Phil Kovacs

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YouTube video by emptywheel Back to Bondi

Me, on how Pam Bondi's shenanigans from last week will likely backfire.

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So what is professional you ask? How about being a girl in a martini 🍸 glass at Mar-A-Lago!

Last night, Donald Trump, the adjudicated rapist sexual abuser who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, called a female reporter “piggy” for asking a question about the Epstein files.

Party of family values, amirite.

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

If you are a Democratic senator watching these results and the lesson you take is "I should cave and help Republicans reopen the government for nothing more than a promise written on toilet paper" then you shouldn't be in the Senate anymore

Tonight showed that playing to the middle isn’t the way to win

Voters want progressives who will push for change

Mamdani stood with immigrants. He stood with trans people. He stood with the homeless and the marginalized

He stood with everyone society has left behind.

He won.

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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The President has immunity.

Now Stephen Miller is telling ICE they have federal immunity while “fulfilling their duties”.

We have a dictator with a secret police force and both have immunity from prosecution.

This is fascism.

They can and will do whatever they want.

This sign spoke to me.

(apologies for being such a bad photographer that I cut this fellow former Republican’s head out of the photo)

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

Inoculating Democracy: How Public Schools Prevent the Rise of Fascism Check my user account for authenticity of text and voice. There’s a story behind the name DeweyCounts. The Democratic Purpose of Education “If you want to prevent the rise of fascism in a population, ...

Patiently beating this drum. If we don't educate for a democracy we will never have a democracy.

Wednesday in your Nations Capital
Shutdown Day 15

Things continue to unravel.
The House is presumably enjoying their PAID VACATION thanks to the Speaker.

Meanwhile thousands of federal employees aren’t getting paychecks. And can’t talk to the media about it

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

Here’s How Trump Loses the Shutdown God help us but Gavin Newsom is the only Democrat who understands power.

"In a normal political moment, Dems would be right to focus on policies that make people’s lives better. But this isn’t an ordinary moment. For the love of God, it was days ago that Trump put every officer in the armed forces in a room & told them he plans to use soldiers against American citizens."

What Hegseth did today was inform an organization he’s unqualified to lead that (a) any area in which he believes he personally excels (e.g. physical fitness) is all that matters, and (b) any area in which he’s deficient (leadership, morality, ethics, record, experience, intelligence) is immaterial.

Memo to Rahm Emanuel.
We already have enough elderly neoliberal Dems.
Sit this one the fuck out.

79. American citizen.

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