Beth Mac

The most dangerous thing Trump is doing now is giving highly partisan political speeches to active duty military - repeatedly trashing Democrats. I can’t recall either him, Leavitt, or Reps ever being asked about the fact that it violates a foundational principle of our Republic.

Gallego: "The president is an idiot. He doesn't actually understand how the military works."

Too bad MAGA fillers don’t get it

Trump should go back to playing with his GI Joes

Trump is straight up lying because he can’t tell Americans the truth: He’s raising your health care costs to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

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Meryl Streep’s reaction to Trump calling her “overrated“
Anyone who is more popular than him becomes a threat‼️ He’s so fragile‼️
Her owning the “insult“ and turning it around is admirable‼️ This is why she’s so fantastic‼️
“He has woken us up to how fragile freedom really is”‼️

YouTube video by The Bulwark Did Trump Just Order A Murder at Sea? | Bulwark on Sunday

Really excellent explanation by Ryan Goodman of the legal justifications (or rather the lack thereof) of Trump’s boat strike, and of some the (chilling) further implications. An important conversation, I thought, if not a cheering one.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T1V...

Padilla: "If it was only going after dangerous criminals, there would be no debate. I agree with that. But the fact is the vast majority of those being detained are the same people who were deemed essential workers at the end of the first Trump administration during covid. That's a cruel irony"

UPDATE: DOJ Ethic director Tirrell posts his termination letter on LinkedIn. Says his oath “did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient.”

Analysis: Russia is stepping up attacks. Allies are stepping back. What happens to Ukraine next? Amid ever-escalating aerial assaults, accelerating Russian advances in the east, and the weariness that comes with nearly 3.5 years of war, all eyes in Ukraine are once again focused upon one man — U....

The stakes for Ukraine are existential, and the turbulence of Kyiv-Washington relations since Trump took office means the country — and the rest of Europe — has had to imagine and plan for a life without the U.S., but next door to a newly-emboldened and increasingly militarized Russia.

The onions only real competition is reality

DAILY MEMO: We’re starting to hear from the children ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

55 Canadians have been swept up by ICE and we cannot get any information about them. This is NOT cool.

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A bad President, for instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government; I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked. He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of securing allegiance to the government.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.

What the fuck are we doing here?

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We don't have justice or liberty without it."
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Witkoff uses Kremlin translators in meetings with Putin, NBC reports "If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't know what they are saying," one Western official told NBC News. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, called Witkoff's approach "a very ...

⚡️Witkoff uses Kremlin translators in meetings with Putin, NBC reports.

"If they speak to each other in Russian, he doesn't know what they are saying," one Western official told NBC News. Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, called Witkoff's approach "a very bad idea."