If Democrats retake the Senate, Warren will surely become chair of the Senate Banking Committee and, as such, in a position to investigate, humiliate and ultimately destroy Scott Bessent.

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 24h ago

A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:

If you're a reporter asking a candidate to denounce a foreign terrorist group simply because he shares the same religion, you are a gutter bigot of the worst fucking kind. Do they ask Mike Rogers to denounce Christian terrorists like Tim McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph and Robert Lewis Dear? No? Huh

James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 8h ago

@meetthepress.com interview w @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is 100% gotcha, starting w his criticizing Obama 14 years ago, at age 27. Two Qs on that, then 'can you deny ties to Muslim Brotherhood' etc. He handles them all with aplomb, and keeps coming back to economy, corruption, etc. But COME ON.

One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social · 24h ago

A letter from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, and a member of the Senate Finance Committee:

A+ Fresno State fan shot

Absolutely insanity. How the hell can this person possibly be employed with this level of malicious lying? Unless of course that is what your network is all about. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Rachel Campos-Duffy claims Ukraine has killed "a million kids on the Russian side"

TIL that public executions are an American value Turns out that ISIS and Iran are leaders on upholding American values

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

BRENNAN: Nidal Hasan is in a wheelchair. Doesn't the administration risk livestreaming this and making him a martyr? Couldn't this be a risk to the homeland? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: No one has to watch it B: Well then why are you livestreaming it? MULLIN: The president is restoring American values

Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now members of Congress are being denied the ability to see the damage at these bases because there's a coverup underway. There's a coverup underway to try to hide the cost of this war and the debacle it has caused in the region."

The grim irony is that if Trump hadn't started his damn fool war with Iran, we could have shifted much of those interceptor stocks over to Ukraine to protect Ukrainian civilians and then we would actually have the leverage to ask Zelensky and Ukraine not to kinetically sanction Russian oil.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Very refreshing to hear an elected official speaking articulately. I reckon we will be hearing a lot more from Senator Ossoff in the next few years.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

"You hired half the Third Reich to staff your office ... If John Lewis were marching today, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club" -- here's a supercut of Jon Ossoff SMASHING Mike Collins during tonight's debate

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

kate conger@kateconger.com · 2d ago

Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

It’s simple to figure out at this point, he’s a Russian asset. Thank you for your attention to this treason.

Keep asking the question of the chamber if it was a demand of the Marx campaign to get questions in advance or if it was something the chamber offered to get him to come. While it might seem like a minor difference, it's an important one.

The top marginal tax rate was 77% in 1918. I believe it was really FDR, the New Deal and social security that started all the plotting.

No, they just started plotting today's agenda. Starting things like Heritage Foundation, Turning Point, with hateful, bigot, racists like Rush. Convincing religious organizations to move into politics and join the zionists, etc.

The marginal tax rate for the richest was 91% in the ‘50s with a R president. And the rich did just fine. There was a lot else wrong with the ‘50s, but taxing the rich wasn’t one of them.

Tax them at 90% and they’ll still be the 1%

Nice extrapolation from one data point! Kamala was great. That debate - incredible. She will deservedly be the Dem stalking horse in 28. That loss was 100% on the selfishness of Biden. And if someone beats her for the nomination, I want her to take SecState. Or AG. Or Chief Justice.

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

www.cbc.ca/news/world/m... This jerk Mike Rogers was down with supporting Trump’s bullying of Canada before it dawned on him it was a political liability to do so. He was a lousy US Representative he’d be an even worse US Senator.

'Canada is not our enemy': Michigan Republican Senate candidate breaks with Trump on trade war | CBC News

The Republican candidate in a pitched battle for Michigan's open Senate seat is calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to end the trade war with Canada.

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All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.

Same energy:

dawg I WISH

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

JENNINGS: Let's say Democrats take the House. How sure are you that they would immediately move to impeach President Trump? MIKE JOHNSON: It's guaranteed. Probably on the first day.

It’s alarming that most elected officials, agencies, journalists and brands marinate in that toxic waste dump all day.

It's only the first round but I can't believe Brazil did everything right going after Jair Bolsanaro over his attempted coup only to be on the verge of electing his corrupt dipshit son.

If Biden had appointed him or someone like him or Sally Yates rather than Federalist Society stooge Merrick Garland we might not be in this mess.