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in a healthy society with corporate boards tasked with managing long term success, every ceo that chose to publicly support republicans with company money would be fired on the spot for the willful destruction of the company theyre supposed to be protecting

Is it possible to be more consistently wrong than JD Vance?

His hindsight is like 20/200 - or he was deliberately looking a different way the whole time

How dare her!! 🧐🤨

"When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."

YouTube video by Katie Phang Rubio HUMILIATES Himself During Trump’s GLOBAL PR STUNT

Marco Rubio asked Trump for permission to speak Spanish at the Shield Summit of the Americas, while Pete Hegseth insulted Spanish-speakers by claiming he “only speaks American.” My take on how Rubio’s continued bootlicking demeans the office & our country’s global standing.

youtu.be/o6yk2YsKzKw?...

Woman suing Trump over alleged teen rape drops suit, again The lawyer who organized the event said Donald Trump's accuser had received threats and was too frightened to show up.

This story is from 4 days before Trump was elected in 2016; I’ll never get why it wasn’t a bigger deal.

“A woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her two decades ago when she was a 13-year-old…model has…dropped a federal lawsuit over the alleged assaults.”

www.politico.com/story/2016/1...

The Republican party has worked hard to be the party of sex crimes, extortion and harassment so this wouldn't be a big scandal

The Republican party has worked hard to be the party of sex crimes, extortion and harassment so this wouldn't be a big scandal

A tale of two posts

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Trump to hold a press conference after markets close on Monday U.S. President ‌Donald Trump said he would hold a press conference later on ​Monday before returning to Washington ​from Florida, but gave no details ⁠about what he would ​discuss.

Does anyone at the SEC even pretend to do their jobs anymore?

Trump & Oligarchs will just commit some light insider trading today, nbd

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Fox News erased fallen soldiers to make Trump look better The network apologized for airing old footage of Trump at Dover. But it has a pattern of covering for him

But surely the FCC will care about rightwing media displaying actual alternate facts /s

www.salon.com/2026/03/09/f...

Now ask him what the opportunity cost of showering is

GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

But he doesn't say pedophiles don't belong in American society, does he?

Tennessee is not sending their best

www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

Do you think oblivious assholes are more problematic than deliberate assholes?

Oblivious assholes keep fucking things up because they're too dumb to notice the wake of destruction behind them

But deliberate assholes just don't care

Graham seems to be a mix, unfortunately

The Trump regime has me asking a question usually reserved for traffic:

Are oblivious assholes more problematic than deliberate assholes?

Oblivious assholes keep fucking things up because they're too dumb to notice the wake of destruction behind them

But deliberate assholes just don't care

Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC X.com The American Embassy is being evacuated in Riyadh because of sustained attacks by Iran against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It is my understanding the Kingdom refuses to use their capable military as a part of an effort to end the barbaric and terrorist Iranian regime who has terrorized the region and killed 7 Americans. Question - why should America do a defense agreement with a country like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that is unwilling to join a fight of mutual interest? Americans are dying and the U.S. is spending billions to dislodge the terrorist Iranian regime that threatens the region. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia seems to be issuing statements and doing things in the background that are marginally helpful, but unwilling to participate in military operations to end the reign of terror coming out of Iran. Hopefully Gulf Cooperation Council countries will get more involved as this fight is in their backyard. If you are not willing to use your military now, when are you willing to use it? Hopefully this changes soon. If not, consequences will follow.

1. Is Lindsey Graham the U.S. Secretary of State now?

Is he coordinating these threats against a U.S. ally with the White House?

Now he is demanding that a top U.S. ally enter a regime-change war?

And then threatening, “Hopefully this changes soon… if not, consequences will follow.”

Prison Guard Made Mysterious Big Deposits and Google Searches Before Epstein’s Death: DOJ One of the guards responsible for checking on Jeffrey Epstein's well-being while he sat in a Manhattan jail cell googled him minutes before he was found dead.

Does anyone remember who was president when Epstein died in prison?

Are there any political candidates that participated in Occupy Wall Street? Because it feels like that would be helpful

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/09/i...

