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It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.

Confronted with an authoritarian president, the media can no longer claim cluelessness. The threat is obvious. Journalists can be cowardly, complicit or courageous. Unfortunately, the dinner hosts of the White House Correspondents’ Association are all out of courage.

Cancel the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Trump will be guest of honor at the “nerd prom,” with journalists serving as suck-ups

In my Stop the Presses newsletter, I gave my advice: Cancel the damn dinner.

FCC chair Brendan Carr, who has threatened to revoke the licenses of broadcast outlets whose Iran war coverage displeases him, plans to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as a guest this Saturday.
The suck-up media will never learn: When you invite fascists to dinner, they devour you.

Drunks
Sycophants
Incompetents
Miscreants
Thieves

No, this is no way to run a country.

Kash’s Complaint As he said he would on Sunday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick this morning over a story that characterizes him as an incomp...

FBI Director Kash Patel sued the Atlantic & a reporter for defamation, alleging they recklessly disregarded truth in suggesting FBI officials are concerned his drinking compromises his ability to do his job. Here’s the breakdown you need to understand the complaint. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Kash’s Complaint As he said he would on Sunday morning, FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation case against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick this morning over a story that characterizes him as an incomp...

FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic explained: joycevance.substack.com/p/kashs-comp...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

"If [Trump] can't be impeached and removed—I mean he is literally the nightmare that the framers of the Constitution had in mind—If members of Congress can't carry out that obligation, then what's the point to Article I? What's the point to the whole Constitution? We might as well just give up."

Trump's comparisons of himself to Obama have grown pathological. @atrupar.com flags Trump obsessing about outdoing Obama's Iran nuclear deal (he won't). He's also been comparing their presidential foundations, too:

newrepublic.com/article/2092...

56,497 companies already applied to get $166 BILLION in refunds for Donald Trump's illegal tariffs.

But where’s Trump’s plan to give the American people their money back?

Every second that ticks by with no refund for American families is theft in broad daylight.

Did Donald Trump Promise Iran $20 Billion? If So—Is that Treason? On Earth One, no—it’s Iran’s money, after all. But on MAGA Earth, if Biden or Obama had done it …

"This all could have been avoided if Trump had just stayed in the JCPOA...but it was Obama’s brainchild, which meant it had to be torn up, simply because Trump is such an insanely insecure and vindictive man."

Important refresher on Iran deal from @mjtoma.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

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(the midterms can't come soon enough)

Vote the Fascists Out (Neon Liberalism #70, with Greg Sargent) Why did JD Vance personally campaign for the former Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán? Why did his comprehensive defeat by a former member of his own party, Péter Magyar, garner such attention fr...

A big lesson of Trumpism and Orbanism has been that corruption isn't incidential to right wing populism, it's intrinsic to it. Enjoyed talking to @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com about my piece on need for libs/Dems to make common cause w/anti-fascism abroad:
www.liberalcurrents.com/vote-the-fas...

In 2022, SpaceX was charged with illegally firing workers who spoke out against Elon Musk.

Then, Elon Musk helped elect Donald Trump, and Trump's labor board dropped the charges.

Was this a political favor? I'm pressing for answers.

Trump is starting to echo the language he hears daily from his sycophants who are telling him how great everything is going

Trump is using religion to divide us.

@marcelias.bsky.social is right.

We can't let up, not even for a moment, until the job is done.

✅️Impeach.
✅️Convict.
✅️Save Democracy.

Democrats seek to bar presidents from collecting settlement money from the government Lawmakers drafted the bill after President Donald Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department for $10 billion over a leak of his tax records to news outlets.

Trump is trying to snatch billions of hard-earned taxpayer dollars through his lawsuits.

I have a bill to close loopholes that enable this corruption and ban Presidents and Vice Presidents from abusing their power, profiting from their own government.

Grand Jury in DC .. good luck with that. This ain’t no southern district of Florida

We’ve hit a point in the news cycle where trump can no longer move people around to make it look like no one’s been fired

Interesting @markjacob.bsky.social point here: Why not more stand-alone stories with heds like "Trump Is Dismantling Democracy"?

"Such a headline would be easy to support with facts that the NYT and other major media report in isolation every day. They’re simply afraid to hit the total button."

Donald Trump’s Fed Chair nominee has problems. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Donald Trump’s Fed Chair nominee has problems.

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Trump just issued a last-minute warning to Virginians that if they vote YES on the redistricting referendum tomorrow, he will lose power:

“If the Democrats get additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.”

The Trump regime is a magnet for creepiness and corruption.

For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.

House Judiciary Democrats are teasing an investigation into FBI Director Kash Patel and The Atlantic's reporting on his alleged intoxication.

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned after a tenure marked by allegations that she had an affair with a security staffer and that her husband sexually assaulted her employees.

www.ms.now/news/trump-l...