Chris Bradley

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

Disgusting. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Opinion | Pam Bondi’s Performance Before Congress Readers react to the attorney general’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Also: “Freedom from fear”; the Melania Trump movie; humor that’s not funny.

“I made the mistake of watching Attorney General Pam Bondi testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday,” John Weaver writes in a letter to The Times. “If I was concerned about the state of our union before, now I’m downright depressed.”

YouTube video by MS NOW ‘Astounding’: Chris Hayes stunned Bondi still has DOJ job 

WATCH: “In any remotely sane political climate she would be impeached, fired, or just have the good sense to resign in disgrace,” says Chris Hayes on Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Criminal behavior by the monopolies

Sucks to suck

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

He needs to go far, far away

Love this

Lol

If your resolution this year is to support more independent bookstores, hi!👋🏽

We’re Bookshop.org, an ethical alternative to Amazon for buying books online where every purchase supports indie bookstores all over the U.S. 😌📚

(And our CEO has never gone to space, just saying)

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship

What this will mean, in practice, that if you are deemed an enemy of the administration, they will pore through your citizenship application paperwork looking for some reason to retroactively disqualify you.
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Way to go DAWGS!

UW WINS THE NATIONAL TITLE! Lengthy review after the goal stands.

Rob Reiner was a good guy. He made a lot of movies about good guys, in worlds where not everyone was good and you didn’t have to be good. He made movies about people trying. He was angry, as many hopeful people are. He knew the world could be better and he wanted it to be. His death is devastating.

😢💔

A bonus Daily Cartoon by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

DOJ has sued Maine, Oregon, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Washington, Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, and Vermont for access to its most sensitive voter data.

My firm has moved to intervene in 10 of those cases. We are working on the last 4.

The number of Europeans travelling to the US has cratered under Trump Year-on-year change in visitors to the US, by country of origin (%) Source: International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce FT graphic: John Burn-Murdoch / @jburnmurdoch OFT

The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled.

SCOTUS seems to be preparing for more pretzel logic. 🥨 joycevance.substack.com/p/monday-in-...

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

I haven’t been able to form a sentence in like 10 minutes

Muted it. This is nauseating. Could we just get to the actual draw?

LOL, we’re giving a peace prize to someone in the process of literally committing war crimes. Kinda perfect.

Could we just do the World Cup draw without all of this Pomp and Circumstance? 😝

Honestly it’s pathetic

What really matters #givingtuesday

Hakeem Jeffries is out with a new Dear Colleague letter, saying there are "just 13 legislative days left" before ACA tax credits expire, and that House Dems are planning to introduce a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on a three-year extension of ACA tax credits.

Sex Crimes. State Crimes. War Crimes. We’re detecting a pattern with this administration.

“'Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?' Augustine made this suggestion in The City of God. In the country of Trump, we’re getting a convincing demonstration. Justice has been removed and a gang of criminals are in charge."

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