David Wallace

The Trump administration is adamant that people not take or share photos of the White House destruction, so please keep this photo amongst us.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Yeh, line up now for that "Dancing with the Stars" - White House Edition pay-per-view special.

Thank you BD, another editor supposedly from NY of whom I also have never heard. Or is it hoid?
HT to @bcdreyer.social

Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.

Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse
www.bbc.com/news/article...

3/x These kinds of swings (labor/conservative in UK) have finally come to the U.S. and Red/Bluedemocracy isn't prepared. Two party with decades of cooperation and narrow differences is too complacent and brittle to handle radical change.

2/x At the local, county, state or federal level *everything* and anything can be connected to politics and graft(if the powers that be say so). Definitions of even legal and illegal change on a whim. Standards that existed for generations are shifting, after "it can't happen here" delusions.

1/x Complacent Americans are finally waking up to a critical aspect of day-to-day reality from the old-time authoritarian (strongman, party, Tammany) landscape: control everything from street paving to electric service, can be made dependent on allegiance and fealty.

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

"Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare"

Donald Trump is not paying for the huge construction projects at the WH out of his pocket like MAGA claims. He started out with that lie, but then admitted more than once, on video, that he’s been shaking down CEOs & rich people who want something from the government. As usual.

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

Destroying the hard-won reputation and credibility (such as it is) of the U.S. government in every domain - built up over decades, destroyed in months.

The deal would give Bukele possession of individuals who threatened to expose the alleged deals his government made with MS-13 to help achieve El Salvador's historic drop in violence, officials said. For the Salvadoran president, a return of the informants was viewed as critical to preserving his tough-on-crime reputation. It was also a key step in hindering an ongoing U.S. investigation into his government's relationship with MS-13, a gang famous for displays of excessive violence in the United States and elsewhere.

They buried the lede. Here’s paragraph 6: https://wapo.st/4nbNiM4

Lo siento, Sr. Cruz. "Incorrecto" - though our judges (bought-and-paid-for) want the answer in the form of "National Final Jeopardy" question.

YouTube video by ProPublica Russell Vought: The Shadow President

📽️ WATCH: This video on the rise of Russ Vought, Trump's “shadow president,” is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

Turned in the badge today.

My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues.

Danlamothe.30

Today, a Republican administration has reactivated the Exchange Stabilization Fund as a bailout fund on behalf of Argentina to a tune of $20 bn.

30 years ago, it was a Republican-led Congress that acted to restrict the president's ability to use the ESF for this very purpose.

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Not pedantic at all - it's a cliche summer intern move to overstate time at a name-brand organization. "As I explained to my Harvard colleagues. . ." (walking through the Square once).

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

THIS
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Hope we can enjoy some "Emil Redenbocker" popcorn or tasty chocolate Peanut M&Ns at the concession stand!

Trump has visited a Trump Organization property on 97 days of the 252 days of his second term in office. He has likely played golf on 67 days.

At this point in his first term, he had visited a Trump Organization property on 85 days and likely played golf on 50 days.
www.pbump.net/outofoffice/

Listening to WEEI like it's 1972 because . . . Cupertino.

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Had no idea of the Ishtar-like cult the show has, thanks for a walk down Memory Lane (free seats, probly from WNEW-FM). and HS years. Reading NYT's 2020 recap w "survivors" was eye-opening. Next, we dive deep on Laserium shows. . . 😬

All I remember is more strobe lights and pyrotech than a disco-theme bar mitzvah dance party. . .

Oh sure, *now* I get points. . . and thank you. Where was this lovely positive reinforcement -- or that warning about potential seizures -- for we, the victims of preview audiences? I recall it had a very long runway before opening.