Jerold Duquette

Will the same guys who changed the all the DoD signage be removing the blindfolds from depictions of Lady Justice at the DoJ.

Since 2015, Trump has never been able to turn out his low-political engagement voters (who are very hard to reach in polls) in elections when his name is not on the ballot. The pattern continues.

Kristi Noem: "We will continue to do this work until there are no longer anybody in our communities that's here illegally."

One of the things that makes my head explode is that the Trump administration is arguing in court that they cannot possibly issue SNAP benefits even though they are required to do so by Congress, but they are ensuring that ICE agents have all the funding they need during the shutdow.

Seriously though.

If there's a time NOT to be a weird hipster who thinks collaborating with "more privileged" groups is "uncool" or "not a real fight", it's definitely now.

Get off your soapbox Sadie, and join the rest of the people on the podium to speak up as a united front.

Because he can. Trump
Loves to flaunt his ability to do whatever he wants. All the better when it’s i explicable.

Not even close to satisfactory. The auditor doesn’t dictate to the AG what the AG needs to make a case.

Murder, in other words

If Trump can order the murder of people on boats without any accountability, he can order the murder of people on land without any accountability.

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

"When the dust settles, we’ll probably see a whole lot of books written about the fancy math games that convinced investors that two companies passing $100 billion back and forth were creating $200 billion in value instead of having a net financial impact of 0" davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...

NC GOP release is clear about the anti-democratic intent - memory-holes TX redistricting and says they will "block the efforts of blue state Democrats to take control of Congress from Republicans" as if winning an election is illegitimate bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

The AG needs the auditor to specify what is and isn’t auditable, which she refuses to do because doing so would reveal how useless Q1 actually was.

But his DMs

I’m starting to think they might not have been serious about wanting to stop fentanyl smuggling and child sex trafficking

DiZoglio misfires in attack on attorney general  - CommonWealth Beacon MASSACHUSETTS STATE AUDITOR Diana DiZoglio recently called in to Boston Public Radio and accused Attorney General Andrea Campbell of “working with the

My latest take on the Auditor’s misguided crusade. My co-author is the leading expert on the Massachusetts Constitution.

commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/dizo...

Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P.

Trump Tramples Congress’s Power, With Little Challenge From G.O.P. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

It’s time to have a serious conversation about Trump’s health Six questions worth digging into more.

"To me, there are six clear reasons we should be talking about this more than we are and why the press corps should be digging more deeply and more seriously around this topic." — @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Garrett Graff on the health of the current president. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

Dear journalists:

The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her.

Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Leadership. Pritzker speech.

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia The Defense Department has withheld approval for attacks as the White House has sought to entice Moscow to open peace talks.

The Pentagon is blocking Ukraine from using long-range missiles to hit Russian military targets.
No wonder Putin still thinks he can win the war
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

On D.C.’s Busiest Streets, Trump’s Provocateurs Provoke Today on TAP: ICE agents and federalized cops are now deliberately stationed where they can incite the most backlash.

In a move designed to provoke a public backlash, the Trump administration is deploying law enforcement to the busiest, most pedestrian-friendly areas of D.C. From Harold Meyerson:

Authoritarianism in action, purging history edition.

Jesse Watters doesn’t understand which party drew the maps in Texas.