Boing!

The Bannon/Farage/Johnson plot to topple May looks pretty damning by November 2018, but starts that summer when Johnson resigns. 15 July Bannon goes on Farage’s LBC show to lambast May. Epstein texts: “Good work on LBC”. Next day he tells Epstein he’s in “London with Boris”

James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

Trump

Historic run - every institution snapped like a cheap ski pole.

BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Not About One Office, One Country, or One Week This is about power. Influence. And what happens when one billionaire decides the rules don’t apply to him anymore.

BREAKING: France Just Raided Elon Musk’s X Offices In Paris — And It’s Bad. Really, Really, Bad.
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I’m assuming Waltz recorded the call. He’ll now have leverage over Trump, given Trump’s inability to tell the truth

Reminder that it’s been over a month since Trump’s Justice Department was legally obligated to release all of the Epstein files. They’ve still failed to do so, and every day they wait is another day victims don’t get accountability.

Speeches are only speeches unless and until cogent actions follow, but they can point a way for such actions, and inspire others.

This was a remarkable address. There is no joy here — an unstable President, with acolytes and handlers, is a real danger, but clarity about this is a necessity.

People think fashion isn’t temporary and frivolous. But, for nearly 80 years, there’s always been that one jacket that screams: I have a small cock and nobody likes me. A timeless and eloquent piece of design.

To my Republican colleagues, the Vice President is spitting in your face and openly flouting your constitutional authority.

Time to decide if you came here to be a Member of Congress or a cheerleader for whatever Trump wants.

He Kept Me Sane This Year And that wasn’t easy.

This guy, along with Borowitz, Jeff Tiedrich and Thom Hartmann helped keep us all sane this year.
Jesse is OUR Woody Guthrie, our very own voice, our troubador for this time.

Pardoned by Trump after convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud and tax evasion. Don’t have to pay back $17.8 million in restitution or serve 12 year sentence. Not Somalis.

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Everyone waiting until Trump instals those marble armrests. Nothing says comfort and class like…marble armrests.

I don’t see Trump in that photo? I assume he - like the bashful fella he is - will be operating behind the scenes, away from the limelight. I’m sure he’ll take credit in the end.

Quick reminder that when Elon Musk was in government, he lied about massive fraud, and did so to eliminate safety net programs as well as government capacity to oversee real fraud.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

MTG tells the Times that when she threatened to expose the men who abused Epstein’s victims, Trump called to scream at her.

“My friends will get hurt,” he said.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it’s still shocking to read.

Maybe don’t be friends with pedos, just saying

Couldn’t help it.

Sound on. Tap to open full screen.

The loss of CBS News is devastating - the pantheon of journalistic integrity just gone. Poof. In like an instant.
CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, & Face the Nation are now all moving right. It is massively sad & tragic.

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There's never been a president more compromised.

This is wild!

You know the Vanity Fair article with Susie Wiles that everyone’s talking about?

Yeah. This is basically the audio version Narrated by Nicolle Wallace, and it’s not “taken out of context”. ☠️😭

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Seeing through Hegseth’s blame-shifting as he drives the bus over admiral Bradley

Not the Brain! Definitely Not the Brain! Stop Asking About the Fucking Brain! Who among us hasn’t strolled into Monday morning and said, “Fuck it, I’ll take one preventative MRI, please”?

Who among us hasn’t strolled into Monday morning and said, “Fuck it, I’ll take one preventative MRI, please.”
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He’s been knocking out brilliant tunes for years. Witty, beautiful and right-on-the-fucking nose. He deserves the widest audience possible.

Jesse Welles, reminding us 'That Can't Be Right' Young singer-songwriter is emerging as the leading voice of today's protest movement

A new column on the protest music of Jesse Welles.

Listen to a sampling of the young singer-songwriter's work in the link below. You won't be disappointed.

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Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds

Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
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