A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.
The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
Ladies and gentlemen, the unitary executive
At some point, and maybe we’re here, the people around Trump need to simply ignore him. He’s powerless unless people carry out his orders. I know this is why he’s surrounded himself with feckless idiots, but even they have to have a breaking point.
These people are, at their core, comprehensively stupid people.
Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else?
Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.
tariffs happening for no reason and theyre making your life worse, secret police kidnapping people for no reason and making your life worse, firing thousands of government employees for no reason and making your life worse, going to war with iran for no reason and making your life worse
I love that Trump's toadies are wearing comically large shoes because the boss bought them and they're too chickenshit to mention that he guessed the wrong size.
@unroll.skywriter.blue
it's been painfully clear since at least January 2025 that we are exiting one era and entering another -- but there was, in my view at least, a possibility that, were say Democrats to win commanding majorities come November, Trump neutered or removed, and a Democrat to take the WH in 2028 --
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Estefany Rodriguez Florez, a reporter for Nashville Noticias, was arrested by ICE. Her attorneys argue it was in retaliation for her critical coverage of ICE.
"US District Judge Eli Richardson ordered quick responses in the case, directing the government to file a written justification this week."
buddy every fucking day
i don’t think you need to keep wondering if you’re going to get into heaven when you lie about bombing children. i’m pretty sure you’ve answered that question for yourself already.
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
Oh, yeah!
Tweet from Daniel Pipes: "The uprising in Iran in early January suggested an even greater insurgency would then follow on the U.S.-Israeli campaign to erode regime power. Yet, the populace now appears cowed into near-silence. This ranks as the most surprising and disappointing development of the past week. Without a new uprising, the regime will likely remain in power, less powerful but more awful than ever. (The picture below is from Jan. 10 in Tehran.)"
Amazing how quickly "We're fighting this war for freedom of the Iranian people" becomes "The Iranian people are at fault for not rising up."
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Fox & Friends: "We want to acknowledge a mistake made earlier on our program. During our coverage of yesterday's dignified transfer, we inadvertently aired video from an older dignified transfer instead of the ceremony that took place yesterday. We deeply regret the error."
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose
Someone needs to invent a slide vuvuzela and claim it’s a plastic trombone.
Wow -- as first spotted by @BadFoxGraphics on X, Fox & Friends this morning used *old footage of a previous dignified transfer* to mislead their audience about the fact that Trump wore a baseball cap during the one yesterday
If you’re a democrat in congress who goes on fox the first thing you say in response to any question should be “why did you show the wrong footage of trump saluting dead soldiers?”
Imagine flipping a senate seat in Texas, giving them their first D senator since the early 90s, and then choosing to hand it back to Rs so the guy who flipped it could become VP. It wouldn't make any sense.
It's pretty bad when you are the chief lying liar who lies and can't get one of your obsequiously subordinate lying liars who lie to lie for you because even the subordinate knows it's just too big a lie to tell for anyone but the chief lying liar who lies so much that there is no lie he won't tell.
In the president’s defense, his Trump Store dot com hats aren’t going to advertise themselves
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings
