ICYMI, people and organizations tied to Hungarian president Viktor Orban’s former regime have been deeply involved with NatCon, the Thiel-backed conference that elevated both JD Vance and Christian Nationalism in the US. I’ve been collecting receipts. 1/
Part of Trump's ongoing efforts to use DoJ to target and harass anyone who opposes his policies.
"As is so often the case with commentary about the emergency docket, the Court’s defenders make arguments that sound outwardly reasonable, but that depend entirely on cherry-picking their examples and ignoring the counterexamples."
Me on the barrage of commentary attacking the Times' #SCOTUS scoop:
1. A tiny California tribe, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, just donated $2 MILLION to MAGA Inc, Trump's Super PAC.
I decided to find out why.
It's an illustration of exactly how business is done in Trump’s Washington.
Follow along for details.
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BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number
BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy
RFK Jr: *death growls*
BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?
The Republican men who pretend to care about women’s sports standing in front of the actual athletes really sums their whole charade up perfectly
Trump’s morning posts:
— Let’s kill Iranians who don’t want a deal
— I’m ordering the Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the Strait
— We actually have full control over the Strait
— I don’t need a deal
It’s to get back young men
Excerpt from Musk's deposition
Let the record show that Elon Musk does not recall ingesting rhino ketamine at Burning Man in 2017 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Some of them will lie with every breath until they leave office.
Rep. Carlos Gimenez: "Really what this has demonstrated is that we can choke off China's oil anytime we want. We now have Venezuela's oil -- it's under our control -- and we can stop the flow of Iranian oil anytime."
The Trump administration has crammed an astonishing number of political appointees into the highest echelons of #CDC, most with few or no medical or public health credentials. One of the latest is surprising: A former Big Tobacco exec. www.statnews.com/2026/04/22/n...
They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.
Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.
You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.
Ossoff: "When you throw people off their health insurance and drive up their premiums and gut the Medicaid program in order to cut taxes for the wealthiest people in the country, that's also corruption. That's the corruption that's endemic in our political system and predates Trump."
This is exactly what brought down Orban in Hungary, funneling contracts to his son in law that made him one of the wealthiest people in the country.
Correction: it was Orban’s son in law
*Also, nice touch with picture of face of concern
“It doesn’t sound like you”
"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."
And this is what brought down Orban. He made his son one of the wealthiest people in Hungary by funneling contracts to him.
The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...
The sugar baby angle is getting headlines; the scarier story is that the inexperienced MAGA 20-something hired straight from her grad program to a senior DHS role is probably one of the MORE qualified people staffing the upper-ranks of the agency right now.
Laughable that someone who probably paid someone to graduate 5th grade is getting a 24 million dollar contract from the Pentagon.
She got fired and he’s seeking counseling.
I don’t know what’s more insulting, that this is obviously blatant corruption in the open or that we allowed really incompetent morons to do this.
Are we a nation led by mobsters? Because it really feels like it.
Criminal behavior has become normalized in the Republican Party along with a headset of “anything to win.”
