Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts The shutdown is exposing the speaker's slimy disingenuousness.

"Because Trump and his fellow GOP 'leaders' have made their refusal to negotiate with Democrats a bizarre 'principle,' when — as seems increasingly certain — they’re forced to make a deal to reopen the government, Trump, the self-styled dictatorial strongman, will end up substantially diminished."

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JUST IN: Feds explain how CBP vehicle involved in collision that led to woman being shot & criminally charged was moved from Chicago to Maine and then partially repaired while it was evidence in a criminal case. Doc www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Here's What CBS Cut Out Of Its ‘60 Minutes’ Interview With Trump CBS aired a condensed, 28-minute version of a 73-minute interview for “60 Minutes.”

CBS aired a condensed, 28-minute version of a 73-minute interview for “60 Minutes.”

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi Reasonable people can disagree about whether Hitler was good, says the Heritage Foundation.

Kevin Roberts' defense of Nick Fuentes is a watershed moment: the right has officially declared open, unabashed Hitlerism to be an acceptable position in their coalition

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Can someone please ask him how the GOP changed the 60 vote threshold twice in the last two months to approve 150+ trump appointees in one go? Cuz they are in charge and can change the rules to open the government. And they know it. They WANT the shutdown.

Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.

The Democrats need to get a hell of a lot of cameras on the White House and plaster the photos everywhere. It's not just the brazen symbol of a megalomaniac destroying national heritage; it's happening during a government shutdown when ordinary people aren't getting paid. Make every American see it.

The scene at Mar-a-Lago is as gross and creepy as you imagined, with these old pervs chasing their surgically enhanced prey with Trump acting as sick Degenerate-in-Chief. bsky.app/profile/mehd...

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

NEW: A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the only absolute monarchy in Africa $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

it’s all just a grift

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

The alleged shooter in Michigan. Weird that Vance and Patel haven’t tweeted out this info. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

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Love the precedent set here, which will enable us to use the thinnest possible pretext—and no written or oral evidence—to prosecute every single government official, billionaire, and business executive who ever testified in front of Congress.

See ya soon, Elon!

Returning to a subject I was discussing this morning on X, I think a single video like this does more to radicalize people against ICE than any loaded rhetoric any politician has ever used, and DHS should think very hard about the consequences of supporting this kind of behavior from its agents.

This should be a red line. Trump is personally directing the indictment of @jamescomey.bsky.social based on personal animus even though Comey violated no law, as evidenced by the fact that the former US Atty looking into the case resigned rather than bring phony charges.

Make Kimmel-level noise.

A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events! First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first. It was only that we were each holding the handrail tightly or, it would have been a disaster. This was absolutely sabotage, as noted by a day’s earlier “post” in The London Times that said UN workers “joked about turning off an escalator.” The people that did it should be arrested! Then, as I stood before a Television crowd of millions of people all over the World, and important Leaders in the Hall, my teleprompter didn’t work. It was stone cold dark. I immediately thought to myself, “Wow, first the escalator event, and now a bad teleprompter. What kind of a place is this?” I then proceeded to make a Speech without a teleprompter, which kicked in about 15 minutes later. The good news is the Speech has gotten fantastic reviews. Maybe they appreciated the fact that very few people could have done what I did. And third, after making the Speech, I was told that the sound was completely off in the Auditorium where the Speech was made, that World Leaders, unless they used the interpreters’ earpieces, couldn’t hear a thing. The first person I saw at the conclusion of the Speech was Melania, who was sitting right up front. I said, “How did I do?” And she said, “I couldn’t hear a word you said.” This wasn’t a coincidence, this was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. I’m sending a copy of this letter to the Secretary General, and I demand an immediate investigation. No wonder the United Nations hasn’t been able to do the job that they were put in existence to do. All security tapes at the escalator should be saved, especially the emergency stop button. The Secret Service is involved. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday

Sinclair is refusing to air Kimmel.
@Disney needs to pull their programming.

High Potential
Abbott Elementary
The Rookie
Shifting Gears
9-1-1
Will Trent
Grey’s Anatomy
Dancing with the Stars.

PULL THEM ALL FROM SINCLAIR.

Leave a gaping hole in their schedule where their ethics aren't.

Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has disbanded a committee that provided recommendations for women serving in the military, including on their well-being and treatment, alleging on Tuesday it had pursued a "divisive feminist agenda."

Pentagon disbands panel on military women, alleging divisive feminist agenda reut.rs/4mv5DmY

I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash.

Pam Bondi knew.

Kash Patel knew.

Emil Bove knew.

And they made the investigation go away.

A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Dana Carvey parodied George HW Bush on SNL — “Nah, wouldn’t be prudent” — the President called him up and they became friends. .

Daryl Hammond imitated Clinton through his Presidency, including savage stuff during his sex scandal. Clinton invited him to do a “dueling Presidents” gag.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

How’s that for timing

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Right-Wing Propaganda All The Way Down The only thing Republicans know how to do anymore is abuse power to generate partisan propaganda—it's no wonder they see the Charlie Kirk murder as their Reichstag fire.

The decadence is now total, and the GOP exists only to perpetuate a recursive cycle of abusing power to generate propaganda to justify further abuses of power, sending free society into a rapid downward spiral. www.offmessage.net/p/right-wing...

Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg.

Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.

This week’s LP Podcast guest James Talarico understands the fight of our time is not left vs right—it’s have vs have nots, and we need to act like it. Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/pQ0-mwi1Tso

We're about to experience the first modern recession caused substantially, and perhaps primarily, by racism.

I laughed so hard at this one, effectually he called everyone in that room and on the premises, as well as his 3 billion followers Stupid right to their faces, and they Laughed. FFS

"Reality is super-inconvenient, y'all!!!"