Course he did

Karen Bass: "The 100 National Guard soldiers that are downtown LA are guarding one federal building, so there is no need for this...it's all part of an experiment that is taking place in Los Angeles...what happens when the federal government intervenes and takes power away from a governor & mayor?"

Adam Serwer on America's "new dark age" "They see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control."

"When conservatives destroy these public goods, it doesn’t necessarily lead to a Democratic backlash at the ballot box, and they see this as a long-term investment in a more ignorant population reliant on sources of information they can control — a docile population that can be easily manipulated."

Everything that's happening in his second term was easily foreseeable...because he literally campaigned on this! This was his platform. Anyone trying to deny otherwise is lying to themselves.

Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Kristi Noem less than a month ago: "There is no scenario where Abrego Garcia will be in the United States again."

(No matter what happens, bringing him back to the US is a climbdown for the administration)

He’s 22?! He looks like he’s about to retire from a TV police precinct in the mid 1970’s.

A PDF would do?

DEAN: Did your department have any worry about the president growing his own business while on the job?

LUTNICK: My trip to the Middle East was extraordinary. It was amazing.

DEAN: I'm sure. I'm asking you, did the question of conflict of interest come up?

LUTNICK: No

DEAN: It is grotesque

Trump is such a doofus

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically *because* he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

Ro Khanna: "Now they want to censor everyone's social media. And then they're lecturing the foreign countries about free speech?"

Been experimenting with #ai images for promo posters for my short film scripts. Some are very pretty imho #screenwriting

"As Musk slinks away, spending went up, not down, during his tenure, and DOGE made the government less efficient, not more..."

"A legacy of shattered institutions, weakened public services, and fired civil servants who did nothing but serve their country well..."

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Dan Bongino has a nice cry on Fox & Friends: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, my wife is struggling... I stare at these 4 walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but I mean, separated. And it's hard."

(Note that Brian Kilmeade has to encourage him lol)

Because nothing bad happens in Putin’s Russia

TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged

MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about

Ellen Mitchell on Substack

Stephen “Goebbels” Miller hides study showing refugees to U.S. bring in billions more revenue than they cost taxpayers.

substack.com/@ellenmitche...

Ew

"Has anyone noticed that, since I said “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” she’s no longer “HOT?”"

the President of the United States, everyone

YouTube video by Easy M - Film & Musik Varieté The Outfit | Trailer | 1973

RIP the great Joe Don Baker

youtu.be/YBLuiXCGF6A?...

It was on video the cop was torturing him

Trump: "Now there are those that saw we shouldn't be accepting gifts to the Defense Department. And I would say, only a stupid person would say that. Why wouldn't I do that?" (The Constitution prohibits it without congressional approval!)

Mike Johnson: "Medicaid is intended, remember, as a safety net for young pregnant mothers and the elderly and disabled and vulnerable populations, not for young able-bodied men without dependents. Those are the kinds of people we're taking off the program."

Trump Republicanism at its finest.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Rand Paul condemns Trump accepting a gifted luxury jet from Qatar