TACO Tuesday

Office Hours: Who Should Be the Democratic Candidate in 2028? Friends,

Who should be the Democratic candidate in 2028?

Please take my poll. I'm curios to hear your thoughts. robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-who-shoul...

Kash Patel sues The Atlantic for defamation

F.B.I. director is seeking $250 million in damages
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Watching Sen. Warren questioning Trump's Fed Chair nominee Kevin Warsh. In response to if he disagrees with Trump on anything Warsh gives a cutsie answer about not being "central casting". What a jerk.

www.c-span.org/event/senate...

@democracynow.org

There is so much work to be done to make our country less expensive and more affordable for working families.
 
This work is impossible without an independent Federal Reserve.

Important investigation- national policy bends to the will of billionaires if the Trump clan will make $ from it

Hegseth has just proudly announced on Twitter that flu vaccines will no longer be mandatory for US Servicemembers.

Before The Regime took power, the DoD correctly said that vaccine refusal is a national security threat.

New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

President Zelenskyy:

Ukraine has completed repairs to the section of the Druzhba oil pipeline that was damaged by a Russian strike.The pipeline can resume operations

And .. here come the Freedom of Information Act requests for Kash Patel records

DC watchdog group Democracy Forward has formally requested Patel's calendars & any messages from security detail that include words "drinking", "hungover", "inebriated"

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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.

Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

Maine Democrat David Costello pursues bid for the U.S. Senate Costello is one of three Democrats who has qualified for the June primary ballot. Learn more about him here.

For those interested, here’s a link to News Center Maine’s (Phil Hirschkorn’s) profile of my candidacy for the US Senate. Brief overview at the top and more in-depth questions and answers video at the bottom following the text...

www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

New in PN: Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end

"Johnson has such a small majority he can’t afford to alienate anybody, & he has nonetheless managed to alienate everybody. The coming months will be brutal for him & are likely to end w/his speakership destroyed in a humiliating, titanic blue wave"

War on Truth…

Off with their headlines…

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment Even with pivotal elections looming this year, that lingering presence is barely mentioned

National Guard roams Washington with no end in sight to $1 million-per-day deployment

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Screenshot of a Substack note by account 'JoJoFromJerz' that says: 'In a sane administration, the FBI Director doesn’t go on the morning news to prove he’s not a drunk, the Defense Secretary doesn’t quote Tarantino to prove he’s a man of God, and the President doesn’t take multiple cognitive exams to prove he’s not insane.'

None of this is normal.

FBI Director says arrests ‘coming soon’ on 2020 rigged election conspiracy FBI Director Kash Patel: "We have the information that backs President Trump's claim.”

1/ Looks like the FBI director is trying to fight to hold onto his job by currying favor with the president after recent revelations about his personal conduct. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Today's the day, Virginia. Vote to save democracy. Vote yes.

Trump admin plagued by insider trading suspicions as new data unveils pattern Traders have wagered millions of dollars just hours or minutes before Trump statements on issues of major global import

Trump admin plagued by insider trading suspicions as traders bet millions just before announcements

Traders have wagered millions of dollars just hours or minutes before Trump statements on issues of major global import
www.themirror.com/news/politic...

Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”

www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

The media’s failure to cover Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s ongoing conflicts of interest as he gets billions from the Middle East while being Trump’s negotiator is insane.

(Especially after what they did with Hunter Biden)

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Insane corruption.

And if Lutnick is profiting from the end of tariffs you can bet Trump is getting a taste.

Trump picked this fight. And make no mistake, it’s a national fight. Democrats could’ve turned a blind eye, or fight back.

They chose to fight back, and I’m here for it.

Thanks in advance, Virginia.
#VoteYesVirginia

📌By suing The Atlantic, blackout drunk, Kash Patel, has triggered 3 things:

1) Made good and damn sure millions more read the story.
2) Made good and damn sure discovery in this meritless case is even more damning and saucy.
3) Made good and damn sure he will be back in the private sector shortly.

Trump did this 👇🏽

Some progressives & Democrats need to stop justifying refusing to vote or 3rd party voting by saying Biden "didn't do anything."

He did a whole damn lot. Facts matter. And so does a young liberal SCOTUS justice who will protect civil rights for decades.

www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/fa...

According to reports, Corey Lewandowski took kickbacks to secure DHS contracts for paying contractors.

Fired Secretary Kristi Noem handed $220M in taxpayer funds to her allies for self-promotion. This is blatant corruption.

These partners in crime need to be fully investigated.