Republican Drafts a Bill That Would Make Joseph McCarthy Blush The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…

More crazy from the unrecognizable zombies comprising the Republican party.

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I want to throw up.

Chief Justice’s Wife Made $10M+ as Legal Recruiter: Report At least one of the firms reportedly had a case before Chief Justice Roberts.

The corruption is just stunning.

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Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout It's almost as though he wants Republicans to lose.

New in PN: Trump Is dooming his party to a midterm blowout

"The difference between '18 and '26 is that not only has Trump become even more repellent, his actions have made everything worse. In fact, it’s hard to imagine what more he could do to enrage voters & ensure his party’s defeat in November"

Another weekend of playing Deal or No Deal with our unhinged president.

Todd Blanche Puts Dmitry Firtash's Onetime Lawyer In Charge of Criminalizing the Russian Investigation - emptywheel The biggest reason Joe DiGenova is a wildly inappropriate person to lead an attempt to criminalize the Russian investigation is his past efforts to get paid by Russian-backed Ukrainians to do the same...

Todd Blanche appointing Joe DiGenova to oversee the investigation of John Brennan brings the old let's-screw-the-Bidens band back together.

This sad history will be dragged out for public discussion in the weeks ahead. It's Fruman and Parnas and Manafort, oh my!

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Pete Hegseth Reads Tarantino’s Fake Bible Quote From ‘Pulp Fiction’ at Prayer Service Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesman, released a statement defending Hegseth, arguing that "anyone saying the Secretary misquoted Ezekiel 25:17 is peddling fake news and ignorant of reality."

Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right, here we are.
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Trump administration deepens quest to stamp out the events of Jan. 6 In his second term, the president has doubled down on efforts to reframe public perception of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in court and beyond.

A case study of how Big Brother gets sheeple to disbelieve their lying eyes.

And believe that the Jan. 6 rioters were "patriots."

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Opinion | Why Democrats are failing to reach young voters like me Some in the party don’t understand the attention economy or how to communicate.

Democrats need to listen up: your social media isn't cutting it.

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Hungary's New PM Just Showed Us What Courage Looks Like. Where's Ours? Hypothetically, if I was elected President, here are the opening salvos of restoration

Adam Kinzinger describes the steps he'd take on the national trip back to sanity after Trump.

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Did you hear Trump say that the Pope wants Iran to have nuclear weapons?

He was lying.

Trump, not the Pope.

Everyone who believed what Trump said should have a brain scan immediately.

ICE agent charged with two felonies for pointing his gun at motorists during Operation Metro Surge Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said a nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the surge.

A nationwide warrant has been issued in the first criminal charges against an ICE agent for on-duty actions during the enforcement surge in Minnesota.

Todd Blanche says Americans should be 'happy' Trump is deeply involved in DOJ The acting attorney general said in an interview with NBC News that he's not concerned when Trump "encourages or directs or expects the Department of Justice to do its job."

Todd Blanche, you must know that if, as attorney general, you decide to investigate and prosecute Donald Trump, your life would be in jeopardy.

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Todd Blanche and Jeanine Pirro Clear Proud Boy and Oath Keeper Terrorists to Rearm - emptywheel Jeanine Pirro and Todd Blanche have asked to wipe away the terrorist, sedition, and other convictions of the Proud Boy and Oath Keeper leaders, clearly branding the GOP as the party of terrorism.

For high officials in law enforcement to allow pardoned Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to rearm is a slap in the face to those of us aching for the rule of law to return.

Justice reversed is worse than justice delayed.

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Democrats: To Win America Back, Confront Trump's and the GOP's Naked Corruption From Hungary to Ukraine to America, one message wins: expose the rigged system and mobilize voters to defeat it…

Democrats' primary message for the midterms should be "corruption."

It's the corruption, stupid.

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Is Trump the Antichrist? For me, all the proof I need that Trump, if not the biblical Antichrist, is at least a political one, is what he says and does...

Thom Hartmann ticks off the evidence for Trump as the antichrist.

A pretty good troll, and as convincing as any conspiracy theory the right has ever tried to cook up.

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Insiders reveal secret meeting where fed officials hatched 'kamikaze' plot to stop Trump In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible for protecting American elections from fraud converged in a windowless, dim, fortified room at the Justice Department’s downtown Washington, D.C., h...

Excellent review of how election guardrails that saved us in 2020-'21 have been dismantled, increasing the risk of overturning legitimate results in 2026 and 2028.

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Did Trump Just Light a Fuse He Can’t Control? The Strait of Hormuz crisis could be following the same path that led to World War I…

Tune in for the next episode of "Trump's War," where the US sets up a blockade of the Hormuz Strait, threatening to stop and board ships from other nuclear-armed countries.

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Vote. Forever and always and in any way possible, vote.

The FBI Budget Has a Secret. It's About You. New FBI counterterrorism agency focuses on dissent, and ICE has new spyware that can break encrypted messages

Deport the atheists!

(Hey, wait...that's me!)

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The question the entire world is asking. 😳👇

Great observation. And gut-check true.

Trump's golden arch 'vanity project' ignites fury as inflation soars On the same day that the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed that inflation spiked at its fastest monthly rate in four years, the Trump administration unveiled renderings of President Donald Trump’s ...

To commemorate all his triumphs.

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Billions feel this way

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