If you're @raskin.house.gov, how tempting is it to do a press hit today where you tell Pam Bondi this isn't goodbye forever, it's just a farewell until he's running House Judiciary next year and has the chance to subpoena her himself

Tweet from unusual whales: BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else at the time. The trader seemingly made huge gains. Unusual.

$1.5B in a single trade made 5 minutes before Trump’s announcement yesterday. Who made it?

Former CIA Director John Brennan to MSNOW: “I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly.”

But make it circular.

Remember LMU's Hank Gathers 30 years after his tragic death on the basketball court | E:60 YouTube video by ESPN

College basketball star Hank Gathers died #OTD in 1990. It is hard to overstate how good Loyola Marymount was that year.

I will always remember that image of Bo Kimble hitting a free throw in memory of his friend - @marchmadnesswbb.bsky.social + #BasketballSky.

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Ah! The ubiquitous Trumpian “two weeks.”
Anybody make a montage of these?

Ever since Trump began running for president in 2015, it was obvious he was BS'ing--that he did not & would not do the necessary homework to actually understand the issues and make genuinely informed decisions. This war with Iran is the deadly consequence of his ignorance, laziness and narcissism.

Are they bringing Dick Cheney back for this one?

This is a distressing story about Trump’s attempts to impede Thomas Massie’s efforts to release the Epstein files. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Nice to see that the goal is for this fuckwit’s entertainment 🙄

This is effing amazing

#GTHC
It’s Rivalry Week. Nuff said.
#GoDuke #ourblueisbest

WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.

So is Congress going to just stand around if Trump rolls in the wrecking balls to the Kennedy Center?

Were Megatron and Cobra Commander unavailable?

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

A palate cleanser for your timeline

As of this morning, it is imperative that the Democratic caucus in the senate remove Schumer as Minority Leader, Durbin as minority whip and Cortez Masto as Vice Chair of Outreach.

Replace them today with Van Hollen, Murphy and Merkley. Or anyone else who actually knows how to lead and discipline.

This is the message of a failed, feckless, and leaderless party. We need a party with backbone, and the only path to it is through a cleansing primary season. If your Dem is up for reelection, and you aren't damn sure they're fighting the fascists with everything they've got, primary the bastard.

The 60 Minutes interview, in which Nora O’Donnell let Trump blather on with lie after lie without fact-checking him or pushing back, is a reminder of why we need journalists who will hold him accountable rather than just giving him a platform to spread lies.

DC residents know that the only common language that matters is staying on the right if you're standing still on a Metro escalator.

A public service request:
Please stop saying variations of “I didn’t have [thing] on my bingo card.”
You don’t (expletive) play (expletive) bingo!

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

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Pam Bondi’s defensive attacks against Senate Democrats questioning her was not the flex she thinks it was. All it did was vividly point out how she has abandoned Justice Dept. independence to serve the desires of her authoritarian boss.

@RepFine: Democrats are willing to stop paying American soldiers in order to give free health care to foreign invaders. If that doesn’t violate their oath of office, I don’t know what does.

Undocumented immigrants aren’t even *allowed* to access Medicare, Medicaid or ACA credits.

Republicans like Randy are going to spike your health insurance premiums, but they REALLY want you to blame an immigrant instead.

Good time to release the Epstein files

Since the very first assholes appeared in the assholiverse, throughout the lengthy, destructive history of assholery, we have achieved the apex, the apogee, a government almost exclusively by, of and for assholes, the first truly pure assholocracy the U.S. has ever seen.