Hillary Clinton’s fire and fury opening statement to the House Oversight Committee.

Sean Duffy appears to be one of the more serious and least damaging cabinet members, but posts like this are not helpful to his reputation (and he is clueless about the history of our country)

Somebody should ask him why Trump pardoned Laurence Doran and others convicted of Medicare fraud

It seems inhumane to deprive about 90,000 people (per Google AI) of prosthetics which can help them be self sufficient

Investigate and prosecute fraud if you find it but don’t deprive innocent people of care.

Hopefully Vance will work on these examples and not the mirage ones Trump is imagining
And, if he plays his cards right, perhaps he could highlight Trump’s blatant corruption and end up replacing him as President. I feel like there might be a Shakespearean story like this.

My latest in the @thebulwark.com after last night state of the union address.

The inhumanity is appalling

Beyond shameful

I hope that SCOTUS is watchinh

They should show him the Economist cover from fall 2024 where the US Economy was described as the envy of the world. All Trump had to do was let it ride

It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.

Sure, that State of the Union speech was long, but it was still forty minutes shorter than the amount of time Trump sat and watched the insurrection on January 6th.

JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election A Trump-appointed federal judge has ordered the agent to testify at an upcoming hearing this week.

Did an FBI agent deliberately mislead a federal judge to secure the warrant that initiated the bureau’s unprecedented seizure of 2020 election records from an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia, last month? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

He witnessed a migrant death at an ICE detention center, then was deported A deported witness describes the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at an El Paso ICE facility, alleging guards beat him while he yelled 'I can't breathe.'

DHS goes through extreme maneuvers to "disappear" a detainee who witnessed the murder of another detainee and loudly stated that ICE claims about what had transpired were a lie (which is also what the county coroner thinks). www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

I am glad he had to sit through this.

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.

Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”

This is surprising and kind of interesting. Trump appears to be is giving JD a weapon that could bring down his presidency. I wonder if he has thought this through. I wonder what JD’s plans are?

I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from this. I still wake up thinking about the article I need to write to save USAID.

$1.5T military budget
$170B on ICE & Border Patrol
$100B on tax cuts for the 1%
$20B from Treasury for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$500M sending National Guard into cities
$250M on Kristi Noem's jets
$100M+ on Trump's golf outings
$75k for Kash Patel's Olympic trip

Priorities.

It's ironic that Trump's talking about ending wars while also bringing our country to the brink of a war that the American people do not want.

Were there any sheepish or obviously embarrassed and uncomfortable Republicans? Maybe some calls and letters to them could help give them confidence to band together and work with the Democrats to stop this madness

This is the first hopeful thought I have heard from Mike Johnson

Trump: "The only way they can get elected is to cheat."

Also Trump: I need you to find me 11,780 votes.

Also Trump: "we are entitled to five more seats" in Texas. - TN

Trump: "In one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans -- a record -- off of food stamps" (In other words, Republicans cut food stamps)

Russia Could Manufacture Radiological Incident in Ukraine to Target Western Support, ISW Warns ISW: Russia may stage or cite a radiological event in Ukraine to spread disinformation, weaken support for Kyiv, and shift blame.

⚡ Russia may exploit fears of a radiological incident to wage information warfare.

Institute for the Study of War warns Moscow could use such threats to manipulate narratives and undermine Ukraine’s credibility.
united24media.com/latest-news/...

The best Twitter riposte of the day is a community note.

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Absolutely enraging. ICE kidnapped a 16 year old child in Mpls, refused to let him go home, sent him to a youth shelter in Michigan and LOST TRACK OF HIM. The family’s lawyer used an investigator to trace a phone call and locate him. (🎁 link)
www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Still too many.

Seems about right. I would not have expected Congressional Republicans to be this subservient to the madness of this situation