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."
Did not miss any of these (tho admit the Whiskey Pete thing didn't make it far beyond FT), but strongly applaud this kind of summarizing.
It's REALLY hard to keep up with all the corruption. Really hard.
"The company founded and formerly run by Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright recorded $193 million of income last year but paid no 2025 federal corporate income taxes, according to its regulatory filings, and actually got more than $10 million back from the IRS..."
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If Dems retake either house, they must launch an investigation into this. There's no easier way to highlight the corruption of this era and to establish that Dems are committed to fighting it.
Pretty sure @wyden.senate.gov and Maxine Waters would be the chairs to do it.
Trump's DOJ just asked for probation for someone who committed three identity thefts.
that beep beep beep sound you hear is the president and his family backing a truck up to the US treasury...
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TL;DR: it doesn’t benefit humanity. It’s replacing us.
Stefanik. Stupid autocorrect.
I don’t want to see Stefanie as a bootlicking, sycophantic politician devoid of ethics and integrity but here we are.
Enjoy the ratio, Bezos. You earned it with this nonsense.
This administration is disgustingly represented by nothing but criminals.
Three right-wing ideologues signed contracts that may require they register as foreign agents for a Hungarian government-funded organization – and that the organization is possibly altering language in contracts to avoid this – according to a review of their contracts with the organization. Christopher Rufo speaks on Jan. 25, 2023, in Sarasota, Florida. (Photo by Dirk Shadd/Tampa Bay Times via Alamy) Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, right-wing writer Michael O’Shea and Claremont Institute senior fellow Jeremy Carl signed contracts with the Hungarian government-funded nonprofit Batthyány Lajos Foundation (BLA), which maintains the Danube Institute (DI), a Hungarian think tank. The contracts are from 2022 and 2023. These contracts require either a speech, media appearance, reports or – in the case of O’Shea – a minimum of two articles in U.S. or European media. They cover issues of migration, LBGTQ+ rights, critical race theory (CRT) and Hungary’s relations with regional allies. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used all these issues to win influence with the international conservative and far-right movements.
I'm fairly gobsmacked by the number of people who profess surprise that Orbán was funding CPAC. Did you know of his ties to Heritage and Project 2025?
One of the most telling, tho, was he funded Rufo and the racist Trump tried to install at State, Jeremy Carl.
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I just read that Hungary was paying CPAC and Magyar has stopped the payments.
I was just thinking Dr. Kevorkian was a better and kinder doctor.
@governor.pa.gov ban these in PA.
historic rejection of JD Vance
REMINDER: Saudi Arabia does not want the war in Iran to end before there is regime change. The Saudis are paying a top U.S. negotiator, Jared Kushner, tens of millions annually. The negotiations just ended without a deal, exactly what the Saudis wanted.
NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal.
Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.
Breaking MS NOW:
More than 50 House Democrats are now calling for Trump's removal through impeachment or the 25th Amendment.
I’m guessing the outrage and talk about the 25th amendment had a significant influence on this decision.
Never let this be forgotten.
I mean the SCOTUS decision basically allows Trump to commit atrocities and get away with it regardless of his “madman” status.
The only hope for justice at this point is his timely, natural death.
This made me actually throw up. He will destroy the world
"What he’s threatening is not the kind of war that vaguely adheres to any rules or laws. He’s making openly terroristic threats."
Yep. The Domestic Terrorist-in-Chief.
Harmeet Dhillon, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief and a potential candidate for promotion, attended the weekend wedding of Republican fundraiser Caroline Wren — a key organizer of the Jan. 6 rally. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Reporter: You called the Iranians crazy bastards. True. What is your response to critics who say—
Trump: I don’t care about critics.
Reporter: They say it is your mental health that should be examined.
Trump: I haven’t heard that.
Vance, Trump, Putin and Netanyahu all support Orbán, which is all the evidence you need that he is way behind in the polls (which as a matter of fact he is) and running a wild campaign of lies (which as a matter of fact he is).
No one has benefited more from Trump’s war than Russian billionaires.
Do we know if the president is in the hospital? No.
Do we know that Republicans will see everyone gleefully trying to wish that into reality? Oh yes.
One thing I love is the percentage of “journalism” devoted to pretending this kind of gutter racism is some benign, rational other thing that only the white people midwestern diners and staffers at right wing think tanks can truly understand bsky.app/profile/pale...
