New: I wrote a long critical essay about Marco Rubio -- the moral compromises he's made and the intellectual hypocrisies he hourly indulges to serve Donald Trump.
macspaunday.substack.com/p/marco-solo...
***Leaked White House Video***
Trump claimed Jesus was afraid of being arrested: “Thursday, the disciples gathered with Jesus as their teacher stood in fear as he was arrested and betrayed.”
The Bible teaches Jesus knew and embraced his betrayal and arrest.
“The biggest cover-up of my adult life”: Inside the CIA’s attempt to make Havana Syndrome disappear
@michaeldweiss.bsky.social talks to a CIA whistleblower who says the spy agency set out to prove Anomalous Health Incidents weren’t real or caused by a foreign adversary. Neither is true, he says.
This is because the Pentagon and Trump don’t like Anthropic’s language preventing their tech from being used to surveil Americans or for autonomous weapons. Which means the Pentagon wants to use their tech to surveil Americans and build autonomous weapons apnews.com/article/anth...
The restoration of the slavery exhibit at the President's House in Philadelphia is currently underway. This process is being completed ahead of the federal judge's upcoming Friday deadline to ensure the historical site is fully updated.
Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.
This is looting.
If you’re seeing this photo around, the BBC found the original source and it’s AI generated with Gemini. The signs in the background with Hebrew writing don’t actually translate to anything.
www.bbc.com/news/live/cz...
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says one of her closest allies has been kidnapped hours after being released from prison.
apnews.com/article/vene...
Makes sense. Facts don’t matter to the Tulsi Gabbard-led intelligence community.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Donald Trump Jr, who has exactly zero experience or competence in manufacturing or defense, has received more than $600,000,000 in contracts from Pete Hegseth's "Department of War."
Smart move Comer. Now we can drag former Presidents in front of Congress!
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Just had a fabulous talk with John Sipher, one of the most experienced CIA officers of his generation. We went into the Epstein files, what they say about Epstein and Russian intelligence, how Epstein kompromat might work to influence Trump… substack.com/@phillipspob...
Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds."
This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.
It’s a loyalty test. It’s always a loyalty test. And every time Republicans feign ignorance or hem and haw, it gives him the green light to go even further.
A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
The GOP is okay with violence as long as they're the ones holding the gun.
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I think people are realizing it was all a lie. It was a big lie for the people. What MAGA is really serving in this administration, who they're serving, is their big donors."
Went on @thebulwark.com's Shield of the Republic podcast to discuss Venezuela, Iran, Ukraine, and AHI. Much of the discussion focused on why Europe and Ukraine have a difficult time accepting that the US won't always be on side. open.substack.com/pub/macspaun...
Trump is mentioned 38,000 more times in the Epstein files than an innocent person should be.
Tulsi Gabbard Drags U.S. Intelligence into Trump’s Election Fraud Campaign
open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...
apnews.com/article/amaz...
The Epstein files are 41 days past due.
Where the HECK ARE THEY?
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
The EO was based on a Power Point presentation by "information warfare expert" Phil Waldron, who made allegations of foreign interference in the voting systems of several states. So probably doing a refresher, because now these theories appear to be operationalized www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/u...
Is this real? Because if so I think I called it with twelve minutes to spare
The look on Chris Hayes’s @chrislhayes.bsky.social face when Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social pointed out Maduro is currently in American custody & may be connected to voting machines taken in Georgia was truly something.
Those wheels were TURNING.
Exactly!!!
I really think it should be called out as suing taxpayers, because that's the bottom line.