My brother-in-law wrote this

The Republican Party:

The guy who voices Master Chief from the video game "Halo," who was featured in a White House meme video showing missiles blowing people up in Iran, calls it "disgusting and juvenile war porn" wapo.st/3NhffGm

Kinda seems that mentioning any known negative outcomes of Republican policy gets labeled "alarmist" so it can be immediately discarded

Reminds me of women being called "hysterical" so they could be punished for upsetting the status quo

If there's a draft, ICE agents should be first in line.

That is the logic of anti-dei reactionary colorblindness. Acknowledging discrimination against a particular group is inherently discriminatory. bsky.app/profile/bren...

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

My name is Marisa Kabas, and I'm an independent journalist who publishes The Handbasket. I'm reaching out about a matter that involves your team and that continues to trouble me. In June of last year, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and I filed a FOIA lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan Police Department to compel them to release body camera footage from the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace. What followed was months of back and forth with their lawyers, arguing why it was in the public interest to release the un-redacted footage in its entirety. Though tiny segments were handed over, that wasn't enough: We wanted all of it.  On February 18, 2026, a DC judge ruled in our favor, and your reporter Mark Segraves sent a kind note of congratulations that day. Then on Monday, March 2nd, the footage was handed over to me and excitedly announced I'd received it and would be reviewing it in the coming days and sharing what I learned. When Segraves emailed me this past Thursday asking for my phone number, I didn't think much of it. But when he called me just before 2pm on Friday to let me know NBC4 Washington would be airing a segment at 5pm, I grew concerned.  Segraves said he'd obtained some of the footage via a FOIA request that week after he heard the footage had been released to me. He said he'd credit the work of RCFP and me, but it was little comfort. I asked if he'd known the day before when he emailed me for my number, why didn't he tell me then? He didn't have a good answer for that. He acknowledged all the hard work I'd done getting this footage released. I asked him if he could hold the story until Monday, to which he replied that he's "not just a blogger" (implying that that's all I am, presumably) and that he'd have to check with his editor. I said fine. Nearly an hour later he called back to say his editor refused to hold the story, but that they were happy to interview me via Zoom to add to the package, and I said I would.

What followed was two hours of furiously writing and posting clips of the footage to Youtube so I could get something published before the 5pm broadcast, and in the midst of that, recording a quick Zoom interview with a person who was about to take credit for my work. At 4:59pm ET, The Handbasket published a piece titled "Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid." Then I tuned into NBC4 Washington via your website to catch the broadcast, and my instinct to rush to get something out first was proven right.  "It's a story you're seeing first on News4," your newscast began. "For the first time we're getting an inside look at what happened the day the Trump administration took over the US Institute of Peace. News4 obtained more than four hours of police body camera video from that day." What followed was more than six minutes of clips and commentary from Segraves, but it's not until six minutes and 21 seconds into the piece that he mentions my name (mispronounced though he asked for the correct pronunciation on Zoom), "The Handbasket blog," and the RCFP's foundational role in bringing this footage to light. I was angry, but didn't feel there was much I could do. Then I saw the version NBC4 posted to Instagram and TikTok—the video itself made ZERO mention of the RCFP or my work, only briefly acknowledging it in the written caption on Instagram, and not even bothering to do that on TikTok. An average viewer with no background on the case is lead to believe that this footage was released because of your efforts. When I saw that, I decided I couldn't let this go. It's difficult to explain what it's like to spend nearly a year working on a story only to have another reporter and outlet surreptitiously take credit for it; months of work and personal risk only to have another reporter lying in wait to swoop in. What NBC4 did was immoral, unethical, and to be frank, just truly sucked.

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

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Feels like an infinite monkey's paw wish

Anytime you wish for some part of the world from before 2016 back, all you get is the wars and racism and homophobia and transphobia and sexism and economic crashes and maybe Donald Trump is actually a fucking curse

Many Millennials lived through 9/11, saw the mutual carnage of "eye for an eye" politics in the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, and voted to against that continuation by voting for Obama

But he is black, and we found out much more of our country would rather have mutual destruction than a black president

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.