This will be important for the eventual war crimes trial
12.03.2026 06:57
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This will be important for the eventual war crimes trial
“He does what?”
“He likes to guess their shoe size and orders it for them.”
“And they don’t fit?”
“No, he’s comically wrong. Like, every time.”
“And they wear them anyway?”
“Yeah. See, that’s how you know how sycophantic they are. It’s symbolism.”
(beat)
“Eh. We can’t do that. It’s too on the nose.”
Hey friends, please give this short piece by @milestaylor.bsky.social a read.
This is Trump’s circus of souls (and soles) - grown men in clown shoes.
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Folks in Maine and Alaska: please call Collins and Murkowski to oppose the confirmation of Casey Means for Surgeon General. They are apparently still on the fence and MAHA is pushing them hard to vote in favor.
This dead-eyed cretin is effectively illiterate, but if anyone ever pressed Donald Trump or Elon Musk like this in an interview, they would sound exactly the same
Do you think this president would acknowledge that the six US service members killed in action may have died because Russia potentially provided Iran with the precise targeting? Details on my Substack: substack.com/@thefrankfig...
Who the President of the United States cares about
Last 14 months of Biden's term:
+1.74m jobs
First 14 months of Trump's term:
150,000 jobs
(total! for the whole 14 months!)
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A day before early voting begins in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, former President Barack Obama called on Virginians to cast their ballots in favor of a state constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to redraw its congressional map....
James Talarico: "Our economy is broken. Our political system is broken. Even our relationships with each other feel broken. And that's because the most powerful people in the world want it that way. The real fight is not right vs. left. It is top vs. bottom."
James Talarico: "People are hungry for a new kind of politics. Not a politics of fear, not a politics of hate, not a politics of division. But a politics of love. A love that can heal what's broken in America. This new kind of politics is being born in the Lone Star State."
Every Democrat running for office should listen to the speech from James Talarico today. He laid it all out. Rich vs the rest of us. Corruption vs good people. Divisive politics spewed from the right wing. We the people need to rise up and turn the tables. Talarico is speaking to everyone.
I agree with whoever said they hear an echo of Barack Obama in the rhetoric of James Talarico. Democrat with a Little d, politician with a little p, religious with a little r: something for everyone!
Good news!
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, for the second time, that voters can decide whether the state can redraw its congressional map — clearing the way for a referendum that, if successful, could help counter GOP gerrymanders nationwide. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters
CNN put together a montage of the regime's incoherent talking points about Trump's war on Iran
Q: "Do you think Trump should be deposed by this committee?"
HILLARY: "Absolutely. Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers. That is behavior that fits a pattern."
Food for thought for American troops
We have let warfare become even less humane.
newrepublic.com/article/2071...
This war must end. Our Senators and Congressman must not know a moment’s peace until this ends.
Kaine on Fox: "The president can act to defend US against imminent attack without congressional approval. But if you're going to initiate war, you need Congress. The president not only did not come to Congress, he acted without even notification to the vast majority of us. This is an illegal war."
James Talarico: I frankly am tired of the "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric from our leaders here in Texas and in our nation's capital.
I believe in the power of prayer. But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem that we're not willing to solve ourselves.
"Our interest, I think, very much is in NOT going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country."
- 10/27/24
Brad Ingram, who wore a cowboy hat and held his fiancée's pink purse while she posed for a photo with Talarico, told me he'd voted for Trump before but wouldn't do it again. "Being a fellow Christian, love is central to what we believe," he said. "Republicans and the MAGA movement have gotten away from that." A group of nine women in their 40s had come to the rally together; many of their husbands were Trump supporters, they told me, but they themselves wanted a change, and they were hopeful that Talarico might reach some of their family members. One woman told me that her conservative teenage son had recently called Talarico his "GOAT," short for the "greatest of all time." Talarico's "message of hope is appealing to everybody, because everybody's just tired of the negativity," Faye Comte, one of the women in the group, told me. Most of Talarico's fans liked—or even loved—Jasmine Crockett. But they'd chosen him because they appreciate the way he talks about his faith, and because they believe that he'd have a better chance of appealing to Texans in a general election. Part of that is because of Crockett's identity; some people I interviewed told me that they weren't confident that Texans were ready to elect a Black woman to the Senate. But it's also about Talarico's appeal to kindness and respect—an easier sell for some of these voters than Crockett's bombast. Patrick Bonds, an 84-year-old Vietnam veteran, cried as he explained to me that he'd voted Republican all his life but that Trump was "ruining this country." Bonds is voting for Talarico, he said, because "his thinking is more like me; his behavior is more like me. The way he holds himself is more like me."
What’s happening in Texas is a potential miracle. James Talarico’s message of hope is reaching people who we thought were long gone.
Crockett has been a good rep for her district, but Talarico has my endorsement. We can’t throw away a chance to drive a stake into the heart of Christian nationalism
Today in Politics, Bulletin 316. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
