remain as evidence to bury anyone who claims they didn’t know how bad things were.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d ago

The smell of death surrounds you, Donald Trump Deportees slain in Guatemala. A Haitian woman abandoned at a PGH bus stop. The bomb striking a family in Iran. Detainees in the ICE gulag. Lorenzo Salgado. Renee Good. USAID Dehumanization, then death. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

every single day I am baffled by the fact that this man - this incredibly, astoundingly embarrassing man - is the one half the damn country built a cult of personality around

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

It seems all I hear these days are complaints about President Donald Trump’s war with Iran. As a humble oil executive, looking out on the Pacific Ocean from the wrap-around porch of my third mansion, I find these complaints deeply offensive. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Stop complaining about the Iran war. I'm making bank! | Opinion

Are we seeing these extravagant earnings because President Donald Trump started an 'unnecessary' war with Iran that has proven 'intractable'? YES!

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OK, small point here, but it’s almost certain he meant “parameters of a deal,” but he can’t spell and is very dumb, so he used “perimeters of a deal” and news orgs are just running with it like that’s a perfectly normal thing to say, which it absolutely is not. That’s not a thing anybody says.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: Trump pauses attacks on Iran, citing “perimeters of a deal” that would end Tehran’s “nuclear threat” and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

I’ll always remember where I was when Donald Trump announced a 35th peace deal with Iran.

"Like most normal, well-adjusted men, I have spent every waking moment since Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey' opened in theaters feeling apoplectically angry about Christopher Nolan’s 'The Odyssey,'" writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4yOWtcx 📸: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures

This is, objectively, hilarious.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

Geez, next thing you know we’ll be finding out the Reflecting Pool algae was a naturally occurring phenomenon and not a form of aquatic chemical warfare launched under cover of darkness by a team of highly trained, radical antifa frogmen.

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?