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.”
NEWS: US military accidentally takes down civilian medevac plane, killing everyone on board. Republicans admit there is nothing they can do to "rein Trump in." Congress has fallen. Bari Weiss killed a bombshell Epstein interview. I'm sitting down with the Senator tomorrow.
NEWS: Military 'Accidentally' Kills Civilians on Medevac Plane, Republicans Admit they Cannot 'Rein' Trump in, More White House Construction
Good evening everyone.
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Bessent on the justification for Trump's tariffs: "The emergency is stopping the emergency" (You can see why the Supreme Court ruled that these tariffs were illegal ... )
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Everyone should know who Borlaug is. This is the legacy Musk and Trump destroyed.
KC@kcwinters.bsky.social · 2d agoTom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...
Major Update: The Trump DOJ cut a sham deal to get Todd Blanche confirmed and to immunize Trump and his sons from IRS audits. The media isn't reporting it properly. The deal is a sham, and I expose it. Meanwhile, Trump crowdsources idea on Iran war from service members and bails out Japan.
Major Update: Trump DOJ Executes 'Sham' Deal to Immunize President and his Sons and get Todd Blanche Confirmed—Share This Everywhere
Good morning, everyone.
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They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America… hartmannreport.com/p/killing-un...
Killing Unions: The Greatest Political Heist in American History
They didn't rob a bank. They robbed entire generations by dismantling the one institution powerful enough to stand up to corporate America…
hartmannreport.com
Happy Market Manipulation Monday - brought to you by the most corrupt family in American history. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Why Wall Street Firms Are Paying $100,000 a Month for a Fast Track to Trump Posts
Traders who already monitor the president’s pronouncements with automated systems can pay for an ultrafast feed. At least five firms have signed up.
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Trump is going to make every January 6th insurrectionist a millionaire with YOUR money, and not a single Republican is going to try to stop him.
So Foxnews spent weeks talking about the “vandals” destroying the reflecting pool. Now the the Govt has admitted that Trump hired terrible contractors who screwed it up and dropped the charges against the “vandal” our friends at Fox have no coverage of that fact.
Two people in Michigan have now died from the severe diarrhea-causing parasite. @jessicanix.bsky.social has more > www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Two People Die From Illness Traced to US Parasite Outbreak
Two people have died in Michigan from the severe diarrhea-causing parasite that has sickened thousands across the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
bloomberg.com
Excuse my ignorance, but if Todd Blanche is confirmed, couldn’t he just issue a new memo under a slightly different framework that still gives Trump the slush fund and the immunity he wanted? We can’t trust these people.
A win and a loss. At least Trump’s proposed slush fund is gone. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) announced they will support Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general after Blanche said he would formally scrap the administration’s proposed “anti-weaponization” fund.
GOP senators say they will back Blanche confirmation after he rescinds 'weaponization' fund
The agreement appears to resolve one of the highest-profile Republican revolts against Trump in Congress, led by two lawmakers who are due to retire at the end of this year.
reuters.com
Blanche gave Cornyn/Tillis a fake deal, which is not a legally binding modification of the original agreement signed by all parties like they demanded, & kept IRS immunity, so they can surrender while declaring victory. Just more theater from worthless Republicans in the senate.
"So far, Miller has been mostly successful in leveraging the right’s hatred of mainstream media to prevent his own party from organizing against him. It’s an ugly illustration of how the right-wing bubble both protects and suffocates its own." — @nberlat.bsky.social
The right-wing bubble seals in the GOP with Max Miller
Live by the Fox hit, die by the Fox hit.
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And “I get nothing, though” is how you know he gets most of it
MEDIA PSA: When you call it the $1.8 Billion “anti-weaponization fund” you’re helping Trump sane-wash it It’s an “insurrectionist slush fund” A “heist” or “theft” from taxpayers A “scheme” to enrich himself When you use his words you aren’t a journalist, you’re a stenographer
The level of North Korea-style praise for Trump at this Camp David cabinet meeting is bizarre. Strong democracies don’t require public displays of devotion to one man. Authoritarian regimes do.
The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. QAnon-spouting MAGA is.
Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.
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Republican senators got to do their performative yelling at Fauci for the cameras. The cult got to get all worked up into a lather. The Republican senators will now send out fundraising emails on it. The rubes will throw them some cash. Next.
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Republican governance is nothing but a constant smash-and-grab. Sadly, no matter how aggressive future federal and state administrations may wish to be, there will never be enough time or resources to investigate and prosecute all the crimes of this era. We'll just have to make a few examples.
Grant Stern@grantstern.bsky.social · last wk.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
From "the worst of the worst" to "people we can arrest with the least effort" -- entirely predictable.
Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...
1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵
