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Washington is pretending to look busy with phony investigations—but don't let them distract you from the cover-up.

The Epstein files remain hidden, and Pam Bondi still hasn’t appeared for questioning.

No hearings. No deposition date. No answers.

Totally nuts 🥜. We have an orange idiot surrounded by idiots

Probably not suspicious that Trump fired his Navy Secretary in the middle of a naval blockade.

Greg Sargent notes that the NY Times accepts the bogus "everyone loves their own gerrymandering" idea when Democrats have tried for years to end *all* gerrymandering. Republicans have blocked reform, leaving Dems with the options of gerrymandering or unilaterally disarming, i.e surrendering.

Imagine losing your Secretary of the Navy, Army Chief of Staff, Attorney General (oversees FBI) and Secretary of Homeland Security all during a war with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. As Simon says below, it is a "shambolic shitshow."

The leader of the Dem Party makes it crystal clear...as usual.

Three-byline alert: 🚨

“.. an assessment that means the conflict’s economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond.”

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Midweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US History Trump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism

open.substack.com/pub/phillips... “The US government is now arguably the most corrupt institution on earth—at least in terms of overall value of corruption. Everything seems to be for sale, from pardons, to the most advanced microchips, to tariff favors, and now even war and peace.”

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My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

“We were terrified they were going to kill us.”

Ecuadorian fishermen recount surviving one of Trump & Hegseth’s boat strikes.

Not drug runners. Fishermen. Drone strike. Boat blown up. Taken captive. By us.

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As I have been saying for a while this is going to happen and we need to start talking about it and pushing for it. We have to MAKE it happen

If we take the defeatist approach that some Dems take—that he'll just magically disappear, or that we can just wait until Jan. 2029, ... (1/3)

It’s all projection with him: as he is a moron he calls everyone smarter than him a low IQ person.

Trump is a man adrift in the burbling sludge of his own dissolving cortex. He does not know what to do to clean up the mega-messes he has created.

Trump's Terrible Polling Gets Worse, National Battlefield Further Deteriorates For GOP - 2026 Has Become A Year Of Opportunity For Democrats Hopium paid subscribers gather tonight at 7pm ET, Founding Members Friday at 1pm

Dems win big in Virginia, Trump's terrible polling gets worse, the national battleground keeps eroding for the Rs - it is shaping up to a be a year of opportunity for Democrats.

My latest look at the 2026 election 👇
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Cartoon by @markdolk.bsky.social

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:

"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Oh my god.

Bizarre how those in GOP pushing this routinely violate the commandments

No one will ever trust us again. In time of crisis, we will have no one who to whom we can turn, no one who will stand by our side. Day-in and day-out this administration betrays our allies and enables our enemies. It is perverse and nauseating.

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t be surprised if Trump suggests the Virginia redistricting vote was rigged, because that’s what he does when he loses close votes. Of course, Trump pushed Texas to redistrict without even consulting the voters.

The most fundamental disconnect between MAGA and everyone else is that we believe everything Trump does is about promoting, enriching and empowering himself because he’s a greedy malignant narcissist, and they believe he actually cares about other people and is primarily motivated by that.

These are disqualifying statements from a future Fed Chair. It’s 100 percent bullshit.

Trump handling the Iran War like a drive by shooting.